The Assistant Inspector General for Audits provides executive leadership and direction of performance audits, evaluations, and reviews of FDIC programs, functions, and activities and those of insured and regulated institutions and FDIC contractors in response to: statutory, regulatory or policy requirements; specific Congressional and FDIC management requests; and the most significant risks confronting FDIC.

• Participates with, and provides advice and assistance to, the Inspector General on all matters pertaining to management and administration of audits, evaluations, and reviews of the FDIC.
• Develops a vision, goals, objectives, plans and priorities for the audit, evaluation, and review function and identifies and implements methods and processes for achieving these goals.
• Maintains an audit, evaluation, and review program that balances competing intermediate and longer-term priorities for the Office of Audits' analytical capabilities, including staff expertise, technology, and operational capacity.
• Provides direction, supervision, and management to a staff of audit professionals by providing assignments, projects and training opportunities; outlining overall projects and assignments and expected results.
• Ensures that applicable laws, regulations, policies, procedures, and standards are being maintained.
• Plans, directs, and supervises all phases of the audit, evaluation, and review program to ensure appropriate coverage is given to all FDIC programs and operations based upon their significance to the FDIC mission and vulnerability to fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement.
• Develops operating budgets, schedules, and work plans.
• Coordinates audit activities between the OIG and other Federal agencies, including the GAO, OMB, Congressional committees and other Executive and Legislative organizations of the U.S., and the private sector.
• Coordinates program activities with the AIG-Investigations to support joint audits investigations, refers potential illegal acts and irregularities for criminal investigation, and supports investigative activities.

Conditions of employment

• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• Completion of a Financial Disclosure is required.
• Males born after 12/31/1959, must be registered for Selective Service.
• National Security Position - Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) required.
• This position is subject to random drug testing.
• You must obtain and maintain the required security clearance; failure to do so may result in withdrawal of an offer or removal.

Qualifications

To meet the minimum qualifications, applicants must possess the leadership and technical experiences listed below. These qualifications would typically be gained through progressively responsible management or executive-level assignments.

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, skills, and abilities and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: All applicants must submit a resume that addresses each minimum qualification experience. 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 undertook; level of contacts; the sensitivity and criticality of the issues you addressed; and the results of your actions. You should use action-oriented words to describe your experience and accomplishments and quantify your experience wherever possible to demonstrate your accomplishments (e.g., number of employees supervised).

Leadership Experience 1: Experience in overseeing and coordinating the work of an audit or related function including assigning work, directing changes to programs and priorities, and evaluating performance against goals; AND

Leadership Experience 2: Experience in managing employee performance and growth, including evaluating employee readiness for successive roles, recognizing accomplishments, providing feedback and development opportunities, and addressing performance/conduct issues; AND

Technical Experience: Experience in federal performance auditing, attestation, and financial statement auditing principles, techniques, and practices needed to interpret and apply Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards (Yellow Book) to ensure a scope and quality of work that has an impact on program operations and is meaningful and useful to a wide range of stakeholders.

How you will be evaluated

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

Your resume will be reviewed, to determine whether you meet the qualification requirements outlined in this announcement. Therefore, it is imperative that your resume contains sufficiently detailed information upon which to make the qualification determination.

If you are found minimally qualified, a Management Rating Panel (MRP) will review your qualifications and experience against pre-established benchmarks. The rating panel will place applications in one of three quality categories, i.e., Best Qualified, Highly Qualified, or Qualified. These category assignments are a measure of the degree in which your background and responses to the assessment questions match the competencies listed below.

Top ranked (Best Qualified) candidates will be referred to the selecting official for further review and consideration.

The competencies/KSAs you will be assessed on are listed below.

• Direction Setting
• Financial & Resource Management
• Oral Communication
• Written Communication
• Experience in federal performance auditing, attestation, and financial statement auditing principles, techniques, and practices needed to interpret and apply Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards (Yellow Book) to ensure a scope and quality of work that has an impact on program operations and is meaningful and useful to a wide range of stakeholders.
• Experience in leading a federal audit organization, or major component thereof, which conducts complex audits in accordance with General Accepted Government Auditing Standards. This includes establishing efficient and effective mechanisms to clearly define responsibility for achieving results; improving business processes to ensure the resources are managed and controlled efficiently and effectively including audit planning, design, execution, and messaging; managing human capital to recruit, develop, and retain staff to perform at a high level of competence; and measuring and taking action to improve organizational and employee performance.

You do not need to respond separately to these competencies/KSAs. Your resume will serve as responses to the competencies/KSAs.

Applicants must provide details of the duties performed as they relate to the qualifying experience and competencies/KSAs. Experience must be explicitly stated in the resume as experience not specifically described in the resume cannot be assumed. Resumes that are vague or don't address specific requirements will not receive maximum consideration.

You may preview the application questionnaire for this vacancy here: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12994652