Assistant Inspector General For Inspections

Job Description:WE ARE THE NRO For over sixty years, the NRO has developed, acquired, launched and operated the satellites that are the foundation for America’s advantage and strength in space. Using a diversified architecture of spacecraft, NRO collects and delivers the best space-based intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance content on the planet. Learn more at NRO.gov.Basic Eligibility For A Position With The NROYou must be a U.S. CitizenYou must be 18 years of age or olderYou must be able to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI security clearanceYou will be subject to pre-employment and periodic drug testingYou will be subject to pre-employment and periodic polygraph examinationsWhere You Will WorkThis is an excepted service, Defense Intelligence Senior Level (DISL), Tier 1, position. This Senior Officer position serves as an Assistant Inspector General for Inspections within the Office of Inspector General (OIG), at the NRO) in Chantilly, VA. The OIG is an independent office reporting to the Director, National Reconnaissance Office (DNRO) and Congress. The Inspector General (IG) is appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. The OIG is responsible for conducting audits, inspections, investigations, and special reviews related to NRO programs and operations; providing leadership with recommendations to promote economy, efficiency, and effectiveness; preventing and detecting fraud, waste, and abuse in NRO programs and operations; and providing a means to keep the DNRO and the Congress fully and currently informed of issues concerning fraud and other serious problems, abuses, and deficiencies in NRO’s programs or operations.The Assistant Inspector General for Inspections (AIG-INS), DISL, Tier 1 position, located within the OIG in Chantilly, VA, leads the NRO OIG Inspections Division. The AIG manages the translation of higher-order operational goals and objectives into more tangible and concrete objectives, plans, and priorities. The AIG makes tactical and operational decisions, monitors performance aligned with strategic focus, has an Intelligence Community operational and issue-specific focus, and represents function or activity to senior officials within the agency, Intelligence Community, and Executive Branch.The AIG-INS exercises direct management responsibility for the entire range of OIG inspections and evaluations, exercising operational supervision over a diverse staff of professional inspectors, both civilian and military. The AIG-INS performs the work in an independent manner, assuming a high degree of personal responsibility for sound judgment and decisions. The incumbent serves as the IG’s principal advisor for overseeing and assuring understanding of compliance with Federal laws, Executive Orders, regulations, and other applicable internal guidelines and policies to safeguard the public trust, and provide internal oversight of resources, promoting integrity, economy, efficiency, and effectiveness of NRO programs, activities, andinitiatives. The NRO Cadre is collecting resumes in consideration for the OIG, occupational series 1801. For more information on the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) occupational series, click here. Your resume may be considered for other positions which your skills and experience may be a good match. This is a full-time position that is open from, 29 January 2024 through Monday, 16 February 2024. Resumes must be submitted by 11:59 PM EST on Friday, 16 February 2024. Who May ApplyThis position is open to the public, andThis position is open to current Federal civilian employees who are senior officers or at the Grade 15 level. The NRO is only accepting external applicants through this job announcement. Current NRO Cadre employees should apply through the internal NRO job announcement.What You Will Be Doing Manages a budget of expendable resources and subordinate elements according to established strategic priorities.Plans, directs, coordinates and manages independent inspections and evaluations of NRO activities in accordance with the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE) Quality Standards for Inspection and Evaluation. Provides direction, expert professional advice, consultation, guidance, and recommends appropriate actions in all matters pertaining to personnel, administration, OIG policy, and inspection and evaluation procedures. Serves as a member of the OIG senior management team.Manages a staff directly and through subordinate supervisors to include reviewing staff products for quality and clarity, monitoring productivity and timeliness, ensuring financial and personnel resources are deployed in accordance with OIG priorities.Represents the Inspections staff on OIG personnel panels; ensures accurate and timely feedback and evaluations and provides guidance on career development issues. Ensures employees receive appropriate professional training and