The President has challenged cabinet Secretaries and senior Federal agency heads to create a government that is more citizen centered, results oriented, and market based. To achieve this vision within The Department of Homeland Security, we are searching for high caliber leaders who possess high standards of excellence and enjoy challenges and opportunities. Before applying for this position, please read the entire announcement and follow the instructions in the How to Apply section.

Duties

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is an agency within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) comprised of approximately 21,000 Federal. We lawfully administer immigration and naturalization adjudication functions and establish immigration services policies and priorities. The Field Operations Directorate provides management and oversight to the diverse operations of the National Benefits Center, and the domestic regional, district, field, and field support offices; adjudicates applications and petitions for immigration benefits; interviews applicants for immigration benefits; conducts naturalization ceremonies nationwide; completes required security and background security checks for pending applications and petitions; and provides immigration information and outreach. Major Duties: The District Director oversees and manages the day-to-day operations, efficient adjudication of all applications and petitions for immigration benefits, and administrative investigations within their designated geographic area. The incumbent independently manages all service related program activities and operations for the USCIS District Office and multiple Field Offices within jurisdictions that encompass large metropolitan areas (such as Miami, New York City, Los Angeles); and/or are spread across large geographically dispersed areas crossing multiple states. The District Director has authority and responsibility over the designated areas to ensure proper management and administration of immigration benefits program and services, and is responsible for leading, developing, analyzing, monitoring and evaluating all program activities and for implementing any changes that are the result of changes in policy, legislation, regulation, executive action, instruction, etc., and impact the mission activities of the directorate, USCIS and its stakeholders. The incumbent leads through change, ensures goals and targets are met, and drives innovation through process/program improvement to create efficiencies and achieve outcomes. As a member of the agency's executive team, you will implement the President's Management Agenda within your specific area of responsibility. For an overview of the diverse responsibilities USCIS carries out within the Government, visit our website at http://www.uscis.gov/.

Requirements

• You must be a U.S. Citizen or U.S. National to apply for this position
• Obtain/Maintain a Top Secret Security Clearance
• First time Senior Executive Service (SES) appointees are subject to a one-year probationary period
• If documents exceed page limits, excess pages will not be considered
• Financial Disclosure Required
• You must pass a drug screening
• Political appointees may require OPM approval prior to on-boarding

Qualifications

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. As a basic requirement for entry into the SES, applicants must provide evidence of progressively responsible leadership experience that is indicative of senior executive level managerial capability. This experience should be sufficiently broad in scope and at a major management level in a large or complex organization. The ideal candidate will have experience supervising a large number of employees through subordinate supervisors and have experience hiring, developing and evaluating employees. Your application should demonstrate that you the knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully fulfill responsibilities inherent in SES positions such as: Leading 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 employees, developing policy and other executive functions To meet the minimum qualification requirements for this position, your application must show evidence that you possess the five (5) Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) listed below. Typically, experience of this nature is gained at the GS-15 or equivalent level in the federal service or its equivalent in the private sector. If your experience does not include these basic qualifications, you will not be determined qualified for this position. **Noncompetitive status- if you are a current or reinstatement eligible Career SES or a graduate of an Office of Personnel Management (OPM) approved SES Candidate Development Program (CDP) and your ECQs have been certified by OPM's Qualifications Review Board (QRB)-you are not required to address the ECQs. Current and reinstatement eligible SES must include with your application a copy of your most recent SF-50, Notification of Personnel Action, documenting your SES Career Appointment. CDP graduates must include a copy of your OPM CDP graduation certificate or other proof that your ECQs have been QRB certified.** The application process used to recruit for this position is the RESUME-BASED METHOD. All applicants must submit a five (5) page resume. Your resume should clearly reflect evidence of the ECQs. Please do not submit separate narratives addressing the ECQs. Any information in excess of five (5) pages WILL NOT be considered. A sample five (5) page resume that incorporates ECQs can be viewed at this link http://www.opm.gov/ses/references/GuidetoSESQuals_2012.pdf EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS ECQ 1 - 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 Executive Core Qualification (ECQ) is the ability to establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment. ECQ 2 - LEADING PEOPLE: This core qualification involves the ability to lead people toward meeting the organization's 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. ECQ 3 - 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. ECQ 4 - BUSINESS ACUMEN: This core qualification involves the ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically. ECQ 5 - 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. Additional information on the Executive Core Qualifications is available at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/senior-executive-service/executive-core-qualifications/ MANDATORY TECHNICAL QUALIFICATION (MTQs) MTQ1. Demonstrated executive level leadership in overseeing operational programs that directly impact the national security or homeland security of the United States. This includes overseeing and ensuring the integrity, efficiency, and quality of program operations using a risk-based approach, and managing organizational and operational change across multiple, geographically dispersed offices. All applicants must submit a written narrative explaining how they meet the one (1) Mandatory Technical Qualification not to exceed one (1) page total. Please give examples and explain how often you used your skills, the complexity of the knowledge possessed and the sensitivity of the issues you handled, etc. Any information in excess of one (1) page per WILL NOT be considered. If you do not submit a narrative addressing each MTQ your application will be considered ineligible.

Education

There is no substitution for education of experience for this position.

Contacts

• Address
• Name: Executive Resources and Services
• Phone: 202-233-2323
• Email: [email protected]