Summary

This position serves as the District Director (LEO). The official title is Supervisory Investigator (LEO). The primary duty of this position is managing the planning and implementation of all Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) programs and associated administrative operations within an assigned geographic territory.

This position is outside the bargaining unit.

Duties

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• Manages the planning and implementation of all OLMS program and associated administrative operations within an assigned geographical territory. Formulates annual plans for program operations within an assigned geographic jurisdiction which are congruent with established budgetary and administrative requirements.
• Directs and supervises OLMS program activity under the LMRDA and related statutes, including: criminal and civil investigations; investigative audits of labor organizations under the agency's Compliance Audit and International Compliance Audit Program (CAP and I-CAP) to detect criminal and civil violations of the LMRDA and related statutes.
• Serves as the OLMS spokesperson in dealings with federal and state or local agencies, union officials, interest groups, press and medial representatives, and others.
• Directly supervises staff work and support staff. Ensure timely and quality completion of assignments, technical sufficiency of work and conformance with agency policies and procedures. Evaluates, provides counseling, training and advice to subordinate staff and performs the full ranted of established supervisory functions.
• Develops long-range plans for office operations which identify program areas in need of special emphasis, recognize future priorities and project future resource needs in terms of staffing, time and funding considerations.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: The investigative work supervised often involves prolonged hours of interviews or record reviews in hazardous, hostile environments. Many records are obtained from reluctant sources via administrative or grand jury subpoena. The work may involve considerable exertion to obtain, transport, and ultimately review records. The work requires interviews of witnesses or targets in remote work sites at irregular, unpredictable or unscheduled hours. Complex investigations are multi-tiered, requiring concentration and endurance. Documents are often difficult to obtain, and financial records may have to be completely reconstructed to assess both the subject's guilt and the union's loss. The work may involve interviewing contacts or developing leads in uncomfortable, often hostile environments oftentimes outside normal working hours. The position may also require working for prolonged periods of time without adequate rest.

Conducting investigations requires frequent travel to various geographic sites with or without other investigators. Investigations may require locating witnesses and records, and then conducting extensive, prolonged interviews at irregular hours to satisfy stress provoking time constraints. Travel is sometimes necessary in severe weather on remote roads, in hazardous areas or under hazardous conditions, for up to three weeks at a time. Some casework may have to be done over protracted shift periods and at irregular hours. Interviews may be conducted in arduous circumstances with reluctant witnesses, sometimes exposing the investigator to personal risk. Prosecution support work frequently requires unusually long workdays and long periods away from the assigned duty station.

Considerable endurance is often required to review voluminous records, and physical strength is required for lifting and transporting them. Investigators must often lift heavy boxes or equipment, categorize, store, and secure evidence, all independent of outside help.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: Managerial or supervisory duties are typically performed in office settings, but may involve participation in on-site investigative work. This on-site work often occurs during evening or other irregular hours, in crime ridden areas, factories, on construction sites, or at depots. Investigative activities bring the investigator into direct contact with individuals facing potential criminal charges, loss of their freedom and livelihood, known to commit, attempt, or threaten to commit violence against union members, who own weapons, or are alleged to have ties to organized crime. These contacts also expose the investigator to highly contested, hostile, internal union political and power struggles. These and other situations described above may place the investigator in physical jeopardy.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Must be at least 16 years old.
• Candidate required to obtain the necessary security/investigation level.
• Requires a probationary period if the requirement has not been met.
• Subject to financial disclosure requirements.
• Requires a valid driver's license.
• Requires a supervisory probationary period if the requirement has not been met.
• Age Restriction: This is a secondary LEO position covered by the special retirement provisions for law enforcement officers. Retirement at age 57 is mandatory.

Qualifications

***There are specific Law Enforcement Officer (LEO) requirements for this announcement. If you do not meet the LEO requirements, the vacancy is also open as a District Director (Non-LEO), GS-1801-15, under announcement number MS-26-DAL-OLMS-[redacted]-CAR and does not have LEO requirements.

NOTE: To be eligible for Secondary Law Enforcement Coverage, you must 1) move directly (without a break in service exceeding 3 days) from a federal primary/rigorous position to a secondary position; AND 2) completed 3 years of service in a primary/rigorous position; AND 3) must be continuously employed in a secondary position(s) since moving from a primary/rigorous position. Except: a break in employment in secondary positions that begins with an involuntary separation (not for cause).

Employees subject to special retirement coverage for law enforcement officers must retire at age 57 upon completing at least 20 years of law enforcement service under the special retirement provisions.

You must meet the Specialized Experience to qualify for the District Director (LEO), as described below.

Specialized Experience is the experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA's) to perform the duties of the position successfully, and that is typically in or related to the position to be filled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level.

For the GS-15 level: Applicants must have 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level, GS-14, in the Federal Service.

Specialized experience for this position includes at least three (3) of the following, all within a geographic jurisdiction:

- Participates in formulating agency enforcement policies and strategies involving labor laws and statutes;

- Participates in developing regional, district or state office plans for program operations;

- Implements agency program operations on labor union investigations and enforcement activities pursuant to labor laws and/or statutes; and/or

- Plans, directs and coordinates the work of Investigators.

WHEN DOCUMENTING EXPERIENCE IN YOUR RESUME, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. NO ASSUMPTIONS WILL BE MADE ABOUT YOUR WORK EXPERIENCE.

Do NOT copy and paste the duties or specialized experience from this announcement into your resume as that will not be considered a demonstration of your qualifications for this position.

Education

There is no education substitution at the GS-15 level.

Additional information

For more information, click Telework Position Information. This is not a remote work position. The selectee will report to an assigned DOL office location on a regular basis and is eligible for participation in telework as determined by management in accordance with DOL policy.

Based on agency needs, additional positions may be filled using this vacancy.


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