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This position is located in the Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Competition, Health Care Division. The Commission is a bipartisan federal agency with a unique dual mission to protect consumers and promote competition. The Bureau has law enforcement responsibilities for antitrust charges arising under Sections 2, 3, 7, and 8 of the Clayton Act and under Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act. The Bureau's law enforcement activities affect virtually every segment of the U.S. economy.
Learn more about this agency03/06/2024 to 04/03/2024
$147,649 - $221,900 per year
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1 vacancy in the following locations:
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Yes—as determined by the agency policy.
Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position.
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Full-time
Senior Executive
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EXEC-20240229-70906-BC-SDL
780220200
U.S. Citizens, Nationals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S.
Those who meet the five Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs).
Applications will be accepted from all groups of qualified individuals.
The Assistant Director is a key member of the Bureau's senior management team, and devises and implements program and policy decisions in furtherance of the FTC's competition mission. The AD exercises wide discretion in legal strategy and in long-term planning and directing investigative and litigation proceedings for the purpose of enforcing the statutory provisions discussed above. Serves as the primary link between the Division, other Bureau leaders and FTC commissioners, and maintains contact with a wide range of public, private, and international groups with diverse interests in competition matters.
The AD is a key source for FTC's advice on broad questions and Division's policy. Devises and implements Division policy; reviews policy recommendations that affect the Division and Bureau missions; considers political, social, economic, technical, and administrative factors that potentially impact recommended policies; and formally recommends action to the Bureau Director or other approving official.
Provides counsel and guidance for legal staff members on policy questions, and matters of legal strategy and reviews legal documents prepared by the staff (e.g., documents relating to proposed enforcement matters, recommendations that cases be closed, trial briefs, motions, proposed findings and orders) for consistency with agency policy, soundness of judgment, and legal sufficiency.
The Assistant Director performs or supervises other functions as may be delegated in the light of the Bureau's overall workload requirements. The work performed under the incumbent's supervision generally involves coordinating the most complicated and difficult antitrust investigations and proceedings in both unregulated and partially regulated industries. Legal matters dealt with are characterized by extreme complexity - factual issues, the body of relevant case law and precedent, and other factors.
Manages and supervises the activities of the personnel and staff within the Division, ensuring that management techniques and policies are based on sound organization, position management, and federal employment practices. The incumbent performs human resource management functions relative to the staff supervised, including establishing and clearly communicating performance expectations; providing informal and formal feedback to evaluate staff organizational performance; and providing advice and counsel to staff members and subordinate managers related to legal and policy matters.
The incumbent is responsible for the training and effective utilization of the legal staff assigned, for evaluating their work product, and for initiating recommendations for promotion and other personnel actions, in conjunction with other Assistant Directors with whom the staff members may also be working. The AD is responsible for furthering the goals of equal employment opportunity by initiating nondiscriminatory practices and affirmative actions for the area under their direction.
Professionally and administratively directs, oversees, supervises, coordinates, and reviews the work of 30-40 attorneys and other support staff, who are engaged in such functions as detecting possible violations of the statutes, determining whether alleged or suspected violations warrant investigation, formulating plans and legal theories for investigations which they conduct or are conducted by Commission Regional Offices, providing assistance and guidance to the regional offices in connection with cases tried at the local level, evaluating investigative matters for sufficiency of evidence to support formal legal action and making recommendations whether to bring actions based on these matters, drafting formal complaints containing charges of law violation, preparing briefs for and conducting the prosecution of complaints before federal District Courts or the Commission's Administrative Law Judges, drafting proposed findings of fact, conclusions of law, and cease and desist or divestiture orders for consideration, drafting appeal briefs and presenting oral arguments in cases appealed to the Commission.
The incumbent may be called upon to appear before the Commission, Congressional committees, industry regulators, industry representatives, and various forums to discuss the work in the Division, trends in the competitive economy, emerging problems of law violations, proposed legislation and regulation, and other matters. The AD may represent the Commission or the Bureau as a principal liaison before government agencies and other groups and may give speeches and briefings to various groups.
In order to qualify, you must meet the basic educational requirements.
A. Law degree (J.D. or LL. B) from a law school accredited by the American Bar Association.
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B. Bar Membership: Be active member in good standing of a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or territory of the United States.
IMPORTANT: Applicants are responsible for citing J.D. and bar membership information (institution name, state(s) for bar, and dates) on their respective resumes. Applicants who possess an equivalent degree rather than J.D., may be subject to additional review.
1. The agency may reimburse relocation expenses.
2. If we select you for an initial career appointment to an SES position, the OPM QRB must approve your ECQs prior to appointment. A selection is tentative until we obtain a QRB certification.
