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 position is located in the Operations Branch, Office of Management (OM), Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO), Office of the Inspector General (OIG), Department of Homeland Security (DHS). OCIO is responsible for the overall management of all operational information technology (IT) resources and support services for OIG. The Operations Branch is responsible for managing the OIG network, infrastructure, and platform environments; providing multi-function device (MFD), voice over IP (VOIP), and video teleconferencing (VTC) support; and implementation and oversight of the patch management program. The primary purpose of this position is to manage and supervise Operations Branch personnel and operations. The incumbent provides supervisory functions as follows: Exercises technical and administrative supervision over government and contractor staff. Plans, directs, coordinates, leads, counsels, and evaluates subordinate staff. Ensures the timely performance of a satisfactory amount of quality of work. Reviews work products of subordinates and accept, amends, or reject their work. Plans work to be accomplished by subordinates. Sets priorities and prepares schedules for completion of work. Assigns work to subordinates based on priorities, selective consideration of the difficulty and the requirements of the assignments, and the capabilities of employees. Evaluates performance of subordinates, gives advice, counsel, and instructions to individual employees on improving performance. Makes recommendations on selecting, promoting, and/or reassigning employees. Ensures compliance with Occupational Safety and Health, Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), and internal Agency control principals, policies, and procedures when carrying out his/her responsibility concerning all management decisions and courses of action taken.

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 supervisory probationary 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 ALL specialized experience at the equivalent to GS-13 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience at this level includes: Ensuring the rigorous application of information security policies, principles, and practices to all components of the enterprise architecture. Applying information systems security concepts and methods to identify need for configuration changes based on new security technologies or cyber threats. Serving as a technical expert with regard to applications, operating systems, protocols, and equipment used in customer organizations. Providing authoritative leadership in developing technical proposals, evaluating the work of subordinate staff, and reviewing proposed system configuration changes. Communicating and coordinating the status of IT projects and ongoing operations. Documenting status updates, procedures, and action plans. 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 10/16/2024of 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 10/16/2024of 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 20528 US
• Name: Dhymee Fields
• Email: [email protected]