• Serves as a report lead, provides instructions to team members, assigns work, provides training and reviews work products, ensures responsive results and adheres to established goals and time frames.
• Drafts, edits, and performs comprehensive report production duties to include conducting research, performing analysis in support of the overall publication process of reports, plans, briefings, and other materials ensuring the documents are accurate, timely and suitable for the intended audience, occasion and purpose.
• Review and analyze operations/execution orders, policies, data call, oversight reports, standard operating procedures, technical reports, information papers, technical guides, fact sheets, and other documents to determine their impact upon the publication.
• Conducts research to gather information, selects what is pertinent to the assignment, and develops points of emphasis and significant factors and trends involved in the subject-matter through discussion with specialists in the specific fields.
• Verifies references and factual information; compares text, figures, and illustrations to assure agreement; and determines publication format by marking copy, planning layout, or preparing specifications for various technical publications.
• Provides comprehensive support to the quarterly reporting process to include developing a calendar of activities, enforcing deadlines, issuing and archiving data calls, maintaining records of the work of writers and editors and overall ensuring the quality control effort to include verifying cited facts, photos, references, footnotes, and consistent formatting.
• Determines the most logical and effective use of information; and ensures all appropriate safeguards are maintained regarding sensitive or classified information.
• Documents findings, prepares reports, ensuring adherence to report procedures, formats and protocols, providing supporting documentation, cross references or other information. Provides recommendations and conclusions with justification; defines corrective action needed to address identified problems and issues.
• Develops plans, methodologies and approaches for analyses or evaluations conducted independently or as part of a team; defines scope, objectives and resources required for projects; conducts studies and evaluations, adapting plans and procedures as necessary to meet established goals and objectives; gathers data, through review of complex documents and information and through on-site visits and interviews with responsible staff.
• Utilizes the knowledge of the Lead Inspector General work product and planned programs to assist the program directors and the DIG OCO in the preparation and presentation of complex materials or highly complex issues before a wide variety of audiences; also uses information to assess the political and institutional environment where decisions affecting the DoD OIG responsibilities are made and implemented.
• When tasked, will undertake special studies, direct projects, and carry out assigned missions of the very highest priority, many of which are of direct concern to DIG OCO. In this connection, incumbent is relied upon to plan, direct, coordinate, and expedite projects and actions appropriate for each assignment.
• Establishes and maintains highly effective working relationships with all staff to include appropriate senior DoD, Congressional officials and members of internal and external organizations, including joint organizations and the other military services

These positions are being filled using 5 U.S. Code subsection 3161 authority. These excepted service positions are temporary and available for 13-month increments. These temporary positions may be terminated early or extended beyond the 13-month period based upon incumbent performance and the needs of the OIG.

Conditions of employment

• Position has been designated as Non-Critical Sensitive; incumbent is required to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.
• New Hires are required to submit to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment and are subject to random drug testing for the duration of service with DoD OIG. Organizational entities within the DoD are not required to conduct drug testing for DoD civilian employees moving by transfer or reassignment from one DoD Testing Designated Position (TDP) to another TDP with no break in service within the DoD, unless deemed appropriate on a case-by-case basis by the gaining Component.
• U.S. Citizenship is required for this position.
• Requires up to 25% of temporary duty (TDY) travel within the Continental United States (CONUS) and Outside of the Continental United States (OCONUS.)
• Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered for Selective Service

Qualifications

• Knowledge of Department of Defense (DOD), Department of State (DOS), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the OCO programs and services.
• Comprehensive knowledge of and ability to apply strategic communications and perform complex writing and editing duties that supports the presentation of technical and explanatory information. Broad knowledge of publishing concepts, practices, standards and technologies for the media used.
• Ability to exercise editorial quality control during all phases of a publication production cycle.
• Expertise experience in writing, editing, research techniques and methods to develop and prepare authoritative data on oversight programs, policies, services and functions. Ability to edit articles accepted for publication, often to include substantial rewriting.
• Expert knowledge of and skilled in project management, spreadsheet, word processing and presentation graphics applications with additional skills in Internet utilization to perform research and analysis.
• Knowledge of DoD organizations, missions, functions, and strategic objectives to conduct and support evaluations.
• Expert knowledge of qualitative and quantitative analysis techniques to conduct data calls and perform research. Skill in the conceptualization and design of methodologies for evaluations and program reviews.
• Expert skill in analyzing data and information to identify issues and develop conclusions and recommendations.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationship with internal staff and external organizations to maintain awareness of ongoing operations and to conduct reviews.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

You will be evaluated based on a comparison of the position requirements against the quality and extent of the experience and/or related education as reflected in your resume.