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Chief Data Officer

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
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Summary

The position is located in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Office of the Chief Operating Officer (COO) and oversees the Bureau’s data and information teams responsible for the proper intake, management, oversight and disposition of the Bureau’s information assets.

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Overview

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Open & closing dates
03/08/2019 to 03/21/2019
Salary
$173,489 to - $247,500 per year
Pay scale & grade
CN 81
Location
Washington, DC
1 vacancy
Telework eligible
Yes—as determined by the agency policy.
Travel Required
Occasional travel - Occasional Travel
Relocation expenses reimbursed
No
Appointment type
Permanent - Full-time
Work schedule
Full-time - Career/Career Conditional
Service
Competitive
Promotion potential
81
Supervisory status
Yes
Security clearance
Other
Drug test
No
Announcement number
19-CFPB-93
Control number
526732000

Duties

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As a Chief Data Officer, you will:

- Serve as the chief executive of data and information policy, governance, and management.

- Provide overall direction and oversight to a broad set of functions that support the Bureau’s data and information functions. These functions include Data Policy, Data Governance, Privacy, PRA, FOIA and Records Management.

- Provide executive direction and strategic leadership in the development, dissemination and implementation of Bureau-wide data standards, policy, reports and publications requirements.

- Coordinate with Bureau officials on the use, protection, and generation of data to ensure that the data needs of the Bureau are met.

- Make short- and long-term investment plans to acquire the requisite operational capabilities for building and maintaining CFPB’s data and information assets including infrastructure needs, business practices, management roles, and performance measures for the CDO program.

- Integrates the reporting functional areas to achieve a cohesive vision for data and information management at the Bureau.

- Establish cohesive policies and processes across related functional areas such as Privacy, PRA and FOIA to ensure efficient and effective programmatic support to Bureau stakeholders.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

  • Please refer to "Conditions of Employment."
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  • You must be a U.S. citizens or U.S. National

The experience may have been gained in either the public or private sector or volunteer service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-time work is considered on a prorated basis. To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/year, and indicate number of hours worked per week on your résumé.

Qualifications

To qualify for this Executive-level position, you must have substantial specialized experience, which is defined as:

  • Demonstrated experience successfully managing data and information policy and governance to support the mission of an agency, department, or corporation.  This experience must have been in a senior leadership position, directly overseeing a team of employees; AND
  • Demonstrated experience managing agency or corporate level information and data management programs and projects to support the secure collection and management of large datasets for financial environments that have requirements to use and analyze data; AND
  • Demonstrated management expertise to effectively guide the translation of a mission, goals, and strategies into an integrated information and data management program with coordinated projects and processes within the federal agency context.

Rating:
If you are found minimally qualified, you MUST submit a separate, concise essay (no more than 5 total pages), that addresses your experience applying the four Executive Competencies to manage and achieve the goals of the organization. The Executive Competencies include:

  • Modeling Inclusive Communications and Relationships – Delivers communications clearly and tactfully and demonstrates respect in interactions; sets the expectation that staff interact with others in a respectful, collaborative, and inclusive manner and broadly solicits and incorporates input from others; builds relationships with a range of diverse others; works collaboratively and seeks to identify mutually acceptable approaches; and, manages conflicts.
  • Managing and Inspiring High Performance - Manages employees in a fair manner while defining clear work expectations aligned with goals; plans and delegates work in alignment with team member skills and provides assistance, direction, constructive feedback, and support to staff; monitors progress and deadlines, ensuring work quality, responsiveness, and timeliness; contributes to team efforts and shares credit for accomplishments; and, adheres to performance management guidelines.
  • Accountability – Demonstrates through words and actions integrity, trust, and a commitment to serve the public; understands the Bureau’s mission, why the agency exists, and how own and others’ roles contribute to success; honors commitments; takes responsibility for own actions and the work of the team; models ownership of problem solving; and, complies with external rules and regulatory requirements.
  • Managing Quality Results – Provides work that is responsive to stakeholder or mission requirements and collects and acts on feedback/data to improve quality, efficiency, or responsiveness. Anticipates stakeholder needs and proactively addresses them to resolve concerns and balances stakeholder requests against capacity.

Your essay should include where and when the qualifications were obtained, and the organizational setting in which the experience was acquired (e.g. organization size, level, and assigned fiscal resources). A panel of Subject Matter Experts (SME's) will assess each applicant's responses to determine best qualified applicants for the position. A representative from the Office of Human Capital will contact you if you are found minimally qualified, and you will have 48 hours to submit your narrative.

Alternatively, you may submit your narrative with your application, simply attach your narrative under the ‘cover letter’ or under a Narrative Response attachment category link before submitting your application.

Referral: If you are among the top qualified candidates, your application may be referred to a selecting official for consideration. You may be required to participate in a selection interview.

If you are a displaced or surplus Federal employee (eligible for the Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP)/Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP)) you must receive a score of 90 or better to be rated as “well qualified" to receive special selection priority

Additional information

- We may select from this announcement or any other source to fill one or more vacancies. 
- This announcement may be used to fill like positions in other organizations within the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection. 
- This is a Non-Bargaining Unit position.
- We offer opportunities for telework.
- We offer opportunities for flexible work schedules.

-Ethics:  Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection employees are subject to government-wide ethical standards of conduct, financial disclosure requirements, and post-employment prohibitions, which applicants may review at www.oge.gov.  In addition, employees must comply with the Supplemental Standards of Ethical Conduct for Employees of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (5 CFR 9401), which, among other things, prohibit an employee or the employee’s spouse or minor child from owning or controlling a debt or equity interest in an entity supervised by the Bureau.   Regulations also impose restrictions on the outside activities of certain Bureau employees, including examiners and attorneys.  Applicants may review the Bureau's ethics regulations and a summary of the regulations at www.consumerfinance.gov.   Questions regarding these requirements and prohibitions should be directed to the Bureau Ethics Office at EthicsHelp@cfpb.gov.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
- A one year supervisory or managerial probationary period may be required.
- Must successfully complete a background investigation.
- Complete a Declaration for Federal Employment to determine your suitability for Federal employment, at the time requested by the agency.
- If you are a male applicant born after December 31, 1959, certify that you have registered with the Selective Service System or are exempt from having to do so.
- Go through a Personal Identity Verification (PIV) process that requires two forms of identification from the Form I-9.  Federal law requires verification of the identity and employment eligibility of all new hires in the U.S.
- Obtain and use a Government-issued charge card for business-related travel.
- File a Public Financial Disclosure Report (OGE Form 278e) within 30 days of appointment and annually from then on.

How you will be evaluated

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

Your application includes your résumé, responses to the online questions, and required supporting documents. Please be sure that your résumé includes detailed information to support your qualifications for this position; failure to provide sufficient evidence in your résumé may result in a “not qualified” determination.employee (eligible for the Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP)/Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP)) you must receive a score of 90 or above.

 


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