Total 61 job vacancies in Home Office: Columbia, MD

• Directing a consular unit; planning its work and ensuring coordination of effort, and facilitating full participation of managers, supervisors and employees in consular activities.
• Receiving, reviewing, and adjudicating applications for non-immigrant visas.
• Providing a range of services to American citizens overseas.
• Maintaining liaison with overseas post management to resolve consular problems.

• Reviews applications for completeness, affirmation of truthfulness, presence of required entries, signatures and photographs, and inclusion of application fees in the appropriate amounts
• When serving as the senior passport specialist on duty, provides instruction, technical guidance and assistance to Acceptance Agents on acceptance agent operations and procedures, and on passport application and issuance procedures
• Provides expert guidance, instruction and assistance in the use of interviewing techniques to Acceptance Agents, seasonal employees, and trainees and developmental employees at grade levels through GS-9

As a Mission Support Specialist, GS-12 you will perform the following duties:

• Coordinates and performs a wide variety of administrative and management services essential to the operations of the office including, but not limited to, managing travel needs and related processing, serving as timekeeper for staff, and coordinating a variety of administrative projects;
• Advises management on assigned administrative matters;
• Conducts or participates in the evaluation of administrative programs, systems and methods and identify ways to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of these services at the local level;
• Represents the office in dealings with vendors and organizations within the agency that have primary responsibility for these services; AND
• Applies a wide range of administrative programs, concepts, laws, policies, practices, and analytical diagnostic methods and techniques to address substantive matters that contain several interrelated issues.

As a Deputy Assistant Director, GS-15 you will perform the following duties:

• Supervises multiple regional supervisors as the first line supervisor, as well as a second line supervisor of community relations officers, and provide programmatic oversight of OPE portfolio;
• Develops and executes strategic plans and initiatives in support of the external partnership and engagement mission set, with clear vision and that achieves performance consistent with strategic priorities;
• Partners with key internal and external stakeholders to drive engagement with community entities at the state, and local government level, as well as law enforcement and non-governmental organizations to provide education on agency operations;
• Conducts risk assessments to minimize adverse operational impacts and promote program goals; and
• Partners with the Office of External Affairs front office and sub-programs, including OCR, and OPA, to ensure unified messaging, increased coordination, and streamlined execution.

Typical duties of the Workplace Inclusivity and Compliance Director include:

• Assists in implementing the OWIO Director's strategic vision for the Office of Workplace Inclusivity and Opportunity, including planning, organizing, staffing, directing, managing, and evaluating OWIO programs, initiatives, and activities, and assisting with general OWIO office operations.
• Functions as the Supervisory Attorney-Advisor for the Workplace Inclusivity and Compliance Division. Serves as the legal counsel providing authoritative oral and written legal advice on a wide variety of workplace inclusivity, accessibility, and compliance matters and policy interpretations in accordance with applicable federal laws, regulations, and guidance. Develops legal guidance, policy interpretations, and plans that foster an accessible work environment where all employees have an opportunity to thrive, including veterans, servicemembers, and persons with disabilities.
• Leads the agency's legal compliance efforts related to inclusivity and accessibility, ensuring the FTC's operations, policies, and practices comply with laws and regulations related to inclusivity and accessibility, align with the FTC's Strategic Plan, and are consistent with the agency's Model EEO Program. Partners with the EEO Director to support compliance with EEOC directives related to the inclusivity and accessibility of the FTC's workplace, including implementation of the EEOC's recommended actions.
• Collaborates with internal stakeholders, in particular the EEO Director, the Human Capital Management Office, the Office of the Chief Information Officer, and the Office of the Chief Administrative Officer, to ensure physical, technological and informational accessibility within the agency's workplace as well as alignment with Sections 504 and 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and other relevant federal laws, regulations, and guidance.
• Provides guidance and technical assistance to employee affinity groups. Develops and sustains relationships with federal agencies and other public and private entities, ensuring the FTC remains compliant with the law and aligned with best practices for supporting highly effective and efficient workplaces.
• Proposes, conducts and/or supervises quantitative and qualitative data gathering and analysis related to the inclusivity and accessibility of the FTC's workplace. Leads the development of reports, dashboards and other tools to explain findings, assess status, demonstrate progress, make recommendations, and inform legally compliant decision-making processes.
• Designs and delivers legal training sessions on inclusivity and accessibility for staff, ensuring awareness of compliance responsibilities and fostering an inclusive organizational culture that supports equal protection under the law for all employees.
• Supervises the Workplace Inclusivity Division and its employees, performs the full range of supervisory duties, and fosters a collaborative work environment for OWIO employees.

