- Directing the work of an organizational unit
- Ensuring the success of one or more specific major programs or projects
- Monitoring progress toward strategic organizational goals, evaluating organizational performance and taking action to improve performance.
- Supervising the work of other managers and exercising important policymaking, policy determining, or other executive functions.
The narrative must not exceed 10 pages. NOTE: Current career SES members, former career SES members with reinstatement eligibility, and SES Candidate Development Program graduates who have been certified by OPM do NOT need to address the ECQs:
- Leading Change: This core qualification involves 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. Competencies: creativity and innovation, external awareness, flexibility, resilience, strategic thinking, vision
- Leading People: This core qualification involves the ability to lead people toward meeting the organizations 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. Competencies: conflict management, leveraging diversity, developing others, team building
- Results Driven: This core qualification involves 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. Competencies: accountability, customer service, decisiveness, entrepreneurship, problem solving, technical credibility
- Business Acumen: This core qualification involves the ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically. Competencies: financial management, human capital management, technology management
- Building Coalitions: This core qualification 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. Competencies: partnering, political savvy, influencing/negotiating
Fundamental Competencies: These competencies are the foundation for success in each of the Executive Core Qualifications: Interpersonal Skills, Oral Communication, Continual Learning, Written Communication, Integrity/Honesty, Public Service Motivation. The Fundamental Competencies are crosscutting and should be addressed over the course of each ECQ narratives.
When completing Executive Core Competencies, applicants should follow the Challenge, Context, Action and Result (CCAR) model outlined in the guide.
- 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).
- 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.
MANDATORY TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS (MTQs): All applicants must submit a written narrative that addresses each of the MTQs separately. The narrative must not exceed one (1) page per MTQ. Applicants who fail to adhere to the one (1) page per MTQ limit will be disqualified and no longer considered for the position. In addition to the ECQs, applicants must possess the following technical qualifications that represent the knowledge, skills, and abilities essential to perform the duties and responsibilities of the position. You must fully address each MTQ to be rated for further consideration.
MTQ 1: Ability to supervise a professional staff engaged in providing legal advice to senior officials.
MTQ 2: Diversified legal experience dealing with highly complex issues, including experience with some of the relevant subject matter knowledge areas. Relevant subject matter knowledge includes the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA); the USA PATRIOT Act; other Federal anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML/CFT) laws and regulations; the Administrative Procedure Act; the Privacy Act; the Right to Financial Privacy Act; experience with federal litigation; and constitutional law.
MTQ 3: Working knowledge of Federal government agencies, along with state and local law enforcement and regulatory agencies, their processes, and regulatory practices. Such agencies include components of Treasury's Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, the Department of Justice, the federal financial regulators, the Office of Management and Budget, and the U.S. intelligence community. Knowledge may be obtained through experience in government agencies or experience engaging with such agencies on behalf of clients.Education: This job does not have an education qualification requirement.
Employment Type: FULL_TIME