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Senior Director

Employer
USAJobs
Location
Washington, D.C
Closing date
Nov 30, 2022
Duties

The HSAC reports directly to the Secretary and senior leadership. The HSAC is the Secretary's external strategic advisory board, providing nonpartisan and organizationally independent recommendations to the Secretary at his request.

Serves as the principal Deputy to the HSAC's Executive Director and as an Alternate Designated Federal Official for the HSAC as such provides management and oversight of HSAC membership and its subcommittees. Supports the HSAC Executive Director and senior DHS leadership on all efforts related to HSAC membership, HSAC subcommittees, HSAC meetings, and HSAC taskings. Works with the Executive Director to establish, implement and measure annual HSAC strategies, goals and objectives.

Builds and maintains relationships with HSAC members, subcommittee members, and other relevant stakeholder groups. Manages and ensures the completion of taskings in a timely manner. Assists the Executive Director in the administration of the HSAC to include HSAC members' financial disclosure forms and subcommittee members nondisclosure and gratuitous agreement forms.

Develops technical and policy papers, speeches, reports, testimony and various types of correspondence regarding HSAC issues. Drafts briefing memoranda, talking points, and other materials to support HSAC, OPE, OLA, OPA, and Front Office leadership.

Identifies areas for performance measurement and quality improvement and leads development and administration of quality assurance activities.
Continually fosters effective and harmonious working relationships with other departments, for purposes of sharing and gathering pertinent information that could advance and improve HSAC capabilities and effectiveness.

Represents HSAC at HSAC and subcommittee meetings, inter-departmental meetings, conferences, interagency task forces, and governmental seminars.

Oversees office operations including administrative management, development of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), responses to correspondence, Continuity of Operations Programs (COOP); asset inventory management, and contract oversight.

Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

  • Must be a current permanent Federal employee
  • Must have supervisory approval to apply to the Joint Duty Assignment. DHS 250-2 Application Form under "required documents" section.
  • Must NOT have any pending/outstanding disciplinary actions
  • Must have achieved a minimum of "meet expectations/proficiency" on latest performance appraisal/evaluation
  • Must be currently at the grade level of the detail. *No Temporary Promotion Opportunity*
  • The program does not apply to members of the Military service or contractors.


Qualifications

Qualifications required:
  • Knowledge of the Federal Advisory Committee Act and laws, policies and regulations governing agency relationships with advisory committees sufficient to advise management, develop policies, manage and implement projects, and assess program effectiveness.
  • Knowledge of management techniques, methods, principles sufficient to provide direction and oversight of a program, assess overall effectiveness, efficiency and productivity. The knowledge is used in identifying, diagnosing and consulting on problem areas that affect the achievement of program goals.
  • Knowledge of management methodologies, business process engineering, and metrics design at the organizational level that includes producing management tools and metrics (e.g.,., Six Sigma, etc.) to identify, analyze, and recommend solutions to problems related to organizational structure, administrative procedures, work processes, and workload distribution.
  • Mastery of the principles, methods, practices and techniques of external agency relations and communications sufficient to develop and improve outreach, liaison and engagement programs, and develop recommendations for improvements
  • Knowledge of a variety of analytical techniques involved in gathering, assessing and evaluating numerous sources of data, and developing appropriate recommendations for management.
  • Skill and ability to communicate, both orally and in writing, sufficient to give presentations to various internal and external groups and to provide information on the department's programs, objectives and activities. Skill in writing and editing a variety of materials sufficient to convey information in a style and manner suitable for a range of audiences.
  • Expert knowledge of public administration practices, business administration, or other relevant area to identify, recommend, innovate and implement public sector best practices.
  • Ability to represent an organization, negotiate consensus decisions, or advise at an executive level including to senior executives, shareholders or other government officials.
  • Thorough knowledge of the current and planned DHS organization, functional roles and perspectives and operational responsibilities, work processes and procedures, as related to the performance of major programs.
  • Please read the following important information to ensure we have everything we need to consider your application:
    It is your responsibility to ensure that you submit appropriate documentation prior to the closing date. Your resume serves as the basis for qualification determinations and must highlight your most relevant and significant experience as it relates to this Joint Duty assignment opportunity announcement.

    Be clear and specific when describing your work history since human resources cannot make assumptions regarding your experience. Your application will be rated based on your resume.

    Please ensure EACH work history includes ALL of the following information:
  • Job Title (Include series and grade of Federal Job)
  • Duties (Be specific in describing your duties)
  • Name of Federal agency
  • Supervisor name, email, and phone number
  • Start and end dates including month and year (e.g. June 2007 to April 2008)


  • Education

    EDUCATIONAL SUBSTITUTION: There is no educational substitution for this position.

    Additional information

    **DHS does not offer any additional benefits beyond that which the Federal employee is already receiving.

    If the position requires a security clearance, employees must have a SECRET or TOP SECRET clearance to placement AND must maintain that level of clearance while performing in the position.

    Selected applicants for a JDA are requested to fulfill the items below during the JDA:
  • Complete the DHS Training Course 15 days prior to the arrival to the JDA.
  • Complete the DHS Joint Duty Assignment Progress Plan to include:
    • Phase 1: Establish assignment objectives within the first 30 days of the JDA.
    • Phase 2: Complete a self-assessment of the duties performed at the mid-point of the JDA.
    • Phase 3: Complete a final review within the last 30 days of the JDA.


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