Clarification from the agency

Current FDIC permanent employees with competitive status eligibility. Applicants whose permanent duty stations are in the San Francisco Region will not be relocated and will perform their duties from their permanent duty locations. Selectees from outside of the San Francisco Region will receive relocation benefits and will be relocated to perform their duties from one of the following field offices: Los Angeles, CA, Orange, CA, San Francisco, CA, Salt Lake City, UT, or Seattle, WA.

At the full performance level, major duties include:

• Plans and directs the supervisory efforts at complex financial institutions (FI) and regional service providers (SP).
• Serves as the principal supervisory contact with primary authority for the FDIC’s regulatory oversight activities for organizations as assigned.
• Examines and evaluates financial institutions information security and cyber security programs and conducts examination, visitation and/or investigation activities.
• Communicates with senior management of the SP or FI and effectively responds to or resolves their questions, complaints, and inquiries.
• Serves as regional expert and resource on complex IT examination matters.
• Initiates and maintains cooperative relationships with the appropriate state and Federal Banking Agencies.
• Provides guidance and training as needed for examiners conducting IT examinations. Develops and conducts training for field and regional offices and outreach events.
• Provides expert technical advice to examiners and other appropriate personnel, and prepares reports and updates to the FFIEC IT Examination Handbook, research papers on emerging IT technologies, updates of examination procedures and related training materials and manages or assists on projects.

Conditions of employment

Completion Of Financial Disclosure May Be Required.

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

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.

To qualify at the CG-13 level:  Applicants must have completed at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the 12 grade level or above in the Federal service.  Specialized experience is defined as experience performing information technology examinations of insured depository institutions, information systems, and data centers, and gathering, analyzing, and interpreting such items as financial data, system performance and security reports, and information technology related policies and procedures.

To qualify at the CG-14 level:  Applicants must have completed at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the 13 grade level or above in the Federal service.  Specialized experience is defined as experience conducting Information Technology (IT) examinations at insured depository institutions and/or data centers with complex or problematic IT operations and experience gathering, analyzing, and interpreting financial data, system performance and security reports, and information technology related policies and procedures for new and/or unprecedented situations.

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.

Top ranked candidates will be referred to the selecting official for further review and consideration.

The competencies/knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) you will be assessed on are listed below.

1. Knowledge of insured depository institution operations, and examination procedures and techniques.
2. Ability to analyze, apply established examining methods and procedures to appraise the quality of service provider and insured depository institutions management.
3. Knowledge of regulatory theory and practices relating to financial institutions and service providers (SPs) in connection with highly complex organizations.
4. Knowledge of IT supervisory methods, techniques, and procedures, including enforcement matters.
5. Ability to organize and execute research.
6. Ability to communicate orally.
7. Ability to communicate in writing.
8. Knowledge of IT audit techniques and internal control requirements to examine insured depository institutions information system centers and SPs.

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.