Duties

Summary

This position is located in the CFPB/Office of Regulations/Research, Markets & Regulations which develops regulations & interpretive guidance to implement directives for enacted legislation & federal consumer financial laws, and new rules to address practices identifies through CFPB's enforcement, supervision, market monitoring, research & consumer response activities.

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Responsibilities

As the CN-81 Deputy Assistant Director, Regulations, you will:

Work with the Assistant Director, Regulations and RMR senior management to plan, establish, direct, coordinate and evaluate CFPB's rule-making activities, including the formulation, implementation, and interpretation of federal consumer financial protection laws. Works with the Assistant Director to formulate and implement needed policies, procedures, and guidelines for conducting sophisticated rulemaking activities related to consumer finance.

Ensure the integration of researchers and markets professionals into rule-making activities and coordination with other Divisions within the CFPB.

Speak authoritatively on consumer financial services laws and other regulatory matters and represent CFPB at meetings and conferences.

Oversee the management of significant, complex rule-making projects and policy proposals.

Work with the Assistant Director, Regulations and RMR senior management to:

• Develop and communicate to staff an overall team vision, with goals and objectives that are aligned to CFPB strategic objectives,
• Set an organizational tone and direction and create and model an environment that fosters and sustains diversity, knowledge sharing, and consensus building.
• Align all needed policies, procedures, and guidelines for conducting rule-making activities to ensure effective decision making and efficient operations.
• Ensure that programs and activities are planned and managed in alignment with established and emerging CFPB strategic objectivities and priorities.
• Translate program objectives into organizational structures, budgets, and staffing requirements for current and out years and defend resource requests to RMR senior management and to CFPB leadership, identifying and providing metrics for measuring the effectiveness of program execution.
• Recruit and develop a cross-functional team with substantive depth in the various federal consumer financial laws and regulations and the various consumer financial product and service markets as well as critical functional knowledge
• Supervise a subordinate workforce including subordinate managers. In coordination with the Assistant Director, plans work assignments on a strategic, multi-year basis. Ensures work is appropriately and effectively distributed and accomplished in accordance with established and emerging policy and practice. Leads, motivates, and develops employees, establishing performance objectives, conducting performance evaluations, initiating performance-based actions and awards, and ensuring all mandatory training has been accomplished by assigned staff. Works closely with the human resources staff to develop human resources plans for establishing optimal organizations, recruitment strategies (particularly for positions identifies as mission-critical occupations), career ladders, development programs, and performance plans.

Travel Required

Occasional travel - Occasional travel may be required.

Supervisory status
Yes

Promotion Potential
81

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

• Please refer to "Conditions of Employment."
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• Must be a U.S. Citizen or U.S National
• Public Trust background investigation will be required

The experience may have been gained in either the public or private sector or volunteer service . One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-time work is considered on a prorated basis. To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/year, and indicate number of hours worked per week on your résumé.

Your application includes your résumé, responses to the online questions, and required supporting documents. Please be sure that your résumé includes detailed information to support your qualifications for this position; failure to provide sufficient evidence in your resume may result in a "not qualified" determination.

Qualifications

1. Law Degree: Applicants must be a graduate of an accredited law school with an LL.B., J.D. or equivalent.

2. Bar Membership: Applicants must be a current member of a bar with a valid license to practice law in a state, territory of the United States, District of Columbia, or Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

3. To qualify for this Executive-level position, you must have substantial specialized experience, which is defined as:

• Demonstrated experience in issuing, interpreting, or applying federal consumer financial law that reflects substantive knowledge of the federal laws and regulations governing consumer financial products and services; AND
• Demonstrated supervisory or leadership experience that reflects the ability to serve in a senior executive role in the formulation of policies, procedures and guidelines for conducting rulemaking and interpretive guidance activities related to consumer financial services law and in the implementation of those policies, procedures and guidelines across a broad portfolio of rulemaking and guidance activities.

Education Requirements:
Law Degree: Applicants must be a graduate of an accredited law school with an LL.B., J.D. or equivalent.

Education

Law Degree: Applicants must be a graduate of an accredited law school with an LL.B., J.D. or equivalent.

You MUST submit a copy of your transcripts or equivalent.

The education generally must be from an accredited (or pre-accredited) college or university recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.

Additional information

- We may select from this announcement or any other source to fill one or more vacancies.
- This is a non-bargaining unit position.
- We offer opportunities for telework TBD per Agency policy.
- We offer opportunities for flexible work schedules.
-Ethics: Bureau employees are subject to government-wide ethical standards of conduct, financial disclosure requirements, and post-employment prohibitions, which applicants may review at www.oge.gov. In addition, employees must comply with the Supplemental Standards of Ethical Conduct for Employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (5 CFR 9401), which, among other things, prohibit an employee or the employee's spouse or minor child from owning or controlling a debt or equity interest in an entity supervised by the Bureau. Regulations also impose restrictions on the outside activities of certain Bureau employees, including examiners and attorneys. Applicants may review the Bureau ethics regulations and a summary of the regulations at www.consumerfinance.gov. Questions regarding these requirements and prohibitions should be directed to the Bureau Ethics Office at EthicsHelp@cfpb.gov .