necessary tools.Participates in the OIG corporate management team focused on OIG resources, production, planning and the development of overall policies and procedures. Keeps the IG and Deputy IG (DIG) routinely and fully informed of the status of inspections and evaluations in progress.Interacts with senior officials within and outside the NRO in regard to inspection and evaluation issues, including contacts with members of the ICIG Forum and committees, CIGIE, Congress, and other government entities.QualificationsIntelligence Community (IC) Senior Officer Core Qualifications (SOCQs) – Applicants must demonstrate their career readiness to succeed in a senior officer position within the Intelligence Community. The applicant responses to the following three ICSOCQ competencies are used to qualify the applicant for this position. Current DISL and DISES applicants have already been qualified and do not need to address the ICSOCs. GG-15 employees please provide a written response to each of the following. (One page maximum per competency) (1) Collaboration and Integration: Candidates assessed against this competency must demonstrate ability to build, leverage, and lead collaborative networks with key peers and stakeholders across the IC and/or other government/private-sector organizations, or professional/technical disciplines to achieve significant joint/multi-agency mission outcomes. Integrate joint/multi-agency activities effectively exercising collaborative plans that realize mutual IC, joint, or multi-organizational goals. (2) Enterprise Focus: IC senior officers are expected to demonstrate a deep understanding of how the missions, structures, leaders, and cultures of the various IC components interact and connect; synthesize resources, information and other inputs to effectively integrate and align component, IC, and the United States Government interests and activities to achieve IC-wide, national, and international priorities. Senior officers are expected to encourage and support Joint Duty assignments and developmental experiences that develop and reinforce enterprise focus among their subordinates. Candidates assessed against the competency must understand the roles, missions, capabilities, and organizational and political realities of the intelligence enterprise; apply that understanding to drive joint, interagency, or multi-organizational mission accomplishment. Understand how organizations, resources, information, and processes within the IC interagency/multi-organizational environment interact with and influence one another; apply that understanding to solve complex interagency or multi-organizational problems. (3) Values-Centered Leadership: IC senior officers are expected to personally embody, advance and reinforce IC core values. Senior officers are expected to demonstrate and promote departmental and/or component values. Candidates assessed against this competency must demonstrate a commitment to selfless service and excellence in support of the IC's mission, as well as to preserving, protecting, and defending the Nation's laws and liberties. The Integrity and Courage(moral, intellectual, and physical) to seek and speak the truth, to innovate, and to change things for the better, regardless of personal or professional risk. Collaboration as members of a single IC-wide team, respecting and leveraging the diversity of all members of the IC, their background, their sources and methods, and their points of view. Promote, reinforce, and reward IC, departmental/component core values in the workforce and ensure that actions, policies, and practices are aligned with, and embody those values. Ensure that organizational strategies, policies, procedures, and actions give appropriate focus, attention, and commitment to diversity of people, points of view, ideas, and insights.Technical Qualifications: All applicants for this senior officer position must submit written statements (narrative format) of accomplishments that would satisfy the technical qualifications. You must address each technical qualification separately. Please limit your written statements to two pages per technical qualification.Substantive inspections and evaluations expertise with in-depth knowledge of the quality standards, and the qualitative and quantitative techniques for analyzing and measuring the effectiveness, efficiency, and productivity of administrative and technical programs.Expert knowledge and expertise in conducting government inspection and evaluation related activities to include demonstration of an enterprise perspective and superior analytic and critical thinking skills.Strong interpersonal, organizational, communication, operational, and managerial skills to conceptualize and effectively oversee the Inspections Division. This includes, managing conflict, leading change, leveraging diversity, developing others, and team building.Strong communication skills, both orally and in writing, to represent the Office of Inspector General’s