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(FEATURED!) POLICY ADVISOR
Office of Investment Security
Department of the Treasury

Overview

Open & Closing Dates
02/10/2026 to 03/23/2026

Salary
$85,447 - $158,322

Pay Scale & Grade
GS11, GS12 per year

Work Schedule
Full-Time

Promotion Potential
GS13

Appointment Type
Permanent

Location

City
Washington, DC

State
DC Metro Area

Duties

Summary
This position is located at Departmental Offices, International Affairs - Investment Security. As a POLICY ADVISOR, you will serve as an expert advisor on a full range of complex policy issues related to the Office's mission by supporting senior Treasury officials and management in all work related to the office's CFIUS and open investment functions including coordination of the interagency process and analysis of transactions, and outbound investments.

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.

Providing authoritative advice, analytical support, and recommendations on key mission-critical policy issues.

Briefing and advising senior Treasury officials and providing pertinent information for decision making on potentially controversial policy issues.

Participating in and conducting policy review and analysis of a complex, highly sensitive nature on specific cases.

Working closely with other Investment Security staff, Treasury legal counsel and other Treasury program offices, other agencies, and parties to transactions, to ensure timely progression of cases.

Drafting memoranda to senior Treasury officials presenting the issues raised by transactions notified to CFIUS and recommending courses of action.

Requirements

Conditions of Employment
Key Requirements:

Must be U.S. Citizen or U.S. National.

All newly appointed employees to the federal service are subject to a probationary period if hired under a competitive service appointment, or a trial period if hired under an excepted service appointment. These periods are designed to evaluate an employee's performance, conduct, and alignment with agency mission and values. These periods are no longer passive transitions to permanent status but serve as formal extensions of the hiring process, requiring affirmative Supervisory certification action.

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.

File a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report within 30 days of appointment and annually from then on.

Undergo an income tax verification

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

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

01/22/2026

02/23/2026

03/23/2026

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

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE AT THE GS-11 LEVEL: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 Experience for this position includes:

Assisting in conducting market, financial, legal, or economic analyses (e.g., gathering and reviewing data for due diligence, risk exposure, or market analysis) of issues across financial products and activities; AND

Preparing draft reports or summaries of research findings and presenting them to colleagues or supervisors; AND

Supporting research on international financial and investment policy issues or foreign direct investment to identify potential economic or national security implications.

Security Clearance

Required
Top Secret/SCI

Required Application Materials

Resume

Application Instructions

For more information and to apply, please copy/paste the following link into your browser: https://www.usajobs.gov/job/852953300

Interested candidates may apply at the link and can also reach out to CFIUS.Recruitment@treasury.gov to share their interest and 2-page resume.

Apply at the following website or click Apply below: usajobs.gov/job/852953300

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.

When claiming non‐competitive eligibility and applying to jobs which are Open to the Public, please be sure to also submit a Letter of Certification with applications. The best way to do this is to either upload the Letter of Certification along with other supporting documentation, or send the Letter to the hiring official email listed on the job announcement directly. Letters of Certification can be requested through NSEPnet.org.

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