Policy Analyst

Full Job Description

The position is located in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans, Trade and Economic Security.

The primary purpose of this position is to conduct in-depth analysis and provide recommendations concerning mitigation, compliance, and enforcement matters tied to foreign investment transactions involving CFIUS and Team Telecom under the supervision of the Director for Risk Mitigation and Compliance Monitoring.

Non-BU: This is a non-bargaining unit position.

Specialized Experience: To qualify for the GS-13 you must possess at least one year of specialized experience, equivalent to at least the GS-12 grade level in Federal service, or equivalent public or private sector experience.

For this position, specialized experience is defined as: (1) Assessing risks arising from foreign investments in the United States. (2) Developing risk mitigation strategies.

(3) Compliance monitoring or auditing. (4) National security policy, defense policy, foreign policy, or intelligence analysis.

Substitution of education in lieu of specialized experience may not be used for this grade level. All qualifications and eligibility requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement.

Time-in-grade: Current General Schedule (GS) federal employees, and those that have served in GS positions within the last 52 weeks, must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade, or a combination of the next lower grade level and an equivalent band in the federal service by the closing of this announcement.

Note: Current or former Federal employees MUST submit a copy of their SF-50 Form which shows competitive service appointment ("position occupied" block 34 on the SF-50 should show a "1"), tenure group (block 24 should show a 1 or 2), grade, and salary.

If you are applying for a higher grade, please provide the SF-50 Form which shows the length of time you have been in your current/highest grade (examples of appropriate SF-50s include promotions, With-in Grade/Range Increases, and SF-50s dated a year apart within the same grade/job).

If you have promotion potential in your current position, please provide proof. IF YOU DO NOT SUBMIT ALL OF THE REQUIRED DOCUMENTATION, YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE CONSIDERATION AS A STATUS CANDIDATE.

National Service Experience: 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.

Current or Former Political Appointees: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees.

If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office.

Major Duties:

As a Policy Analyst, GS-0301-13, your typical work assignments may include: Development of risk mitigation strategies to address national security risks arising from foreign investment in U.S.

businesses, including drafting National Security Agreements between the U.S. Government and parties to a foreign investment, to implement those strategies.

Monitoring private parties' compliance with legally binding risk mitigation agreements, identification of potential violations of risk mitigation agreements, and development of remedies.

Maintain records related to compliance monitoring.

Draft memoranda and briefing documents for senior officials which outline issues pertaining to foreign investment transactions, compliance monitoring, and associated policy.

Participate in negotiations with private counterparties to develop risk mitigation agreements or remediate violations of existing risk mitigation agreements.

All DHS-HQ announcements have a 5 business day open period due to the number of applications received.

This announcement will be open for 5 business days OR until the first 100 applications have been received, whichever happens first.

View common definitions of terms found in this announcement: Common Definitions.