Clarification from the agency

This position is open to current FDIC permanent employees with competitive status eligibility.

• Serves as the subject matter expert by creating and supporting complex technical analyses, including resolvability assessments and operational continuity assessments of LCFIs.
• Identifies potential operational continuity resolution challenges, including those presented by the inaccessibility, unreliability, and/or failure of information technology (IT) systems.
• Assesses potential cyber- and operational-type incidents or scenarios to which LCFIs are vulnerable and evaluates how those incidents might precipitate or lead to an LCFI resolution.
• Develops and executes resolution approaches, strategies, plans, responses, and processes to respond to cyber- and operational-type scenarios, including on public communications and messaging.

Conditions of employment

Completion Of Financial Disclosure May Be 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.

To qualify, applicants must have completed at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the CG-14 grade level or above in the Federal service.  Specialized experience is defined as experience analyzing the cyber/IT challenges of financial institutions and the operational, resolvability, or resolution challenges of financial institutions through: participating in resolution plan review, firm-specific resolvability assessment, cross-firm horizontal resolvability analyses, operational risk/challenge analyses, or examination activities.

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. Ability to assess/evaluate the disruption to an LCFI’s operational continuity, including disruptions resulting from a cyber-threat/attack/incident, and to review and provide advice on a plan of action, including public communications.
2. Knowledge of LCFIs’ operations, practices, and products including loans, deposits, internet banking, electronic transaction application interfaces, and systems upon which such applications operate.
3. Knowledge of financial institution resolution strategies, bankruptcy, or Dodd-Frank Act Title II authority.
4. Ability to assess the operational continuity resolution challenges presented by the inaccessibility, unreliability, and/or failure of IT systems of an LCFI.
5. Ability to assess potential cyber-type incidents or scenarios to which LCFIs are vulnerable and to evaluate how those incidents might precipitate or lead to an LCFI resolution.
6. Ability to consider the resolution implications, unique challenges (e.g., instantaneity/suddenness, uncertainty, novelty/uniqueness/lack of precedent, public perception/reaction) and/or considerations of cyber-type incidents and to develop and execute resolution approaches, strategies, plans, responses, and processes to respond to cyber scenarios, including for public communications and messaging.
7. Ability to communicate in writing.
8. Ability to communicate orally.

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.