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(FEATURED!) POLICY ADVISOR
Departmental Offices, Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes
Department of the Treasury

Overview

Open & Closing Dates
09/18/2024 to 01/31/2025

Pay Scale & Grade
GS9 per year

Work Schedule
Full-Time

Promotion Potential
GS13

Appointment Type
Permanent

Location

City
Washington

State
DC Metro Area

Duties

Summary
This position is located at Departmental Offices, Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes. As a Policy Advisor, you will develop and lead implementation of policies and strategies to counter terrorist financing, money laundering, proliferation financing, sanctions evasion, and other financial crime threats using the full range of Treasury tools and authorities.

Responsibilities
The following are the duties of this position at the GS-13. If you are selected at a lower grade level, you will have the opportunity to learn to perform all these duties,and will receive training to help you grow in this position.

Develop and lead implementation of policies and strategies to counter terrorist financing, money laundering, proliferation financing, sanctions evasion, and other financial crime threats using the full range of Treasury tools and authorities including financial and economic sanctions.

Draft high-quality policy papers, briefing materials, reports, public remarks, and/or testimony for senior Treasury officials.

Implement counter illicit finance strategies with external stakeholders, including USG interagency partners, foreign government officials, private sector, and civil society/non-profit organization partners.

Represent Treasury in U.S. interagency meetings including National Security Council (NSC) meetings. Work with the U.S. interagency, including agencies such as the State Department, Justice Department, Defense Department, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Commerce, and U.S. Intelligence Community.

Participate in regional and international bodies relating to AML/CFT, sometimes as the head of U.S. Delegation, head of Treasury delegation, or as TFI's sole representative.

Requirements

Conditions of Employment
Must be U.S. Citizen or U.S. National.

A one-year probationary period may be required.

Must successfully complete a background investigation.

All new hires will be required to comply with federal ethics laws. A review of financial or other interests may be conducted to determine if they create any real or apparent conflict of interests with official Treasury duties.

Complete a Declaration for Federal Employment to determine your suitability for Federal employment, at the time requested by the agency.

Have your salary sent to a financial institution of your choice by Direct Deposit/Electronic Funds Transfer.

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.

Please refer to the "Additional Information" section for additional Conditions of Employment.

Qualifications
Qualifications

This is an open continuous announcement with the following cut dates to review application packages:

9/6/2024

9/30/2024

10/31/2024

11/30/2024

12/31/2024

1/30/2025

You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement.

Specialized experience for the GS-13: For the GS-13, you must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes demonstrated experience in ALL of the following:

-Monitoring developments in illicit activities such as anti-money laundering/counter-financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) and financial issues; AND

-Assist with creating policies on illicit financial threats to the U.S; AND

-Experience communicating results of research and analysis and making policy recommendations to senior decision makers; AND

-Engaging with the public, international organizations, or foreign governments on policy issues

Specialized experience for the GS-12: For the GS-12, you must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes demonstrated experience in ALL of the following:

-Assist with creating policies on illicit financial threats to the U.S; AND

-Experience communicating results of research and analysis; AND

-Engaging with the public, international organizations, or foreign governments on policy issues.

Specialized experience for the GS-11: For the GS-11, you must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-09 grade level in the Federal Service. Specialized for this position includes demonstrated experience in ALL of the following:

-Preparing briefings, policies, or finished documents.; AND

-Engaging with the public, international organizations, intelligence community, or foreign governments.

OR

You may substitute education for specialized experience as follows: Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree, if related; OR

3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree, if related; or LL.M., if related; OR

You may qualify by a combination of successfully completed graduate level education and specialized experience. Only graduate level education in excess of the first 2 years may be combined with experience. Only graduate level education in excess of the first 36 semester hours (54 quarter hours) may be combined to be considered for qualifying education.

Specialized experience for the GS-9: You must have one year of Specialized Experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-7 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes demonstrated experience in ALL of the following:

-Preparing briefings, policies, or finished documents;

OR

You may substitute education for specialized experience as follows:

Master's or equivalent graduate degree; OR

2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree; OR

LL.B. or J.D., if related.

OR

You may qualify by a combination of successfully completed graduate level education and specialized experience. Only graduate level education in excess of one year may be combined with experience. Only graduate level education in excess of the first 18 semester hours may be combined to be considered for qualifying education.

The experience may have been gained in either the public, 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/day/year, and indicate number of hours worked per week on your resumé.

Security Clearance

Required
Top Secret/SCI

Required Application Materials

Resume

Application Instructions

Please visit the USAJobs link to view the full posting and to apply: https://www.usajobs.gov/job/806129200
Apply at the following website or click Apply below: usajobs.gov/job/806129200

Additional Notes

NSEP cannot pre-approve positions for service credit, but positions with national security responsibilities with the Department of the Treasury, a Tier Two federal agency, may be considered for service credit. All requests for credit outside of Tier One are considered on a case-by-case basis.

NSEP award recipients who have not yet completed their service requirement in full have two special hiring authorities available to them: Schedule A (r) and NDAA’13. Awardees with these special hiring authorities can advertise their non‐competitive eligibility in both their resume and in the “Additional Information” section of job applications.

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