Criminal Investigator
What you'd do
The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducts independent audits and investigations to promote efficiency and integrity within agency programs. Careers within the OIG and Office of Investigations offer professional development, flexible work schedules, domestic travel opportunities, and a strong commitment to work-life balance.
Major duties
This position is located in the Railroad Retirement Board (RRB), Office of the Inspector General (OIG), Atlanta, Georgia; Houston, Texas; Jacksonville, Florida; Kansas City, Missouri; Los Angeles, California. The primary purpose of this position is serve as a Criminal Investigator responsible for independently planning, directing, and conducting the most complex and sensitive criminal, civil, and administrative investigations involving fraud, waste, abuse, and misconduct affecting RRB programs, beneficiaries, trust funds, and operations. Duties performed: Plans and conducts complex, sensitive, and high-impact criminal investigations involving fraud across all RRB program areas, including retirement survivor annuities, disability, unemployment and sickness, representative payee matters, contract and procurement fraud, and Medicare benefits. Conducts and leads advanced investigative operations requiring expert use of undercover techniques, confidential informants, covert infiltration, mobile surveillance, and other sensitive methods. Represents OIG as a senior investigative authority on major multi-agency task forces addressing Medicare fraud, white collar crime, and other priority enforcement areas. Provides senior level investigative leadership supporting OI strategic efforts to focus on complex and high impact investigations.
What you need to qualify
TIME-IN-GRADE REQUIREMENTS: Merit Promotion and Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) Status applicants must provide an SF50 Notice of Personnel Action that indicates proof of status and time-in-grade eligibility. The SF50 must include the position, title, series, grade, step, tenure, type of service (Competitive or Excepted) and career status (career or career-conditional). No award SF50 will be accepted as proof of status and time-in-grade eligibility. One year at the GS-12 grade level is required to meet the time-in-grade requirements for the GS-13 grade level. Minimum Qualifications: Specialized Experience GS-13: Applicant must demonstrate one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-12 level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors) performing the following duties: planning and conducting complex, long-term investigations; applying for and executing search warrants and other law enforcement operations; testifying in court or providing briefings to internal and external parties such as high-level agency officials, law enforcement personnel, or federal/state prosecutors; AND writing investigative reports and other products. NOTE: Your resume must explicitly indicate how you meet this requirement, otherwise you will be found ineligible. All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement. Qualification claims will be subject to verification. NOTE: Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. This position requires moderate to arduous physical exertion involving walking and standing, use of firearms, and exposure to inclement weather. Manual dexterity with comparatively free motion of finger, wrist, elbow, shoulder, hip, and knee joints is required. Arms, hands, legs, and feet must be sufficiently intact and functioning in order to perform the duties satisfactorily. Sufficiently good vision in each eye, with or without correction, is required to perform the duties satisfactorily. Near vision, corrective lenses permitted, must be sufficient to read printed material the size of typewritten characters. Hearing loss, as measured by an audiometer, must not exceed 35 decibels at 1000, 2000, and 3000 Hz levels. Since the duties of this position are exacting and responsible, and involve activities under trying conditions, you must possess emotional and mental stability. All applicants tentatively selected for this position will be required to undergo medical suitability and meet medical requirements for the position prior to a final offer of employment. As a condition of employment, Criminal Investigators are subject to periodic medical suitability and must be able to meet the medical requirements for the position.
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