• Works as a key leadership team member, guiding a division that supervises employees at the GS-14 level and below, empowering them to drive impactful humanitarian initiatives.
• Champions leadership strategies that prioritize equity, inclusivity, and active engagement with local communities, ensuring that all voices are heard and valued in program implementation.
• Leads efforts to explore and incorporate resources that address protecting affected communities from sexual exploitation and abuse; ensuring that the latest research informs policy development and strengthens program effectiveness.
• Advises senior leadership on how to integrate local systems and community-driven solutions into humanitarian strategies, enhancing the relevance and sustainability of our efforts.
• Effectively communicates USAID’s humanitarian priorities while embracing and integrating diverse local and cultural perspectives, ensuring that our work is grounded in the realities of affected populations.
• Designs and leads initiatives that promote inclusivity and equity, continuously working to improve access and opportunities for all community members within humanitarian programs.

• Serves as the agency expert and coordinator in providing intellectual leadership to initiate complex humanitarian dialogue and generate humanitarian policy recommendations.
• Develops strategies for planning and implementing major USAID humanitarian programs of international scope and impact.
• Leads the review and evaluation of worldwide research on humanitarian assistance, applying results to USAID programs.
• Leads interdisciplinary and interagency task forces within and outside the U.S. government on humanitarian policies and strategies.
• Plans and assigns work, evaluates performance, and develops work improvement plans.
• Communicates agency and U.S. government humanitarian priorities to senior officials and diverse stakeholders.

As an Management and Program Analyst, you will perform the following duties:

• Conducts studies of work process and procedures, and procedures, identifies problems, reviews production standards, and makes recommendations for problem resolution.
• Reviews reports and studies to ensure that user requirements are met, and appropriate rules and regulations are utilized
• Assists in the development of directives and the design, development, documentation, and implementation of various reporting systems.
• Oversees, performs, and provides guidance on various administrative functions such as budget, contracts, travel, personnel, procurement and property.

At full performance level, major duties include:

• Provides direction, technical advice, counsel and guidance to compliance personnel in the field and regional offices on consumer protection laws and regulations and examination matters.
• Participates in consultations with Regional Office staff and management on material examination matters.
• Replies to questions and prepares letters and memoranda on examination and enforcement matters (including matters before the Case Review Committee) pertaining to compliance and Community Reinvestment Act (CRA).
• Participates in activities and meetings including training, conducted within the Corporation, on an interagency basis, or with industry and community representatives pertaining to compliance, fair lending and CRA matters.
• Participates in compliance, fair lending and CRA examination related projects.
• Reviews appeals of material supervisory compliance and CRA determinations submitted by institutions and prepares appropriate recommendations to the DCP Director or from the Director to the Supervision Appeals Review Committee with recommended action.

Incumbent typical work assignments may include the following:

• Develops a strategy and an implementation plan required for adequate evaluation of the operational and ethical performance of artificial-intelligence (Al) and other software-reliant systems.
• Identifies T&E infrastructure, tools, processes, and workforce requirements needed to evaluate, with confidence, that Al-based systems are responsible, ethical, equitable, traceable, reliable, and governable.
• Represents DOT &E at conferences, workshops, symposia and peer reviewed journals to accelerate innovation and delivery of T &E capabilities in support of software T&E and T&E of AI-enabled systems.

