This position is located at Departmental Offices,Terrorism and Financial Intelligence - Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes. As a Policy Advisor, you will have policy responsibility for all aspects of Treasury's anti-money laundering (AML) and countering the financing of terrorism (CFT) programs, sanctions efforts, and other critical national security issues such as anti-kleptocracy, counter-proliferation financing and counter-insurgency financing initiatives.
This is an open continuous announcement with the following cut dates to review application packages: 10/14/2025 11/14/2025 12/14/2025 1/14/2026 2/14/2026 3/14/2026 3/30/2026 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: -Monitoring developments in emerging technologies, virtual assets, correspondent banking, emerging payments, Central Bank Digital Currencies, or artificial intelligences; AND -Assist with creating policies on illicit financial threats to the U.S; AND -Experience communicating results of research and analysis and making policy recommendations to senior decision makers; AND -Engaging with the public, international organizations, or foreign governments on policy issues. 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 researching illicit financial threats to the U.S, emerging technologies, virtual assets, correspondent banking, emerging payments, Central Bank Digital Currencies, or artificial intelligence; AND -Experience communicating results of research and analysis; AND -Engaging with the public, international organizations, or foreign governments on policy issues. 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-09 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized Experience for this position includes: -Preparing briefings, policies, or finished documents; AND -Engaging with the public, international organizations, intelligence community, or foreign governments. OR EDUCATION: You may substitute education for general or specialized experience as follows: Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree, if related; OR 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree, if related; or LL.M., if related OR COMBINATION OF EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION: You may qualify by a combination of experience and education. Options for qualifying based on a combination will be identified in the online questions. Only graduate level education in excess of the first 2 years may be combined with experience. Only graduate level education in excess of the first 36 semester hours (54 quarter hours) may be combined to be considered for qualifying education. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: For the GS-09, you must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-07 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized Experience for this position includes: -Preparing briefings, policies, or finished documents. OR EDUCATION: You may substitute education for general or specialized experience as follows: Master's or equivalent graduate degree; OR 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree; LL.B. or J.D., if related. OR COMBINATION OF EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION: You may qualify by a combination of experience and education. Options for qualifying based on a combination will be identified in the online questions. Only graduate level education in excess of one year may be combined with experience. Only graduate level education in excess of the first 18 semester 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.
The following are the duties of this position at the GS-13. If you are selected at a lower grade level, you will have the opportunity to learn to perform all these duties, and will receive training to help you grow in this position. Assist in identifying terrorist financing, money laundering, and other financial crime trends and methodologies that may exist as a result of the evolution of payments and the growth of new technologies. Assess how new technologies, such as machine learning, can potentially reduce illicit finance risks and advance AML/CFT compliance, and assist in the development and implementation of policies designed to mitigate such risks. Contribute to the development and implementation of systemic AML/CFT strategies including, not limited to strategies to address the emerging risks with new payment systems; support U.S. leadership in financial and payments technology; advance policy and regulatory reform efforts to enable and support the use of technology; and improve the overall effectiveness of private sector AML/CFT programs. Implement counter illicit finance strategies with external stakeholders, including USG interagency partners, foreign government officials, private sector, and civil society/non-profit organization partners. Draft high-quality policy papers, briefing materials, reports, public remarks, and/or testimony for senior Treasury officials.