Assistant Inspector General for Audits - National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)

WE ARE THE NRO

For over sixty years, the NRO has developed, acquired, launched and operated the satellites that are the foundation for America’s advantage and strength in space. Using a diversified architecture of spacecraft, NRO collects and delivers the best space-based intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance content on the planet.

Learn more at NRO.gov.

Basic Eligibility For A Position With The NRO

• You must be a U.S. Citizen
• You must be 18 years of age or older
• You must be able to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI security clearance
• You will be subject to pre-employment and periodic drug testing
• You will be subject to pre-employment and periodic polygraph examinations

Where You Will Work

This is an excepted service, Defense Intelligence Senior Level (DISL), Tier 1, position.

This Senior Officer position serves as an Assistant Inspector General for Audits within the Office of Inspector General (OIG), at the NRO in Chantilly, VA. 

The OIG is an independent office reporting to the Director, National Reconnaissance Office (DNRO) and Congress. The Inspector General (IG) is appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. The OIG is responsible for conducting audits, inspections, investigations, and special reviews related to NRO programs and operations; providing leadership with recommendations to promote economy, efficiency, and effectiveness; preventing and detecting fraud, waste, and abuse in NRO programs and operations; and providing a means to keep the DNRO and the Congress fully and currently informed of issues concerning fraud and other serious problems, abuses, and deficiencies in NRO's programs or operations.

The NRO Assistant Inspector General (AIG) for Audits exercises direct management responsibility for the entire range of OIG audits and special reviews, exercising direct operational management over a diverse staff of professional auditors, both government and contractor. The incumbent serves as the NRO Inspector General's principal advisor in the oversight of NRO acquisition programs and processes, information technology and security, and financial management activities, to include financial reporting.

The AIG for Audits performs his/her work in an independent manner, assuming a high degree of personal responsibility for sound judgment and decisions. Plans, directs, coordinates and manages independent financial and performance audits and special assessments of NRO activities in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards. Provides direction, expert professional advice, consultation, and guidance and recommends appropriate actions in all matters pertaining to personnel, administration, OIG policy and audit procedures. Serves as a member of the OIG senior management team.
The NRO Cadre is collecting resumes in consideration for the OIG, occupational series 0511. For more information on the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) occupational series, click here.

Your resume may be considered for other positions which your skills and experience may be a good match.

This is a full-time position that is open from, 12 February 2024 through Friday, 1 March 2024.  Resumes must be submitted by 11:59 PM EST on Friday, 1 March 2024.

Who May Apply

• This position is open to the public, and
• This position is open to current Federal civilian employees who are senior officers or at the Grade 15 level.
• The NRO is only accepting external applicants through this job announcement. Current NRO Cadre employees should apply through the internal NRO job announcement.

What You Will Be Doing  

• Manages a staff directly and through subordinate supervisors to include reviewing staff products for quality and clarity, monitoring productivity and timeliness, ensuring financial and personnel resources are deployed in accordance with OIG priorities.

 

• Represents the Audit Staff on the OIG Career Service Board; ensure accurate and timely feedback and evaluations and provide guidance on career development issues. Ensures employees receive appropriate professional training and necessary tools.

 

• Participates in the OIG corporate management team focused on OIG resources, production, planning and the development of overall policies and procedures. Keeps the Inspector General and Deputy Inspector General routinely and fully informed of the status of audits in progress.

 

• Interacts with senior officials within and outside the NRO in regard to audit issues, including contacts with members of the Intelligence Community Inspectors General Forum and committees, Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, Congress, and other government entities and Congress.

Additional Requirements:

Experience: Substantive job-related experience in excess of what is required for a GS-15 Audit manager in conducting and overseeing government audits and managing audit teams.

Education: This position has a positive education requirement that mandates a Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Auditing, or a degree including auditing courses in a related field such as business administration, finance, or public administration that included or was supplemented by 24 semester hours in accounting which may include up to 6 hours of credit in business law.

OR

The incumbent may demonstrate at least 4 years of experience in accounting, or an equivalent combination of accounting experience, college-level education, and training that provided professional accounting knowledge. The applicant's background must also include either the 24 semester hours identified previously, or a certificate as a Certified Public Accountant or Certified Internal Auditor, or completion of degree requirements that included substantial course work in accounting or auditing but less than the 24 hours required under certain provisions.

