INVESTIGATIVE ANALYST

This position is located within the U.S. Department of State (Department), Office of Inspector General (OIG), which has statutory oversight responsibility covering the Department and the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM). OIG is responsible for conducting and reporting on inspections, evaluations, investigations, audits, and special inquiries involving all overseas and domestic Department and USAGM programs and operations.

Qualifications:

Applicants must meet all the required qualification requirements, including education, and any selective placement factors described below by the closing date of this announcement. If you are qualifying based on education OR if there are mandatory education requirements listed below, you MUST submit a copy of your college transcript with your application.

Time-In-Grade Requirements: Federal applicants must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade to satisfy time-in-grade restrictions, per 5CFR 300, Subpart F. NOTE: Applicants must meet time-in-grade and time after competitive appointment requirements, by the closing date of this announcement.

Time-in-grade documentation: If you are applying for a higher grade and your SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you meet the 1-year time-in-grade requirement so you will need to provide an SF-50 which clearly demonstrates you meet the time-in-grade requirements, such as your step increase SF-50. (examples of appropriate SF-50s include: Promotions, Within-grade Grade/Range Increases, and SF-50s with an effective date more than one year old).

If you fail to provide requested information, or the information you submit is insufficient to verify your eligibility, you WILL lose consideration for this position.

Applicants must have one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 level in the Federal service which provided the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the duties of the position.

Qualifying specialized experience must demonstrate the following

• Experience in an investigative or legal environment supporting criminal, civil, and administrative investigations, gathering complex or technical data using informational databases.
• Experience, knowledge, and understanding of various legal documents such as subpoenas.
• Experience in applying laws, regulations, and Federal criminal statutes to financial investigations.
• Experience in using analytical computer software tools for gathering financial information, analyzing data, and managing investigative cases.
• Experience in using graphs, charts, spreadsheets, and computer print outs to interpret complex data for civil, criminal, and administrative investigations.
• Experience providing significant research, data, analysis and/or report(s) that caused an initiation of a criminal investigation case(s) and/or contributed to the development/ completion of a criminal investigation case(s).

There is no substitute of education for specialized experience for the GS-13 position.

Responsibilities:

The duties of the Investigative Analyst GS-1805-13:

• Independently conducts and coordinates complex research and analysis to assist criminal investigators (special agents) in ongoing investigations.
• Uses available information from collection of evidence, open source and/or through legal service.
• Independently documents information related to complex investigations, using state-of-the-art software programs.
• Conducts complex investigative analysis of major financial crimes, procurement frauds, and public corruption cases.
• Processes and analyzes financial related records to identify trends and establish patterns of criminal activity.
• Analyzes findings and provides written and/or oral reports to supervisor and OIG Department heads.
• Constructs, organizes, and maintains case records in an investigative case management system.

Salary : $121,785