Environmental & Social Risk Specialist Development Finance Corporion Office of Development Policy (ODP) Summary This position is loced in the Office of Development Policy (ODP) the U.S. Internional Development Finance Corporion (DFC), and conducts environmental and social (E&S) risk assessments for projects which identify, assess, and avoid adverse E&S impacts under considerion for DFC support, across the spectrum of products, including debt finance, insurance, equity finance, or financial intermediaries. Learn more about this agency Summary This position is loced in the Office of Development Policy (ODP) the U.S. Internional Development Finance Corporion (DFC), and conducts environmental and social (E&S) risk assessments for projects which identify, assess, and avoid adverse E&S impacts under considerion for DFC support, across the spectrum of products, including debt finance, insurance, equity finance, or financial intermediaries. Learn more about this agency Overview Help Accepting applicions Locion Washington, DC 2 vacancies No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible Yes—as determined by the agency policy. Remote job No Relocion expenses reimbursed No Salary $85,447 - $158,322 per year Pay scale & grade
GS 11 - 13
Promotion potential 13 Learn more about pay scale and grade Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job. Work schedule Full-time Travel Required Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position. Appointment type Permanent Occupions and job series 0301 Miscellaneous Administrion And Program Supervisory stus No Federal service type This job is in the Competitive Service Represented by a union Yes Drug test No Security clearance Not Required Position sensitivity and risk Non-sensitive (NS)/Low Risk Jobs require a background check and some require a security clearance . The type depends on the job. Background check type Credentialing Suitability/Fitness Financial disclosure required No Some jobs require financial disclosure to identify conflicts of interests. Announcement number 26-ODP-DE-13061171-BN Control number 884405600 This job is open to Help The public U.S. Citizens, Nionals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S. Clarificion from the agency Open to the public Duties Help As an E&S Risk Specialist ( the full performance level), you will: Identify, collect, and provide in-depth analysis of relevant informion concerning: the potential impact of proposed projects on the environment, workers, local populions of the host country(ies). Review and assess prospective and active DFC clients and supported projects for their alignment and compliance with DFC's environmental and social requirements, including the Internional Finance Corporion (IFC) Performance Standards and DFC's Environmental and Social Policy and Procedures (ESPP). Identify suggested improvements to the approaches to management of environmental and social risks th can lead to improved social, environmental, and financial performance. Provide or support guidance to prospective clients and DFC staff regarding DFC's E&S policies and procedures and the approprie content, procedures, and form for conducting and presenting Environmental and Social Impact Assessments, Environmental and Social Audits, Environmental and Social Management Plans, Annual Environmental and Social Reports, and Third-Party Audits. Prepare highly technical environmental and social clearances and other assessments, reviews or studies as required. Make or support recommendions to DFC management regarding project eligibility and conditionality on environmental and social grounds and specify environmental and social conditions of default to be included in DFC finance, insurance, equity, and investment funds agreements. Monitor the actual environmental, health, safety, and social impacts of previously approved DFC projects through analysis of investor and third-party monitoring reports, review and tracking of deliverables and through site s. Prepare reports identifying issues of non-compliance with DFC contract conditions and make recommendions for approprie corrective action. Synthesize technical E&S analysis into succinct and comprehensible summaries approprie for non-technical audiences. Draft environmental and social sections of Investment Committee and Board papers. Provide clear and effective briefings, written or oral, to DFC staff, DFC management, DFC Investment Committee, and DFC's Board of Directors. Draft environmental and social conditions for inclusion into DFC contractual agreements with its clients.
Please Note :
This is a Bargaining unit position represented by AFGE, local 1534. Requirements Help Conditions of employment Must be a U.S. Citizen or Nional Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service Must submit resume and supporting documents (See How To Apply) Suitability for Federal employment, as determined by a background investigion May be required to successfully complete a probionary period This position will require foreign travel to developing countries Qualificions Applicants must meet all eligibility and qualificion requirements no ler than the closing de of this announcement. You may qualify the GS-11 level, if you fulfill one of the following qualificion requirements: A. One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-09 grade level in the Federal service th demonstres your experience in all of the following: Experience conducting research or analysis on environmental and social sustainability/sustainable development topics in an internional context. OR B. A Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree; or 3 full years of progressively higher level gradue educion leading to such a degree; or possession of a LL.M. degree, if reled. Gradue level educion must demonstre the competencies necessary to do the work of the position; OR C. A combinion of educion and experience as listed above. You may qualify the GS-12 level, if you fulfill the following qualificion requirements: A. One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service th demonstres your experience in all of the following: Experience analyzing and applying internional frameworks or standards reled to environmental and social sustainability and performance, such as those from the Internional Finance Corporion (IFC) or an internional organizion such as the United Nions or the Organision for Economic Co-operion and Development (OECD).
