Duties

As the Assistant Inspector General for Audits (AIGA), you will be responsible for the leadership and strategic direction for the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) audit and evaluation program. You will plan and execute a comprehensive audit and evaluation program, administering the quality assurance program for all products, tracking audit resolution, ensuring management action on audit recommendations, and developing and implementing AlGA's policies, strategies, and procedures to ensure that all products meet the "Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards." In addition, you will be responsible for the management of the audit portion of the NRC OIG budget.

Key duties and responsibilities are as follows:

• Develops, revises, and modifies the OIG Audit Manual, the authoritative source of OIG policies, standards, and procedures for conducting audits and evaluations.
• Provides leadership, coordinates, and recommends policies for activities designed to promote economy and efficiency in the administration of, and to prevent and detect fraud, waste, and abuse in, NRC and Board programs and operations.
• Directly supervises the Deputy Assistant Inspector General for Audits (DAIGA) performing the full range of supervisory responsibilities for the assigned staff including time and attendance approval, performance evaluation, deciding on any necessary disciplinary actions, and approval of training and travel requests.
• Provides strategic direction for an audit program that is comprehensive, effective, and responsive to the needs of the Inspector General, ensures that NRC and DNFSB financial statements are audited, evaluates the effectiveness and efficiency of NRC and Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) programs, and verifies whether agency contractors meet the terms of their contracts with the agency.
• Develops the OIG annual audit plan that meets mandatory legislative requirements, includes areas that are of particular concern to the President, Congress, agency management, and the Inspector General; and encompass the highest risk management challenges within NRC and DNFSB. Ensures that the OIG audit program aligns with the OIG Strategic Plan.
• Maintains an effective quality control process for audits and evaluations. This includes quality assurance reviews of all on-going projects, planning and carrying out annual internal quality reviews, and overseeing the tri-annual peer review process.
• Monitors actions taken by NRC and DNFSB management to assure that appropriate corrective action is taken in response to findings and recommendations of OIG reports.
• Directs Audit input for the Semiannual Report to Congress.
• Represents the OIG in meetings with federal, state, and local officials; representatives of the nuclear industry, public interest groups, professional organizations; and members of the general public.
• Represents the OIG on pertinent Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE) committees.
• Implements corporate management strategies consistent with the OIG Strategic Plan.

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

• U.S. citizenship required.
• The ability to pass a background investigation for a Q clearance.
• The ability to obtain Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) access.
• Must serve a 1-year SES probationary period, if not previously completed.
• Initial & Annual Public Financial Disclosure Report (OGE 278)
• A writing sample and/or interview assessment may be utilized during the final phase of the hiring process.
• The position is subject to NRC's security ownership restrictions.

Qualifications

Highly desired qualified candidates will have served for at least 5 to 10 years in a supervisory/management position at or above the federal GS-15 level or its equivalent with state or local government, private sector, or nongovernmental organizations. However, GS-14 applicants may apply if you possess comparable qualities and management experience.

Your application must clearly reflect specialized experience in a managerial capacity with responsibility for providing managerial and supervisory direction to a diverse federal, state, or local government agency/organization, preferably responsible for conducting audits and/or investigations designed to prevent and detect fraud, waste, abuse and misconduct, and that promote economy, efficiency, and effectiveness in the administration of programs and operations on a national level.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE:
Successful candidates will possess significant experience in the audit communities, and preferably have worked at least 10 years managing seasoned, experienced, auditing professionals in an Office of the Inspector General at the local, state, or federal level. This experience must demonstrate sophisticated analytical skills, superior written and oral communications skills, good judgement, conflict resolution, impeccable ethics, and experience in interacting with government and non-government officials.

As a basic requirement for entry into the SES, your application must show evidence of progressively responsible leadership experience that is indicative of senior executive level management capability, and that is directly related to the duties of this position and the five Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) and the Professional/Technical Qualifications (PTQs) listed within the announcement. Applicants who do not meet or do not demonstrate possession of the ECQs and PTQs in their application will be eliminated from further consideration.

This is a Career-Reserved position in the Senior Executive Service.
Although not required, a Certified Public Accountant license is highly desirable.

EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS:
The NRC OIG utilizes Criterion A method to submit candidates to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) for the Qualification Review Board (QRB) process. Therefore, all applicants should use the Challenge-Context-Action-Result (CCAR) Model addressing their ECQs for this position. No more than two examples of relevant experience should be used per ECQ to demonstrate your experience. The number of examples is not as important as ensuring that your experience matches the ECQ criteria.

