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Position Title
Supervisory Auditor (Performance)
Agency
Office of the Inspector General
Announcement Number
OIG-25-ST-12700036-MLB Opens in new window
Open Period
Tuesday, April 8, 2025 to Monday, April 21, 2025
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Eligibilities
1. Are you a current Department of Homeland Security - Office of Inspector General employee in a permanent competitive service position?

To support your response, you must submit a copy of your most recent Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form (SF) 50 reflecting that you currently hold a permanent competitive service position:
      • Tenure:  Career or Career-Conditional (1 or 2 in block 24).
      • Position Occupied:  Competitive service (1 in block 34).

 
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Are you a current federal employee who has received notice that you will be displaced from the Department of Homeland Security-Office of Inspector General? If yes, confirm:

 

  • you occupy a position in the same local commuting area of the vacancy; AND
  • you are applying to a position that is at or below the grade level of the position from which you were or will be separated; AND
  • you are applying to a position that does not have greater promotion potential than the position from which you will be separated; AND
  • your last performance rating of record is at least fully successful or the equivalent.
 
To verify your eligibility, you must submit supporting documentation to validate your claim of CTAP eligibility, such as:
  • Reduction in Force (RIF) separation notice or a Proposed Removal/Separation notice, AND
  • Copy of your latest Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50.

 

For more information, review the USAJOBS Resource Center.
 

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Preferences
1. Select the location(s) you want to be considered for. You must choose at least one location. You may only select up to 1 location(s). (limit characters)
Thank you for your continued interest in employment with the Office of Inspector General. We will evaluate your resume and your responses to this Assessment Questionnaire to determine if you are among the best qualified for this position.

For each of the following questions, please select the response that best describes your education and/or experience. You may only select one response for each question. If you feel that your education and/or experience exceeds all of the descriptions for a particular question, choose the description that is the closest level to the experience or education that you possess. This is a Department of Homeland Security job application system. Your responses in this Assessment Questionnaire are subject to evaluation and verification. Later steps in the selection process are specifically designed to verify your responses. Deliberate attempts to falsify information will be grounds for disqualifying you or for dismissing you from employment following acceptance. Please review your responses for accuracy before you submit this application.
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2. A pre-employment drug screening is required. Are you willing to undergo a drug screen? (limit characters)
3. If you are a male U.S. Citizen born after 31 December 1959, you are required to register with the Selective Service. Have you registered with the Selective Service? (Female applicants must select C.) (limit characters)
4. A comprehensive background investigation, including a check of your credit history, is required for this position. Are you willing to authorize the release of your consumer/credit reports to DHS/OIG in connection with your application for employment? (limit characters)
5. Are you a current or former political Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee?

If yes, please submit a copy of your applicable SF-50, along with a statement that provides the following information regarding your most recent political appointment:
1) Position title
2) Type of appointment (Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES, or Presidential Appointee)
3) Agency
4) Beginning and ending dates of appointment
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Assessment 1
For each of the following questions, please select the response that best describes your education and/or experience. You may only select one response for each question. If you feel that your education or experience exceeds all of the descriptions for a particular question, choose the description that is the closest level to the experience or education that you possess. (limit characters)
1. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Please select the answer that best describes your experience as it directly relates to the GS-15 Supervisory Auditor (Performance). Carefully review your application to ensure that your response is supported by your resume. You may only select one response for each question. (limit characters)
2. Individual Occupational Requirements (limit characters)
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided. (limit characters)
3. Manages performance and financial audits of a nationwide federal program or a large corporation's operations. (limit characters)
4. Recommends areas/issues for study and planned audit efforts in different locations and at different organizational management levels. (limit characters)
5. Applies theories, concepts, principles, and practices of accounting and auditing practices, including Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards. (limit characters)
6. Develops new audit approaches where no precedent exists. (limit characters)
7. Applies highly interpretive laws and regulations to complex audits. (limit characters)
8. Formulate short- and long-range strategies for managing an agency or an organization's evaluations and audits program.
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9. Formulate strategies for managing financial, human resources, and other administrative component of an audit or an agencies overall audit program. (limit characters)
10. Develop work plans for the most effective use of resources and formulate methods, procedures, and standards for performing audits. (limit characters)
11. Apply a variety of quantitative and qualitative tools such as questionnaires, surveys, and data collection instruments to perform analyses in audits of federal programs or a large corporation's operations.
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12. Serve in a leadership role on more than one audit/evaluation of a nationwide federal program or large corporation's operations.
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13. Manage and direct the work of auditors and analysts executing complex projects to determine levels of effectiveness and efficiency, and the level to which they accomplish desired objectives and results.
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14. Provide technical advice and guidance to subordinate staff for internal reviews, audit activities and coordination functions. (limit characters)
15. Evaluate performance of subordinates and take necessary action to assist employees in improving performance. (limit characters)
16. Review and edit audit reports, work papers and related evidence for the completeness and sufficiency.
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17. Review and edit other's writing for accuracy and technical competency. (limit characters)
18. Apply Government Accountability Office (GAO) principles, standards, and requirements for audit reports.
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19. Direct revisions or other corrective actions to draft reports and testimonies. (limit characters)
20. Prepare and give formal audit briefings and presentations to high-level officials.
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21. Prepare and give formal briefings and presentations to audiences at various levels.
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22. Explain operational procedures or complex processes to various audiences.
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23. Maintain close liaison with agency officials and internal and external stakeholders. (limit characters)
Select “Yes” or “No” to the following question(s). (limit characters)
24. Certification of Accuracy: I certify, to the best of my knowledge and belief, all the information submitted by me with my application for employment is true, complete, and made in good faith, and that I have truthfully and accurately represented my work experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education (degrees, accomplishments, etc.). I understand that the information provided may be investigated. I understand that misrepresenting my experience or education or providing false or fraudulent information in or with my application may be grounds for not hiring me or for firing me after I begin work. I also understand that false or fraudulent statements may be punishable by fine or imprisonment (18 U.S.C. 1001). (limit characters)