The primary duty of this position is to conduct, either independently or as the leader of an investigative team, complex civil and criminal investigations of individuals and labor organizations that have violated or may violate the LMRDA. The emphasis (more than 50%) will be on criminal investigations. Position may be filled at one of the following location: Atlanta, GA Birmingham, AL Fort Lauderdale, FL Nashville, TN Tampa, FL Pay to be set based on the locality pay area of the Duty Location.

Duties

Provides technical guidance and assistance to International/National labor organization officials, affiliated union officials, and interested parties to achieve and improve compliance with the regulations and statutory requirements of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA) and related statutes. Leads, plans, conducts, and completes complex and difficult civil and criminal investigations, compliance audits (including international audits), and supervised elections under the LMRDA and other related laws. Reviews investigative findings, including those of ad hoc team members, and consolidates them. Prepares comprehensive, well documented, signoff quality reports of investigative findings, and recommends appropriate dispositions. Prepares and correlates evidence. Serves as an expert program resource person in the district office and provides technical guidance to other Investigators on investigative problems and techniques. Plans and conducts training sessions for Investigators on current civil and criminal investigative principles and methods or on new and advanced investigative approaches and techniques. PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: The work often involves prolonged hours of interviews or records reviews in hazardous, hostile environments. Many records are obtained from reluctant sources via administrative or grand jury subpoena. The work may involve considerable exertion to obtain, transport, and ultimately review records. The work requires interviews of witnesses or targets in remote work sites at irregular, unpredictable, or unscheduled hours. Complex investigations are multi-tiered, requiring concentration and endurance. Documents are often difficult to obtain, and financial records may have to be completely reconstructed to assess both the subject's guilt and the union's loss. The work may involve interviewing contacts or developing leads in uncomfortable, often hostile environments oftentimes outside normal working hours. The position may also require working for prolonged periods of time without adequate rest. Conducting investigations requires frequent travel to various geographic sites with or without other investigators. Investigations may require locating witnesses and records, and then conducting extensive, prolonged interviews at irregular hours to satisfy stress-provoking time constraints. Travel is sometimes necessary in severe weather on remote roads, in hazardous areas or under hazardous conditions, for up to three weeks at a time. Some casework may have to be done over protracted shift periods and at irregular hours. Interviews may be conducted in arduous circumstances with reluctant witnesses, sometimes exposing the investigator to personal risk. Prosecution support work frequently requires unusually long work days and long periods away from the assigned duty station. Considerable endurance is often required to review voluminous records, and physical strength is required for lifting and transporting them. Investigators must often lift heavy boxes or equipment, and categorize, store and secure evidence, all independent of outside help. Investigators are required to be on-call and available as necessary during the course of the investigation. Some assignments, such as providing prosecutive support in criminal investigations and trials or assistance in election investigations and supervised elections may require unusually long work days and extensive time away from the duty station, i.e. up to three weeks without return to duty station. WORK ENVIRONMENT: Initial assignments are typically performed in office settings, but usually require extensive additional on-site investigative work. This on-site work often occurs during evening or other irregular hours in work places of union officials or other persons at work sites that include unsafe and crime-ridden urban areas, factories, union office buildings, construction building sites, mine operations, trucking terminals, warehouses, etc., that expose the Senior Investigator to personal and environmental risks in order to accomplish the required mission. Investigative activities may bring the investigator into direct contact with individuals facing potential criminal charges and/or loss of their livelihood or exposes the employee to highly contested and often hostile internal union struggles. These and other situations described above may place the Senior Investigator into physical jeopardy.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Must be at least 16 years old.
• Candidate required to obtain the necessary security/investigation level.
• Requires a probationary period if the requirement has not been met.
• Requires a valid driver's license.
• Age Restriction: This is a LEO position covered by the special retirement provisions for law enforcement officers. Incumbent must have completed work in a primary LEO position
• Age Restriction Cont'd: or must be no older than 37 at the point they are hired and report for duty and must retire at age 57.
• Medical Requirements: Because the position is a law enforcement position, investigators are required to meet OLMS medical standards for criminal investigators.
• Medical Requirements Cont'd: Compliance with this requirement involves passing initial and periodic physical examinations.
• Drug Testing: All investigators are subject to initial and ongoing random drug testing, as well as a comprehensive background investigation.
• Incumbent is required to be on-call and available as necessary.
• This position is inside the bargaining unit.

Qualifications

***There are specific Individual Occupational Requirements (IOR) and Law Enforcement Officer (LEO) requirements for this announcement. If you do not meet the IOR and LEO requirements, the vacancy is also open as a Labor Investigator, GS-1801-13, under announcement number MS-24-DAL-OLMS-12197835-JG, and does not have the IOR and LEO requirements. *** BASIC REQUIREMENTS: All applicants must meet the following basic requirements. Medical Requirements: The duties of positions in this series require 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 that applicants may 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 these positions are exacting and responsible, and involve activities under trying conditions, applicants must possess emotional and mental stability. Any physical condition that would cause the applicant to be a hazard to himself/herself, or others is disqualifying. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: In addition to the Basic Requirement listed above, all applicants must possess the following specialized experience to be considered minimally qualified. You must meet the Specialized Experience to qualify for Criminal Investigator (LEO), as described below. For GS-13: Applicants must have 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level, GS-12 in the Federal Service. Specialized Experience is the experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA's) to perform the duties of the position successfully, and that is typically in or related to the position to be filled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level. Specialized Experience for this position is defined as experience applying criminal and civil investigative principles and techniques in a civil/criminal investigation of individuals suspected or convicted of offenses against the criminal laws of the United States. Qualifying specialized experience for GS-13 includes:1) Experience working in a civil/criminal investigation position that required you to research issues, elicit specific information, and conduct civil and/or criminal enforcement matters.2) Experience in conducting audits of large labor organizations.3) Experience applying investigative auditing techniques of labor organizations to uncover and remedy criminal and civil violations of the LMRDA; and 4) Experience researching, investigating, analyzing, and examining accounting and financial records.

Education

Applicants may not qualify for this position based on education in lieu of specialized experience at the GS-13 grade level.

Contacts

• Address Office of Labor-Management Standards 200 Constitution Avenue NW Washington, DC 20210 US
• Name: Jacqueline Green
• Phone: 202-693-7677
• Email: [email protected]