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Educion is not substitutional this grade level. You may qualify the GS-13 level, if you fulfill the following qualificion requirements: A. One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service th demonstres your experience in all of the following: Experience supporting environmental and social impact assessments of prive investments in a range of sectors (i.e. agriculture, financial intermediaries, infrastructure, extractives) against internional standards, such as the Internional Finance Corporion's Performance Standards; and Experience identifying potential environmental and social risks in investments or projects and proposing mitigion and management measures to leadership.
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Educion is not substitutional this grade level. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through Nional Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizions (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience th transles directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. This position is being advertised concurrently with vacancy announcement 26-ODP-ST-13061172-BN using Merit Promotion (MP) procedures. If interested, refer to th announcement to determine if you meet MP requirements and can apply to th announcement.
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You must apply separely to each announcement in order to be considered under both. This announcement may be used to fill similar positions, if additional vacancies occur. Educion
ARE YOU USING YOUR EDUCATION TO QUALIFY?
You MUST provide transcripts or other documention to support your educional claims.
Unless otherwise sted:
(1) official or unofficial transcripts are acceptable, or (2) you may submit a list with all of your courses, grades, semester, year, and credit for the course. All merials must be submitted by the closing de of the announcement. Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring.
PASS/FAIL COURSES
If more than 10 percent of your undergradue course work (credit hours) were taken on a pass/fail basis, your claim of superior academic achievement must be based upon class standing or membership in an honor society.
GRADUATE EDUCATION
One academic year of gradue educion is considered to be the number of credits hours your gradue school has determined to represent one academic year of full-time study. Such study may have been performed on a full-time or part-time basis. If you cannot obtain your gradue school's definition of one year of gradue study, 18 semester hours (or 27 quarter hours) should be considered as sisfying the requirement for one year of full-time gradue study.
FOREIGN EDUCATION
is educion acquired outside of any Ste of the U.S., the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, a Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, or any territory or possession of the U.S. If you are using foreign educion to meet qualificion and/or eligibility requirements, you must submit a Certifice of Foreign Equivalency (a U.S. prive organizion's interpretion th such educion has been deemed least equivalent to conventional U.S. educion programs or full credit has been given for the courses a U.S. accredited college or university) with your applicion in order to receive credit for th educion. (Foreign educion transcripts will not be accepted). For more informion regarding evaluion of foreign educion for federal employment, please the U.S. Department of Educion webpage on the Recognition of Foreign Qualificions . All transcripts must be in English or include an English translion. Additional informion
Career Transition Assistance Programs :
These programs apply to employees who have been involuntarily separed from a Federal service position within the competitive service or Federal service employees whose positions have been deemed surplus or no longer needed. To receive selection priority for this position, you must: 1) meet CTAP or ICTAP eligibility criteria; 2) be red well-qualified for the position with a score of 85 or above; and 3) submit the approprie documention to support your CTAP or ICTAP eligibility.
For more informion:
http://www.opm.gov/rif/employee_guides/career_transition.asp) . If you are a veteran with preference eligibility and are claiming 5-points veterans' preference , you must submit a copy of your DD-214 or other proof of eligibility showing type of discharge/character of service. If you are claiming 10-point veterans' preference , you must submit documention from the Departments of Veterans Affairs (VA) showing type of discharge/character of service and your disability percentage. You may also submit an SF-15, "Applicion for 10-Point Veterans' Preference" plus the documents listed in this form to support the claim for veteran preference. For more informion on veterans' preference : https://www.usajobs.gov/Veterans . Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service (see https://www.sss.gov/verify/ ).
Telework Suitability :
The duties of this position are suitable for telework. The selectee may be allowed episodic or emergency telework with supervisor approval & if they meet the eligibility criterion in the 2010 Telework Act.
Stipulions of Employment :
Selection may require completion of a 1-year probionary period.
Work Schedule :
This position allows for a flexible work schedule. If selection is made below the full performance level, promotion up to the full performance level may be made without further competition. However, promotion(s) will depend on the performance of the incumbent and are not guaranteed. Recruitment & relocion incentives may be authorized for this position. Under the Fair Chance to Compete Act, the U.S. Internional Development Finance Corporion prohibits requesting an applicant's criminal history prior to accepting a tentive job offer (TJO).
