This position is located in Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Coast Guard, Finance Center, in Chesapeake, VA.

Duties

This position serves as a Section Chief within a Branch of the Accounting Systems Division.  Incumbent is responsible for providing, coordinating, analyzing, testing, and ensuring the maintenance of the applications within section assigned. Being a Coast Guard civilian makes you a valuable member of the Coast Guard team.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• This position requires occasional travel.
• This position requires a Minimum Background Investigation (MBI).
• Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered for Selective Service.

Qualifications

AT THE GS-13 LEVEL: To qualify for the GS-13 applicants must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in the federal sector. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work. Identifying training and employee developmental needs, motivation, and growth. Ensuring continuing positive support and involvement in EEO, safety, and other programs designed to benefit employees. Interviewing candidates for positions in the section and reccommends appointments. Serving as a senior expert on special projects.  As senior expert, oversees the staff that plan, organize, conduct program analysis. Testing the functionality of FINCEN applications and interfaces with related systems operated by the USCG and its client organization. Providing estimates of analysis and testing hours, and reviews/approves analysis and test results in the Division configuration control board system and provide expert explanations as required. National Service Experience (i.e., volunteer experience): 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 Office of Personnel management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees.  If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule, C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office.

Education

This position does not have a positive education requirement. If you are including education on your resume, report only attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. See Required Documents section for detail.

FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet Federal qualification requirements if you can show that your foreign education is comparable to education received in accredited educational institutions in the United States. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence with your application. See Recognition of Foreign Qualifications click here

Contacts

• Address United States Coast Guard 2703 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave SE STOP 7912 Washington, District of Columbia 20593 United States
• Name: USCG Applicant Support
• Phone: 866-656-6830
• Email: [email protected]