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 will be on civil 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 DEMANDS: Although the initial on-site work may be partially sedentary, it regularly involves some exertion and typically requires travel to various geographic sites. Work frequently involves securing and transporting bulky, heavy records. Work may involve seizing and transporting computers and other related equipment of considerable bulk and weight. Investigative activities include locating witnesses and third party interviews at various industrial sites, construction projects, mines, and other outdoor sites. Activities require frequent travel much of which is performed by automobile driven by the Senior Investigator. Such travel may require four to eight hours to reach a destination. Travel is sometimes performed in severe traffic and/or weather conditions on hazardous roads. Investigation may require locating witnesses and records, and extensive and prolonged interviews at irregular hours to meet stressful time frames. Some assignments, such as providing prosecutive support in criminal investigations and trials or assistance in election investigations and supervised election 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 exposes the incumbent 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 incumbent in 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.
• Drug Testing: All investigators are subject to initial and ongoing random drug testing, as well as a comprehensive background investigation.
• Requires a valid driver's license.
• This position is inside the bargaining unit.

Qualifications

You must meet the Specialized Experience to qualify for Labor Investigator, 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]