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.
Registration with the Selective Service.
U.S. Citizenship is required.
Bar Membership is required.
Employment Conditions.
High Risk Position - Background Investigation (BI) required.
The candidate(s) selected will be offered a term appointment not-to-exceed 3 years, which may be extended to a maximum of four years based on workload requirements and organizational staffing authorizations.
The candidate(s) selected will be offered a term appointment under a Schedule A Excepted Service Intermittent Appointment utilizing 5 CFR 302.101(c)(4) as the appointing authority.
Applicants will be provided an opportunity to demonstrate they have retired, resigned, and/or separated from Federal government or State bank regulatory employment as part of the recruitment process before tentative job offer issuance.
Employee may be relocated to any duty location to meet management needs.
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, skills, and abilities 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 leadership words to describe your experience and accomplishments and quantify your experience wherever possible to demonstrate your accomplishments (e.g., number of employees supervised).
Leadership Experience: Experience in leading and working well with members of a team; AND
Technical Experience 1: Minimum of eight years of experience working for a bank or for a company that provides services to banks or banking-related services and has direct experience with the bank supervisory process through such experience; OR
Technical Experience 2: Experience is defined as experience at the GS/CG-14 level or higher, or equivalent experience in the private sector, involving the examination of depository institutions, including in the supervision and evaluation of depository institutions’ safety and soundness, and compliance with laws and regulations.
Basic Qualification: License to practice before the highest court of a state, territory, commonwealth, or the District of Columbia and in good standing.
Education
There is no substitution of education for the experience for this position.
Additional information
If selected, you may be required to serve a probationary or trial period as applicable to appointment type. During the probationary or trial period, you will be evaluated for fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest. In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider:
- your performance and conduct;
- the needs and interests of the agency;
- whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and
- whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
Upon completion of your probationary or trial period your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
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Additional selections may be made from this vacancy announcement to fill identical vacancies that occur subsequent to this announcement.
FDIC Corporate Experts (CX) Attorneys are in the Federal excepted service and not the Senior Executive Service (SES). As a CX at the FDIC, you will provide executive leadership and coordinate the Corporation's programs and policies.
Current or Former Political Appointees: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C or Non-Career SES employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the HR Office.
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.
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.
The FDIC offers comprehensive 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.
In addition, under FDIC’s Group Life Insurance Program, basic life insurance coverage for Executive Managers is automatically equal to 3 times their salary (rounded to the next higher thousand) up to a maximum of $800,000. Executives may also choose from two other lower coverage options. The Corporation pays for the cost of the basic coverage unless employees also elect to be covered under the Federal Employees Group Life Insurance Program (FEGLI).
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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 contains sufficiently detailed information upon which to make the qualification determination.
If you are found minimally qualified, a Management Rating Panel (MRP) will review your qualifications and experience against pre-established benchmarks. The rating panel will place applications in one of three quality categories, i.e., Best Qualified, Highly Qualified, or Qualified. These category assignments are a measure of the degree in which your background and responses to the assessment questions match the competencies listed below. Candidates eligible for veterans’ preference will be considered in accordance with law, rule, and regulation.
Top ranked (Best Qualified) candidates will be referred to the selecting official for further review and consideration.
The competencies/KSAs you will be assessed on are listed below.
- Organizational Stewardship
- Strategic Thinking
- Managing Risk
- Influencing Others
- Advising
- Organizational Awareness
- Expert knowledge with respect to the supervision or operation of depository institutions.
- Expert knowledge of ?nancial institution analysis, including the assessment of credit risk, capital, liquidity, earnings, and market risk, and knowledge of risk management processes, audit procedures, or the assessment of compliance with consumer protection, fair lending, community reinvestment, or other related laws.
- Expert knowledge of supervision or operation of depository institutions, the evaluation of depository institutions’ safety and soundness, or compliance with consumer protection laws and regulations.
- Expert knowledge in making and/or reviewing sensitive and complex supervisory determinations of the types appealable under the FDIC’s Guidelines for Appeals of Material Supervisory Determinations.
- Knowledge of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act; the National Bank Act; the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989; the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act; the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act; and related regulations.
- Skill in establishing policy direction and priorities for purposes of enhancing safety and soundness and compliance with consumer protection laws and regulations
- Skill in negotiation, including the ability to defend and explain dif?cult issues with respect to key decisions and positions to senior of?cials within and outside the organization.
You do not need to respond separately to these competencies/KSAs. Your resume will serve as responses to the competencies/KSAs.
Applicants must provide details of the duties performed as they relate to the qualifying experience and competencies/KSAs. 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 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).
VETERANS’ PREFERENCE: If you are claiming veterans’ preference,
click here. (Note: Veterans
must submit the Member 4 copy of the DD 214, Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty – or other copy showing the type of discharge/character of service [e.g., Honorable, Under Honorable Conditions, etc.] along with any other required documents (e.g., DD-214, VA Letter, SF-15, etc.) to demonstrate veterans’ preference 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.