TRAVEL REQUIRED:

Occasional travel - May require occasional overnight travel.

RELOCATION AUTHORIZED:
Relocation expenses reimbursed Yes Relocation benefits will be provided.

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Employment Conditions.

Registration with the Selective Service.

U.S. Citizenship is required.

Completion of Confidential Financial Disclosure may be required.

High Risk Position – Background Investigation (BI) required.

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. Additional qualifications information can be found here.

Applicants must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the grade 15 level or above in the Federal service. Specialized experience is experience serving as a chief spokesperson and senior level expert advisor regarding financial institution communication matters and overseeing, planning, implementing and monitoring a comprehensive public information program, including crisis management communications, within a financial regulatory environment.

Applicants must have met the qualification requirements (including selective placement factors - if any) for this position within 30 calendar days of the closing date of this announcement.

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

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FDIC Executive Managers (EM) are in the Federal competitive service and not the Senior Executive Service (SES). As an EM at the FDIC, you will provide executive leadership and managerial direction over substantive activities related to planning, developing, executing, and coordinating the Corporation's programs and policies.

Salary reflects a pay cap for this position of $273,400.

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

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

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

Your resume and the online assessment questionnaire 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. Please ensure that your resume contains specific information such as position titles, beginning and ending dates of employment for each position, average number of hours worked per week, and if the position is/was in the Federal government, you should provide the position series and grade level.

Your resume will also be evaluated to measure your responses to the assessment questions. If you rated yourself higher on the questionnaire than what is supported by your resume, your overall qualifications assessment may be adversely affected.

The competencies/knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) you will be assessed on are listed below. If you are found qualified, your application package will be reviewed by a panel of three Executive Managers and placed in one of three categories: Best Qualified, Highly Qualified, or Qualified. Top ranked candidates will be referred to the selecting official for further review and consideration.

1. Ability to manage employees within the Office of Communications; evaluate and manage external resources retained by the Office of Communications, and develop and manage the annual budget of the office. 

2. Ability to understand and effectively communicate financial industry issues. 

3. Ability to serve as an expert advisor to the Chairman, the Deputy to the Chairman for External Affairs, and top management officials regarding public affairs issues of the Corporation. 

4. Ability to develop and execute longer-term sustained public affairs campaigns targeting a broad cross-section of stakeholders through multiple media platforms, such as print, television, electronic, and social media.

5. Ability to conceive, implement and evaluate nationwide and global communications and public affairs strategies and campaigns focused on the business and mission of the Corporation. 

6. Ability to establish and maintain professional contacts with key persons and groups within other relevant federal and state agencies and outside of the government, leveraging those relationships to help advance the Corporation's communication strategies.

7. Ability to create, direct and manage effective crisis communications programs.

8. Ability to develop promotional strategies for Corporation events, such as economic conferences, data releases, educational forums, and other public events.

You do not need to respond separately to these KSAs.  Your answers to the online questionnaire and resume will serve as responses to the KSAs.

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