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This position is located in the Office of Inspector General, Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The FTC is a bipartisan federal agency with a unique dual mission to protect consumers and promote competition. It enforces federal consumer protection laws that prevent unfair, deceptive, or fraudulent business practices; and enforces federal antitrust laws to ensure that mergers and other business practices do not restrict competition or otherwise harm consumers.
Learn more about this agency11/08/2024 to 12/09/2024
$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-20241104-31711-OIG-SDL
818311500
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 Inspector General's mission is to conduct independent and objective audits, investigations, and evaluations; prevent and detect waste, fraud, and abuse; promote economy, effectiveness, and efficiency; review pending legislation and regulation; and keep the agency head and Congress fully and currently informed. The incumbent serves as the FTC's Inspector General (IG) and administers and supervises a program of audits, reviews, and investigations designed to prevent and detect fraud, waste, and mismanagement in the programs and operations carried out by the Commission.
As the principal advisor and consultant to the Commission and Chair regarding the IG program, the incumbent designs a strategy that will assist in maintaining an atmosphere within the FTC that promotes the highest standard of integrity and accountability by ensuring a credible and impartial FTC IG system. The IG directs a broad and comprehensive inspector general program by providing executive leadership, coordination, strategic planning, and control over management of the OIG to assure balanced, comprehensive support and guidance of office-wide operations. The IG is responsible for establishing policy, overseeing program direction, and providing the necessary planned guidance in carrying out the OIG's objectives and a wide range of goals and initiatives.
The IG provides executive leadership, oversight and strategic authoritative policy direction for audits and investigations relating to the programs and operations of the Commission, and to prevent and detect fraud and abuse in such programs and operations. As a recognized authority and consultant, the IG exercises a high degree and professional competence in developing long-range strategies and goals to minimize the opportunities for the occurrence of fraud and waste and develops new theoretical and novel techniques and systems for the detection of fraud or the promotion of economy and efficiency in agency operations.
The IG also provides and issues comprehensive and defensible audit reports to the Chair for corrective action with respect to audit findings of deficiencies and for changes in agency policies, procedures, practices, and operations based on audit findings; and directs the preparation of, and issues audit reports on, matters involving agency policies, procedures, regulations, and other directives.
In addition, the IG provides leadership and direct and indirect supervision for the activities of the personnel and staff consisting of attorneys, and audit and investigative specialists in accomplishing the OIG's goals and objectives. Ensures management techniques and policies are based on sound organization, position, management, and federal employment practices. Performs human resource management functions relative to the staff supervised: establishes performance expectations, which are clearly communicated; provides informal and formal feedback and evaluates staff on organizational performance; resolves informal complaints and grievances; takes personnel actions, as necessary; provides advice and counsel to staff members and subordinate managers related to work and policy matters; and effects disciplinary measures.
Total background, including experience, education, awards, self-development, and training will be reviewed.
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/818311500. 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.