• Provide expert advice and guidance on Tribal grant, cooperative agreement, and/or contract-related projects and programs with impact on major agency line programs.
• Plan and manage Tribal grant and/or cooperative agreement programs that encompass difficult and diverse functions or issues that affected critical aspects of major programs.
• Draft briefs, reports, memoranda, and other key documents that are high quality.
• Participate in conferences, meetings, or presentations involving problems or issues of considerable consequence or importance to the work of an agency.
• Provide recommendations on the development of program implementation, operation, and evaluation strategies/methodologies.
• Supervise and assess the performance of staff, including the delegation of assignments to support the daily operations of the Tribal Division.

This position has job functions that must be executed within specific geographic locations. The official duty station is a federal facility, leased space, or an alternative worksite (typically the employee’s home) within the specified geographic area. You will be expected to report to a specific GSA duty location at least one or more days a pay period depending upon the terms of the agency’s telework policy.

As an Accountant, you will be performing the following duties:

GS-07

• Performs analysis, review and reconciliation of financial statements, reports or transactions.
• Performs analysis of accounts for proper accounting treatment, accuracy and correction. Reviews financial and/or management reports received from Service, Staff, and regional offices and assists in interpreting trends, spotting abnormal fluctuations affecting the status of funds, including the determination and recording of adjustments required.
• Supports internal and external audits providing data/information on accounting, financial management and related policies, procedures and reports. Participates in the review of audit reports. Participates in the creation of action plans and ensures completion of their action items by established due dates.

GS-09

• Creates various reports required by senior management. Performs analysis, review and reconciliation of financial statements, reports or transactions. Makes required adjustments to accounting records and
  includes them in consolidated reports and advises the appropriate staff to incorporate the adjustment in the official accounting records.
• Proposes new or revised reporting formats to serve changing needs of management. Participates in the developmental work for new reporting formats with appropriate Division, Service and program personnel, and if required, recommends modification to existing accounting systems to obtain needed data.
• Performs analysis of accounts for proper accounting treatment, accuracy and correction. Reviews financial and/or management reports received from Service, Staff, and regional offices and assists in interpreting trends, spotting abnormal fluctuations affecting the status of funds, including the determination and recording of adjustments required.
• Supports internal and external audits providing data/information on accounting, financial management and related policies, procedures and reports. Participates in the review of audit reports. Participates in the creation of action plans and ensures completion of their action items by established due dates.

This position has job functions that must be executed within specific geographic locations. The official duty station is a federal facility, leased space, or an alternative worksite (typically the employee’s home) within the specified geographic area. If you are selected for this position, you will be expected to report to the duty station listed on this announcement within 45 days. At that time, you may be eligible to request to telework one or more days a pay period depending upon the terms of the agency’s telework policy. The duty station will be determined upon selection and must be a physical address (not a PO Box) located within approximately a 50 miles radius of the geographic areas listed/described.

• Kansas City, MO
• Fort Worth, TX
• Washington, D.C.

APPLICATION LIMIT: This vacancy announcement is limited to the first 150 applications received and will close at 11:59PM Eastern Time on the day that we receive the 150th application, or at 11:59PM Eastern Time on the listed closing date, whichever occurs first.  

We encourage you to read this entire vacancy announcement prior to submitting your application.

As a Protective Service Specialist, GS-1801-12, you will be responsible for:

• Incumbent is responsible, during her/his shift for the security of the Secretary, to and from her/his residence and office, while attending events and meetings both official and personal inside and outside her/his office, while on travel within the United States and overseas, and during periods of heightened threats or federal government alert that would require continuous protection.   
• Serving as a Personal Protection Specialist and assists in the development and planning for the protection of the Secretary of Education and when appropriate, the Deputy Secretary of Education.     
• Assisting in investigations concerning threats to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary. Coordinates official liaison activities with the United States Secret Service, Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Capitol Police and other federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies, relating to the personal protective security operations of the Secretary and Deputy Secretary.   

