Summary
The Director of the Office of State and Local Finance (OSLF) reports to the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Finance, under the Assistant Secretary for Financial Markets and the Under Secretary of Domestic Finance, in the Departmental Offices of the Department of the Treasury.
The Director oversees OSLF and coordinates the Treasury's research and policy related to State, local, and territorial government finance issues.
Duties
As Director of the Office of State and Local Finance (OSLF), you will be responsible for:
- Supervising and providing leadership for all functions and employees in OSLF, including hiring, managing, and developing staff, establishing office performance objectives and operating plans, collaborating with other offices in the Treasury and across the Federal Government, and generally ensuring OSLF's functions and strategies are carried out efficiently and effectively.
- Maintaining an organizational capability to provide authoritative advice to the Deputy Assistant Secretary and other senior Government officials in policy areas including the municipal bond market, State and local government methods of financing infrastructure, responses to stressed municipalities, management of public pensions, tax policies at all levels of government affecting State and local finances, State and local accounting and actuarial standards, State and local budget formulation and execution, and Federal-State intergovernmental policy issues.
- Briefing policymaking officials of the Treasury and the broader Administration on complex issues of State and local finance.
- Planning and carrying out quantitative and qualitative market, sector, and entity analyses and policy proposals related to State and local finance to inform the Treasury's policy making.
- Providing leadership in identifying and understanding emerging issues, trends, important events, and structural changes in municipal finance.
Requirements
Conditions of Employment
- Initial appointments are required to serve a probationary period of 1 year.
- Financial disclosure is required.
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret clearance.
- Must be a U.S. Citizen
Qualifications
Qualifications:As a basic requirement, applicants must possess the Mandatory Technical Qualifications and Executive Core Qualifications listed below. To be qualified for this position, your resume must reflect experience in a managerial capacity. Typically, experience of this nature is gained at or above the GS-15 grade level in the Federal service, or its equivalent with state or local government, the private sector, or nongovernmental organizations. As such, your resume must demonstrate that you have the knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully fulfill responsibilities inherent in most SES positions such as:
- Directing the work of an organizational unit
- Ensuring the success of one or more specific major programs or projects
- Monitoring progress toward strategic organizational goals, evaluating organizational performance and taking action to improve performance.
- Supervising the work of other managers and exercising important policymaking, policy determining, or other executive functions.
The narrative must not exceed 10 pages. NOTE: Current career SES members, former career SES members with reinstatement eligibility, and SES Candidate Development Program graduates who have been certified by OPM do NOT need to address the ECQs:
- Leading Change: This core qualification involves the ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment. Competencies: creativity and innovation, external awareness, flexibility, resilience, strategic thinking, vision
- Leading People: This core qualification involves the ability to lead people toward meeting the organizations vision, mission, and goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts. Competencies: conflict management, leveraging diversity, developing others, team building
- Results Driven: This core qualification involves the ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to make decisions that produce high quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks. Competencies: accountability, customer service, decisiveness, entrepreneurship, problem solving, technical credibility
- Business Acumen: This core qualification involves the ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically. Competencies: financial management, human capital management, technology management
- Building Coalitions: This core qualification involves the ability to build coalitions internally and with other Federal agencies, State and local governments, nonprofit and private sector organizations, foreign governments, or international organizations to achieve common goals. Competencies: partnering, political savvy, influencing/negotiating
Fundamental Competencies: These competencies are the foundation for success in each of the Executive Core Qualifications: Interpersonal Skills, Oral Communication, Continual Learning, Written Communication, Integrity/Honesty, Public Service Motivation. The Fundamental Competencies are crosscutting and should be addressed over the course of each ECQ narratives.
When completing Executive Core Competencies, applicants should follow the Challenge, Context, Action and Result (CCAR) model outlined in the guide.
- Challenge - Describe a specific problem or goal.
- Context - Describe the individuals and groups you worked with, and/or the environment in which you worked, to address a particular challenge (e.g., clients, co-workers, members of Congress, shrinking budget, low morale).
- Action - Discuss the specific actions you took to address a challenge.
- Result - Give specific examples of measures/outcomes that had some impact on the organization. These accomplishments demonstrate the quality and effectiveness of your leadership skills.
