Clarification from the agency

This position is open to current SEC employees.

This position is located in the Office of Information Technology (OIT) and serves as the strategic advisor and operational leader responsible for managing all operational aspects of OIT, including organizational planning, human capital management, procurement, budgeting, administrative services, project management, and risk management.

Typical duties include:

• Analyzes and distills important business and operational information in order to accurately contribute to a number of office and agency reporting requirements. These include: current data on performance metrics, the annual management assurance statement, position requests, and a host of other ad-hoc reporting requirements related to the administrative and operational offices and/or functions.
• Represents the office on key agency governance committees responsible for evaluating agency financial, IT, and enterprise risk operations.
• Uses strong political savvy and business acumen to collaborate with senior leaders across the division and agency to plan and evaluate programs, solve problems, and facilitate decision making.
• Drives operational cohesion and provides high-level consultation to develop, conceive, plan, and implement policies and guidelines affecting broad, emerging, and/or critical office-wide programs. Translate new requirements or priorities into program goals, actions, and policies. Help the office respond to the impact the changing regulatory environment may have on staffing and organizational needs.
• Develops and implements programmatic or new strategic initiatives and proposes policy recommendations on matters concerning the business and infrastructural support. Supports strategic priorities through expert navigation of human capital, financial, and technical resources.
• Translates organizational vision into action by analyzing complex problems and devising innovative solutions, including applying project management principles, supervising, monitoring and evaluating projects, and resolving difficult problems related to planning, development and operations.
• Facilitates operational effectiveness and oversee strategic planning, management reporting and systems monitoring to promote ongoing quality improvement, and improve organizational performance.

Conditions of employment

• CITIZENSHIP: You must be a US Citizen.
• You must possess a J.D. or LL.B Degree and you must be an active member of the bar in good standing.
• This position is open to current SEC employees.
• Application procedures are specific to this vacancy announcement. Please read all the instructions carefully. Failure to follow the instructions may result in you not being considered for this position.
• Supplementary vacancies may be filled in addition to the number stated in this announcement and may be filled from any division or office within the agency.
• This position has promotion potential to the SO-02.
• Consistent with 5 U.S.C. § 7511, you will be required to serve a two-year trial period (one year for preference eligible veterans) if the position to which you have applied is not the same or similar to your current position of record.
• SECURITY CLEARANCE: Entrance on duty is contingent upon completion of a pre-employment security investigation. Favorable results on a Background Investigation may be a condition of employment or selection to another position.
• DRUG TESTING: This position may be subjected to drug testing requirements.
• PERMANENT CHANGE OF STATION (PCS): Moving/Relocation expenses are not authorized.
• DIRECT DEPOSIT: All Federal employees are required to have Federal salary payments made by direct deposit to a financial institution of their choosing.
• This position is not in the collective bargaining unit.
• This appointment may be extended OR it may end at any time during the course of the appointment at the discretion of management. Applicants should also be available for possible extension, if needed.
• This temporary competitive promotion may lead to a permanent promotion without further competition.
• If selected, you may receive a salary increase for the duration of the temporary promotion. If the temporary promotion ends, you will be returned to your original salary at the end of the appointment.
• If selected, you will accrue 8 hours of annual leave per pay period for the duration of the temporary promotion. If the temporary promotion ends, you will be returned to your original annual leave accrual at the end of the appointment.

Qualifications

All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.

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. Qualifying education must have been obtained from an accredited college or university recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.

Applicants are responsible for confirming all required materials are submitted by the deadline. Please check the 'How You Will Be Evaluated' and 'Required Documents' sections carefully, as missing documents will render the application incomplete and ineligible for review.

BASIC REQUIREMENT: All applicants must possess the following

• J.D. or LL.B. degree --AND--
• Active membership of the bar in good standing in any state, territory of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the commonwealth of Puerto Rico. (Note: proof of bar membership will be required before entry on duty.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENT: In addition to meeting the basic requirement, applicants must also meet the minimum qualification requirement.

• SO-01: Have at least four years post-J.D experience identifying legal issues, providing legal analyses, providing legal solutions/recommendations, and preparing legal documents, which also includes at least three years of specialized experience:
  1. Managing the business operations of a legal, audit/examination, financial, regulatory or federal organization, which includes managing AT LEAST three (3) of the following four (4) functional areas:
     1. Time and resource budgeting;
     2. Human capital management;
     3. Planning and executing information technology or process improvement initiatives; and/or
     4. Operational or external-facing risk management.
  2. Developing and refining organizational policies, processes and measurements to assess and improve with innovative strategies and plans the efficiency and effectiveness of the organization's operations; AND
  3. Governing information technology initiatives including applying project management principles, supervising, and resolving difficult problems encountered in the planning, development and operations of multifaceted IT systems.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

Your resume and application package will be reviewed to determine whether you meet the qualification requirements outlined in this announcement.

