Chief, Contract Oversight Section, CM-1101-00 Job

Vacancy No. 2025-CM-0146 Department Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Salary $167,874.00 to $275,000.00 Grade 00 to 00
Perm/Temp Permanent FT/PT Full-time
Open Date 9/29/2025 Close Date 9/30/2025
Job Link Apply Online Who may apply Status Candidates
Locations:
Washington, DCDallas, TX


Summary

This position is located in the Division of Resolutions and Receiverships (DRR), Receivership Operations, Contract Oversight Section of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, in either Dallas, TX or Washington, D.C.

Salary reflects a pay cap for this position of $275,000.

This job is open to

Clarification from the agency

This position is open to current FDIC permanent employees with competitive status eligibility.

Duties

  • Manage and direct the work associated with a portfolio of complex, high profile, and/or high dollar value contracts related to the resolution of financial institutions.
  • Manage and direct the work associated with ensuring contractor performance is in compliance with the terms and conditions of the contract specifications. Monitors employee’s performance to ensure compliance with the Contract Management Plan, the Acquisition Policy Manual (APM) and the Procedures Guidance Information (PGI).
  • Reviews and approves, or concurs on, complex case memoranda for DRR procurement authority with proper designation of current DRR delegations.
  • Organize, plan, participate in, or facilitate meetings with FDIC officials, attorneys, accountants; contractors.
  • Monitor and analyze financial and industry information regarding various geographic markets to maintain a current understanding of the challenges in resolving failed financial institutions. Understand the competitive nature of the local banking market and local or regional economic factors to minimize the potential for disruption of vital financial services during the resolution process.
  • Enforces private sector contractor adherence to contract terms, FDIC standards and contracting procedures.
  • Ensure employee maintain the contract file documentation from development, pre-award, post-award through closeout of contracts.
  • Reviews and approves procurement plans and independent government cost estimates, market analysis, and market research activities for new requirements and contract re-solicitations.
  • Exercises supervisory personnel management authority and performs the full range of performance management duties to include: planning, assigning, and reviewing work products of subordinates; establishing guidelines and performance expectations; and, evaluating work performance and providing feedback to others on their performance. Identifies training and developmental needs for staff and provides regular recognition of staff. Works in collaboration with the appropriate Human Resources and Legal staff to administer disciplinary action. Hears and resolves grievances or other disputes as appropriate. Approves/ disapproves requests for leave, telework, travel, training, etc.

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

2-page Resume Requirement: Please limit your résumé to 2 pages (minimum 10-point font).  If more than 2 pages are submitted, only the first 2 pages will be reviewed to determine your eligibility/qualifications.

Employment Conditions.

Employee may be relocated to any duty location to meet management needs.

High Risk - Background Investigation (BI) required.

Qualifications

To meet the minimum qualifications, applicants must possess the leadership and technical experiences listed below. These qualifications would typically be gained through serving in roles that require managing projects/teams or guiding the technical work of others.

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, and skills 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.

Leadership Experience: Experience in leading and coordinating projects, including establishing expectations, reviewing work products/services, monitoring progress, and providing guidance and feedback to team members.

Technical Experience 1: Experience in leading, managing, directing and coordinating the full range of mission responsibilities in the area of Contract Management in the Federal Government.

Technical Experience 2: Experience in overseeing clearance, deployment, and management of third-party contractors; ensuring third-party contractor compliance with contract provisions and contractor travel regulations; and monitoring contractor performance.

Technical Experience 3: Experience in working with Regional Office management to train and educate regional personnel in the areas of contract oversight and management, and other activities essential to the resolution and closing of a financial institution.

Education

There is no substitution of education for the experience for this position.

Additional information

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The five-day notification process does not apply to corporate and executive manager positions. Failure to provide your application documentation (i.e. up-to-date resume) in support of your qualifications for this position by the closing date will limit your ability to receive maximum consideration. Take a moment to ensure that your resume and assessment questionnaire responses reflect the qualifications and eligibility requirements of this position by the closing date.

Additional selections may be made from this vacancy announcement to fill identical vacancies that occur subsequent to this announcement.

This position is a Corporate Manager, CM-00, which is equivalent to above the CG/GS-15.

