As a Bank Examiner (Climate Risk) with emphasis on Physical Risk (including natural catastrophes such as floods and hurricanes and chronic shifts such as sea level rise and drought), you will assist with supervisory examinations of noncommercial banks, savings and loan associations, or other financial institutions subject to Federal Government controls over their organization and operations.
Office of the Comptroller and Chief of Staff
Office of Climate Risk
Summary
As a Bank Examiner (Climate Risk) with emphasis on Physical Risk (including natural catastrophes such as floods and hurricanes and chronic shifts such as sea level rise and drought), you will assist with supervisory examinations of noncommercial banks, savings and loan associations, or other financial institutions subject to Federal Government controls over their organization and operations.
Office of the Comptroller and Chief of Staff
Office of Climate Risk
U.S. Citizens and U.S. Nationals. No prior federal service is required.
If applicable, include: This opportunity is also open to current OCC employees under Announcement MP2-HQ-TB-23-4120-11773943. Please refer to that announcement for details on open period, eligibility, and how to apply.
As a Bank Examiner (Climate Risk), with emphasis on Physical Risk (including natural catastrophes such as floods and hurricanes and chronic shifts such as sea level rise and drought), you will:
Identify and resolve complex problems or issues that generally cross organizational, functional, or disciplinary boundaries, and that impact the accomplishment of both short- and long- range strategic agency objectives especially focused on compliance supervision activities and risk mitigation.
Enhance the OCC's understanding on the financial impacts on the economy and regulated financial institutions from physical risks.
Formulate and implement strategies to enhance the OCC's analytical capability regarding physical risks.
Provide senior-level counsel and guidance on compliance supervision within the Office of Climate Risk to senior management, examiners-in-charge, and/or to other OCC officials as appropriate.
Interact regularly with senior managers and peers, both within and external to the agency, other federal financial regulators, and/or financial institution representatives involving complex or technically detailed issues requiring negotiation, formal presentations, and/or persuasion to achieve resolution consistent with the OCC's goals and priorities.
Serve as a senior professional staff member with responsibility for sharing knowledge/expertise and providing guidance to others.
Maintain accountability for providing senior-level guidance and input to influence and inform executive/managerial decision-making in compliance supervision matters.
Identify, evaluate, and resolve a range and variety of significant problems or issues related to compliance supervision which may affect unit or broader agency results.
Maintain responsibility for defining and assessing the implications of various alternative responses or recommendations across functional and/or organizational boundaries.
To ensure compliance with an applicable preliminary nationwide injunction, which may be supplemented, modified, or vacated, depending on the course of ongoing litigation, the Federal Government will take no action to implement or enforce the COVID-19 vaccination requirement pursuant to Executive Order 14043 on Requiring Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination for Federal Employees. Therefore, to the extent a Federal job announcement includes the requirement that applicants must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 pursuant to Executive Order 14043, that requirement does not currently apply.
Complete a one-year trial period (unless already completed).
Have your salary sent to a financial institution of your choice by Direct Deposit/Electronic Funds Transfer.
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.
Travel overnight or locally on an occasional basis.
Obtain and use a Government-issued charge card for business-related travel.
Successfully complete a background investigation that includes criminal history, financial history (including a credit check) and other information.
File an OCC Financial Disclosure Form.
Complete a financial disclosure review and resolve any ethics issues.
Click here for important information about OCC ethics standards, such as the requirement that new hires divest their bank securities.
Qualifications
You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement:
You must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the NB-V band level or GS-13 grade level in the Federal service. For this announcement, physical climate risk includes natural catastrophes such as floods and hurricanes and chronic shifts such as sea level rise and drought, and financial institutions include banks and thrifts, insurance companies, asset managers, investment managers, and asset owners. Examples of specialized experience for this position include:
Managing or leading teams engaged in financial institutions' emerging risks related to physical climate risk or,
Serving as an advisor or consultant to management on financial institutions' emerging risks related to physical climate risk, supervisory problems, issues, and other related technical matters; or,
Applying or analyzing physical climate risks to the financial services sector, banking, or financial regulatory framework.
The experience may have been gained in the public sector, private sector, or through volunteer service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-time work is considered on a prorated basis.
To receive any credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/year, and indicate the number of hours worked per week, on your resume.
Education
Education cannot be used to qualify for this position.
Additional information
This position is excluded from the bargaining unit.
Salary range does not include geographical pay.
For specific information on geographic pay differentials, click here.
