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(The duties described reflect the full performance level of this position)

The incumbent in this position is responsible for processing assistance grants awarded by the Office of Justice Programs and for providing assistance and advice on financial management policies relating to these awards to Department of Justice (DOJ) and OJP bureaus/offices, grantees and other federal agencies which are cross serviced and, as such, reviews and approves indirect cost allocation plans for the state government agencies, for profit and non-profit organizations; performs financial reviews of grant applications; monitors financial and administrative compliance of grantees through site visits and desk reviews; develops, coordinates, and implements audit procedures and resolves audit issues; customizes program office-specific training; integrates and promulgates internal OJP and external financial management policy.

Performs cost accounting functions including analyses of indirect cost allocation plans and review of contract and grantee payment requests to validate costs and compliance with grant or contract terms.

Performs duties associated with the management, control, and usage of financial resources or funds; supplies financial reports to operating program officials for informational and planning purposes; and plans and conducts financial monitoring and/or grantee audit activities.

Participates in development, prioritization of needs, review and analysis, and reporting on OJP's financial monitoring and/or grantee audit activities.

Performs various writing and editing duties for a variety of documents and reports.

WHAT IS THE HEADQUARTERS DIVISION?
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Vacancies will be filled in the following specialty areas:

Chief Operations Officer

The following are the duties of this position at the full working level. If this vacancy includes more than one grade and you are selected at a lower grade level, you will have the opportunity to learn to perform these duties and receive training to help you grow in this position.

As a Senior Manager you will:

• Exercise delegated managerial authority to oversee the overall planning, directing and timely execution of a program, several program segments (each of which is managed through separate subordinate organizational units), or comparable staff functions, including development, assignment, and higher level clearance of goals and objectives for supervisors or managers of subordinate organizational unit or lower organizational levels.
• Approve multi year and longer range work plans developed by the supervisors or managers of subordinate organizational units and subsequently manage the overall work to enhance achievement of the goals and objectives.
• Oversee the revision of long range plans, goals and objectives for the work directed.
• Manage the development of policy changes in response to changes in levels of appropriations or other legislated changes.
• Manage organizational changes throughout the organization directed or major change to the structure and content of the program or program segments directed.
• Exercise discretionary authority to approve the allocation and distribution of funds in the organizations budget.

• Performs budget functions and duties associated with the formulation and execution phases of a multi-million-dollar total budget.
• Consolidates and coordinates budget requests.
• Ensures fund requests and/or notification to using agencies are made in sufficient time to ensure funds are in place at the time of obligation and expenditure.
• Provides oversight management of all aspects of the budget functions.
• Responsible for technical quality of budget work, giving advice or instruction to team members on budget requirements, technical matters, providing on-the-job training (OJT).
• Formulates, develops, and justifies budget estimates to establish financial management practices, policies, and procedures.
• Monitors records of obligations and expenditures to assure full utilization of available funding and reprogramming to meet critical deadlines.

The Deputy Chief of the Litigation Unit is primarily responsible for directing, and supervising the Unit's attorneys, and two Assistant Deputy Chiefs. The Deputy Chief for Litigation also works with the supervisory paralegal specialist to coordinate the work of the paralegals, and oversees all of the litigation functions of the Section, including:

• Assignment and monitoring of workloads;
• Writing annual performance appraisals and other employee relations related matters;
• Coordinating the preparation of weekly and other periodic reports regarding the Unit's significant cases;
• Supervision of the Unit's statistical reporting to the Criminal Division and Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF);
• Ensuring that the Department's litigation-related policies and practices are adhered to by the Unit's attorneys;
• Coordinating the professional development, training, and mentoring of the Unit's attorneys;
• Coordinating and interacting with management from federal and international law enforcement agencies with whom Litigation Unit attorneys work;
• Representing the Section at international coordination meetings and at national and international narcotics-related conferences and training seminars; and
• Serving as the Section's liaison to the OCDETF at its periodic Regional and National conferences.

The position is located in the Information, Technology & Data Division (ITDD); Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP).

Responsible for advanced systems projects and serves as a technical authority on the deployment and implementation of software applications and hardware upgrades developed by ITDD

Coordinates with the ITDD branches during the testing stages of application development to ensure that employees are trained in all aspects of the software and to begin developing implementation procedures, and to ensure deployment procedures address issues relating to network administration.

Supervises staff assist teams travelling to field locations for various implementation projects and the deployment of other software applications and hardware upgrades.

Serves as an expert resource for applications development, Internet technology, data warehousing, electronic data interchange, relational databases, and other information system technologies.

Plans, organizes, implements, monitors and administers numerous highly complex, integrated and state-of-the-art applications comprised of local area and wide area network users for Central Office divisions, regional offices, and institutions.