If you are found minimally qualified, a rating panel will review your resume and Accomplishment Record narrative. Accomplishment Record narratives should clearly demonstrate your proficiency in the following competencies:

1. Leading the Organization: Building and supporting the organization's vision, creating strategies to achieve the vision, supporting and leading innovative and creative initiatives to meet organizational goals.
2. Leading and Developing People: Ability to recruit, lead, develop and manage the workforce, constructively manages differences and potential conflicts between employees, building teams that meet and exceed an organizations' mission, strategic plan, and goals.
3. Results Orientation: Ability to meet organizational goals by effectively managing program area, identifying and solving important problems, making sound and timely decisions, and effectively managing and sharing information.
4. Building Coalitions: Ability to build coalitions by partnering with others to build strategic relationships, influencing and negotiating with those in sphere of influence to achieve favorable outcomes for an organization.
5. Business Process Improvement: Uses business process reengineering methods, metrics, tools, and techniques to implement innovative solutions that would improve quality, speed, and service.
6. Budget and Program Management: Ability to develop and run agency budgets and programs to deliver results that efficiently and effectively meet an organization's mission, strategic plan and goals.

Your resume must provide evidence that supports the claims made in your Accomplishment Record narratives; both documents must effectively showcase your qualifications. Each competency narrative should detail one specific, relevant example from your training or experience. Please limit each response to a maximum of 300 words, as any text beyond this limit will not be considered during the evaluation. You will upload one pdf or Word document with your narrative responses to each of the six competencies. Your responses must be in the below format:

Competency Title
Position title and dates from your resume that this experience was obtained

• Describe the situation (i.e., the challenged faced, the problem solved)
• Describe the specific actions you took
• State the outcome, results, or long-term impact of your accomplishment
• Name and email address of someone who can verify this information

Failure to provide the Accomplishment Record will result in a rating of IFFM: You were not considered because you did not submit all required documents and/or they were not in English as specified in the announcement. For more information on the Accomplishment Record, see the Required Documents section.

The rating panel will place applicants in three categories: Highly Qualified, Well Qualified and Qualified. Top ranked applicants will be referred to the hiring office for further review and consideration. The hiring office may directly contact recommended candidates for interview(s). When the selection is made, applicants will be sent a referral status notification and a final disposition notification.

To preview the Questionnaire, click https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12856028

You must provide a complete Application Package, which includes:

• Required: Your responses to the Questionnaire.
• Required: Resume - To meet the minimum qualification requirements for this position, you must show that you possess the specialized experience related to this position within your two-page resume - NOT TO EXCEED 2 PAGES. Resumes over the 2-page limit, will not be reviewed beyond page 2. Your resume should highlight the competencies required for the position and include examples of experience, education, and accomplishments applicable to the qualification(s) and include specific employment dates (month and year and start and ends dates) and differentiate between full-time and part-time work. To help ensure the resume review fully credits your relevant experience, we recommend clearly referencing the competency and specialized experience demonstrated in each position or example you include in your resume. If your resume does not reflect demonstrated evidence of these qualifications, you may not receive consideration for the position. Candidates external to the SEC will be allowed to submit a comprehensive resume for pay setting purposes after a tentative offer is made. If the applicant fails to provide the comprehensive resume by the specified deadline, the resume submitted at the time of application will be used to determine pay. No additional documentation will be accepted after the deadline. Note: Your resume must NOT contain pictures. If you are a current SEC employee selected for this position, the standard percentage increases will be applied (i.e., 6% for non-supervisory and 10% for supervisory positions) if your selection results in a promotion. If your selection results in lateral movement (i.e. no change in grade) you will maintain your current salary. If your selection results in a change in grade from an SK-15 to an SK-16 you will maintain your current salary. For helpful guidance for writing a two-page resume, click here.
• Required: Accomplishment Record - For each competency, applicants must provide a 300 word or less written narrative describing one example of competency-related experience. Each example should document the position title and dates when the experience was obtained, detailed information about the problem or situation, the specific actions taken by the applicant, and the results or outcomes achieved by those actions. The applicant will also provide the name and contact information of an individual who can verify the provided information. This document must be uploaded to the application under Accomplishment Record. An accomplishment record submitted outside the USA Staffing system will not be accepted.

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