Qualifications

Intelligence Community (IC) Senior Officer Core Qualifications (SOCQs) – Applicants must demonstrate their career readiness to succeed in a senior officer position within the Intelligence Community. The applicant responses to the following three ICSOCQ competencies are used to qualify the applicant for this position.  Current DISL and DISES applicants have already been qualified and do not need to address the ICSOCs.  Other senior officers and allGG-15 employees please provide a written response to each of the following. (One page maximum per competency)
 

1. Collaboration and Integration: Candidates assessed against this competency must demonstrate ability tobuild, leverage, and lead collaborative networks with key peers and stakeholders across the IC and/or other government/private-sector organizations, or professional/technical disciplines to achieve significant joint/multi-agency mission outcomes. Integrate joint/multi-agency activities effectively exercising collaborative plans that realize mutual IC, joint, or multi-organizational goals.

 

1. Enterprise Focus: IC senior officers are expected to demonstrate a deep understanding of how the missions, structures, leaders, and cultures of the various IC components interact and connect; synthesize resources, information and other inputs to effectively integrate and align component, IC, and the United States Government interests and activities to achieve IC-wide, national, and international priorities. Senior officers are expected to encourage and support Joint Duty assignments and developmental experiences that develop and reinforce enterprise focus among their subordinates. Candidates assessed against the competency must understand the roles, missions, capabilities, and organizational and political realities of the intelligence enterprise; apply that understanding to drive joint, interagency, or multi-organizational mission accomplishment. Understand how organizations, resources, information, and processes within the IC interagency/multi-organizational environment interact with and influence one another; apply that understanding to solve complex interagency or multi-organizational problems.

 

1. Values-Centered Leadership: IC senior officers are expected to personally embody, advance and reinforce IC core values. Senior officers are expected to demonstrate and promote departmental and/or component values. Candidates assessed against this competency must demonstrate a commitment to selfless service and excellence in support of the IC's mission, as well as to preserving, protecting, and defending the Nation's laws and liberties. The Integrity and Courage(moral, intellectual, and physical) to seek and speak the truth, to innovate, and to change things for the better, regardless of personal or professional risk. Collaboration as members of a single IC-wide team, respecting and leveraging the diversity of all members of the IC, their background, their sources and methods, and their points of view. Promote, reinforce, and reward IC, departmental/component core values in the workforce and ensure that actions, policies, and practices are aligned with, and embody those values. Ensure that organizational strategies, policies, procedures, and actions give appropriate focus, attention, and commitment to diversity of people, points of view, ideas, and insights.

Technical Qualifications:
All applicants for this senior officer position must submit written statements (narrative format) of accomplishments that would satisfy the technical qualifications. You must address each technical qualification separately. Please limit your written statements to two pages per technical qualification.
 

1. Substantive audit expertise with in-depth knowledge of Government Auditing Standards.  Experience conducting and overseeing performance and/or financial audits and special reviews.

 

1. Expert knowledge and expertise in managing audit teams to include the demonstration of superior analytic, strategic, and critical thinking skills to effectively manage the audit portfolio.

 

1. Strong communication skills, both orally and in writing, to represent the Office of Inspector General's audit operations, prepare reports, and make actionable recommendations to senior leadership, both internal and external to the organization. This includes the ability to write clearly and concisely and to review and improve written products of others. This also includes the ability to provide effective briefings to OIG and NRO senior management, other IC and OIG leaders, and Congress.

 

1. Strong interpersonal, managerial and leadership skills to conceptualize and effectively oversee the Audits Division.  This includes, managing conflict, leading change, and leveraging diversity, developing others, team building and assessing and managing performance.

Other Significant Facts and Requirements:

Excepted Service: This position is an Excepted Service, Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS) position under authorities of the U.S. Code Title 10, Section 1601 and 1607, dated 20 July 1999.

A Joint Duty Assignment (JDA) Program certification is required for promotion or assignment into an Intelligence Community Senior Officer position.  IC Federal civilian applicants must provide proof of credit.  Non-IC Federal civilians and private sector applicants will be assessed to determine if their career experience qualifies them for JDA credit.

DISL Probationary Period: Newly appointed DISL employees (including DISES moving into a DISL position) must complete a one-year DISL Probationary Period if not previously satisfied. This runs concurrently with any portion of the DCIPS Trial period the Cadre employee still has yet to satisfy.

Citizenship: U.S. citizenship required to qualify for this position.

Drug-Free Workplace: Position is a Testing Designated Position.  Incumbent subject to continued random drug testing.

Security Clearance: Position is designated critical-sensitive and incumbent must retain a TOP SECRET security clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information. Employee remains subject to initial and periodic Counterintelligence Polygraphs and the terms of their signed NDA.