As a Protective Service Specialist, GS-1801-13, you will be responsible for:

• Incumbent is responsible, during her/his shift for the security of the Secretary, to and from her/his residence and office, while attending events and meetings both official and personal inside and outside her/his office, while on travel within the United States and overseas, and during periods of heightened threats or federal government alert that would require continuous protection.    
• Serving as a Personal Protection Specialist and assists in the development and planning for the protection of the Secretary of Education and when appropriate, the Deputy Secretary of Education.   
• Assisting in investigations concerning threats to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary. Coordinates official liaison activities with the United States Secret Service, Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Capitol Police and other federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies, relating to the personal protective security operations of the Secretary and Deputy Secretary.   
• Coordinating with appropriate offices/agencies to ensure that all telecommunication systems are in place to include constant secure telephone services and other electronic communication systems with the Department of Education and the White House.

As a Editor, you will:

• Apply advanced principles and practices of writing and editing executive level correspondence and reports and of accepted, standard practices of writing and editing written communication and applications sufficient to originate and/or edit written content for dissemination from the organization's Administrator to Congress and the general public.
• Draft/review/edit substantive written materials for the Administrator and Principal Deputy Administrator as requested, including correspondence, reports, papers, key messages, and other written communications. This includes targeted messages for internal communications within NNSA or for specific stakeholders and partners, as needed by the Office of the Administrator.
• Analyze complex information, including legislation, financial information, and other numerical, qualitative and quantitative data, to extract key messages for integration into correspondence and reports as required.
• Apply multiple analytical tools and methods for undertaking substantive intensive research on a wide variety of policy related issues in order to gather all necessary and pertinent facts and evaluate their importance for inclusion or exclusion in the Administrator's written products.
• Understand the organization's mission and functions, and how its social, political, and technological systems work to include programs, policies, procedures, rules, and regulations of the organization in order to identify sources of knowledge pertinent to specific editing tasks in conjunction with the ability to handle and share that knowledge effectively through productive working relationships.
• Work with senior managers and colleagues in various NNSA organizations, including the Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs, and Office of Communications staff to incorporate leadership messaging into written products.
• Adapt behavior or work methods in response to new information, changing conditions, or unexpected obstacles; effectively deals with pressure, uncertainty, and ambiguity.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships in achieving understanding with groups with opposing points of view.

As an Administrative Specialist, you will perform the following duties:

• Maintain time and attendance; copy, scan, print, and compile documents; maintain control of incoming and outgoing mail/packages; and obtain office equipment and supplies; Effectively plan and organize work; Perform administrative duties for senior-level staff, including assembling background materials and records; preparing reports, make necessary arrangements for travel including airline, hotel and car rental reservations for ELPO staff; Assist and advise staff on all procedural and administrative aspects of action items; Under the direction of the supervisor and with knowledge of functional assignment and areas of expertise, assigning actions, with annotation on any applicable background material, to the appropriate office; Implement, monitor, maintain and support various administrative programs to include records management, files management, reports control and perform a variety of administrative support functions for Office supervisors and staff, as well as provide technical support services to facilitate the workflow of the office.
• Evaluate procedures and determine when changes need to be made and independently effect the changes; Research and obtain background information for required actions through available tools such as automated databases, historical files, and review of previous or current studies/projects on related topics.
• Respond to administrative issues and inquiries and resolve a variety of conflicts regarding administrative policies and processes among organizational issues; Serve as liaison for the office; interface with high-ranking officials both within and outside of the Department. Accomplishes any follow-up required; keeps staff members advised.
• Prepare legal correspondence, charts, tables, and reports using various software packages, including MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint; Proofread all correspondence and is responsible for correcting grammatical, typographical, and formatting errors and ensures timely submission through the appropriate signature process.