Sanctions Investigations Manager
What you'd do
This position is located at Departmental Offices, Terrorism and Financial Intelligence - Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). As a Sanctions Investigations Manager, you will manage a team of Sanctions Investigators while administering the development of targets for designation and blocking of assets pursuant to Executive Orders and statutory authority, preparing evidentiary memoranda, and interacting with other US agencies and foreign officials.
Major duties
As a Sanctions Investigations Manager, you will: Oversee all steps for designation and petitions investigations, analysis, and development in one or more program areas which may include counter-narcotics, counter-proliferation, counterterrorism, country- and regime-based sanctions programs administered by OFAC, as well as Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. Coordinate the interagency process and liaison effort with United States Government enforcement agencies, the Department of State, the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, Department of War, and the intelligence community for the purpose of identifying and developing sanctions targets, including all steps to support OFAC decisions to designate persons. Coordinate OFAC's involvement with Federal law enforcement, regulatory, and intelligence agencies in designation cases, including all aspects of supporting and implementing OFAC decisions to designate persons based on classified information and supporting and implementing OFAC decisions based on classified information related to petitions for removal of persons from an OFAC List. Work closely with other agencies of the U.S. foreign policy, national security, and law enforcement communities in the development, implementation, and evaluation of economic sanctions and embargo programs, administered by OFAC, including decisions to designate persons and decisions related to petitions for removal of persons from an OFAC list.
What you need to qualify
You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: For GS-15, you must have one year (52 weeks) of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-14 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience must demonstrate ALL of the following: -Coordinating civil investigations and preparing documents to support administrative actions that are governed by regulations concerning U.S. economic sanctions and embargo programs based on delegated Presidential authority; AND -Applying administrative laws, including procedures, regulations, guidelines, and precedents to designation and petitions cases and the development of targets for designation or delisting; AND -Analyzing issues, developing findings, and determining conclusions by applying regulatory requirements to prepare evidentiary documents; AND -Conducting evaluations, examinations, or other fact finding studies to obtain or verify information (e.g., research of administrative, program, or legal issues and application to facts); AND -Leading, managing, administrating, and supervising principles, policies, practices and methods; leadership experience that reflects effective planning, developing, administering, managing section programs, and coordinating a diverse team. The experience may have been gained in either the public, private sector or volunteer service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-time work is considered on a prorated basis. To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/day/year, and indicate number of hours worked per week on your resumé.
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