• Serves as the principal advisor on personnel and health affairs, in matters affecting diversity and inclusion in the DoD, and the prevention and response to supremacist, extremist, and criminal gang activity in the Armed Forces.
• Directs multi-discipline teams to perform a wide range of evaluations of DoD components, activities, and programs to bring greater efficiency, improved management, and program effectiveness.
• Provides senior executive leadership to the Personnel and Health Affairs directorate and serves as a member of the DoD OIG senior leadership team.
• Ensures oversight in areas of responsibility including personnel and health affairs, diversity and inclusion within the DoD and the prevention of and response to supremacist, extremist, and criminal gang activity in the Armed Forces.
• Prepares and submits semiannual reports to the IG and Congress summarizing the activities of the AIG for Personnel and Health Affairs in the two fiscal quarters preceding the date of the report.
• Prepares and submits, through the IG and the Secretary of Defense, reports to Congress presenting findings and recommendations regarding the effects of policies, programs, systems, and processes.
• Ensures that evaluations comply with Quality Standards for Inspection and Evaluation (Blue Book) issued by the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE).
• Evaluates recommendations, reviews, and approves draft and final evaluation reports prior to their processing for issue. Reviews and approves reports for release as authorized by the Deputy Inspector General for Evaluations.
• Establishes and maintains relationships with Defense agencies, Military Departments, Combatant Commands, and other Federal entities to maintain awareness of matters that may impact areas of oversight.
• Ensures employees and applicants for employment receive fair and equitable treatment consistent with Federal merit system principles of 5 U.S.C. 2301(b)(2).
• Ensures the prevention, detection and elimination of reprisals against employees who make legally protected disclosures

Conditions of employment

• Must be a US Citizen
• Position has been designated as Special Sensitive; incumbent is required to be eligible (and maintain eligibility) for a Top Secret with Special Compartmented Information (TS/SCI).
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered or be exempt from Selective Service (see http://www.sss.gov).
• Selected candidate will be subject to a one-year probationary period in the Senior Executive Service unless required probationary period has been served. Selectee may also be subject to a records review prior to being appointed to this position.
• In accordance with Executive Order 12564, applicants selected are required to submit to a drug test and receive a negative drug test result prior to appointment.
• Incumbent is subject to random drug testing for the duration of service with the DoD OIG.
• Selectee will be required to complete and submit an Executive Personnel Financial Disclosure Report, OGE-278, prior to entering the position and annually thereafter.
• All newly appointed career SES leaders must sign the Reassignment Rights and Obligations Agreement as a condition of appointment into the SES in accordance with DoD Directive 1403.03.
• The incumbent must adhere to the DoD Standards of Conduct.

Qualifications

Qualifications include both leadership skills and characteristics that are applicable to all SES positions and technical or program responsibilities specific to the position.

Eligibility for this position will be based upon a clear showing that the applicant has had experience of the scope and quality sufficient to effectively carry out the responsibilities of this position. The best qualified candidates will be distinguished from other applicants by an evaluation panel of subject matter experts referencing the blow listed Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) and mandatory technical qualifications (MTQs). All factors are mandatory unless stated otherwise. These factors are required, and must be addressed for the incumbent to perform the duties of the position. The mandatory technical qualifications must be met to be rated eligible for the position.

This position has been evaluated to be a Tier B position under the DoD OIG SES Personnel Management and Compensation System.

MANDATORY TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS (MTQs):
The applicant is to provide a separate narrative statement to each of the following technical qualifications which describes fully, but concisely, how his/her experience supports each of the following qualifications. Each mandatory technical qualification narrative should not exceed 2 pages. Failure to address these specific qualifications in a separate narrative statement will eliminate you from consideration:

1. Mastery knowledge of applying managerial analysis techniques to design, plan, execute, and oversee complex oversight projects in accordance with CIGIE standards.

2. Expert ability to effectively communicate at the senior executive level, orally and in writing, concerning complex issues; to maintain good working relationships; and to horizontally coordinate and integrate planning, analysis, and reporting across several major organizations.

EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS (ECQs):
The ECQs describe the leadership skills needed to succeed in the Senior Executive Service, and are in addition to the specific technical factors listed above. To assess the executive experience of each candidate, applicants who are applying for their initial career appointment in the SES must demonstrate, with specific examples, how their experience is relevant to exercising leadership in each of the five competencies. Current or former SES Career employees are not required to address the ECQs (SES Career employees include only those appointed under Title 5 U.S.C. 3393). A concise executive summary must show where and when the qualifications were obtained, the organizational setting in which the experience was acquired, (e.g. organizational size, level, and assigned fiscal resources), and a narrative discussion of the qualifications. The ECQs must not exceed 10 pages.

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.

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.

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.

4. BUSINESS ACUMEN. The ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically.

5. BUILDING COALITIONS/COMMUNICATION. 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.

These ECQs must be addressed in a separate narrative statement. Specific instructions for preparing your statement and definitions of these core qualifications are available at http://www.opm.gov/ses/recruitment/ecq.asp.

How you will be evaluated

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

Applicants will be evaluated based on the quality and extent of their experience, training, and/or education indicated on their resume and responses to the technical and executive qualifications listed above. The best-qualified candidates may be invited to participate in a structured interview. The Executive Resources Board (ERB) will review results and make recommendations on final selections to the approving authority.

In addition to meeting basic qualification requirements, applicants must have substantive experience which provides knowledge of the principles of organization, management and administration; and substantive specialized experience in a type of work or combination of functions directly related to this position.

All applicants are required to submit a narrative statement addressing each of the Mandatory Technical Qualifications (MTQs) and Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs).

NOTE: Current Career SES members, Career Senior Executive Reinstatement Eligible and graduates of OPM certified Candidate Development Program (CDPs) are not required to submit the narrative statement for Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs). Acceptable documentation to verify this information is included in the How to Apply Section. For more detailed information, please click on the following link:

http://www.opm.gov/ses/recruitment/qualify.asp