This position is a Step 2 level position within the NB-VI pay band. Step 2 level positions are distinguished by additional job complexity, responsibility, and advanced skill levels required by the work.
If you are a current OCC employee who previously received a waiver determination permitting you to retain bank securities due to extenuating circumstances, please note that this determination may be rescinded if the nature of your duties changes. We strongly suggest that you discuss the potential implications of any change in duties on a prior securities determination with your ethics official.
We may select from this announcement or any other source to fill one or more vacancies.
This is an Excepted Service position under Schedule B, 213.3205(a).
The candidate selected for this position may be credited with directly-related non-Federal experience for annual leave purposes if eligible and considered appropriate.
Click all links in this vacancy announcement to view additional information and instructions.
Please refer to "Conditions of Employment."
Click "Print" to review the entire announcement before applying.
This position requires a Public Trust - Background Investigation
A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new windowLearn more about federal benefits.
Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.
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 resume, responses to the online questions, and required supporting documents. Please be sure that your resume includes detailed information to support your qualifications for this position; failure to provide sufficient evidence in your resume may result in a "not qualified" determination.
Rating:
Your application will be evaluated in the following areas:
Climate Change Risk
Teamwork
Advisement, Collaboration, and Outreach
Bank Supervision Knowledge
Category rating will be used to rank and select eligible candidates. If qualified, you will be assigned to one of three quality groupings (Outstanding, Excellent, or Qualified) depending on your responses to the online questions regarding your experience, education and training related to this position. Your rating will be lowered if your responses to the online questions are not supported by the education and/or experience described in your application.
Veterans' preference is applied after applicants are assessed. Preference-eligibles will be listed at the top of their assigned category and considered before non-preference eligibles in that category. Qualified preference eligibles with a compensable service-connected disability of 10% or more will be listed at the top of the highest category.
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.
A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new windowLearn more about federal benefits.
Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.
A complete application includes: 1) A resume, 2) vacancy question responses, and 3) submission of any required documents. Please note that if you do not provide all required information, as specified in this announcement, you may not be considered for this position (or may not receive the special consideration for which you may be eligible). Note: Please ensure that all bank, financial, and other confidential or sensitive information is removed/redacted from each document.
RESUME: All applicants are required to submit a resume by either creating one in USAJOBS or uploading one of their own choosing. (Cover letters are optional.) To receive any credit for relevant experience, please list the month/year and number of hours worked for experience listed on your resume. We suggest you preview the online questions, as you may need to customize your resume to ensure that it supports your responses to these questions. Please review Resume Tips.
VETERANS' PREFERENCE DOCUMENTATION: If you are claiming veterans' preference, you must submit a copy of your DD-214 (Member 4 copy), or other official documentation from a branch of the Armed Forces or the Department of Veterans Affairs showing actual or expected dates of service and type of discharge. Ten-point preference eligibles must also submit an Application for 10-point Veteran Preference, SF-15, along with the required documentation listed on the back of the SF-15 form. For more information on veterans' preference view FedsHireVets.
OPTIONAL DOCUMENTS: In addition, you may submit the following:
Cover letter
Recent performance evaluation (be sure to redact/remove all sensitive information prior to submitting)
If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.
The following instructions outline our application process. You must complete the online application process and submit any required documents by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) on the closing date of this announcement. We are available to assist you during business hours (8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Eastern/ Mountain StandardTime, Monday - Friday). If applying online poses a hardship, you must contact us by noon Eastern/Mountain Standard Time on the announcement's closing date. If you are unable to apply online, you must request an alternative application which is available from the Human Resources Office. Please contact Tyler Bruce at Tyler.Bruce@occ.treas.gov or 202-649-6665 to obtain an alternative application.
If you require a reasonable accommodation for disability during any part of the application and hiring process, please contact Kelly Battista by phone at 202-704-9488 or by email at Kelly.Battista@occ.treas.gov. Treasury provides reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities on a case-by-case basis. You must contact us by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the announcement's closing date to request accommodation. If you are deaf, hard of hearing, or have a speech disability, please dial 7-1-1 to access telecommunications relay services. Ms. Battista is not the point of contact for questions about the vacancy announcement.
A complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on the closing date of the Announcement to receive consideration.
To begin, click Apply to access the online application. You will need to be logged into your USAJOBS account to apply. If you do not have a USAJOBS account, you will need to create one before beginning the application.
Follow the prompts to select your résumé and/or other supporting documents to be included with your application package. You will have the opportunity to upload additional documents to include in your application before it is submitted. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process.
After acknowledging you have reviewed your application package, complete the Include Personal Information section as you deem appropriate and click to continue with the application process.
