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.
***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-1801-14/15, under announcement number MS-25-DAL-OLMS-12804628-TKS and does not have LEO requirements. You must meet the Specialized Experience to qualify for 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-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 includes all of the following: Plans and conducts criminal and civil investigations of violations of the LMRDA and related statutes; and Serves as a team lead, directing and/or guiding others in completing civil and criminal enforcement activities. 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. Qualifying specialized experience for the GS-15 includes all of the following: Plans, directs and conducts civil and criminal enforcement activity, and compliance assistance; Serves as project leader on large or complex investigations and investigative audits; Plans, directs and coordinates the work of Investigators.
The duties described below are at the full performance level (GS-15). Incumbents hired at the GS-14 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. Manages the planning and implementation of all OLMS program and associated administrative operations within an assigned geographical territory. Formulates annual program operations plans for 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 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 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.