Applicants must submit online written statements (Narrative ONLY; NO bulleted lists) describing accomplishments that would satisfy the ECQs. You must address each ECQ separately and are required to respond to all ECQs. Please limit your written statements to no more than two pages per ECQ. You must provide the names, email addresses, and telephone numbers of responsible individuals who can verify the information provided for each ECQ. Use the following approach to describe your accomplishments:

• ECQ1 - Leading Change: The ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment.
• ECQ2 - Leading People: The ability to lead people toward meeting the organization's vision, mission, and goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts.
• ECQ3 - Results Driven: The ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to make decisions that produce high-quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks.
• ECQ4 - Business Acumen: The ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically.
• ECQ5 - Building Coalitions: The ability to build coalitions internally and with other federal agencies, state and local governments, nonprofit and private sector organizations, foreign governments, or international organizations to achieve common goals.

Additional information on the ECQs is available at http://www.opm.gov/ses/recruitment/ecq.asp . Example ECQ statements are available at http://www.opm.gov/ses/references/GuidetoSESQuals_2012.pdf .

PROFESSIONAL TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS: All applicants must submit online written statements (narrative only) of accomplishments that would satisfy the following PTQs. You must address each PTQ separately. Please limit your statements to no more than two pages per PTQ.

• PTQ1 - Demonstrated experience in applying sound management practices, sound judgment, impeccable ethics, strong intellect, and sound interpersonal skills to: the auditing programs within the Office of the Inspector General; interactions among and between the senior leadership of the NRC and the DNFSB; interactions with Congressional members and staff, and to the day-to-day operations of the OIG. Overall extensive experience in directing and administering sound practices within a complex organization.
• PTQ2 - Demonstrated experience employing assertive, diplomatic, and appropriate management and conflict resolution techniques, in concert with, and upon the advice of, Human Resources and Legal/General Counsel personnel, to empower employees to do their best work for the organization, to promote a diverse and inclusive workplace, and to address and eliminate inter-personal conflict and related issues arising among and/or between OIG staff, and/or external stakeholders
• PTQ3 - Expert knowledge of the principles, theories, techniques and practices of modern accounting and auditing sufficient to oversee and coordinate professional quality audits and evaluations of NRC's and DNFSB's financial systems and accounting activities.
• PTQ4 - Expert knowledge of federal government audit and program evaluation concepts, processes, and procedures sufficient to supervise and conduct professional quality audits and management reviews of NRC's programs and NRC's contracts.
• PTQ5 - Superior skill in communication, writing and editing abilities, with experience producing timely, complex written work products on a variety of topics under strict deadlines, to include performance, management, and financial audit issues, budgetary issues, and documents concerning relationships with Congress, public interest groups, and external stakeholders.

Education

• Auditing Series Occupational Standards
• Bachelor's degree required; Graduate degree(s) preferred.
• All education must be accredited by an institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
  Applicants can verify accreditation here: www.ed.gov/admins/finaid/accred .
• Special instructions for candidates with foreign education: Education completed outside the United States must be deemed equivalent to that gained in U.S. education programs. You must submit all necessary documents to a private U.S. credential evaluation service to interpret equivalency of your education against courses given in U.S. accredited colleges and universities. For further information visit: http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html

Additional information

NOTE: False statements or responses on your resume or supplemental documentation can jeopardize your employment opportunity and subject you to disciplinary action, including removal from Federal service.

• The selected candidate will be required to complete a "Declaration of Federal Employment" OF-306 prior to being appointed to determine their suitability for federal employment and to authorize a background investigation.
• Veteran's Preference does not apply to the SES.
• When the NRC OIG determines that, in the absence of such an incentive, it will be difficult to fill the position with a suitable candidate, the NRC OIG may offer a relocation incentive to a current federal employee who is required to geographically move.
• Selected candidate will be subject to a 1-year probationary period in the SES unless required probationary period has been served.
• This position is subject to Public Financial Disclosure Reporting requirements and the NRC prohibited securities ownership restrictions. Selected candidate is required to file a Public Financial Disclosure Report (OGE Form 278) within 30 days after appointment.
• The NRC provides reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities where appropriate. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process, please notify the Disability Program Coordinator at (301) 287-0712. Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.
• A transferable security clearance from another agency or a background investigation leading to a "Q" (Top Secret) clearance is required for all new hires. To begin work at the NRC without a security clearance, you must be granted a temporary waiver of the required clearance, referred to as a section 145(b) waiver under the Atomic Energy Act. To be eligible for a 145(b) waiver you need favorable education verification, and reference, credit, and criminal history checks. If a waiver is granted, the successful completion of a background investigation and favorable adjudication is required for continued employment. If you have resided outside the U.S. for an extended period of time, the agency may not be able to (1) grant the 145(b) waiver where the required investigation cannot be completed in a timely manner, or (2) achieve timely completion of the background investigation required for a security clearance.
• All applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, political affiliation, age, sex, sexual orientation, disabling condition, membership in an employee organization, or any other non-merit factors.
• The NRC is a zero tolerance agency with respect to illegal drug use. The individual selected for this position will be subject to pre-appointment drug testing unless currently in a NRC position subject to random drug testing AND will be subject to random drug testing upon appointment to the NRC.