3. You must complete a Declaration for Federal Employment before we can hire you in order to certify the accuracy of your written application and provide the information necessary to determine your suitability for federal employment.
4. If you are a male applicant born after December 31, 1959 and we select you for this position, you must certify prior to appointment that you registered for the military selective service.
5. If we select you for this position, you must complete personnel suitability documents. Your appointment is contingent upon the successful completion of an appropriate background investigation.
6. Veterans' preference does not apply to SES positions.
7. The FTC provides reasonable accommodations, where appropriate, to applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify the FTC. The agency considers requests for reasonable accommodation on a case-by-case basis. Questions about the FTC's accommodation policy can be directed to Adam Mahan at amahan@ftc.gov.
8. The Ethics in Government Act, PL 95-521, requires the applicant selected for this position to submit a financial disclosure statement, SF-278, prior to assuming the SES position, annually while employed, and upon termination of employment. You may also be subject to post employment restrictions.
9. Your application includes information subject to the Privacy Act (P.L. 93-579, 5 U.S.C. 552a). This information is necessary to determine qualifications for employment, and collection is authorized under Title 5 of the U.S. Code, 3302 and 3361.
10. We will not accept applications received in government postage-paid envelopes.
11. USAJOBS expires all jobs at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on the published closing date.
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
You will be evaluated for this position based on how well you meet the Mandatory Professional Credentials/Technical Qualifications and ECQs stated in this vacancy announcement.
You will be evaluated on the quality and extent of your total accomplishments, including experience, education, awards, self-development, and training. This information will be obtained from the application package, including the required narrative statements for the Mandatory Professional Credentials/Technical Qualifications and ECQs described in this vacancy announcement.
Your application package may be evaluated by a rating and ranking panel consisting of SES members. This evaluation will determine which applicants are Highly Qualified. Highly Qualified candidates may undergo an interview and a reference check.
The selecting official will review results and make recommendations on final selections to the Appointing Authority. Unless the OPM QRB has already certified you, your ECQs must be forwarded to the OPM QRB for certification before your appointment can occur.
Note: Veterans' preference does not apply to SES positions. This is in accordance with 5 USC 2108(3), which defines the term "preference eligible" and provides that this term does not include applicants for, or members of, the SES.
*DO NOT SUBMIT ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION* Extraneous materials such as a cover letter, letters of recommendation, past evaluations, award certificates, etc., will be discarded and not considered.
1. RESUME - In addition to your written statements addressing the Mandatory Technical Qualifications, and ECQ Narrative (not to exceed 10 pages), submit a resume (not to exceed 5 pages) to describe your qualifications. Your resume should provide the following information:
Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.
TO SUBMIT AN APPLICATION: Please select the "APPLY" button at the top of this announcement.
Your online resume is not considered a complete application. In order to expedite the review of your application, you must submit a complete online application package to include a Resume, Mandatory Professional Credentials, Technical Qualifications, and ECQs.
Carefully read the "Required Documents" section of this announcement to verify whether any additional information is required, as well as how it should be submitted.
If you are unable to apply online, please see the Reasonable Accommodation Policy at the bottom of this vacancy announcement.
*DO NOT SUBMIT ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION* Extraneous materials such as a cover letter, letters of recommendation, past evaluations, award certificates, etc., will not be considered.
After all application packages are received, a preliminary review of applications by a human resources specialist will be completed to ensure your application meets the basic qualification requirements. An executive Rating and Ranking panel may evaluate qualified applicants based on the information provided, and will generate a certificate of "Highly Qualified" candidates for the selecting official. The selecting official may interview the "Best Qualified" candidates before making a selection recommendation to the Appointing Authority. We will verify performance, suitability, and security information and consider this information in making employment offers. You should expect a response on the outcome of your application within 90 workdays of the closing date of the announcement, excluding weekends and holidays.
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
This job originated on www.usajobs.gov. For the full announcement and to apply, visit www.usajobs.gov/job/780220200. Only resumes submitted according to the instructions on the job announcement listed at www.usajobs.gov will be considered.
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is a bipartisan federal agency with a unique dual mission to protect consumers and promote competition. For one hundred years, our collegial and consensus-driven agency has championed the interests of American consumers. We challenge anti-competitive mergers and business practices, and ensure that the market works according to consumer preferences. If you would like to become a part of an innovative, dynamic, team dedicated to advancing consumer interests while encouraging innovation and competition in our dynamic economy, then consider joining the FTC team! To learn more information about the FTC please visit https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc.
