Policy Advisor

This is an open continuous announcement with the following cut dates to review application packages: 6/30/2024 7/31/2024 8/31/2024 9/30/2024 10/31/2024 11/30/2024 You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement. Specialized experience for the GS-13: You must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes: – Experience working independently with stakeholders or researching issues and developing work products involving business, economics, finance, international affairs, law, national security, public policy, or science and technology; OR – Conducting analyses of foreign direct investment to identify economic or national security risks; AND – Experience communicating results of research and analysis and making policy recommendations to senior decision makers. Specialized experience for the GS-12: You must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes: – Experience working independently with stakeholders or researching issues involving business, economics, finance, international affairs, law, national security, public policy, or science and technology; OR – Experience with international financial and investment policy issues to identify economic or national security risks; AND – Experience communicating results of research and analysis to senior decision makers. Specialized experience for the GS-11: You must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-9 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes: – Experience conducting research or engaging stakeholders on issues involving business, economics, finance, international affairs, law, national security, public policy, or science and technology; OR – Experience with an international financial policy issues; AND – Experience communicating results of research and analysis to supervisors. -OR- You may substitute education for specialized experience as follows: Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.M., if related or You may qualify by a combination of experience and education. Only graduate level education in excess of the first 36 semester hours (54 quarter hours) may be combined to be considered for qualifying education. The experience may have been gained in either the public, private sector or volunteer service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-time work is considered on a prorated basis. To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/day/year, and indicate number of hours worked per week on your resumé.
This position serves as a Policy Advisor in the Office of Investment Security (OIS), within the Office of International Affairs, U.S. Department of the Treasury. OIS fulfills Treasurys responsibilities as chair of Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS” or the “Committee”), which is an interagency committee authorized to review certain transactions involving foreign investment in the United States to determine the effect of such transactions on the national security.