Senior Policy Advisor - Washington D.C., United States - USAJobs

Description

Duties

Band IIB staff apply mastery of audit and evaluation design and implementation and quality assurance policies and procedures to highly complex tasks, assignments, and projects having problems or issues not susceptible to treatment by generally accepted methods. With the supervisor providing administrative direction, Band IIB employees have full responsibility for planning and carrying out projects and assignments. Completed work is considered authoritative and normally accepted without significant change. Assignments require the resolution of critical problems affecting the work of other experts or major aspects of GAO programs, engagements, or other activities. As a technical authority, the Band IIB employee must frequently interpret nonspecific guidelines and develop applications to specific assignments.

As a Senior Policy Advisor, PE-0301-IIB, your typical work assignments may include the following:

• Apply insight, experience, judgment, and knowledge of auditing standards and GAO policy requirements in planning and managing all aspects of work to maximize effectiveness.
• Lead projects by managing all aspects of planning, execution, options evaluation (including cost and implementation challenges), and reporting, and ensuring the quality and value of all related products for the full range of projects and initiatives.
• Provide statistical analysis of an organization's processes to improve efficiencies.
• Lead by example through initiative, creativity, and flexibility in conducting work, and through anticipating and dealing effectively with obstacles.
• Develop highly productive relationships with internal and external parties, foster teamwork, collaboration, coordination, and matrixing to accomplish goals and effectively utilize resources.
• Recognize and leverage members' knowledge, skills, and abilities; consistently providing appropriate direction, guidance, and opportunities; and motivating and teaching others to achieve high quality results in a timely manner.
• Provide constructive input, promote, and support organizational policies and change efforts after related decisions are made.
  
  Requirements
  
  Conditions of Employment
  You must meet all qualification requirements before the announcement closes.
  
  Qualifications
  
  Minimum Qualification Requirements:
  Applicants must have at least one year (52 weeks) of experience, equivalent to at least the next lower band level (PE-IIA, PT-II, PA-II, CS-II, MS-I or GS-13) in a position focused on leading quality assurance initiatives or conducting research, quantitative and qualitative analysis, or program evaluations.
  
  Education
  
  There is no positive education requirement for this position.
  
  Additional information
  
  This is not a bargaining unit position.
  
  Based on the staffing needs, additional selections may be made through this vacancy announcement.
  
  Travel and relocation expenses will not be paid for by the GAO.
  
  REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION: GAO provides reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities. To request accommodation, please email . The U.S. Government Accountability Office's policy is to provide equal employment opportunity for all regardless of race, religion, color, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
  
  The U.S. Government Accountability Office's policy is to provide equal employment opportunity for all regardless of race, religion, color, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, or gender identity.