MANDATORY TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS (MTQs): All applicants must submit a written narrative that addresses each of the MTQs separately. The narrative must not exceed one (1) page per MTQ. Applicants who fail to adhere to the one (1) page per MTQ limit will be disqualified and no longer considered for the position. In addition to the ECQs, applicants must possess the following technical qualifications that represent the knowledge, skills, and abilities essential to perform the duties and responsibilities of the position. You must fully address each MTQ to be rated for further consideration.
MTQ 1: Extensive knowledge of a wide range of State and Local government matters including budget and fiscal practices.
MTQ 2: Extensive knowledge and direct experience in municipal bond markets.
MTQ 3: Proven ability and deep experience in government policy development.
MTQ 4: Strong capabilities communicating complex topics to a range of audiences including policymakers, senior managers and executives, industry associations, and the public.
MTQ 5: Demonstrated skill in managing a business unit or office, directing a diverse staff, and developing and implementing budgets, project and business plans, and employee development plans.
**Note for Current and/or Former Political Appointees: 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 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 Human Resources Office within your application package.
How You Will Be Evaluated
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
1. Applicants meeting the minimum qualification requirements will be eligible for consideration in this process. Applicants will be rated based on the quality and extent of their leadership skills, technical experience, and accomplishments, as shown in their resume and as described in their Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) and Technical Qualifications narratives.
2. Applicants are required to submit separate narrative statements specifically addressing the Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) and the Technical Qualifications. These narratives are mandatory for consideration in the process. The ECQs describe the leadership skills needed to succeed in the Senior Executive Service and are in addition to the job-specific Technical Qualifications. To assess the executive potential of each candidate, applicants must demonstrate their experience relevant to each ECQ. The ECQ narrative must show specific examples of the applicant's accomplishments and experience as it relates to the OPM-defined competencies and associated ECQs. Each example should clearly describe the setting in which the experience was acquired (e.g., organizational size, level, budget, and challenges), the specific actions taken to address the challenges, and the impact/result the action had on the organization/agency/government/public. Examples should clearly correlate to the experience listed in the applicant's resume.
3. a. Current or former career Senior Executive Service employees are not required to address the ECQs, but it is MANDATORY to provide the Technical Qualifications narrative, a resume, and a SF-50 (Notification of Personnel Action) that documents your career appointment status in the SES. b. SES Candidate Development Program (SESCDP) graduates who have not been appointed to a career Senior Executive Service appointment are not required to address the ECQs, but it is MANDATORY to provide the Technical Qualifications narrative, a resum, and a copy/proof of your OPM QRB certification.
4. Qualified applicants will be evaluated by a panel of current agency executives. Those determined best qualified will advance in the process and may be offered the opportunity to participate in the interview process. The selectee must already be certified by an OPM Qualifications Review Board (QRB) or receive certification prior to being appointed to this position. Additional information about the SES and Executive Core Qualifications is available at
Required Documents
1) Resume.
2) A separate narrative of 10-pages or less that addresses the Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs). Pages beyond the first ten (10) will not be considered in the process. Current and former career Senior Executive Service employees and graduates of a SES Candidate Development Program who have been certified by OPM's QRB are not required to address the ECQs. ECQ narratives are MANDATORY for all other applicants in order to be considered.
3) A separate narrative that addresses each of the Mandatory Technical Qualifications (MTQs). It is MANDATORY for all applicants to submit this narrative. The narrative must address each of the MTQs separately and must not exceed one (1) page per MTQ. Applicants who fail to adhere to the one (1) page per MTQ limit will be disqualified and no longer considered for the position.
4) SF-50 (or other personnel action that verifies civil service). (Please remove your social security number and date of birth) Current Federal employees must submit their most recent SF-50 (Notification of Personnel Action) that documents current tenure, position title, series, and grade level. Current or former SES must submit a SF-50 that documents career appointment status in the SES. (Failure to provide the proper documentation may result in the rating and ranking of your application under competitive procedures, which requires the submission of an ECQ narrative at the time of application.)
5) Proof of OPM QRB Certification. SES Candidate Development Program (SESCDP) graduates that have not been appointed to the SES must submit a copy of their OPM QRB Certification. This document should be uploaded under the "other document type" field.
Applicants who fail to submit ALL required documents WILL NOT receive consideration for this position. Application will result in an "Incomplete" rating. NOTE: YOU MUST SUBMIT ALL DOCUMENTATION BY 11:59 P.M. EST ON THE CLOSING DATE OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR CONSIDERATION.