Financial Disclosure: The incumbent is required to submit an initial OGE 278e (Financial Disclosure) within in 30 days of appointment and annually thereafter in accordance with the Joint Ethics Regulation.

Education Requirement: Bachelor’s Degree in related field, Master’s Degree preferred. Combinations of education and experience considered.

Duty Hours: The incumbent is required to be available for other than normal duty hours to include weekends to support exercises and crisis planning.

Overtime & Travel: Incumbent may need to work overtime, long hours, or unusual work schedules to satisfy position requirements. Likewise the position may require temporary duty (TDY) business travel CONUS & OCONUS. Travel in military or commercial aircraft may be required in performance of TDY assignments. The incumbent must obtain and maintain a valid passport.

Submission Package

Required Documents for Current Grade 15, Federal Civilian Applicants.  Please provide the following:

1. Resume (all applicants)
2. Technical Qualifications: a narrative statement specifically addressing each mandatory technical qualification. Each statement should not exceed two pages per Technical Qualification. (all applicants)
3. Intelligence Community Senior Core Qualifications (ICSOCQs): A narrative statement specifically addressing all three identified competency areas. Separate attachment of one page maximum per competency.  (all applicants)
4. Joint Duty Credit Certification: Provide a copy of your completed Joint Duty Assignment (JDA_ SF-50) or an adjudicated IC JDA claim form. For more information regarding the IC Joint Duty Program, please refer to https://www.icjointduty.gov(IC Civilian Applicants Only)
5. Last two performance appraisals (all applicants)
6. SF-50 proving current Federal civilian status (all applicants)

Required Documents for Current Senior Officer, Federal Civilian Applicants.  Please provide the following:

1. Resume (all applicants)
2. Technical Qualifications: a narrative statement specifically addressing each mandatory technical qualification. Each statement should not exceed two pages per Technical Qualification. (all applicants)
3. Intelligence Community Senior Core Qualifications (ICSOCQs): A narrative statement specifically addressing all three identified competency areas. Separate attachment of one page maximum per competency.  (Non-IC Civilian Applicants Only)
4. Joint Duty Credit Certification: Provide a copy of your completed Joint Duty Assignment (JDA_ SF-50) or an adjudicated IC JDA claim form. For more information regarding the IC Joint Duty Program, please refer to https://www.icjointduty.gov(IC Civilian Applicants Only)
5. Last two performance appraisals (all applicants)
6. SF-50 proving current senior officer status (all applicants)

Required Documents for Non-Federal, Private Sector Applicants. Please provide the following:

1. Resume (all applicants)
2. Technical Qualifications: a narrative statement specifically addressing each mandatory technical qualification. Each statement should not exceed two pages per Technical Qualification. (all applicants)
3. Intelligence Community Senior Core Qualifications (ICSOCQs): A narrative statement specifically addressing all three identified competency areas. Separate attachment of one page maximum per competency.  (all applicants)

Location

Chantilly, VA

Salary

2024 DISL, T1 salary range: $147,649 - $204,000

Hiring Incentives

The NRO may offer hiring incentives and other entitlements at management’s discretion.

Trial Period

All new DCIPS employees will be required to serve a 2-year trial period, if not previously satisfied.

Veterans’ Preference

DoD Components with DCIPS positions apply Veterans’ Preference to preference eligible candidates as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 USC, in accordance with the procedures provided in DoD Instruction 1400.25, Vol 2005, DCIPS Employment and Placement.  If you are a veteran claiming veterans’ preference, as defined by section 2108 of Title 5 USC, you must submit documents verifying your eligibility upon request.
Equal Employment Opportunity Policy

The United States Government does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor.

• Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) for federal employees & job applicants  

Reasonable Accommodation Policy

Federal agencies must provide reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities where appropriate. Applicants requiring reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process should follow the instructions in the job opportunity announcement. For any part of the remaining hiring process, applicants should contact the hiring agency directly. Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.

A reasonable accommodation is any change to a job, the work environment, or the way things are usually done that enables an individual with a disability to apply for a job, perform job duties or receive equal access to job benefits.

Under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, federal agencies must provide reasonable accommodations when:

• An applicant with a disability needs an accommodation to have an equal opportunity to apply for a job.
• An employee with a disability needs an accommodation to perform the essential job duties or to gain access to the workplace.
• An employee with a disability needs an accommodation to receive equal access to benefits, such as details, training, and office-sponsored events.

You can request a reasonable accommodation at any time during the application or hiring process or while on the job. Requests are considered on a case-by-case basis. Please send your request to Hiring@nro.mil.

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