Clarification from the agency

Current FDIC permanent employees with competitive status eligibility.

• Plans and directs the supervisory efforts at complex financial institutions (FI) and regional service providers (SP).
• Serves as the primary supervisory contact and have primary authority for the FDIC’s regulatory oversight activities for organizations as assigned.
• Conducts IT examination functions of SPs and FIs information technology functions. Recommends plans and programs designed to correct deficiencies in the operation of the organization where deemed appropriate.
• Establishes and maintains a close working relationship with Regional Office FDIC staff, other regulatory authorities, and the management officials of the assigned organizations.
• Maintains cooperative relationships with the appropriate state and Federal Banking Agencies.
• Communicates with senior management of the SP or FI and effectively responds to or resolves their questions, complaints, and inquiries.
• Participates in conferences, symposiums, outreach events, or meetings with other supervisory agencies and other officials.
• Updates the FFIEC IT Examination Handbook, research papers on emerging IT technologies, updates of examination procedures and related training materials.
• Prepares memorandums, reports, or examination follow-up including remediation actions.

Conditions of employment

Completion of Confidential Financial Disclosure may be required.

Employee may be relocated to any duty location to meet management needs.

Moderate Risk Position - Minimum Background Investigation (MBI) required.

Qualifications

Qualifying experience may be obtained in the private or public sector. 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. Additional qualifications information can be found here.

Candidates must be a Commissioned Risk Examiner in the FDIC or another organization with comparable commissioning criteria used by the FDIC's Division of Risk Management Supervision.

To qualify for the CG-13 level position, applicants must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the CG-12 level or above in the Federal service as described below:

Specialized experience is defined as experience performing information technology examinations of insured depository institutions, information systems, and data centers.  Gathering, analyzing, and interpreting such items as financial data, system performance and security reports, and information technology related policies and procedures.

Applicants must have met the qualification requirements (including selective placement factors - if any) for this position within 30 calendar days of the closing date of this announcement.

How you will be evaluated

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

Your resume and the online assessment questionnaire will be reviewed, to determine whether you meet the qualification requirements outlined in this announcement. Therefore, it is imperative that your resume contain sufficiently detailed information upon which to make the qualification determination. Please ensure that your resume contains specific information such as position titles, beginning and ending dates of employment for each position, average number of hours worked per week, and if the position is/was in the Federal government, you should provide the position series and grade level. Your resume will also be evaluated to measure your responses to the assessment questions. If you rated yourself higher on the questionnaire than what is supported by your resume, your overall qualifications assessment may be adversely affected. The competencies/knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) you will be assessed on are listed below. Top ranked candidates will be referred to the selecting official for further review and consideration. You do not need to respond separately to these KSAs. Your answers to the online questionnaire and resume will serve as responses to the KSAs.

1. Knowledge of insured depository institution operations.
2. Knowledge of IT audit techniques and internal control requirements to examine insured depository institutions information systems centers and SPs.
3. Knowledge of regulatory theory and practices relating to financial institutions and SPs in connection with highly complex organizations.
4. Knowledge of IT supervisory methods, techniques, and procedures, including enforcement actions.
5. Ability to deal effectively with personnel, officials of supervised entities, State and Federal banking authorities, and other similar officials.
6. Ability to communicate orally to initiate, conduct, and otherwise participate in meeting with high level officials from FDIC, or other Federal and state regulators, insured financial institutions, and SP’s on IT supervisory issues. Some situations will involve controversial issues.
7. Ability to communicate in writing to prepare and/or manage a wide range of work products such as guidelines, training materials, enforcement actions, corrective programs, financial analysis, projects, special reports, studies, and correspondence, often under time pressures.