Summary The NCUA is ranked #9 for the 2023 best places to work in the Federal government (mid-size agencies). This position is at the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) in the Eastern Region. This position serves as a Director of Specialist Resources and primarily supervises Regional Consumer Compliance Specialists and Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering Specialists.. Responsibilities RELOCATION STATEMENT: Relocation may be offered to promotion eligible NCUA employees relocating near a major airport in one of the following Eastern Region states: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington D.C., and West Virginia. DUTY STATION STATEMENT: Duty location may be negotiable near a major airport in one of the Eastern Region states listed above. For NCUA employees currently residing in one of the states listed above, your duty station will not change. As a Director of Specialist Resources primarily responsible for supervising Regional Consumer Compliance Specialists and Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering Specialists, you will: Evaluate employee performance and prepare performance appraisals; Make recommendations for recognition of outstanding performance of assigned personnel; Effect disciplinary actions such as warnings and reprimands and, when necessary, recommending specific disciplinary action involving serious offenses; Receiving informal and formal complaints from subordinates and resolving those that can be resolved within delegated authority. Identify issues critical to an effective specialist program and provides timely guidance on such issues to regional management. Participate with other regional staff in considering operational and administrative matters which may result in the establishment of NCUA and regional policies, objectives, long-range plans, changes in program emphasis, and other issues of major importance. Negotiate or direct negotiation with officials of credit unions and state supervisory authorities. Develop and implement a risk management framework and program for specific regional specialist areas including identifying, monitoring, and reporting macro regional risk. Represent the Regional Director before internal and external stakeholders on subjects related to areas of expertise. Contribute to the formulation of NCUA policy by serving as an advisor and consultant to the Regional Director on matters pertaining to specialized areas supervised. Complete specialist feedback forms for each specialist supervised in compliance with National Supervision Policy (NSPM) requirements. Supervise specialists in other specialty areas as needed. Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. All applicants applying for the CU-14 level must have at least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to the CU/GS-13 level obtained in the private or public sector. Specialized experience for this position is defined as experience must include one (1) of the following: Auditing or examining training or written guidance on laws, regulations, and concepts related to financial institutions' compliance with federal financial consumer protection laws and regulations, such as risk assessment, governance, compliance management systems, policy, procedures, training, and controls; OR Auditing or examining training or written guidance on laws, regulations, and concepts related to financial institutions' compliance with Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering (BSA/AML), Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), and Money Laundering/Terrorist Financing (ML/TF) activities, such as governance, policy, procedures, controls, technology solutions, and third-party vendor operations; as well as directly completing or supervising the work of others examining, auditing, or participating in the pre-release review of draft examination reports of financial institutions with more than $250 million in assets. All applicants applying for the CU-15 level must have at least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to the CU/GS-14 level obtained in the private or public sector. Specialized experience for this position is defined as experience must include one (1) of the following: Auditing or examining training or written guidance on laws, regulations, and concepts related to financial institutions' compliance with federal financial consumer protection laws and regulations, such as risk assessment, governance, compliance management systems, policy, procedures, training, and controls; OR Auditing or examining training or written guidance on laws, regulations, and concepts related to financial institutions' compliance with Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering (BSA/AML), Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), and Money Laundering/Terrorist Financing (ML/TF) activities, such as governance, policy, procedures, controls, technology solutions, and third-party vendor operations; AND one (1) of the following: Supervising, leading, or training others in the review of federal financial consumer protection laws and regulations issues, such as Regulation Z, Regulation B, Regulation CC, UDAP/UDAAP, Regulation E, Regulation V, and evaluating compliance management systems; OR Supervising, leading, or training others in the review of BSA/AML issues, such as evaluating manual and/or automated suspicious activity monitoring systems, transaction surveillance systems, reporting mechanisms, suspicious transactions, multiple relationship accounts, tiered and multi-faceted transactions, international wires involving designated high-risk jurisdictions, and complex cash structuring schemes. as well as directly completing or supervising others in examining or auditing financial institutions with more than $250 million in assets. You must meet the qualifications for this position by the closing date of this announcement. Please note, all experience statements (i.e., duties, specialized experience, or occupational assessment questionnaire) copied from this announcement and pasted into your resume will not be considered as a demonstration of your qualifications for this position. YOUR RESUME MUST provide specific details as to how your experience meets the specialized experience and support your responses to the online questionnaire as described in the vacancy announcement. When describing your experience in your resume, please be specific. We will not make assumptions regarding your experience. Please ensure that your resume includes the grade (if you are a current or previous federal employee), month, and year that you began and ended for each position held or that position may not be credited toward meeting the specialized experience requirement. Full-time employment will be assumed unless otherwise stated on your resume. Part-time employment will be prorated in crediting experience. Failure to provide details will result in an ineligible rating. Your resume must also support your responses to the online questionnaire. Failure to provide support may result in a lower rating and/or you may be excluded from consideration. Your latest resume submitted for this vacancy announcement will be used to determine qualifications and supersedes previous submissions. Education Education may not be used in lieu of experience for this opportunity. Additional Information Career Ladder Promotion: If you are selected at the lower grade level advertised in this announcement, you may be noncompetitively promoted to the next grade level in accordance with OPM regulations and NCUA policies. SALARY: Pay will be set within the advertised pay range to align with the selectee's skills and experience and the requirements of the position in accordance with NCUA's compensation policy. The salary range shown is NCUA's National Pay Rate (NPR) which includes a locality rate of 16.32% for the Rest of the U.S. (RUS) geographical area. Actual salary will be determined upon the location of the selectee and the applicable locality pay, per the NCUA's CU pay table, will be applied. The locality rates, by location, can be found on the NCUA Careers webpage under the Salary Information section. EXCEPTION: If you are a current non-supervisory NCUA employee and are selected for reassignment into a supervisory position, you may receive up to a 10% salary increase, not to exceed the National Pay Rate (NPR) of the pay grade. Management will consider your current salary in relation to the duties and responsibilities of the new position. SELECTIVE SERVICE: If you are a male applicant born after December 31, 1959, you must certify that you have registered with the Selective Service System or are exempt from having to do so under the Selective Service Law. You may register or check the status of your registration by visiting the Selective Service website at http://www.sss.gov/. This position is not in the bargaining unit. Effective January 1, 2010, OPM must authorize any employment offers we make to current or former (within the last 5 years) political Schedule A, Schedule C, or Non-career SES (political) employees in the executive branch. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, or Non-career SES employee in the executive branch, you must disclose that to the point of contact listed on this vacancy announcement. The Fair Chance Act: In accordance with the Fair Chance to Compete for Jobs Act of 2019 (Fair Chance Act), 5 U.S.C. Sec. 9202, and 5 C.F.R. Part 920, the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) may not request, in oral or written form, that an applicant for employment disclose criminal history record information before the NCUA makes a tentative offer of employment, absent an exception. Complaints that the NCUA violated the Fair Chance Act must be submitted to LaborEmpRelations@NCUA.GOV or to the Office of Human Resources, Employee Relations, National Credit Union Administration, 1775 Duke Street, Alexandria, VA 22314 within 30 days from the agency's alleged non-compliance with the Fair Chance Act. Illegal drug use by individuals working for or on behalf of the federal government, whether on duty or off duty, is contrary to the efficiency of the service and in direct violation of the Controlled Substance Act and the Drug-Free Workplace Act. NCUA IS A COMPETITIVE SERVICE FEDERAL AGENCY. NCUA uses E-Verify, a web-based system, to confirm the eligibility of all newly hired employees to work in the United States. Learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities. More than the number of positions listed may be filled through this vacancy announcement.