Associate Director - Banking and Financial Services

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This position is located at Departmental Offices, International Affairs - Office of Technical Assistance.

As an Associate Director - Banking and Financial Services, you will manage a technical assistance program aimed at building capacity in developing and transitional country central banks, ministries of finance, banking and insurance sector supervisory agencies, deposit insurers, and other government entities with responsibility for banking and financial services.

You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: For the GS-15, you must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-14 grade level in the Federal service.

Specialized experience for this position is defined as demonstrated, working experience, including: 1. Experience in banking and financial services.

Examples of such experience could include: Commercial bank supervision, insurance sector oversight, problem bank resolution and financial crisis response, financial inclusion, digital financial services, deposit insurance, international financial reporting standards (IFRS), and related topics that fall under the remit of central banks and related institutions.; AND 2.

Experience identifying, developing and managing international technical assistance or international development projects.

Examples of such experience could include: Assessing potential projects for feasibility and appropriateness, developing project goals and milestones; developing or approving project budgets; presenting project and budget requests to management; and preparing briefing memorandum, talking points, and other written products for senior executive-level officials; AND 3.

Experience managing, leading and mentoring teams to execute technical assistance or international development projects.

The experience may have been gained in either the public, private sector or volunteer service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-time work is considered on a prorated basis.

To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/day/year, and indicate number of hours worked per week on your resumé. Major Duties:

**IMPORTANT PLEASE READ** This announcement contains a two-phase process. Upon completion of Phase 1, you must click on the exclusive link to complete the manual assessment.

The next phase it will take one hour, at a minimum, to complete.

As an Associate Director - Banking and Financial Services, you will: Manage a technical assistance program aimed at building capacity in developing and transitional countries to support the development of sound, robust, well-regulated institutions that are effective financial intermediaries and resistant to mismanagement, fraudulent financial activity, and adverse macroeconomic conditions.

Oversee the assessment, design, and implementation of technical assistance projects with central banks, ministries of finance, banking and insurance sector supervisory agencies, deposit insurers, and other government entities with responsibility for banking and financial services.

Manage a team of expert advisors and other staff to implement technical assistance projects; collaborates with other OTA Associate Directors and seeks to promote a systemic approach to Treasury technical assistance.

Serve as an authoritative expert on issues related to commercial bank supervision, insurance sector oversight, problem bank resolution and financial crisis response, financial inclusion, digital financial services, deposit insurance, monetary policy, international financial reporting standards (IFRS), and related topics that fall under the remit of central banks and related institutions.

Prepare proposals, briefing papers, memoranda and other work, as may be assigned.