Clarification from the agency

Applications will be accepted from all groups of qualified individuals.

This position will create, maintain, and continuously improve a formal and proactive compliance program that enables ATF's compliance with the letter and spirit of laws, regulations, rules and polices that govern ATF activities. It will promote a culture that encourages non-compliance reporting free of reprisal, where accountability is compatible with risk mitigation. The position will also enhance awareness of ATF's mission, core values, and strategic plan among all employees within the agency, further strengthening the compliance environment. To accomplish this task, the position must provide executive level leadership while interacting with all ATF Directorates to ensure that effective compliance policies, training, monitoring, and auditing processes are fully
incorporated into programs and initiatives.

Conditions of employment

MOBILITY PLAN: New employees hired pursuant to this vacancy announcement must sign a mobility agreement. The purpose of ATF's mobility policy is to enhance career development and progression and achieve mission and business effectiveness. To accomplish these objectives, the mobility plan will facilitate the movement of employees through special short-term assignments or permanent reassignments throughout the Bureau. Applicants who decline to sign a mobility agreement, as required, will be removed from the hiring process.

Experience required for the ES-0343 series: You must have substantive experience primarily concerned with analyzing, evaluating, and/or improving the efficiency of internal administrative. operations, organizations, or management. Specifically, overseeing compliance with external and
internal business process meets law enforcement governance standards, and to assess compliance risks.

As a basic requirement, applicants must demonstrate progressively responsible leadership experience that is indicative of senior executive level managerial capability and directly related to the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities required for successful performance in this position. Typically, experience of this nature will have been gained at or above the equivalent of the GS-15 grade level in the Federal service or its equivalent with state and local government, the private sector, or non-governmental organizations. Failure to meet this basic qualification requirement executive and technical qualifications for the position, by the closing date of this announcement, automatically disqualifies an applicant.

The individual selected will be subject to the necessary security investigation for a critical position and reporting requirements of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978. The selectee will be required to complete an executive branch Personal Financial Disclosure Report, SF 278. The selectee may also be subject to post-employment conflict of interest restrictions under 18 USC 207 (c). You must complete a one-year probationary period unless already completed.

Qualifications

This is a non-bargaining unit position. Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) - Mandatory (Current members of the career SES, former career SES members with reinstatement eligibility, and OPM/QRB certified candidates need not address the ECQs). You are required to submit information describing your experience in each of the five ECQs. The narratives should be clear, concise, and illustrate your overall record (professional and volunteer experience, education and training, accomplishments, awards and potential) in these ECQs. Be sure to furnish examples and describe the context in which you applied your knowledge, discuss how you used skills relevant to the position, indicate the complexity and scope of your work, discuss the impact of your work, note the level of people with whom you interacted, and explain the sensitivity and criticality of the issues you addressed. Structure your statements in terms of the challenges you faced, the context or environment in which the actions were taken, the actions taken, and the outcome or results from such action (i.e., Challenge-Context-Action-Result {C-C-A-R} Model). Additional information on the ECQs is available at http://www.opm.gov/ses/recruitment/ecq.asp.

Executive Core Qualifications - Please attach written responses, limited to two pages per ECQ (i.e., for a total of ten typewritten pages for all five ECQs).
1. Leading Change - Involves the ability to bring about strategic change, within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals. Inherent to this is the ability to establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment.
2. Leading People - Involves the ability to lead people toward meeting the organization's vision, mission, and goals. Inherent to this is the ability to provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts.
3. Results Driven - Involves the ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations. Inherent to this is the ability to make decisions that produce high-quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks.
4. Business Acumen - Involves the ability to manage human, financial, and information services strategically.
5. Building Coalitions - Involves the ability to build coalitions internally and with other Federal agencies, state and local governments, nonprofit and private sector organizations, foreign governments, or international organizations to achieve common goals.

Technical Qualifications (TQs) - Mandatory - Please attach written responses, limited to one typewritten page per TQ.
1. Experience creating, staffing, implementing, and effectively maintaining a proactive internal compliance and risk assessment program for a law enforcement or regulatory agency.

2. Experience measuring, monitoring, and mitigating operational risks for a law enforcement or regulatory agency, including: (a) employee or structural (e.g., agency offices, branches, or divisions) compliance with internal policies and procedures; (b) agency compliance with departmental standards and procedures; (c) agency compliance with applicable laws and regulations; (d) adequacy of agency internal controls.

3. Experience managing an internal inspection program focused on policy compliance and risk management and providing senior agency leadership with comprehensive risk assessments, risk mitigation strategies, and risk management practices.

4. Provide executive-level input on the development, formulation, and implementation, of agency policies and procedures for the accomplishment of organizational mission and provide organization-wide technical advice, guidance, and interpretation of agency compliance and risk policies and procedures.

5. Experience coordinating on compliance and risk issues at both the intra-departmental-level and with other Federal, territorial, tribal, state, and local regulatory and law enforcement officials and managing agency interaction with, and formulating responses to, departmental and external audits (e.g., Inspectors General, other Executive agency oversight, and Government Accountability Office).

Federal Regulations state no ATF employee, his/her spouse, or his/her minor child shall have, directly or indirectly, any financial interest, including compensated employment, stock, or proprietary interest in the alcohol, tobacco, firearms or explosives industries. You should be aware that you may be asked to relinquish any ownership of or interests in the alcohol, tobacco, firearms or explosives industries before a determination can be made whether.

How you will be evaluated

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

Your application will first be evaluated to determine if you meet the minimum qualifications. A rating and ranking panel of senior executives will review your application and evaluate your qualifications for this position. It will determine the extent to which your professional and volunteer experience, education and training, and awards or professional recognition indicate you possess the required executive and technical experience. Candidates determined to be highly qualified will undergo at least one interview. Prior to selection, candidates will undergo a reference check.

Note: All applicants must thoroughly address the Mandatory Technical Qualifications. Current and former SES members, and other applicants who have already been certified by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Review Board (QRB), are not required to address the Executive Core Qualifications. However, they must provide documentation of certification in the form of a SF-50 showing career SES status or an OPM issued SES qualification certificate.