Senior Export Compliance Specialist

Full Job Description

This vacancy is for a Senior Export Compliance Specialist in the Bureau of Industry and Security within the Department of Commerce.

Qualification requirements in the vacancy announcements are based on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards Handbook, which contains federal qualification standards.

This handbook is available on the Office of Personnel Management's website located at: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=Occupational-Series Applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and responsibility to the next lower grade level in the Federal Service.

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

This experience need not have been in the federal government.

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.

To qualify at the GS-14 level: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: You must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 level in the Federal service.

Specialized experience is defined as: Providing advice in U.S export control regulations to perform investigations, monitoring, evaluating or compliance work; and Performing research to analyze and interpret licensing data; and Composing a variety of reports to present export control issues to senior officials; and Collaborating with interagency offices on export control and enforcement efforts.

Major Duties:

As a Senior Export Compliance Specialist, you will perform the following duties: Provides support and leadership in planning, coordinating and executing comprehensive reviews of foreign parties to licensed and unlicensed transactions involving items subject to Export Administration Regulation (EAR).

Monitors and evaluates all-source intelligence regarding entities and technologies involved in export transactions.

Performs research and analysis to ensure export transactions are compliant with the EAR, the Chemical Weapons Convention, and related laws and regulations.

Provides timely and objective assessments to agencies responsible for approving licensing decisions on critical U.S.

produced dual-use items; produces reports, briefings and communication to Bureau senior leaders and interagency partners and others.

This Job Opportunity Announcement may be used to fill other Senior Export Compliance Specialist GS-1801-14, FPL GS-14 positions within the Department of Commerce in the same geographical location with the same qualifications and specialized experience.