Special Assistant
Protect your homeland and defend your culture. Join USCIS, America's frontline defense against illegal foreign infiltration and fraud. As an Special Assistant, you will perform mission-critical responsibilities to support senior leaders in a rapidly changing environment which necessitate agile thinking and superior relationship building. Responsibilities are highly varied, and span the full-spectrum of leadership and execution.
Serve as a senior principal advisor and consultant to senior leadership on the full range of strategic, programmatic, operational, policy, legislative, and administrative matters affecting the directorate.
Identify, frame, and analyze the most complex and politically sensitive issues affecting service center adjudications, including the implications of new legislation, executive orders, regulations, and policy initiatives.
Develop authoritative policy positions, options papers, decision memorandum, and strategic recommendations for and with executive leadership.
Conduct and direct comprehensive strategic, operational, and policy analyses of program performance, productivity, quality, customer experience, and resource utilization which improve operational, technological, fiscal, and stakeholder performance.
Direct the work of senior subject matter experts and project teams across organizational lines; resolve conflicts, allocate resources to achieve outcomes that materially advance directorate, agency, and department priorities.
Identify highly visible issues within the directorate that necessitate senior leadership intervention and formulate and recommend viable and practical solutions to resolve them.
Conditions of Employment: You must be a U.S. Citizen or U.S. National to apply for this position Successfully pass a Background Investigation including financial disclosure You must pass a drug screening Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered with the Selective Service Political appointees may require OPM approval before on-boarding USCIS applies the Telework Enhancement Act of 2010 to its telework program This position IS NOT considered "essential" for purposes of reporting to work when the facility might otherwise be closed. Residency Requirement: There is a residency requirement for all applicants not currently employed by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. This residency requirement states that candidates must have, for three of the last five years immediately prior to applying for this position; (1) resided in the United States; OR (2) worked for the United States Government as an employee overseas in a Federal or Military capacity, OR (3) been a dependent of a U.S. Federal or Military employee serving overseas. Probationary Period: You may be required to serve a probationary period of 1 year.