The candidate selected for this position will:

• Plan work to be accomplished by subordinates, set and adjust short-term priorities, and prepare schedules for completion of work; develop performance standards and evaluate work performance of subordinates; give advice and counsel to employees on both work and administrative matters; interview candidates for positions in the division; approve and/or disapprove leave and travel requests; hear and resolve complaints from employees; identify developmental and training need of employees providing or arranging for training to meet these needs; carry out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the corporation's employment practices and EEO programs.
• Manage work for contractors, lead the technical evaluation of proposals for new contracts, maintain close surveillance of contractors' progress, regularly review documents describing contract status, accept or reject invoices submitted by the Contracting Officer and serve as Contracting Officer's Representative (COR).
• Provide authoritative analysis, technical insight, advice and recommendations on complex, sensitive actuarial matters relating to single-employer and multiemployer pension plans.
• Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of underlying recommendations made in complex, highly technical initiatives, including applications for special financial assistance, benefit suspensions, plan partitions, facilitated mergers, settlement proposals, and bankruptcy negotiations.
• Provide insight and authoritative advice to the Chief Negotiating Actuary, the Chief of Negotiations and Restructuring, and other senior level staff, and suggest possible courses of action to maintain continuity in the development of interpretative and procedural rules relating to single-employer and multiemployer pension plan issues.

What will I do in this position if hired?

In this position, you will serve as a first level supervisor over a staff who perform analytical duties and serve as an advisor on the planning and evaluation of agency programs. Typical assignments include:

• Facilitating collaborative problem-solving work sessions with federal and nonfederal partners and industry leaders in the development of strategies to build tools and resources to increase recovery capacity at all levels of government.
• Leading a team to write and/or edit technical materials, policies, and guidance documents for leadership and executive review and to develop tools to assist the Community Assistance Recovery Support Function (CA RSF) in delivering its mission.
• Providing technical assistance, advice and guidance to state, tribes, territories, and localities to assess community recovery capacity and planning challenges and needs.
• Providing consultation to state, tribal and local leadership on long term recovery, redevelopment planning and on the Community Assistance Recovery Support Function (CA RSF) and to FEMA Field Leadership on operational requirements for capacity and planning support.

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.

Major duties for the GS-13:

• Serves as a Policy Advisor responsible for providing analysis, advice, and consultation to the Assistant Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretary on current public policy, national policy priorities, national policy collaboration, national policy development, and program policy coordination on a variety of employment and employment-related policies for individuals with disabilities.
• Interacts with customers of the service systems that serve people with disabilities with their advocates and other external public constituents and experts in collecting information on national disability policies.
• Performs a wide range of duties and responsibilities such as evaluating and presenting divergent opinions affecting disability employment policy issues, and defining and describing feasible options including the impact of their adoption.
• Attends consultations, meetings, and conferences with public and private constituents and experts, advocacy groups DOL and other Federal agency officials, staff in State and local organizations to obtain information on disability employment issues; draft summaries of meetings, relevant analyses, and policy recommendations.
• Participates with senior-level policy staff in the analysis of proposed legislation and legislative proposals to identify existing gaps and anomalies; points out problems not resolvable administratively; evaluates the effect of changes to the various programs and systems.
• Provides consultative and advisory services, coordinates and negotiates with officials in other federal program offices, with state and local officials, and with representatives of private and public institutions.

Serves as a supervisory training instructor. Evaluates the effectiveness of personnel supervised. In addition, responsible for the direct delivery of instruction or training services. Utilizes a practical knowledge of the methods and techniques of instruction and possesses an advanced knowledge of the subject-matter taught / instructed to include its principles and theories, trade knowledge, techniques, methods of operation, and governing regulations and guidelines to conduct instructor-lead, web-based, or blended training of courses concerned with Morale, Welfare, and Recreation activities or Family Support programs. The formal instructor-led training phase consists of small and large group discussions, practical exercises, games, simulations, lectures, demonstrations, laboratories, and oral and written examinations, and critiques. Measures student progress through review of written test scores. Maintains records of training scheduled and accomplished, attendance, test results, classroom conduct, student progress, etc. Recommends rotation of students or release of students when work is not satisfactory.

Independently develops, modifies and updates lesson plans and courses pertaining to the subject matter taught. Determines appropriate instructional techniques such as conference, demonstration, lecture, or self-paced learning programs, on-line instruction, and job aids. Develops visual aids as necessary and/or uses existing material. Conducts surveys to determine an organization's training needs. Uses present-day technology to accomplish assignments that support learning. Extensive experience in MWR programs (or private sector equivalent such as recreation, hospitality, food and beverage, child and youth, business operations, sports and fitness, etc.) to include supervisory experience.

This position is telework eligible per agency and business unit discretion/policy. This position permits, but does not require, remote work. The official duty station and physical worksite for employees who do not opt for remote work will be the Alexandria, VA Headquarters or one of the USPTO's Regional Offices located in Dallas, TX; Denver, CO; Detroit, MI or San Jose, CA. The official duty station for employees who opt for remote work, will be their approved remote work location. Employees' locality pay will be determined by the location of their official duty station.

The physical worksite for this position is located in Alexandria, Virginia.This position is telework eligible per agency and business unit discretion/policy.