You will be taken to the online application which you must complete in order to apply for the position. Complete the online application, verify the required documentation is included with your application package, and submit the application.
Once your online application is submitted you will receive a confirmation notification by email. Your application will be evaluated by the Human Resources Office to determine your eligibility for the position. After the evaluation is complete, you will receive another notification regarding the status of your application.
Comptroller's Office
400 7th Street SW
Washington, DC 20219
US
Next steps
To verify the status of your application, log into your USAJOBS account (https://my.usajobs.gov/Account/Login), all of your applications will appear on the Welcome screen. The Application Status will appear along with the date your application was last updated.
Please notify us if your contact information changes after the closing date of the announcement. Also, note that if you provide an email address that is inaccurate or if your mailbox is full or blocked (e.g., spam-blocker), you may not receive important communication that could affect your consideration for this position.
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
A complete application includes: 1) A resume, 2) vacancy question responses, and 3) submission of any required documents. Please note that if you do not provide all required information, as specified in this announcement, you may not be considered for this position (or may not receive the special consideration for which you may be eligible). Note: Please ensure that all bank, financial, and other confidential or sensitive information is removed/redacted from each document.
RESUME: All applicants are required to submit a resume by either creating one in USAJOBS or uploading one of their own choosing. (Cover letters are optional.) To receive any credit for relevant experience, please list the month/year and number of hours worked for experience listed on your resume. We suggest you preview the online questions, as you may need to customize your resume to ensure that it supports your responses to these questions. Please review Resume Tips.
VETERANS' PREFERENCE DOCUMENTATION: If you are claiming veterans' preference, you must submit a copy of your DD-214 (Member 4 copy), or other official documentation from a branch of the Armed Forces or the Department of Veterans Affairs showing actual or expected dates of service and type of discharge. Ten-point preference eligibles must also submit an Application for 10-point Veteran Preference, SF-15, along with the required documentation listed on the back of the SF-15 form. For more information on veterans' preference view FedsHireVets.
OPTIONAL DOCUMENTS: In addition, you may submit the following:
Cover letter
Recent performance evaluation (be sure to redact/remove all sensitive information prior to submitting)
If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.
The following instructions outline our application process. You must complete the online application process and submit any required documents by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) on the closing date of this announcement. We are available to assist you during business hours (8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Eastern/ Mountain StandardTime, Monday - Friday). If applying online poses a hardship, you must contact us by noon Eastern/Mountain Standard Time on the announcement's closing date. If you are unable to apply online, you must request an alternative application which is available from the Human Resources Office. Please contact Tyler Bruce at Tyler.Bruce@occ.treas.gov or 202-649-6665 to obtain an alternative application.
If you require a reasonable accommodation for disability during any part of the application and hiring process, please contact Kelly Battista by phone at 202-704-9488 or by email at Kelly.Battista@occ.treas.gov. Treasury provides reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities on a case-by-case basis. You must contact us by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the announcement's closing date to request accommodation. If you are deaf, hard of hearing, or have a speech disability, please dial 7-1-1 to access telecommunications relay services. Ms. Battista is not the point of contact for questions about the vacancy announcement.
A complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on the closing date of the Announcement to receive consideration.
To begin, click Apply to access the online application. You will need to be logged into your USAJOBS account to apply. If you do not have a USAJOBS account, you will need to create one before beginning the application.
Follow the prompts to select your résumé and/or other supporting documents to be included with your application package. You will have the opportunity to upload additional documents to include in your application before it is submitted. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process.
After acknowledging you have reviewed your application package, complete the Include Personal Information section as you deem appropriate and click to continue with the application process.
You will be taken to the online application which you must complete in order to apply for the position. Complete the online application, verify the required documentation is included with your application package, and submit the application.
Once your online application is submitted you will receive a confirmation notification by email. Your application will be evaluated by the Human Resources Office to determine your eligibility for the position. After the evaluation is complete, you will receive another notification regarding the status of your application.
Comptroller's Office
400 7th Street SW
Washington, DC 20219
US
Next steps
To verify the status of your application, log into your USAJOBS account (https://my.usajobs.gov/Account/Login), all of your applications will appear on the Welcome screen. The Application Status will appear along with the date your application was last updated.
Please notify us if your contact information changes after the closing date of the announcement. Also, note that if you provide an email address that is inaccurate or if your mailbox is full or blocked (e.g., spam-blocker), you may not receive important communication that could affect your consideration for this position.
Fair and transparent
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
