Assistant Inspector General For Information Technology

DutiesSummary

The Assistant Inspector General for Information Technology/Chief Information Officer (AIGIT, CIO), Office of the Inspector General (OIG), Social Security Administration (SSA) provides executive leadership to OIG's information technology (IT), data capabilities and analytics, and cybersecurity functions encompassing a comprehensive range of executive and administrative programs, initiatives, and responsibilities.



Responsibilities

The incumbent provides executive-level recommendations, guidance, and support to the Inspector General, and is responsible for the planning, formulation, adoption, and execution of policies, objectives, and goals relating to IT, data analytics, and cybersecurity functions.

As the AIGIT, the incumbent:

• Provides executive leadership and direction in the planning and execution of OIG's IT, data analytics, and cybersecurity functions.
• Provides expert advice, guidance, assistance, and recommendations to the Inspector General (IG) and other senior staff in the planning and implementation of IT, data analytics, and cybersecurity programs and initiatives, including researching and recommending improvements to the efficiency and effectiveness of the programs.
• Provides executive oversight for national IT, data analytics, and cybersecurity programs. Program areas may include, but are not limited to:
• Data governance and data management projects and initiatives, and strategies and policies for improving data quality.
• Physical and environmental protection, personnel security, incident reporting, security compliance, security training and awareness, and critical infrastructure protection.
• IT security policies and procedures.
• Systems and operating environment, including security plans, managing and controlling changes to the system, and assessing the security impact of those changes.
• Processes to select, implement, and continuously monitor specified controls, and documentation and implementation of security requirements.
• Controls for specific system elements and documentation in security and privacy plans, including reviews of regionally developed applications.
• Risk assessments and access control, audit trail, security, and disaster recovery plans.
• Access control mechanisms.
• Hardware and software management.Strategies, architectures and implementation plans for key enterprise security systems supporting zero trust architecture, including Identity Credential and Access Management.
• Provides executive oversight for OIG data collection and associated policies to ensure data assets provide a strategic benefit to decision-making.
• Develops and manages a comprehensive IT and data strategy to contribute to OIG's future growth and improvement.
• Provides executive oversight for efforts to improve the quality of the data upon which the OIG relies.
• Reviews existing and proposed legislation or regulations and policies to determine the effect on the efficiency and effectiveness of IT, data analytics, and cybersecurity programs, and makes recommendations for associated changes to those programs.
• Makes recommendations for updates to OIG policies, standards, and guidance related to IT, data analytics, and cybersecurity. Provides policy, standards, and oversight of implementation to accurately and securely protect IT and data assets.
• Provides expert advice on implementing policies, standards, and processes to enforce the design, development, and implementation of IT, data analytics, and cybersecurity that may affect multiple platforms, Intranet, Internet, telecommunications, and other IT related services.
• Works collaboratively with other OIG components, including the Office of Investigations and Office of Audit, to ensure efficient and effective OIG operations with respect to IT, data analytics, and cybersecurity.
• Reviews risk and vulnerability assessments of IT systems to identify vulnerabilities, risks, and protection needs.
Travel Required

Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position.

Supervisory status

Yes

Promotion Potential

None

• Job family (Series)

  2210 Information Technology Management

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• Requirements

  RequirementsConditions of Employment

  U.S. Citizenship is required.
  
  In order to be considered minimally qualified for this position, candidates must have had responsible professional experience at a senior level (equivalent to the GS-15 in either the General Schedule (GS) or a comparable pay plan).

  QualificationsAs a basic requirement, applicants MUST demonstrate progressively responsible leadership experience that is indicative of senior executive level managerial capability and directly related to the skills and abilities outlined under Executive Core Qualifications and Mandatory Professional/Technical Qualifications. Typically, experience of this nature will have been gained at or above the GS-15 grade level in the Federal service or its equivalent with state or local government, the private sector, or non-governmental organizations. Failure to meet this basic qualification requirement and all executive and technical qualification factors automatically disqualifies an applicant.
  
  You must clearly show that you possess the experience and leadership competencies to perform the duties of an executive. To be considered for this position, all applicants must address each of the Mandatory Professional/Technical Qualifications (MTQ), and the Executive Core Qualifications (ECQ) listed below in the application documents you submit. Unless you are currently serving under a career Senior Executive Service appointment, are eligible for reinstatement into the Senior Executive Service, or have successfully completed a Senior Executive Service Candidate Development Program approved by OPM and been certified by OPM, you must submit a narrative statement covering each of the Executive Core Qualifications listed below. Your examples should be clear and concise, and emphasize your level of responsibilities, scope and complexity of programs managed, program accomplishments with results of your actions, policy initiatives and level of contacts.
  
