Assistant Inspector General for Audit Services

The Assistant Inspector General for Audit Services position is a Senior Executive Service (SES) position in the Dept. of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, Office of Audit Services (OAS) and is located either in the HHS-OIG Headquarters Office in Washington D.C., the Woodlawn, Maryland Office, or a location negotiable upon selection where a HHS-OIG OAS Regional or Field Office (U.S. only) is located.

Qualifications:

To be qualified for this position, your resumé must reflect specialized experience in a leadership and managerial capacity with responsibility for providing supervisory direction to a large and diverse organization responsible for conducting audits that promote economy, efficiency, and effectiveness in the administration of programs and operations on a national level and preventing and detecting fraud and abuse in such programs and operations. This experience must be evidenced by sophisticated analytical skills, superior written and oral communications skills, good judgement, and experience in interacting with government and non-government officials. Typically, experience of this nature is gained at or above GS-15 grade level in the Federal service, or its equivalent with state or local government, the private sector, or nongovernmental organizations. At this level, you would have typically been responsible for planning, directing, and evaluating work that included managing and/or supervising other managers. You must demonstrate in your resume significant achievements, increasing levels of responsibility as a manager, and a solid record of successful professional performance.

As a basic requirement for entry into the Senior Executive Service (SES), your resume must show evidence of progressively responsible leadership experience that is indicative of senior executive level management capability, and that is directly related to the Technical Qualifications (TQs) and five Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) listed below.

The application process for this position is RESUMÉ Only. You must address the ECQs within the context of a 5-page resumé and the Technical Qualifications in a 3-page Narrative. Do not submit separate narratives addressing the ECQs. Your resumé should emphasize your level of responsibilities, the scope and complexity of programs managed and program accomplishments, including the results of your actions. See HOW YOU WILL BE EVALUATED and HOW TO APPLY sections for additional information.

Technical Qualifications (TQs) -- Mandatory; Your TQ Narrative (not to exceed 3 pages) must clearly show that you possess the following TQs:

1. Executive-level experience in directing and managing an audit staff assigned to a Headquarters and/or field units with responsibilities for conducting financial, program, compliance, and economy and efficiency health care audits for a large multi-level Federal, State, or local government agency/organization.
2. Experience simultaneously managing multiple complex health care audits utilizing Government Auditing Standards and other legal, regulatory, and administrative requirements.
3. Experience with consensus (team) building in planning, conducting, reporting on health care audits, as well as gaining stakeholder support at the highest levels of an organization and agency implementation of recommendations.

Desired qualifications (not mandatory) include professional certifications (e.g. CPA, CIA, CFE, CGFM) as well as advanced academic credentials (e.g. MBA, JD, PhD).

Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) -- Mandatory; Your resumé (5-page limit) must clearly show that you possess the following ECQs (do not submit a separate narrative addressing the ECQs):

1. Leading Change: 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)
2. Leading People: The ability to lead people toward meeting the organization's 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)
3. Results Driven: 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)
4. Business Acumen: The ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically. (Competencies: financial management, human capital management, technology management)
5. Building Coalitions: 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 arethe foundation for success in each of the ECQs and should be evident over the course of your resumé: Interpersonal Skills: Oral Communication; Integrity/Honesty; Written Communication; Continual Learning; and Public Service Motivation.

Additional information on the ECQs is available at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/senior-executive-service/executive-corequalifications/.

Responsibilities:

• Medicare Audits
• Medicaid Audits

• Conduct and oversee audits of the operations and programs of assigned portfolio.
• Ensure all assigned Department Management responsibilities and activities are carried out efficiently while maintaining the financial integrity of Departmental operations.
• Oversee the internal quality assurance system including periodic quality control reviews to provide reasonable assurance that applicable laws, regulations, policies, procedures, standards and other requirements are followed for audit activities under your purview.
• Represent the Deputy Inspector General (DIG) for Audit Services or other senior officials in contacts with the Government Accountability Office and/or other Government organizations in connection with findings in assigned program areas.
• You may serve as liaison between the Department and other parties for the purpose of exchanging information of mutual benefit related to health care audit issues.
• Serve as an expert and consultant to the OIG and OAS advisors and leaders to conceive, plan, and manage audit and financial functions, including critical, large-scale programs of national and international scope. Advisory eff orts will focus on audit and financial program development.
• Advise, teach and coach culturally appropriate continuous process improvement principles and procedures. Assist counterparts in stimulating a process of continuous improvement of audit and financial operations in order to determine appropriate internal controls.

Salary : $141,022 - $212,100