Lead Investigative Analyst

Summary

In this position you will work as a member of the Office of Professional Responsibility Team. The ideal candidate for this position will have

experience leading a team of investigative analysts in support of researching, analyzing, and reporting on allegations of employee misconduct and harassment.

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Duties

What will I do in this position if hired?

In this position, you will demonstrate expertise in investigative data analytics and support, trend analysis, data reporting, developing metrics, creating data visualizations with a variety of software. The incumbent reports to the Office of Professional Responsibility Branch Chief for the Programs & Policy Division.

Typical Assignments Include

Prepares and presents detailed briefings, seminars, products, and training sessions to internal and external customers to explain the in-depth results of complex analytical research, studies, special enforcement operations, and interpretation data, information, and trend analysis.Conduct information requests that may include Personal Identifiable Information (PII).Provides expert technical advice, guidance, and recommendations to FEMA management and other senior officials and auditors on critical operations.Solves problems demanding technologically advanced methods and innovative approaches to the case intake, triage, routing, investigation, and resolution of misconduct and harassment allegations.Analytical review of data for quality control and trend analysis.

What else do I need to know?

At FEMA, our mission is to help people before, during and after disasters, and every employee at FEMA has a role in emergency management. Every FEMA employee has regular and recurring emergency management

responsibilities, though not every position requires routine deployment to disaster sites. All positions are subject to recall around the clock for emergency management operations, which may require irregular work hours, work at

locations other than the official duty station, and may include

duties other than those specified in the employee's official position description. Travel

requirements in support of emergency operations may be extensive in nature (weeks to months), with little advance notice, and may require employees to relocate to emergency sites with physically austere and operationally challenging conditions.

Fema Is Committed To Ensuring That Its Workforce Reflects The

diversity of the nation. At FEMA, our workforce includes the many identities, races, ethnicities, backgrounds, abilities, ages, cultures, and beliefs of the people we serve. To learn about FEMA's ongoing

diversity and inclusion efforts, reasonable accommodation process, and the FEMA Core Values, please visit www.fema.gov.

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Requirements

Conditions Of Employment

To ensure the accomplishment of our mission, DHS requires every employee to be reliable and trustworthy. To meet those standards, all selected applicants must undergo, successfully pass, and maintain a background investigation for Secret as a condition of placement into this position. This may include a credit check after initial job

qualifications are determined, a review of financial issues, such as delinquency in the payment of debts, child support and/or tax obligations, as well as certain criminal offenses and illegal use or possession of drugs (please visit: Mythbuster on Federal Hiring Policies for additional information). For more information on background investigations for Federal jobs please visit OPM Investigations.

Please Ensure You Meet The Qualification

requirements described below.

Key

Requirements

You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this position.You must successfully pass a background investigation.Selective Service registration required.You must be able to obtain and maintain a Government credit card.Please review "Other Information" section for additional key

requirements.

Qualifications

The Qualification

requirements listed below must be met by the closing date of this announcement.

To qualify for this position at the GS-13 level, you must possess one full year of specialized

experience equivalent to at least the GS-12 level in the Federal government, which has equipped you with the

skills needed to successfully perform the

duties of the position.

Experience may be obtained in the federal government, a state or local government, or private sector, and must demonstrate the following:

Leading and coordinating technical and analytical support to administrative investigations as well as knowledge of case management systems to improve functionality; andAnalyzing trends and leading internal and external reporting efforts to include data calls and data visualization in support of organizational decision-making; andDemonstrating management

skills including strong coaching, delegation, and staff support; policy development and effective stakeholder engagement.

Please read the following important information to ensure we have everything we need to consider your application:

Do Not Copy And Paste The

duties, specialized

experience, or occupational assessment questionnaire from this announcement into your resume as that will not be considered a demonstration of your

qualifications for this position.Please limit your resume to five pages. If more than five pages are submitted, only the first five pages will be reviewed to determine your eligibility and

qualifications.Your resume serves as the basis for

experience related qualification determinations, and you must highlight your most relevant and significant work

experience and

education (if applicable), as it relates to this job opportunity. Please use your own words, be clear, and specific when describing your work history. We cannot make assumptions regarding your

experience.

Are You Qualifying Based On Your Work

experience?

Qualifications are based on your ability to demonstrate in your resume that you possess one year of the specialized

experience for this announcement at a comparable scope and responsibility. To ensure all of the essential information is in your resume, we encourage you to use the USAJOBS online Resume Builder. If you choose to use your own resume, it must contain the following information organized by

experience/position: (1) job title, (2) name of employer, (3) start and end dates of each period of employment (from MM/DD/YY to MM/DD/YY), (4) detailed description of

duties performed, accomplishments, and related

skills, and (5) hours worked per week (part-time employment will be prorated in crediting

experience). Federal

experience/positions must also include the occupational series, grade level, and dates in which you held each grade level. Are you a current or former FEMA Reservist/Disaster Assistance Employee (DAE) employee? To accurately credit your

experience from intermittent positions and Reservist Deployments, you must list the dates (from MM/DD/YY to MM/DD/YY) of deployments that are relevant to your qualifying

experience, along with the job title and specific

duties you were responsible for during each deployment.Determining length of General or Specialized

Experience is dependent on the above information. Failure to provide the above information in your resume may result in your application being found "not qualified."

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 provides valuable training and

experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying

experience, including volunteer

experience.For additional information on crediting

experience and/or

education, please reference the OPM General Schedule Qualification Standards

Education

No

Educational Substitution: There is no

educational substitution for this position, and you must meet the

qualifications listed in the "

requirements" section of this announcement.

Additional Information

If you receive a conditional offer of employment for this position, you will be required to complete an Optional Form 306, Declaration for Federal Employment, and to sign and certify the accuracy of all information in your application, prior to entry on duty. False statements on any part of the application may result in withdrawal of offer of employment, dismissal after beginning work, fine, or imprisonment.DHS uses E-verify, an internet based system, to confirm the eligibility of all newly hired employees to work in the United States. Learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and

responsibilities.The Department of Homeland Security encourages persons with disabilities to apply, to include persons with intellectual, severe physical or psychiatric disabilities, as defined by 5 CFR213.3102(u), and/or Disabled Veterans with a compensable service-connected disability of 30 percent or more as defined by 5 CFR315.707. Veterans, Peace Corps/VISTA volunteers, and persons with disabilities possess a wealth of unique talents,

experiences, and competencies that can be invaluable to the DHS mission. If you are a member of one of these groups, you may not have to compete with the public for federal jobs. To determine your eligibility for non-competitive appointment and to understand the required documentation, click on the links above or contact the Servicing Human Resources Office listed at the bottom of this announcement.This announcement may be used to fill one or more vacancies.All candidates must be able to deploy with little or no advance notice to anywhere in the United States and its territories for an extended period of time.A one year probationary period is required for new Federal competitive service employees and new supervisors and managers.Applying to this announcement certifies that you give permission for DHS to share your application with others in DHS for similar positions.Due weight will be given to performance appraisals and incentive awards in merit promotion selection decisions in accordance with 5 CFR 335.103(b)(3).This is a Bargaining Unit position.If this position has been identified as a Testing Designated Position (TDP) because of its security, public health, and/or public safety sensitivity, you are subject to random drug testing under FEMA's Drug-Free Workplace Plan (DWP). Refusal to be tested will result in disciplinary action up to and including removal from federal service.

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