Clarification from the agency

All groups of qualified individuals.

The Executive Director for Compliance and Oversight serves as a senior executive and is responsible for:

(1) Overseeing OAWP's Compliance and Oversight Directorate (COD) which includes the Compliance Analytics and Reporting Division (CARD) and Special Reviews Division.

(2) Planning and directing the development and implementation of 38 U.S.C. 323(c)(1)(A), (B), (F) & (G), which require that OAWP: provide advice, reports, and recommendations to the VA Secretary; record, track, review, and confirm implementation of recommendations from audits and investigations carried out by the VA Office of Inspector General (OIG), VA's Office of Medical Inspector (OMI), the US Office of Special Counsel (OSC), and the Government Accountability Office (GAO), including the imposition of disciplinary actions and other corrective actions contained in such recommendations; analyze data from OAWP's complaint hotline and other sources to identify trends and issue reports; and track whistleblower settlement agreements across VA.

(3) Advising the Assistant Secretary for Accountability and Whistleblower Protection on policy and processes related to COD and implementing provisions of the Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act to its fullest potential to enable advice to the Secretary on all matters involving accountability.

(4) Ensuring timely notification to Congress when OAWP disciplinary recommendations are not made or taken within statutory timeframes.

(5) Collaborating with and regularly interacting with senior VA officials about COD, including individuals at the Assistant Secretary, Under Secretary, and Chief of Staff level in addition to regularly interacting with senior government officials about COD, including officials from GAO, OIG, OMI, and OSC.

(6) Oversee the accomplishment of Climate Reviews (regarding whistleblower reporting culture), programmatic reviews, and compliance audits across VA.

Conditions of employment

• US citizenship is required.
• One year probationary period required for initial SES appointment.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• Incumbents of this position will be subject to a background investigation commensurate with the risk and sensitivity level of the position.
• Successful completion of drug screening required.
• Public Financial Disclosure Report (SF-278) is required within 30 days of appointment.
• May be subject to reassignment geographically or organizationally.
• VA structures its SES positions into pay bands. This is a Pay Band 3 position and the salary range is $141,022 - $195,000. Exception to the cap of the range may be considered in certain circumstances.

Qualifications

To meet the minimum qualifications, applicants must possess the following technical and executive core qualifications. These qualifications would typically be gained through progressively responsible management or executive level assignments such as director of a regional office, medical facility or program manager. An individual's total experience, education and volunteer work experience must demonstrate the ability to perform the duties of the position.

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.

MANDATORY EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS (ECQs): All applicants must submit a written narrative response to each of the following ECQs and include your name on each page. Your narrative must address each ECQ separately and demonstrate the underlying competencies in the narrative. Examples should be clear, concise, and emphasize your level of responsibilities; the scope and complexity of the programs, activities, or services you managed; program accomplishments; policy initiatives undertaken; level of contacts; the sensitivity and criticality of the issues you addressed; and the results of your actions. You should use action oriented leadership words to describe your experience and accomplishments and quantify your experience wherever possible to demonstrate your accomplishments (e.g., number of employees supervised; size of budget managed; amount of money saved, etc.). Applicants should use the Challenge, Context, Action and Results (CCAR) model below when responding to each ECQ:

• Challenge. Describe a specific problem or goal.
• Context. Describe the individuals and groups you worked with, and/or the environment in which you worked, to address a particular challenge (e.g., clients, co-workers, members of Congress, shrinking budget, low morale, etc).
• Action. Discuss the specific actions you took to address a challenge.
• Result. Give specific examples of measures/outcomes that had some impact on the organization. These accomplishments demonstrate the quality and effectiveness of your leadership skills.

Your narrative response should not exceed 10 pages, be typed in 12 point font with one-inch margins. It is recommended that you include 2 recent (not older than 10 years) examples per ECQ and draft your ECQs in a Word document before uploading into the system to ensure these guidelines are met. Information that exceeds these guidelines will not be reviewed. Detailed information on each ECQ, the underlying and fundamental competencies, sample narratives and a tips sheet for writing effective ECQs are available in the "Guide To Senior Executive Service Qualifications" GUIDE (opm.gov) at: http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/senior-executive-service/executive-core-qualifications/.

1. Leading Change: The ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment. (Underlying Competencies: Creativity and Innovation, External Awareness, Flexibility, Resilience, Strategic Thinking, and Vision)

2. Leading People: The ability to lead people toward meeting the organization's vision, mission, and goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts. (Underlying Competencies: Conflict Management, Leveraging Diversity, Developing Others and Team Building)

3. Results Driven: The ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to make decisions that produce high-quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks. (Underlying Competencies: Accountability, Customer Service, Decisiveness, Entrepreneurship, Problem Solving and Technical Credibility)

4. Business Acumen: The ability to manage human, financial and information resources strategically. (Underlying Competencies: Financial Management, Human Capital Management and Technology Management)

5. Building Coalitions: 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. (Underlying Competencies: Partnering, Political Savvy and Influencing/Negotiation)

TECHNICAL QUALIFICATION (TQ)s: In addition, all applicants must submit a written narrative response to the following specific TQ(s). Please label and include your name on each page. Please give examples and explain how often you used your skills, the complexity of the knowledge possessed, the level of people you interacted with, the sensitivity of the issues you handled managing a large public or private sector organization that administers complex, rules-based benefits or services, etc. It is recommended that you draft your TQ(s) in a word document and then upload into the system.

TQ1: Experience and/or knowledge regarding the identification of risk areas that impact the ability of the VA to meet its mission to the fullest potential stemming from issues that involve accountability and other matters that impact public trust. Working knowledge regarding auditing functions (preferably in a healthcare compliance setting) that issue recommendations and/or require corrective action by a complex organization. Use of data to meet these goals.

TQ 2: Experience in identifying and analyzing barriers and/or changes needed to achieve organizational goals of accountability and transparency, and in matters that affect public trust in an organization. Ability to create and execute performance/compliance audits (preferably in a healthcare compliance setting) or other tools necessary to provide data and key information needed for senior leaders to address specific problems that involve accountability and transparency within a complex organization. Ability to succinctly report on findings and summarize key data

How you will be evaluated

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

Step 1: ECQ qualifications

Step 2: Technical Qualification(s)

Step 3: VA Executive Resources Board

Step 4: Nominating Organization may conduct interviews

Step 5: Approval by the Selecting Official (may include additional screening)

Step 6: OPM Qualifications Review Board certification