Job opening: Director Office of Investment Reviews and Investigation
Salary: $141 022 - 212 100 per year
Published at: Jan 02 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
The Office of Investment Security, in the International Affairs Office of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, fulfills Treasury's statutory responsibilities as chair of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), which has the authority to review the national security effects of foreign acquisitions of U.S. businesses. The office leads and coordinates the review by sixteen Executive Branch departments and White House offices of each transaction notified to CFIUS.
Duties
Serves as a principial advisor to the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Investment Security Operations and the Assistant Secretary for Investment Security on the following (a) policies relating to foreign investment issues, (b) policies and positions on economic and policy aspects of foreign direct investment in the U.S., (c) formulating and promoting U.S. foreign direct investment abroad. This incumbent serves as Staff Chair of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS).
Support senior Treasury Department officials with the development and formulation of United States foreign direct investment policy abroad and foreign direct investment in the United States.
Leads the day-to-day functions of a segment of the Treasury Department's Office of Investment Security, which is headed by an Assistant Secretary.
Direct and leads senior Treasury Department officials investment meetings with other agencies, governments, and private sector representatives, the incumbent guides the implementation of highly technical and complex issues and problems that requires an ability to evaluate and assess the overall effectiveness and efficiency of international investment policy proposals. The result has direct impact on national security given the transfer of capital into, and out of, various countries, which forms the basis of the United States bilateral investment treaties with foreign countries.
Coordinate across the entire Department to identify vulnerabilities and consequences arising from foreign investment.
Directs the Investment Review and Investigation office including the office's managerial supervisory and administrative functions. These include (a) supervising work; (b) evaluating employee performance; (c) recommendation of promotions and disciplinary actions; (d) career development; and (e) recruitment and initial evaluation of applicants for professional economist and support positions.
Requirements
- Initial appointments are required to serve a probationary period of 1 year.
- Financial disclosure is required.
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret-SCI clearance.
- Must be a U.S. Citizen
Qualifications
Qualifications: As a basic requirement, applicants must possess the Mandatory Technical Qualifications and Executive Core Qualifications listed below. Typically, qualified applicants will have gained experience of this nature at or above the (GS)-15 grade level or its equivalent in the public or private sector. To be qualified for this position, your resume must reflect experience in a managerial capacity. Typically, experience of this nature is gained at or above the GS-15 grade level in the Federal service, or its equivalent with state or local government, the private sector, or nongovernmental organizations. As such, your resume must demonstrate that you have the knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully fulfill responsibilities inherent in most SES positions such as:
Directing the work of an organizational unit
Ensuring the success of one or more specific major programs or projects
Monitoring progress toward strategic organizational goals, evaluating organizational performance and taking action to improve performance.
Supervising the work of other managers and exercising important policymaking, policy determining, or other executive functions.
Failure to meet the basic qualification requirement and address all Mandatory Technical Qualifications and Executive Core Qualifications will result in your application being disqualified. The ECQs were designed to assess executive experience and potential not technical expertise. They measure whether an individual has the broad executive skills needed to succeed in a variety of SES positions. All applicants that are not already QRB certified, must submit a separate written narrative addressing the ECQs. Your narrative must address each ECQ separately and should contain at least two examples per ECQ describing your experiences and accomplishments/results. The narrative should be clear and concise, emphasizing your scope and level of responsibility, the complexity of programs managed, your initiatives and accomplishments, and the results of your actions.
The narrative must not exceed 10 pages. NOTE: Current career SES members, former career SES members with reinstatement eligibility, and SES Candidate Development Program graduates who have been certified by OPM do NOT need to address the ECQs:
Leading Change: This core qualification involves the ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment. Competencies: creativity and innovation, external awareness, flexibility, resilience, strategic thinking, vision
Leading People: This core qualification involves the ability to lead people toward meeting the organizations vision, mission, and goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts. Competencies: conflict management, leveraging diversity, developing others, team building
Results Driven: This core qualification involves the ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to make decisions that produce high quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks. Competencies: accountability, customer service, decisiveness, entrepreneurship, problem solving, technical credibility
Business Acumen: This core qualification involves the ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically. Competencies: financial management, human capital management, technology management
Building Coalitions: This core qualification involves the ability to build coalitions internally and with other Federal agencies, State and local governments, nonprofit and private sector organizations, foreign governments, or international organizations to achieve common goals. Competencies: partnering, political savvy, influencing/negotiating
Fundamental Competencies: These competencies are the foundation for success in each of the Executive Core Qualifications: Interpersonal Skills, Oral Communication, Continual Learning, Written Communication, Integrity/Honesty, Public Service Motivation. The Fundamental Competencies are crosscutting and should be addressed over the course of each ECQ narratives.
When completing Executive Core Competencies, applicants should follow the Challenge, Context, Action and Result (CCAR) model outlined in the guide.
Challenge - Describe a specific problem or goal.
Context - Describe the individuals and groups you worked with, and/or the environment in which you worked, to address a particular challenge (e.g., clients, co-workers, members of Congress, shrinking budget, low morale).
Action - Discuss the specific actions you took to address a challenge.
Result - Give specific examples of measures/outcomes that had some impact on the organization. These accomplishments demonstrate the quality and effectiveness of your leadership skills.
Additional information about the SES and Executive Core Qualifications can be found on the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) SES Website. You are strongly encouraged to review OPMs Guide to SES Qualifications for specific examples and guidance on writing effective ECQ narrative statements.
MANDATORY TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS (MTQs): All applicants must submit a written narrative that addresses each of the MTQs separately. The narrative must not exceed one (1) page per MTQ. Applicants who fail to adhere to the one (1) page per MTQ limit will be disqualified and no longer considered for the position. In addition to the ECQs, applicants must possess the following technical qualifications that represent the knowledge, skills, and abilities essential to perform the duties and responsibilities of the position. You must fully address each MTQ to be rated for further consideration.
MTQ 1: Broad knowledge and demonstrated understanding of the U.S. Government economic and national security policy positions on foreign direct investment in the United States including highly sophisticated economic and financial analyses of complex international investment issues. Experience formulating policy/strategy recommendations in the above topic areas.
MTQ 2: Extensive and, diversified experience with the types of relevant policy, legal and economic issues and cases presented to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), such as how to balance evaluation of the national security risks posed by individuals business transactions with protection of an open investment environment.
MTQ 3: Experience coordinating and managing a complex interagency process. Experience representing and negotiating United States Government views within the interagency and communicating complex issues and ideas to senior government officials and external stakeholders.
Education
This job does not have an education qualification requirement.
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