  Each MTQ and ECQ must be addressed separately and submitted with your application. Please refer to the OPM Guide to SES Executive Core Qualifications (https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/senior-executive-service/reference-materials/guidetosesquals_2012.pdf) for guidance on how to describe your executive qualifications.
  
  
  EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS:
  
  Narrative Statements for the ECQs must not exceed 10 pages; additional pages will not be considered. This document MUST be submitted using the "Executive Core Qualifications" document type.
  • ECQ 1 - LEADING CHANGE: You must have demonstrated an 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.
  Leadership Competencies: Creativity & Innovation, External Awareness, Flexibility, Resilience, Strategic Thinking, Vision.
  • ECQ 2 - LEADING PEOPLE: You must demonstrate 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.
  Leadership Competencies: Conflict Management, Leveraging Diversity, Developing Others, Team Building
  • ECQ 3 - RESULTS DRIVEN: This core qualification involves 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.
  Leadership Competencies: Accountability, Customer Service, Decisiveness, Entrepreneurship, Problem Solving, Technical Credibility
  • ECQ 4 - BUSINESS ACUMEN: This ECQ involves the ability to manage human, financial, and information resource strategically.
  Leadership Competencies: Financial Management, Human Capital Management, Technology Management
  • ECQ 5 - BUILDING COALITIONS: This ECQ involves 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.
  Leadership Competencies: Partnering, Political Savvy, Influencing/Negotiating
  
  FUNDAMENTAL COMPETENCIES: The following competencies are the foundation for success in each of the Executive Core Qualifications: Interpersonal Skills, Oral Communication, Integrity/Honesty, Written Communication, Continual Learning, and Public Service Motivation.
  
  
  MANDATORY PROFESSIONAL/TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS (MTQs):
  
  No more than one (2) pages per MTQ is allowed; additional information will not be considered. This document MUST be submitted using the "Mandatory Technical Qualification" document type.
  • Demonstrated experience directing an enterprise-wide IT, data analytics, and/or cybersecurity function.
  • Demonstrated experience providing expert advice and recommendations related to IT, data analytics, and/or cybersecurity to senior officials of a federal organization, and representing an organization in discussions or negotiations with senior officials of other organizations.
  
  **Note for Current and/or Former Political Appointees: Effective January 1, 2010, OPM must authorize any employment offers we make to current or former (within the last 5 years) political Schedule A, Schedule C, or Non-Career SES employees in the executive branch. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C or Non-Career SES employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose that to the Human Resources Office within your application package. Education

  This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

  Additional information

  (1) The selectee for this position will be subject to an appropriate security investigation, including fingerprinting and periodic future reinvestigation(s).
  (2) Veteran's preference is not applicable to the SES.
  (3) This position is covered under the post-employment restrictions of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (PL 95-521). This law also requires the selectee to file an Executive Personnel Financial Disclosure Report (Standard Form 278) within 30 days of appointment.
  (4) Selectee must serve a one-year probationary period unless s/he previously completed one in the Senior Executive Service.
  (5) Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must be registered with the Selective Service System before they can be employed by an executive agency of the Federal government. This requirement does not apply to Agency employees appointed before November 8, 1985.
  (6) This position may be a Testing Designated Position. The selectee will be notified if they are required to submit to a pre-employment urinalysis drug screening within 48 hours of notification. After appointment, the selectee will then be subject to future random drug screening.
  
  All application materials are subject to the provisions of the privacy act and become property of SSA.
  
  The Social Security Administration provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities where appropriate. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify us. The decision on granting reasonable accommodation will be granted on a case-by-case basis.
  
  The Social Security Administration provides equal opportunity for all persons without regard to race, color, age, religion, gender, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, parental status, disability, or conduct not adversely affecting employee performance.

  
  How You Will Be Evaluated

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

  You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above, as evidenced by the quality and extent of your accomplishments and experience within your application materials. Applicants who meet all the mandatory executive and technical qualifications will be evaluated by an SES Rating Panel, comprised of at least three SES members. Your application will be rated and ranked using only the information submitted within the application package. This evaluation will determine which applicants are best qualified.
  
