SummaryThis position is placed in the Personnel Vetting (PV) Trust Decision office and reports to DCSA's Deputy Associate Director, Trust Decision. This is a Tier 1 position.
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The Technical Director, Trust Decision (Adjudications) serves as the principal advisor to senior management on how best to assure the development, integration, and continuous improvement of key adjudicative frameworks. Specifically, the incumbent oversees the policies, analytic methods, quality-assurance practices, workforce capabilities, and enabling technologies essential to making and supporting sound trust determinations. They exercise delegated final authority for assigned enterprise adjudication functions.
Responsibilities Include:
- Serves as the principal advisor and authoritative technical authority to senior leadership on complex adjudicative matters, policy interpretation, emerging risks, and legislative changes; renders final technical determinations and provides decision-quality briefings, executive correspondence, and strategic recommendations to guide enterprise priorities.
- Leads the development, refinement, and execution of enterprise trust-determination strategies, policy proposals, and governance mechanisms; establishes operational approaches and technical frameworks that ensure risk-based, fair, consistent, and legally defensible adjudicative decisions.
- Directs strategic oversight for enterprise adjudication operations by establishing robust quality-management frameworks, internal controls, and case-review methodologies; analyzes workload drivers and performance indicators to resolve systemic issues and drive continuous business process improvement.
- Represents the Agency in high-level engagements with Department of War Components, Federal agencies, the Intelligence Community, and external stakeholders; builds consensus on complex, sensitive policy and technical matters involving divergent equities, reciprocity, and information sharing.
- Drives the modernization of adjudicative processes through the responsible integration of data analytics, workflow automation, and case-management systems; defines technical business requirements and ensures strict compliance with financial, privacy, and internal control protocols (including FIAR).
- Directs workforce capability development, including competency modeling and training strategies, to support merit principles; administers and justifies the program budget, determining resource priorities and monitoring contracted support to execute enterprise initiatives.
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Conditions of employment- Must be a U.S Citizen
- Male born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service
- Resume and supporting documents received by 11:59 PM EST will be considered
- This is a Drug Testing designated position
- Position is a Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS) Position in the Excepted Service under U.S.C 1601
- Tour of Duty: Flexible within Agency policy
- Permanent Change of Station (PCS): May be Authorized
- Supervisory Position: No, this position is considered Managerial and will exercise minimal supervisory authority.
- Fair Labor Standard Act (FLSA): Exempt
- Financial Disclosure: OGE-278e, Executive Personnel Financial Disclosure, is required
- Telework Eligibility: Supervisors may approve situational telework on a case-by-case, temporary basis for limited situations.
- This position is designated Special Sensitive, the incumbent must obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI Security Clearance.
- The incumbent may be subject to a two-year DCIPS trial period, unless required trial period has been served.
- The incumbent may be subject to a one-year DISL trial period, unless required trial period has been served.
- This position may require occasional Temporary Duty Travel (TDY) and/or local travel.
- This position is designated as Mission Essential.
QualificationsTECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS (TQs):There is
NO requirement to prepare a narrative statement specifically addressing the
Technical Qualifications (TQs). However, to meet the minimum qualification requirements for this position, you must show that you possess the
TQs within your resume -
NOT TO EXCEED 2 PAGES.
Resumes over the 2-page limit, will be disqualified.Technical Qualifications:- Demonstrated executive experience leading enterprise risk, compliance, or personnel trust governance-serving as a principal authority to evaluate sensitive risk, define risk-tolerance boundaries, and drive cross-sector stakeholder consensus for legally defensible decision-making.
- Demonstrated executive experience directing high-volume, high-consequence decision pipelines via data-driven quality frameworks, and steering enterprise digital modernization-including automation and advanced analytics-while strictly preserving data privacy, human-in-the-loop accountability, and information security standards.
EducationThis position does not have a positive education requirement.
Additional information- If selected, Federal employees currently serving in the competitive service must acknowledge that they will voluntarily leave the competitive service by accepting an offer of employment for a DCIPS excepted service positions.
- If selected, non-DCIPS candidates must acknowledge in writing that the position they have been selected for is in the excepted service and covered by DCIPS.
- Selection under this appointment authority does not confer civil service competitive status.
- Joint Duty Credit: All DCSA executive level positions require Joint Duty Credit. Only those candidates who meet the Joint Duty Credit requirement will be eligible to compete/be considered for a senior executive position. Employees will receive joint duty credit for many almost any rotational assignments assignment to another IC component and may also be eligible to receive credit for service outside the IC (military, other government, or private sector) that was at least at the GS/GG-1113 or DCIPS Pay Band 3 level, that and it occurred on or after September 11, 2001. An external candidate, if selected, will be required to immediately apply for Joint Duty credit. Note: Employees without Joint Duty Credit may apply for the position and can be considered. If selected, a waiver would be required prior to final appointment. DCSA seniors without Joint Duty at the same tier level may lateral into the position if selected without requesting a waiver.
- This position is subject to an initial drug screening, and random testing thereafter. A negative drug test result must be received by HR within 30 calendar days after the EOD (i.e., start date). The selectee's inability successfully pass; or refusal to conduct the test may result in: 1) the tentative or FJO being withdrawn during the recruitment process; or 2) subsequently being removed from Federal service for failure to meet a condition of employment.
- You may be required to sign a "Drug Test Statement of Understanding" if you are selected for this position.
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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.
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