CHIEF PRIVACY OFFICER

Full Job Description

Join the team! This position is located in the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Office of Information Technology.

This is an opportunity to join a group of IT professionals taking CPSC's information systems to another level.

We're looking for a bright, creative, hard-working individual equally as passionate about protecting CPSC information systems against unauthorized disclosure. The work is demanding and exciting.

Consider a position at the CPSC as your career choice. All applicants must have 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level in the Federal Service.

Specialized experience is experience that has equipped the candidate with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position.

Qualifying specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Protecting the confidentiality of Personally Identifiable Information through the selection of appropriate controls or mitigation based on enterprise need; 2) Crafting policy and procedure documents to meet complex enterprise needs related to the interaction of law and policy; 3) Experience overseeing an organizational privacy program; 4) Assessing and managing organizational compliance with Federal laws and regulations regarding privacy and data protection (i.e., Privacy Act, E-Government, Homeland Security Acts, other Federal security, privacy laws, regulations, and statutes); 4) Managing and implementing privacy workforce planning, training, and awareness requirements, with a focus on privacy roles and responsibilities; and 5) Communicating complex information, concepts, or ideas in a confident and well-organized manner through verbal, written, and/or visual mean.

Evidence of the above specialized experience must be supported by detailed documentation of duties performed in positions held.

Your resume is the key means we have for evaluating your skills, knowledge, and abilities as they relate to this position.

Therefore, we encourage you to be clear and specific when describing your experience. We will not make assumptions regarding your experience or based on job titles alone.

If your resume does not support your questionnaire answers, we will not allow credit for your response(s).

Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement.

An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials.

If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement.

In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade.

Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social).

Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Applicants must meet the qualifications for this position by the closing date of this announcement.

In addition to the above specialized experience, applicants must also meet the IT-Related proficiency level for all four of the competencies listed below: Attention to Detail - Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail.

Customer Service - Works with clients and customers (that is, any individuals who use or receive the services or products that your work unit produces, including the general public, individuals who work in the agency, other agencies, or organizations outside the Government) to assess their needs, provide information or assistance, resolve their problems, or satisfy their expectations; knows about available products and services; is committed to providing quality products and services.

Oral Communication - Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.

Problem Solving - Identifies problems; determines accuracy and relevance of information; uses sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives, and to make recommendations.

Evidence of the above specialized experience and IT-related proficiency must be supported by detailed documentation of duties performed in positions held.

Your resume is the key means we have for evaluating your skills, knowledge, and abilities as they relate to this position.

Therefore, we encourage you to be clear and specific when describing your experience Major Duties:

This position is located within the Office of Information and Technology Services (EXIT) and reports to the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO).

The incumbent has experience leading an organizational privacy program and serves as the principal advisor to the Senior Agency Official for Privacy (SOAP).

The incumbent will work independently to: Manage the agency's privacy program—to ensure that the agency complies with applicable Federal laws and regulations regarding privacy and data protection (i.e., Privacy Act of 1974, E-Government, Homeland Security Acts, other Federal security, privacy laws, regulations, and statutes).

Develop agency privacy policies and plans.

Assess and monitor agency privacy practices; identify privacy vulnerabilities that could place agency at risk of a breach of personally identifiable information (PII).

Perform privacy impact assessments (PIA) and manage agency's System of Records Notices (SORNS) process.

Serve as the agency's initial point-of-contact for all privacy related issues; communicate privacy guidance, requirements, and initiatives to information technology staff, system owners, employees, and management.

Coordinate privacy training for agency employees. Coordinate agency's response to privacy breaches.