Major Duties for this position include:

• You enjoy planning, supervising and directing assigned staff; prepares input and justifies assigned budget for assigned team activities.
• You are interested in furthering your expertise and knowledge managing the day-to-day operations of the technical specialist who performs technical work of the organization's assistance center.
• You look forward to reviewing organizational related information on the websites to assess its current, accuracy and consistency with organizational policy and procedure.
• You look forward to demonstrating your skills managing projects such as publications, letters of protest follow-up review, and public or internal dissemination of policy or procedure guidance.

*Note-This position will be filled as Temporary Not to Exceed (NTE) 1 year, and may be extended.
Can be filled as either Temporary Detail NTE or Temporary Promotion NTE, depending on selectee's current grade level.

The ICC Health System Specialist for Diagnostics is responsible for supporting VISN 19 clinical leadership in coordinating, planning, implementing, and monitoring activities to ensure the rapid information exchange and performance improvement which enables the attainment of data-driven clinical goals and improved access to high quality care in VISN 19 Diagnostic Programs.

Major duties of the Health Systems Specialist for the Diagnostics ICC position include, but are not limited to:

• Develops and manages programs and projects for the VISN 19 Diagnostics Integrated Clinical Community (ICC) that will strengthen vertical and horizontal linkages to improve the quality and consistency of leadership, communication, and data essential for transformation to a High Reliability Organization and to support vital systems improvements.
• Responsible for working collaboratively with local and national clinical and non-clinical Diagnostic ICC leaders to develop and implement strategies for standardizing and improving patient care across the VISN and VHA including, but not limited to: monitoring progress, success, barriers and needs for improvement; identifying focused improvement efforts across the VISN and VHA; supporting the development of a robust learning organization through sharing and spreading strong practices; ensuring regular meetings of the VHA, VISN, and facility workgroups; implementing key elements of ICC guidance and policy; and providing regular guidance and oversight to facility-based ICC teams and workgroups.
• ICC-related program planning, organizing, evaluating, coordinating, and implementation.
• Recognized by the medical staff and senior leadership as a specialist in Diagnostics health care administration and policy/procedure formation.
• Functions as a valuable resource in areas of data analysis, quality assessment, performance improvement, interdisciplinary issues, utilization management, risk management, and health care system investigations.
• Belongs to a national community of practice focused on implementing VHA Modernization's Reduce Unwarranted Variation Across Integrated Clinical & Operational Service Lines Lane of Effort and improving the quality care throughout VHA.
• Develops and/or maintains proficiency and supports administrative activities with various computer applications including spreadsheets, databases, word processing, graphic generation and desktop publishing programs.
• Responsible for and oversees resource allocation and management to include funds, equipment, space, staffing, and contracts.
• May be tasked with managing VISN-wide equipment purchases and large-scale contracts.

Engages in proactive threat discovery through research and analysis of security-related material in order to maintain situational awareness of adverse information, and to identify threat content against Senators, their families, staff, and associated locations. Reports on security risks/concerns/persons of interest involving possible or actual threats to Senate Members, staff, the Capitol, and/or offices, and provides regular updates and applicable advice regarding these incidents. Implements outreach efforts, security assessment initiatives, and law enforcement coordination to ensure Senators and their Chiefs of Staff receive the necessary guidance, tools, and support when planning and attending public events as well as conducting outside travel. Reviews publicly available information and conducts open-source research to identify trends, patterns, and relationships that provide insights into threat and security issues. Other duties as assigned.

• Leads and manages significant aspects of the work and day-to-day activities of the NIH Compliance, Audit and Risk Management Team.
• Assesses overall NIH compliance with Information Security plans and policies, as well as alignment with business requirements.
• Evaluates the impact of new Information Security guidance on current programs and recommends changes to existing policies and processes to ensure compliance and responsiveness.
• Provides expert input to the development and implementation of the organization’s mission, goals, and objectives as an authority on safeguarding systems and information.
• Works as part of a team to initiate, develop, implement and evaluate various assigned security outreach and awareness programs and initiatives, including the implementation of security programs designed to address training needs and identify gaps.
• Directs, manages and participates in Information Technology related security policy compliance reviews and evaluations of the NIH’s broad and complex operations, information systems and computer systems to determine the adequacy of security.

As an Information Technology Specialist (Infosec), you will:

- Provide technical expertise to the design, development, and implementation of information security policies and procedures. Devise and conduct risk assessment programs to identify areas of potential vulnerability in operating systems used throughout the organization.
- Prioritize and schedule areas to be evaluated and develops assessment criteria. Ensure compliance with government-wide information security policy directives.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of existing programs. Identifies new processes, techniques, and procedures to upgrade and enhance security protocols.
- Lead project teams to implement systems security programs and to integrate IT security with other disciplines.
- Provide technical advice and leadership on security aspects of network and systems design to ensure implementation of appropriate systems security applications and policies.

• You will apply knowledge of the Intelligence Community (IC) and how to operate projects/programs within the IC constraints.
• You will be skilled in various system development methodologies and frameworks including but not limited to: Waterfall, Kanban, Agile/Scrum.
• You will assess the feasibility of adopting new software design technologies within a secured environment.
• You will be skilled in cybersecurity principles, threats, and vulnerabilities.