Job opening: Supervisory Auditor (Performance)
Salary: $116 393 - 183 500 per year
Published at: Feb 26 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) is an independent office whose mission is to promote excellence, integrity, and accountability throughout the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). In our dynamic environment, the OIG conducts investigations, audits, evaluations, and inspections to enhance program effectiveness and efficiency and to detect and prevent waste, fraud, and mismanagement in DHS programs and operations.
Duties
This position is located in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Office of Inspector General (OIG), Office of Audits. The OIG conducts and supervises independent audits, investigations, and inspections of the programs and operations of DHS, and recommends ways for DHS to carry out its responsibilities in the most effective, efficient, and economical manner possible. The OIG also seeks to deter, identify, and address fraud, abuse, mismanagement, and waste of taxpayer funds invested in Homeland Security.
The Office of Audits oversees financial and performance audits, as well as attestation engagements. These audits cover multiple functional and program areas, such as financial statements, cyber security, acquisitions, grants, critical infrastructure, disasters, law enforcement and terrorism, immigration, and transportation security. Auditors examine DHS programs or activities in a formalized, detailed, and in-depth way. Duties and assignments may involve new or controversial issues, shaping major programs, compliance with new legislation, or facilitating the resolution of long-standing problem areas of vital importance to DHS. This position serves as a Supervisory Auditor over a program and audit team consisting of auditors and analysts responsible for planning and conducting program audits of DHS programs, functions, and operations. Typical assignments include:
Managing program audits of the various programs, operations, and functions of DHS through a subordinate staff of auditors and/or analysts.
Developing and/or modifying objectives, work plans, guidelines, scope, methods, staff requirements, and time schedules to meet project needs.
Developing annual and long-range audit plans, providing technical advice and guidance to subordinate staff for audit activities.
Recommending new or revised audit policies and procedures and innovative audit approaches based on technical expertise and operating experience.
Leading, counseling, and evaluating subordinate staff.
Requirements
- You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this position
- You must successfully pass a background investigation
- You must be able to obtain Top Secret security clearance.
- You will be required to undergo periodic drug testing
- Financial disclosure is required
- Selective Service registration required
- Completion of one year supervisory probationary period may be required.
Qualifications
You must meet all qualification requirements by the closing date of this vacancy announcement.
If you are a current federal employee, you must meet all time-in-grade and time-after competitive appointment qualifications by the closing date of this vacancy announcement. To make an accurate determination, you will need to include on your resume your federal position title, pay plan, occupational series, grade level, agency, dates for which you held the grade level (stated as MM/YYYY to MM/YYYY, OR MM/YYYY to PRESENT), and total hours worked per week. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social).
You must meet the "Specialized Experience" to qualify for the Supervisory Auditor Performance position, as described below:
Applicants must have 1 year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-13 grade level 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 equivalent to at least the next lower grade level.
Specialized experience for this position includes:
Analyzing and evaluating the effectiveness of various programs, operations and functions of an organization;
Developing and designing audit or evaluation plans;
Addressing unexpected complex developments that require modifications in work plans; AND
Determining sufficiency of work papers and related evidence developed by staff members.
Selective Placement Factor
In addition to the minimum qualifications described above, you must meet the following requirement(s) to be considered qualified for the position:
Experience in reviewing information/cyber security or privacy controls by participating in the planning, fieldwork, and reporting phases of an audit, evaluation, special inquiry, and/or investigation.
Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
The qualification requirements listed above must be met by the closing date 03/08/2024of this announcement.
Current federal employees must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade level or equivalent grade band in the federal service. The time-in-grade requirement must be met by the closing date 03/08/2024of this announcement.
Education
There is no substitution of education for the required specialized experience at the GS-14 level.
Contacts
- Address Office of Inspector General
245 Murray Lane SW
Washington, DC 20528
US
- Name: Mary Bradford
- Phone: 202-560-9302
- Email: [email protected]