OIG is organized into seven operational units: the Immediate Office of the Inspector General, Office of the Counselor, Office of Audits and Evaluations, Office of Healthcare Inspections, Office of Investigations, Office of Management and Administration, and Office of Special Reviews. In addition to the Washington, DC, headquarters, OIG has offices located in more than 60 locations throughout the country.

Duties

OIG's Office of Investigations (OI) investigates potential crimes and civil violations of law involving VA programs and operations committed by VA employees, contractors, beneficiaries, and other individuals. These investigations focus on a wide range of matters including health care, procurement, benefits, education, construction, and other fraud; cybercrime and identity theft; bribery, embezzlement, and conflicts of interest; drug offenses; and violent crimes. OI is staffed by special agents, forensic accountants, analysts, and other professional staff in headquarters divisions and regional field offices that use data analytics, cyber-tools, covert operations, and other strategies to detect and address conduct that poses a threat to or has harmed VA personnel, operations, and the veterans or other beneficiaries they service. Through criminal prosecutions and civil monetary recoveries, OI's investigations promote integrity, patient safety, efficiency, and accountability within VA.The following are the duties of this position at the GS-13. If you are selected at a lower grade level, you will have the opportunity to learn to perform all these duties, and will receive training to help you grow in this position. Provide support with respect to budget formulation, spend plan development tracking/oversight of contracts, coordination with the Budget Division, working with Headquarter divisions/Investigative regions to track funding levels, conducting market research and entering requests into the agency Purchase Card Request application system. Apply management analysis concepts, principles, and techniques in variety of different programs areas including: criminal investigative information resource systems, OI's segment of the agency's travel management system, Quality Assessment Reviews (QAR), personnel training, and the tracking/oversight of staffing and hiring processes/strategies, position description development, and announcement of positions. Oversee the tracking/oversight of OI staffing-hiring operations to include: coordination and support to Human Resources with regards to the announcement of new OI positions, review/revising of Position Descriptions and related documents/processes, ensuring OI senior leadership is aware of the approved hiring/ceiling levels, and updating the Division's Special Agent in Charge and senior OI leadership on current/projected in-seat employees, and onboarding/off boarding staff. Developing plans, goals, and objectives for long-range implementation and administration of the OIG investigative records systems, management information policies, and developing criteria to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of these and other assigned programs and providing formal guidance and direction to OI supervisory and staff personnel. Reviewing current management information and other administrative policies and conducting research and analysis in the development and drafting of new policies, programs, standards, requirements, methods, procedures, and/or techniques designed to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of OI's operations. Gathering and analyzing data and preparing summaries and reports of investigative findings, resource allocations, strategies, policy and other proposals affecting the administration of the OIG, OI, and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) programs and operations.

Requirements

Qualifications

You must meet the following requirements within 30 days of the closing date of this announcement. To qualify for this position as a GS-13 you must meet the specialized experience requirements for this position with at least one (1) full year of experience at the GS-12 level, or equivalent. This experience as provided below, should have equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities required to successfully perform the duties of the position. This specialized experience includes: - Analyzing and assessing the effectiveness or efficiency of program operations or work processes, then developing recommendations to improve them; AND - Establishing working relationships with internal and external stakeholders; AND - Consolidating information from multiple sources into a completed written document; AND - Assisting with program or project oversight, training, or records management. To qualify for this position as a GS-12 you must meet the specialized experience requirements for this position with at least one (1) full year of experience at the GS-11 level, or equivalent. This experience as provided below, should have equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities required to successfully perform the duties of the position. This specialized experience includes: - Assisting in devising analytical techniques for assessing the effectiveness or efficiency of work processes; AND - Consolidating information from multiple sources to provide information; AND - Making recommendations to leadership to resolve issues, process improvements or overcome a challenge. In addition to the above requirements, you must meet the following time-in-grade requirement, if applicable: For the GS-13, you must have been at the GS-12level for 52 weeks. For the GS-12, you must have been at the GS-11level for 52 weeks. Time After Competitive Appointment: Candidates who are current Federal employees serving on a non-temporary competitive appointment must have served at least three months in that appointment.

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Contacts

• Address Office of Investigations Administrative Resource Center Parkersburg, WV 26101 US
• Name: Applicant Call Center
• Phone: 304-480-7300
• Email: [email protected]