The posting
Essential Job Functions
- Assists the Inspector General in coordinating and directing operations of the OIG, including establishing, modifying, and implementing policies and procedures for conducting performance audits or fraud, waste, or abuse investigations.
- Conducts or supervises complex performance audits in compliance with Government Auditing Standards and complex investigations in compliance with Quality Standards for Investigations.
- Plans, directs, and coordinates the work of subordinate professional staff engaged in conducting performance audits and investigations.
- Reviews completed performance audit and investigative reports for content and compliance with applicable professional standards and office policies and procedures.
- Evaluates the soundness of proposed recommendations to ensure they flow logically from the findings; are practical and feasible; and are directed at eliminating the identified cause(s) of inefficient, ineffective, or noncompliant practices or reducing the negative effect of those practices to acceptable levels.
- Develops performance objectives and conducts performance evaluations of subordinate supervisory personnel.
- Develops and provides District-wide training on internal controls and fraud prevention.
Minimum Qualifications
Education: Bachelors degree in business administration, public policy, public administration, accounting, finance, law, or a closely related field from an accredited college or university.
Experience: Six (6) years of full-time equivalent, verifiable professional performance auditing, policy analysis, program evaluation, criminal or administrative investigation, or similar experience, which must have included at least three (3) years of supervisory-level experience or higher. Experience in a public sector environment is highly desirable.
Other Requirements: Possession of a valid certificate as a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), or Certified Inspector General (CIG), Certified Inspector General Auditor, or Certified Inspector General Investigator is desirable but not required.
Knowledge of:
- Government Auditing Standards published by the Comptroller General of the United States, Principles and Standards for Offices of Inspector General published by the Association of Inspectors General, or Quality Standards for Investigations published by the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency.
- Standards for Internal Control in the Federal Government published by the Comptroller General of the United States or Internal Control Integrated Framework published by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission.
- Operational characteristics, services, and activities of a public sector performance auditing or inspector general function.
- Advanced principles and practices of public sector performance auditing and evaluation of complex programs and operations.
- Advanced research, data collection and analysis, statistical, program evaluation, and qualitative and quantitative analytical techniques and their application.
- Principles and practices of general, fund, and government accounting.
- Advanced principles, tools, and techniques of project planning and management.
- Organizational administration and management theories.
- Plain Language report writing guidelines.
- Principles of supervision, training, and performance evaluation.
Skill/Ability in:
- Overseeing and participating in managing a comprehensive audit or investigation program, including developing and administering department goals, objectives, policies, and procedures.
- Selecting, supervising, training, leading, directing, motivating, and evaluating staff.
- Effectively planning and designing audit and/or investigation plans, including detailed methodologies, for complex audit projects and investigation activities.
- Analyzing and assessing programs, policies, and activities of an organization, including applicable laws, regulations, and best practices, and developing recommendations for improvements and new service delivery methods and techniques.
- Reviewing completed audit and investigation work products for quality assurance control and compliance with applicable audit or investigation standards.
- Preparing clear and concise audit, investigation, and administrative reports.
- Clear oral communication, including public speaking.
- Working under strict deadlines and being able to shift gears as needed to respond to emerging priorities.
- Anticipating future needs and making decisions in a changing environment.
- Interviewing potential witnesses and subjects of investigations.
- Handling sensitive and confidential information appropriately.
- Establishing and maintaining professional, effective, and independent, yet collaborative working relationships with those contacted in the course of work.