Inspections and evaluation operations, reports, and persuasive recommendations to senior leadership, both internal and external to the organization. This includes the ability to write clearly and concisely and to review and improve written products of others. This also includes the ability to provide effective briefings to the OIG, senior management, other IC leaders, and Congress. Other Significant Facts and Requirements:Excepted Service: This position is an Excepted Service, Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS) position under authorities of the U.S. Code Title 10, Section 1601 and 1607, dated 20 July 1999. A Joint Duty Assignment (JDA) Program certification is required for promotion or assignment into an Intelligence Community Senior Officer position. IC Federal civilian applicants must provide proof of credit. Non-IC Federal civilians and private sector applicants will be assessed to determine if their career experience qualifies them for JDA credit.DISL Probationary Period: Newly appointed DISL employees (including DISES moving into a DISL position) must complete a one-year DISL Probationary Period if not previously satisfied. This runs concurrently with any portion of the DCIPS Trial period the Cadre employee still has yet to satisfy.Citizenship: U.S. citizenship required to qualify for this position. Drug-Free Workplace: Position is a Testing Designated Position. Incumbent subject to continued random drug testing. Security Clearance: Position is designated critical-sensitive and incumbent must retain a TOP SECRET security clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information. Employee remains subject to initial and periodic Counterintelligence Polygraphs and the terms of their signed NDA. Financial Disclosure: The incumbent is required to submit an initial OGE 278e (Financial Disclosure) within in 30 days of appointment and annually thereafter in accordance with the Joint Ethics Regulation. Education Requirement: Bachelor’s Degree in related field, Master’s Degree preferred. Combinations of education and experience considered.Duty Hours: The incumbent is required to be available for other than normal duty hours to include weekends to support exercises and crisis planning.Submission PackageRequired Documents for Current Grade 15, Federal Civilian Applicants. Please provide the following:Resume (all applicants)Technical Qualifications: a narrative statement specifically addressing each mandatory technical qualification. Each statement should not exceed two pages per Technical Qualification. (all applicants)Intelligence Community Senior Core Qualifications (ICSOCQs): A narrative statement specifically addressing all three identified competency areas. Separate attachment of one page maximum per competency. (all applicants)Joint Duty Credit Certification: Provide a copy of your completed Joint Duty Assignment (JDA_ SF-50) or an adjudicated IC JDA claim form. For more information regarding the IC Joint Duty Program, please refer to https://www.icjointduty.gov (IC Civilian Applicants Only)Last two performance appraisals (all applicants)SF-50 proving current Federal civilian status (all applicants)Required Documents for Current Senior Officer, Federal Civilian Applicants. Please provide the following:Resume (all applicants)Technical Qualifications: a narrative statement specifically addressing each mandatory technical qualification. Each statement should not exceed two pages per Technical Qualification. (all applicants)Intelligence Community Senior Core Qualifications (ICSOCQs): A narrative statement specifically addressing all three identified competency areas. Separate attachment of one page maximum per competency. (Non-IC Civilian Applicants Only)Joint Duty Credit Certification: Provide a copy of your completed Joint Duty Assignment (JDA_ SF-50) or an adjudicated IC JDA claim form. For more information regarding the IC Joint Duty Program, please refer to https://www.icjointduty.gov (IC Civilian Applicants Only)Last two performance appraisals (all applicants)SF-50 proving current senior officer status (all applicants)Required Documents for Non-Federal, Private Sector Applicants. Please provide the following:Resume (all applicants)Technical Qualifications: a narrative statement specifically addressing each mandatory technical qualification. Each statement should not exceed two pages per Technical Qualification. (all applicants)Intelligence Community Senior Core Qualifications (ICSOCQs): A narrative statement specifically addressing all three identified competency areas. Separate attachment of one page maximum per competency. (all applicants)LocationChantilly, VASalary2024 DISL, T1 salary range: $147,649 - $204,000Hiring IncentivesThe NRO may offer hiring incentives and other entitlements at management’s discretion.Trial PeriodAll new DCIPS employees will be required to serve a 2-year trial period, if not previously satisfied. Veterans’ PreferenceDoD Components with DCIPS positions apply Veterans’ P