WE ARE THE NRO

For over 60 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.

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 that serves as the Assistant Inspector General for Audits within the Office of Inspector General (OIG), at the National Reconnaissance Office (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.

This is a full-time position that is open from, 10 April 2024 through 24 April 2024. Complete applicant packages must be submitted by 11 : 59 PM EST on Wednesday 24 April 2024.

Who May Apply

• 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 Federal civilian 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.

Qualifications

Intelligence Community (IC) Senior Officer Core Qualifications (SOCQs) GG / GS-15 applicants for this senior officer position must submit written statements (narrative format) of accomplishments that would satisfy the ICSOCQs.

You must address each of the three ICSOCQs separately. Please limit your written statements to one page maximum per ICSOCQ.

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.

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.

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.

How to Apply : Submission Package

Submission Package

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

• Resume (all applicants)
• Technical Qualifications : a narrative statement specifically addressing each mandatory technical qualification. Each statement should not exceed two pages per Technical Qualification. (all applicants)
• Intelligence Community Senior Core Qualifications (ICSOCQs) : A narrative statement specifically addressing all three identified competency areas.

Separate attachment of one page maximum per competency. (GG / GS-15)

• Last two performance appraisals (all applicants)
• SF-50 proving current Federal civilian status (all applicants)
• Transcript (all applicants)

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 during 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, hiring process, or while on the job. Requests are considered on a case-by-case basis.

Please send your request to InternPrograms@nro.mil.

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Last updated : 2024-04-26