Director of Specialist Resources

Summary

This position is at the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) in the Eastern Region. This position serves as a Director of Specialist Resources.

Duties

RELOCATION STATEMENT: Relocation may be offered to promotion eligible NCUA employees relocating near a major airport in one of the following Eastern Region states: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington D.C., and West Virginia. DUTY STATION STATEMENT: Duty location may be negotiable near a major airport in one of the Eastern Region states listed above. For NCUA employees currently residing in one of the states listed above, your duty station will not change. As a Director of Specialist Resources primarily responsible for supervising Regional Lending Specialists, you will: Evaluate employee performance and prepare performance appraisals; Make recommendations for recognition of outstanding performance of assigned personnel; Effect disciplinary actions such as warnings and reprimands and, when necessary, recommending specific disciplinary action involving serious offenses; Receiving informal and formal complaints from subordinates and resolving those that can be resolved within delegated authority. Identify issues critical to an effective specialist program and provides timely guidance on such issues to regional management. Participate with other regional staff in considering operational and administrative matters which may result in the establishment of NCUA and regional policies, objectives, long-range plans, changes in program emphasis, and other issues of major importance. Negotiate or direct negotiation with officials of credit unions and state supervisory authorities. Develop and implement a risk management framework and program for specific regional specialist areas including identifying, monitoring, and reporting macro regional risk. Represent the Regional Director before internal and external stakeholders on subjects related to areas of expertise. Contribute to the formulation of NCUA policy by serving as an advisor and consultant to the Regional Director on matters pertaining to specialized areas supervised. Complete specialist feedback forms for each specialist supervised in compliance with National Supervision Policy (NSPM) requirements. Supervise specialists in other specialty areas as needed. Qualifications

Specialized experience is the experience that has equipped you with the specific knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. To qualify at the CU-15 level, you must have one full year of specialized experience equivalent to the CU/GS-14 level in federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). For the CU-14 level, specialized experience is defined as experience: 1. Directly completing or supervising the work of others examining or auditing financial institutions with more than $250 million in assets; AND 2. Auditing or examining training or written guidance on laws, of laws, regulations, and concepts related to financial institutions and consumer and commercial lending issues, such as underwriting, internal controls, pipeline management, risk-based pricing, mortgage servicing rights, collections, covenants, and ongoing credit risk measurement, evaluation, reporting, mitigation, or agricultural lending; AND 3. Supervising, leading or training others in the review of consumer and commercial lending issues, such as underwriting, internal controls, pipeline management, risk-based pricing, mortgage servicing rights, collections, covenants, and ongoing credit risk measurement, evaluation, reporting, mitigation, or agricultural lending. You must meet the qualifications for this position by the closing date of this announcement. Please note, all experience statements (i.e., duties, specialized experience, or occupational assessment questionnaire) copied from this announcement and pasted into your resume will not be considered as a demonstration of your qualifications for this position. YOUR RESUME MUST provide specific details as to how your experience meets the specialized experience and competencies described in the vacancy announcement. When describing your experience in your resume, please be specific. We will not make assumptions regarding your experience. For qualification determination your resume must contain the dates of employment (i.e., month/year to month/year or month/year to present). If you are a current or former federal employee, you must provide your pay plan, series and grade (i.e. GS-0301-09) for each federal position you held. If your resume does not contain this information, you will not receive credit for the claimed experience, and your application may be marked as insufficient. Full-time employment will be assumed unless otherwise stated on your resume. Part-time employment will be prorated in crediting experience. Your latest resume submitted for this vacancy announcement will be used to determine qualifications and supersedes previous submissions. When creating your resume, please follow the instructions in the Required Documents section below as well as the guidance found here. Failure to provide adequate and required info details will result in an ineligible rating. Your experience claimed in your resume must also support your responses to any online questionnaire taken during the application process. Failure to provide support may result in a lower rating and/or you may be excluded from consideration. The last resume submitted for this vacancy announcement will be used to determine qualifications and will supersede any previous submissions.

Education

Education may not be used in lieu of experience for this opportunity. How You Will Be Evaluated

First, your application package will be reviewed for completeness (resume, completed assessment questionnaire, and supporting documentation). You will not be considered if you fail to submit all the required documents as outlined in this vacancy announcement. Second, if you have a complete application package, your resume will be reviewed to determine if you meet the basic qualifications and specialized experience requirements (see "Qualification" section). You must provide specific details in your resume as to how your experience meets the specialized experience. Third, your resume and supporting documentation may be compared to your responses to the assessment questions. The numerical rating you receive is based on your responses to the questions. If upon review it is determined that your resume and supporting documentation do not support your responses to the questions, your numerical rating may be adjusted and you may be excluded from consideration for this position. In addition to the application and application questionnaire, this position requires an online assessment. The online assessment measures critical general competencies required to perform the job. The self-assessment questions have been developed to evaluate your competency in the following areas: Accountability Customer Service Decisiveness Flexibility Interpersonal Skills Problem Solving Resilience Reference Checks: Reference checks must be conducted for the top candidate(s) before a tentative offer may be extended. The reference checks will need to be conducted with current and former supervisors, if applicable, as a part of NCUA's selection assessment process. If you are found to be among the highly qualified candidates, your application will be referred to the selecting official for employment consideration. To preview the application questionnaire, please click here: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/13057386 Overstating your qualifications and/or experience in your application materials or application questionnaire may result in your removal from consideration. Cheating on the online assessment may also result in your removal from consideration. Other Information

SALARY: Pay will be set within the advertised pay range to align with the selectee's skills and experience and the requirements of the position in accordance with NCUA's compensation policy. The salary range shown is NCUA's National Pay Rate (NPR) which includes a locality rate of 17.06% for the Rest of the U.S. (RUS) geographical area. Actual salary will be determined upon the location of the selectee and the applicable locality pay, per the NCUA's CU pay table, will be applied. The locality rates, by location, can be found on the NCUA Careers webpage under the Salary Information section. EXCEPTION: If you are a current non-supervisory NCUA employee and are selected for reassignment into a supervisory position, you may receive up to a 10% salary increase, not to exceed the National Pay Rate (NPR) of the pay grade. Management will consider your current salary in relation to the duties and responsibilities of the new position. SELECTIVE SERVICE: If you are a male applicant born after December 31, 1959, you must certify that you have registered with the Selective Service System or are exempt from having to do so under the Selective Service Law. You may register or check the status of your registration by visiting the Selective Service website at http://www.sss.gov/. This position is not in the bargaining unit. Effective January 1, 2010, OPM must authorize any employment offers we make to current or former (within the last 5 years) political Schedule A, Schedule C, or Non-career SES (political) employees in the executive branch. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, or Non-career SES employee in the executive branch, you must disclose that to the point of contact listed on this vacancy announcement. Illegal drug use by individuals working for or on behalf of the federal government, whether on duty or off duty, is contrary to the efficiency of the service and in direct violation of the Controlled Substance Act and the Drug-Free Workplace Act. NCUA IS A COMPETITIVE SERVICE FEDERAL AGENCY. NCUA uses E-Verify, a web-based system, to confirm the eligibility of all newly hired employees to work in the United States. Learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities. More than the number of positions listed may be filled through this vacancy announcement.