Senior Sanctions Coordinator

Full Job Description

This position is located at Departmental Offices,Terrorism and Financial Intelligence - Office of Foreign Assets Control.

You must meet the following requirements within 30 days of the closing date of this announcement.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: For the GS-14 grade level, you must have one year (52 full weeks) of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-13 grade level in the Federal service.

Specialized Experience for this position includes: - Assisting in or independently coordinating and conducting investigations of international commercial trade transactions.

Examples of these could include but is not limited to international trade and finance transactions, export controls or international trade compliance regulations and/or economic sanctions programs; AND - Applying technical, written, and oral communication skills to convey findings, analysis, and/or recommendations of investigations; AND - Compiling and analyzing information to aid in investigative duties such as identifying facts and issues, determining priorities, researching precedents, organizing documentary evidence, and/or applying law and policy to facts found.

An example of this could include applying investigative strategies and techniques such as analysis of all source data.

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.

TIME-IN-GRADE: In addition to the above requirements, you must meet the following time-in-grade requirement, if applicable: For the GS-14, you must have been at the GS-13 level for 52 weeks.

TIME AFTER COMPETITIVE APPOINTMENT: Candidates who are current Federal employees serving on a non-temporary competitive appointment must have served at least three months in that appointment.

Major Duties:

As a Senior Sanctions Coordinator, your required tasks include: Coordinate, monitor, and provide guidance to team members concerning the identification and development of sanctionable targets for programs administered by OFAC.

Research, analyze, and describe complex financial, trade, and other business activities of sanctions evaders, narcotics trafficking organizations, proliferators of weapons of mass destruction, and rogue regimes and embargoed countries to support agency decisions made by Treasury/OFAC, including decisions to designate persons and decisions related to petitions for removal of a person from an OFAC list.

Review incoming classified intelligence and other information and evaluate the operations and activities of aforementioned subjects for applicability to authorities to list persons on the List of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDNs) under authorities administered by OFAC.

Apply sophisticated analysis of classified all source data and coordinates with other elements of Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and other government agencies, to establish names of entities, individuals and networks owned or controlled by or acting for, or on behalf of, Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons.

Oversee and conduct analysis of complex international business, trade and transactional activities, and relationships of sanctioned persons and non-state entities in support of OFAC reviews of petitions for removal of designations made pursuant to a decision by OFAC and in support of efforts to designate persons pursuant to programs administered by OFAC.