  Applicants determined to be Highly Qualified must demonstrate sufficient possession of ECQs and MTQs, and will be referred to the hiring component for further consideration. Highly Qualified applicants may undergo an interview and a reference check. If you are the recommended selectee, your ECQs must be certified by an OPM Qualifications Review Board prior to appointment, unless you are a current SES executive or have successfully participated in an OPM approved SES Candidate Development Program. You may be asked to further modify the ECQ narratives submitted with your application package.
  

  Background checks and security clearanceSecurity clearance

  Top Secret

  Drug test required

  No

  Position sensitivity and risk

  Critical-Sensitive (CS)/High Risk

  Trust determination process

  National security

• Required Documents

  Required Documents

  Your complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM Eastern Time on 01/11/2021. Failure to submit any of the required documents by the closing date of the announcement will result in your removal from consideration for this position.
  
  To apply for this position, you must provide a complete application package which includes:

  1. REQUIRED: Your resume (5-page maximum) - We recommend that your resume emphasize your level of responsibilities, the scope and complexity of the programs managed, and your program accomplishments, including the results of your actions. It is important that your resume be complete and thorough. Insufficient information will result in an ineligible rating. It is recommended that you include the following information:
  • Full name, mailing address, and day and evening telephone numbers
  • Educational information, including the name, city and state of colleges or universities you attended, as well as the type and year of any degrees received
  • Information about your paid and nonpaid work experience related to this position including:
    • Job title (include series and grade if Federal job)
    • Duties and accomplishments
    • Employer's name and address
    • Supervisor's name and phone number
    • Starting and ending dates of employment (month and year)
    • Salary
    • Indicate if we may contact your current supervisor
    • Information about honors, awards, and special accomplishments
  
  2. REQUIRED: Narrative Statements separately addressing each of the Executive Core Qualifications (ECQ) and Mandatory Professional/Technical Qualification(s) (MTQ). ECQ narratives are not to exceed 10-pages, total; MTQs may not exceed two pages per MTQ.
  
  Narratives should address experience (paid and unpaid), education, training, awards, and/or self-development activities as related to each ECQ and MTQ. Please refer back to the Qualifications and Evaluation sections of the vacancy announcement for further guidance on preparing narrative statements. If you do not provide these narrative statements you will not be considered for this position.
  
  OR
  
  If you are a graduate of an approved SES Candidate Development Program (SESCDP), you must submit MTQ narratives to demonstrate possession of the required qualifications. To be considered non-competitively, you must also submit a copy of your QRB Certificate of Qualifications. This document MUST be submitted using the "Executive Core Qualifications" document type.
  
  Failure to provide the required documentation will result in ineligibility, or consideration under Competitive procedures.
  
  OR
  
  If you are a current member of the SES, or former SES with reinstatement eligibility, you must submit MTQ narratives to demonstrate possession of the required qualifications. 3. REQUIRED: SF-50 (Please remove your social security number and date of birth)
  • If you are a current Federal employee, a copy of a recent SF-50, Notification of Personnel Action, that indicates Federal status, grade, tenure, and type of service.
  • If you are a current member of the SES, or former SES with reinstatement eligibility, you must provide an SF-50 documenting your appointment and/or resignation to/from the SES, as well as an SF-50 showing satisfactory completion of the SES Probationary Period.
  • If you are a current or former (within the last 5 years) political appointee, including Schedule A, Schedule C, or Non-Career SES, please submit documentation of your appointment, including a copy of your SF-50.
  
  4. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: A copy of your most recent annual performance appraisal (from either the Federal or private sector). Please remove your social security number.
  
  Extraneous documents provided with your application package will not be considered.
  
  If you are having difficulty applying online, please contact the HR Specialist listed as the contact on the vacancy announcement during core business hours (9:30 am - 2:30 pm Eastern Time).

• Benefits

  Benefits

  A career with the U.S. Government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Learn more about federal benefits.

  Review our benefits

  Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time, or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.

• Federal employees - Competitive service

  Current or former competitive service federal employees.

• Federal employees - Excepted service

  Current excepted service federal employees.

• Senior executives

  Those who meet the five Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs).

All groups of qualified individuals within the Civil Service and individuals with SES reinstatement eligibility may apply. Additionally, current career Senior Executive Service (SES) members, OPM certified graduates of an SES Candidate Development Program (CDP), and individuals with SES reinstatement eligibility may be considered noncompetitively.