Job opening: Director of Cyber Policy Preparedness and Response
Salary: $147 649 - 221 900 per year
Published at: Feb 06 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
The Director of Cyber Policy, Preparedness, and Response are carried out pursuant to the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. More specifically, the Director of Cyber Policy, Preparedness, and Response, OCCIP, acts under the direction of the Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) for Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection and the Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions, as part of the Office of the Under Secretary for Domestic Finance.
Duties
1. Provides analysis, evaluations, and technical assistance to senior Treasury officials with respect to initiatives in the program areas described in the Introduction, including initiatives relating to identifying cybersecurity threats and promoting critical infrastructure resilience of the financial services sector and preparing for coordinated crisis response. Identifies, prioritizes, and develops policy options and strategies for presentation to senior Treasury officials that mitigate and protect against significant threats, incidents, risks, and vulnerabilities within the financial services sector. Ensures that all such analyses are thorough, accurate, and authoritative, and makes recommendations concerning the relative benefits and risks associated with such options and strategies.
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: The Office of Domestic Finance is dedicated to supporting equitable and sustainable economic growth and financial stability through the formulation of policies aimed at bolstering the resilience of financial institutions and markets, as well as increasing access to credit for small businesses and low to moderate income communities. We are currently seeing candidates who demonstrate a steadfast commitment to managerial excellence, coupled with the drive and creativity to innovate. The successful candidate will be tasked with leading a team, providing advisory support, overseeing operations, and assuming responsibility for key initiatives within the office. Applicants must meet the requirements for the position and demonstrate in your resume that you possess the Mandatory Technical Qualifications (MTQs). It is recommended that your resume emphasize the levels of responsibility, scope and results.
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 address the Mandatory Technical Qualifications required for the position. It is recommended that corresponding MTQs be annotated in parenthesis within your resume. 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 (In Your Resume) 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 address each of the MTQs in the resume. Applicants who fail to address the MTQs in the resume 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: Candidate has experience leading cybersecurity policy, critical infrastructure protection preparedness and response, and/or cyber intelligence related activities.
MTQ 2: Candidate has extensive knowledge and experience coordinating information sharing and other policy priorities among intelligence agencies, regulators, other government agencies, and the private sector.
MTQ 3: Candidate demonstrates experience leading an office or other organization and managing human resources.
Education
This job does not have an education qualification requirement.
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