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT:
- A two year trial period may be required (if not already served).
- Must successfully complete a background investigation.
- Complete a Declaration for Federal Employment to determine your suitability for Federal employment, at the time requested by the agency
- If you are a male applicant born after December 31, 1959, certify that you have registered with the Selective Service System or are exempt from having to do so.
- Go through a Personal Identity Verification (PIV) process that requires two forms of identification from the Form I-9 . Federal law requires verification of the identity and employment eligibility of all new hires in the U.S.
- Obtain and use a Government-issued charge card for business-related travel.
-File a Public Financial Disclosure Report (OGE Form 278e) within 30 days of appointment and annually from then on.

How You Will Be Evaluated

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

Rating:

If you are found minimally qualified, you MUST submit a separate, concise essay (no more than 5 total pages), that addresses your experience applying the four Executive Competencies to manage and achieve the goals of the organization. The Executive Competencies include:

• Modeling Inclusive Communications and Relationships - Delivers communications clearly and tactfully, including difficult or unpopular messages; demonstrates respect in interactions and values differences; sets the expectation that staff interact with others in a respectful, collaborative, and inclusive manner; broadly solicits and incorporates input from others (as appropriate); builds relationships with a range of diverse others (e.g., stakeholders, individuals; offices); works collaboratively and seeks to identify mutually acceptable approaches; and, manages conflicts, including demonstrating an understanding of cultural differences and situations where the potential for misunderstanding/conflict across cultures exists.
• Managing and Inspiring High Performance - Manages employees in a fair manner while defining clear work expectations aligned with goals; plans and delegates work in alignment with team member skills and provides assistance, direction, constructive feedback, and support to staff; monitors progress and deadlines, ensuring work quality, responsiveness, and timeliness; contributes to team efforts and shares credit for accomplishments; and, adheres to performance management guidelines.
• Accountability - Demonstrates through words and actions integrity, trust, and a commitment to serve the public; understands the Bureau's mission, why the agency exists, and how own and others' roles contribute to success; honors commitments; takes responsibility for own actions and the work of the team; models ownership of problem solving; and, complies with external rules and regulatory requirements.
• Managing quality results - Provides work that is responsive to stakeholder or mission requirements; understands who stakeholders are; keeps stakeholders informed and educated; resolves stakeholder concerns; collects and acts on feedback/data to improve quality, efficiency, or responsiveness; anticipates stakeholder needs and proactively addresses them; balances stakeholder requests against capacity; and, recognizes situations when work or services can and cannot be provided and clearly and tactfully says no to requests when necessary.

Your essay should include where and when the qualifications were obtained, and the organizational setting in which the experience was acquired (e.g. organization size, level, and assigned fiscal resources). A panel of Subject Matter Experts (SME's) will assess each applicant's responses to determine best qualified applicants for the position. A representative from the Office of Human Capital will contact you if you are found minimally qualified, and you will have 48 hours to submit your narrative.

Alternatively, you may submit your narrative with your application, simply attach your narrative under the ‘cover letter' or under a Narrative Response attachment category link before submitting your application.

Referral: If you are among the top qualified candidates, your application may be referred to a selecting official for consideration. You may be required to participate in one or more selection interviews.

Veterans preference is not applied but considered a positive factor.

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Background checks and security clearance

Security clearance
Not Required

Drug test required
No

Required Documents

A complete application includes 1. A résumé, 2. Vacancy question responses, and 3. Submission of any required documents. Please note that if you do not provide all required information, as specified in this announcement, you may not be considered for this position (or may not receive the special consideration for which you may be eligible).

All applicants are required to submit a résumé either by creating one in USAJOBS or uploading one of their own choosing. (Cover letters are optional.) To receive full credit for relevant experience, please list the month/date/year and number of hours worked for experience listed on your résumé. We suggest that you preview the online questions, as you may need to customize your résumé to ensure that it supports your responses to these questions. Please view résumé tips .

Your resume must identify the law school from which you graduated and include your bar membership information. Your resume must also demonstrate how you meet at least the minimum qualifications for this position, as well as the specialized experience requirements of the position.

VETERANS' PREFERENCE DOCUMENTATION: If you are claiming veterans preference, please see applicant guide for required documentation . In order to be considered for veterans preference, you must submit all required documentation as outlined in the applicant guide.

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.