This is a recommended minimum Step 5 position.

If selected, you may be required to serve a supervisory/managerial probationary period.

If selected, you may be required to serve a probationary period as applicable to appointment type.

The range of pay shown includes base pay plus supplemental locality adjustments. The locality rates for these duty locations range from a low of 27.26% to a high of 33.94%. Pay will vary by grade level and the locality rate for the geographic location where the selection is located. For more on FDIC locality rates, click here.

Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

Benefits

A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new windowLearn more about federal benefits.

In addition to the regular benefits offered by Federal agencies, the FDIC offers additional benefits to its employees. These benefits, some at minimal cost, are some of the best and most competitive in both the private and public sectors.

To find out more, click here.

Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.

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 contain sufficiently detailed information upon which to make the qualification determination. 

If you are found minimally qualified, a Management Screening Panel (MSP) will review your qualifications and experience against pre-established benchmarks. The rating panel will place applications in one or two categories, Pass or Fail. These category assignments are a measure of the degree in which your background and responses to the assessment questions match the competencies/knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs) listed below.

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

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

  1. Direction Setting
  2. Organizational Stewardship
  3. Strategic Thinking
  4. Organization Performance
  5. Leveraging Diversity
  6. Interpersonal Relationships
  7. Planning and Organizing
  8. Written Communication
  9. Oral/Non-Written Communication
  10. Knowledge of contracting laws, practices, principles, methodology, policies and regulations relating to types of contracts, contractor selection, cost/price analysis and contract administration manage a complex contract portfolio.
  11. Knowledge of the principles, practices, and methods of financial analysis and the ability to use this knowledge to analyze complex financial statements and to resolve issues related to this analysis; and knowledge of financial services, accounting, and other professional services.
  12. Knowledge of the contractor selection process to assure that the Corporation's policies are followed and the recommended selection is in the best interest of the Corporation.
  13. Skill in the preparation of documentation to support the agreements reached and in the preparation of contractual documents.
  14. Knowledge of an array of contracting requirements for property management, complex appraisal, and brokerage services, and specific knowledge of financial industries services.

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

Applicants must provide details of the duties performed as they relate to the qualifying experience. 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 the specific requirements will not receive maximum consideration.


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Required Documents

Failure to provide all of the required documentation as stated in this vacancy announcement, may result in an ineligible determination or may affect your consideration status.  Please review the following to determine your eligibility and which document(s) is required to complete your application:
Your two (2) page resume showing all relevant work experience (paid and unpaid) including: duties performed; full name and address of the each employer; start and end dates (month/day/year); work schedule (part-time, full-time, number of hours if intermittent); salary; and any completed education and training (program title, subject area, number of hours completed, and completion date).
  
FDIC EMPLOYEES: Submit a final digitally signed copy of your most recent Annual Performance Appraisal and Evaluation form. The final PDF form is also acceptable. Please note that your form must be printed in landscape orientation for the required signatures to be visible. If you want to be considered non-competitively include a copy of your SF-50. The SF-50 must show the highest grade level or full performance level applicant has attained competitively on a permanent basis, and grade must be equivalent or higher than the grade for which applying. Multiple SF-50s may be necessary to determine your eligibility. 

If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:

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.

How to Apply

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To apply for this position, you MUST provide a complete application package which includes:

Your two (2) page resume showing all relevant work experience (paid and unpaid) including: duties performed; full name and address of the each employer; start and end dates (month/day/year); work schedule (part-time, full-time, number of hours if intermittent); salary; and any completed education and training (program title, subject area, number of hours completed, and completion date).

Applicants requesting an exception from the online process must contact the Human Resources Specialist or point of contact listed in this announcement prior to 12:00 noon local time on the closing date.

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You have until 11:59 p.m. ET (Eastern Time) on the closing date of this announcement to complete the application process.

Please ensure you have completed the application process by verifying the status of your application on-line to reflect: “Received”. Failure to complete the application process will result in an incomplete application and you will not be considered for the position.

Agency contact information

Chiquita Evans
Address
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Human Resources, Executive Resources Staff
3501 Fairfax Dr.
Room VS-D3026
Arlington, Virginia 22226
United States

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