Summary

This position is a Supervisory Investigator (Non-LEO). The primary duty of this position is to serve as a first-level supervisory investigator. The incumbent plans, directs, supervises, and conducts civil and criminal enforcement activities and provides compliance assistance within an assigned geographical jurisdiction.

This position is outside the bargaining unit.

Duties

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The duties described below are at the full performance level (GS-14). Incumbents hired at the GS-13 grade level will serve in a developmental capacity, where the incumbent works under closer supervision while continuing to exercise supervisory and managerial authority assigned for the position.

• Plans, directs, coordinates and supervises the work of assigned Investigators and Senior Investigators in implementing OLMS program activity under the LMRDA and related statutes within an assigned geographical jurisdiction.
• Assigns, coordinates and supervises work performed by Investigators and support staff within an assigned geographic jurisdiction. Monitors staff work to ensure timely completion of assignments, technical sufficiency of work, and conformance with agency policies and procedures. Provides individual direction and guidance to staff. Evaluates individual staff performance and performs all other customary supervisory functions.
• Serves as project leaders on large or complex investigations and investigative audits.
• Recommends revisions and refinements to OLMS policies, programs, goals and objectives to the District Director and other key agency officials at the Regional and National Office level.
• Serves as the OLMS spokesperson in dealings with Federal and state or local agencies, union officials, interest groups, press and medical representatives, and others.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: The work 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: Assignments are typically performed in office settings, but usually require extensive additional on-site investigative work. This on-site work often occurs during evening or other irregular hours, in work environments of union officials or other persons, unsafe, crime ridden areas, factories, on construction sites, or at depots. Investigative activities bring the investigator into direct contact with potential criminal charges, fearing a loss of their freedom and livelihood, known to commit, attempt, or threaten to commit violence against union members, who may own weapons, or who have alleged 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. See Probationary or Trial Period under the Required Documents section for more information.
• Requires a supervisory probationary period if the requirement has not been met.
• Subject to financial disclosure requirements.
• Requires a valid driver's license.

Qualifications

You must meet the Specialized Experience to qualify for Supervisory Investigator (Non-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-13 level: Applicants must have 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level, GS-12 in the Federal Service.

Qualifying specialized experience for the GS-13 level includes all of the following:

• Plans, develops and conducts civil and/or criminal investigations involving labor laws and statutes;
• Plans, develops and conducts enforcement activities;
• Serves as a team member on civil and/or criminal investigations.

For the GS-14 level: Applicants must have 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level, GS-13 in the Federal Service.

Qualifying specialized experience for the GS-14 level includes all of the following:

• Serves as a team lead, directing and/or guiding others in completing civil and criminal investigations and enforcement activities involving labor laws and statutes;
• Plans and conducts training and/or mentoring for Investigators on civil and criminal investigative principles and methods or new and advanced investigative approaches and techniques.

Education

There is no education in lieu of specialized experience at the GS-13/14 grade levels.

Additional information

The mission of the Department of Labor is to protect the welfare of workers and job seekers, improve working conditions, expand high-quality employment opportunities, and assure work-related benefits and rights for all workers.

Refer to these links for more information: GENERAL INFORMATION, REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION, ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTATION, FORMER FEDERAL EMPLOYEES

You may not be aware, but in the regulations for agency ethics programs, there are requirements for supervisors. Section 2638.103 of Title 5 of the CFR states: Every supervisor in the executive branch has a heightened personal responsibility for advancing government ethics. It is imperative that supervisors serve as models of ethical behavior for subordinates. Supervisors have a responsibility to help ensure that subordinates are aware of their ethical obligations under the Standards of Conduct and that subordinates know how to contact agency ethics officials. Supervisors are also responsible for working with agency ethics officials to help resolve conflicts of interests and enforce government ethics laws and regulations, including those requiring certain employees to file financial disclosure reports. In addition, supervisors are responsible, when requested, for assisting agency ethics officials in evaluating potential conflicts of interest and identifying positions subject to financial disclosure requirements.

Supervisory Financial Disclosure: This position is subject to the confidential financial disclosure requirements of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (P.L. 95-521). Therefore, if selected, you will be required to complete a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OGE Form 450) to determine if a conflict or an appearance of a conflict exists between your financial interest(s) and your prospective position with DOL. This information will be required annually.

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

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Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

Benefits

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