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

The Lead Program Analyst is a valuable member of the Office of Inspector (OIG), Office of Innovation, Policy, Strategy and Risk Division. Typical assignments include: Planning, coordinating, and developing organizational policy. Collects, analyzes, and reports organizational accomplishments that support accomplishing strategic goals and objectives. Identifies and recommends actions to mitigate internal organizational risk. Supports risk-based decisions and planning. Leads projects involving the planning, coordinating, and developing of organizational policy. Leads team in identifying, distributing, and balancing workload and tasks to team members in accordance with established workflow, skill level, and/or occupational specialization. Prepare organizational reports communicating organizational risk, strategic goals and implementation plans, and organizational performance. Creating narrative information, compiling data, and developing written materials for briefings, data calls, and other key meetings. Prepares and analyzes reports, responses to queries, justifications, and background papers on the technical aspects in assigned areas. Prepares and presents high-level briefings to senior executives, management, or other diverse groups and individuals. Communicates ideas, research, concepts, methods, analyses, evaluations, and recommendations in a logical and convincing manner. Collaborates across organizational lines to facilitate the preparation of performance measures, strategic assessments, and action plans.

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 Secret security clearance
• You will be required to undergo periodic drug testing
• Financial disclosure is required
• Selective Service registration required
• Completion of one year trial period may be required.
• Submission of Performance Appraisal is mandatory

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). Minimum Qualifications for GS-14: You qualify for the GS-14 position if you possess one year of specialized experience at the equivalent to GS-13 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience at this level includes: Demonstrated ability to manage multiple assignments that require a workable knowledge and experience in policy planning, enterprise risk analysis and/or strategic goal development to include planning, coordinating, researching, assessing developing, and reporting. Demonstrated ability to manage complex projects to include collecting, analyzing, and preparing reports, spreadsheets, flow charts, policy statements, and action plans consisting of data gathered and interpreted for the delivery and presentation to key strategic leaders. Ability to convey information effectively and persuasively about highly technical programs, projects, activities, and functions to individuals with limited to no knowledge of topic areas in both oral and written presentations. 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 04/23/2024of 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 04/23/2024of this announcement. 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.

Contacts

• Address Office of Inspector General 245 Murray Lane SW Washington, DC 20548 US
• Name: Dhymee Fields
• Phone: 202-904-7876
• Email: [email protected]