Please https:
//www.dfc.gov/who-we-are/careers/fairchanceact for more informion. Reasonable Accommodion (RA)
Requests:
If you believe you have a disability (i.e., physical or mental), covered by the Rehabilition Act of 1973 as amended th would interfere with completing the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, you granted the opportunity to request a RA in your online applicion. Requests for RA for the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments and approprie supporting documention for RA must be received prior to starting the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments. Decisions on requests for RA are made on a case-by-case basis. If you meet the minimum qualificions of the position, after notificion of the adjudicion of your request, you will receive an email invition to complete the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, based on your adjudicion decision. You must complete all assessments within 48 hours of receiving the URL to access the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments if you received the link after the close of the announcement. To determine if you need a RA, please review the Procedures for Requesting a Reasonable Accommodion for Online Assessments . Expand Hide additional informion Candides should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passione about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United Stes Constitution. Benefits Help A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits . Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. How you evalued You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above. You evalued based on how well you meet the qualificions listed in this vacancy announcement. Your qualificions evalued based on your applicion merials (e.g., resume, supporting documents), your responses on the applicion questionnaire, and your responses to all assessments required for this position. You assessed on the following competencies (knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics): Attention to Detail Customer Service Decision Making Flexibility Integrity/Honesty Interpersonal Skills Learning Reading Comprehension Reasoning Self-Management Stress Tolerance Teamwork Technical Competence Environmental & Social Impact Assessment Writing Oral Communicion Environmental & Social Compliance Oversting your qualificions and/or experience in your applicion merials or applicion questionnaire may result in your removal from considerion. Cheing on an assessment may also result in your removal from considerion. You may preview the
The DFC adheres to the Rule of Many. Under Rule of Many, a numerical ranking process is used to evalue applicants through valided assessments to produce a numeric score. Veterans' preference points (10- or 5-point) are then added to passing scores, and applicants are listed on the certifice in score order. This announcement uses the Mechanism C- Set number of highest-ranked eligibles method under 5 CFR § 332.402. All applicants tied the cut line referred. We will provide the selecting official a sufficient number of names, when available, to consider least three candides per vacancy. If fewer than three eligible and available candides per vacancy result, we will expand the group in accordance with our pre-announced supplement stregy and OPM policy.
Simultaneous Listing:
Candides may be referred simultaneously on multiple certifices for which they are interested, eligible, and within reach. Benefits Help A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits . Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. Required documents Required Documents Help To apply for this position, you must submit a complete Applicion Package which includes: 1. Your resume showing work schedule, hours worked per week, des of employment and duties performed.
IMPORTANT UPDATE
Your resume must not exceed two (2) pages. If your resume exceeds the two-page limit, you removed from considerion for this announcement. 2. Your responses to the applicion questionnaire: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/13061171 3.
Other supporting documents:
Cover Letter, optional College transcript(s), if qualifying based on educion. If using foreign educion, submit a Certifice of Foreign Equivalency (refer to the Educion, Foreign Educion, section in this vacancy announcement). Veterans' Preference documention, if applicable (e.g., DD-214 showing type of discharge/character of service, SF-15 Form and reled documention, VA letter, etc.) Career Transition Assistance Program/Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program documention, if applicable (e.g., Certificion of Expected Separion, Reduction-In-Force Separion Notice, or Notice of Proposed Removal; SF-50 th documents the RIF separion action; and most recent performance appraisal.) How to Apply Help Please read the entire announcement and all the instructions before you begin an applicion. To apply and be considered for this position, you must complete all required questionnaires, assessments and submit all required documention as specified in the How to Apply and Required Documents section. The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on the closing de of the announcement to receive considerion. The applicion process is as follows: Click the Apply Online button. Answer the questions presented in the applicion and tach all necessary supporting documention. Click the Submit Applicion button prior to 11:59 PM (ET) on the announcement closing de. If you are required to complete any USA Hire Assessments, you notified after submitting your applicion. The notificion provided in your applicion submission screen and via email. The notificion will include your unique assessment access link to the USA Hire system and the completion deadline. Additionally, in USAJOBS you can click "Track this applicion" to return to your assessment completion notice. Access USA Hire using your unique assessment link. Access is granted through your USAJOBS login credentials. Review all instructions prior to beginning your assessments. You will have the opportunity to request a testing accommodion before beginning the assessments should you have a disability covered under the Rehabilition Act of 1973 as amended. Set aside about two (2) hours to take the USA Hire Assessments; however, most applicants complete the assessments in less time. If you need to stop the assessments and continue ler, you can re-use your unique assessment link. Your responses to the USA Hire Assessments reused for one year (in most cases) from the de you complete an assessment. If future applicions you submit require completion of the same assessments, your responses automically reused. Visit the USA Hire Applicant Resource Center for practice assessments and assessment preparion resources https://support-usahire.opm.gov/hc/en-us . To upde your applicion, including supporting documention: During the announcement open period, return to your USAJOBS account, find your applicion record, and click Edit my applicion . This option will no longer be available once the announcement has closed. To view the announcement stus or your applicion stus: Visit https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/howto/applicion/stus/ . Your applicion stus page is where you can view your applicion stus, USA Hire assessment completion stus, and review your notificions sent by the hiring agency regarding your applicion. Do not submit photographs with your applicion package. Documents with photographs may not be seen by hiring officials - you must remove your image from any badges, licenses, etc. If your resume includes a photograph or other inapproprie merial or content (e.g. SSN or DOB), your resume will not be used to make eligibility and qualificion determinions and you will not be considered for this vacancy. Documents submitted as part of the applicion package, to include supplemental documents, may be shared beyond the Human Resources Office. Some supplemental documents such as military orders and marriage certifices may contain personal informion for someone other than you. You may sanitize these documents to remove another person's personal informion before you submit your applicion. You may be asked to provide an un-sanitized version of the documents if you are selected to confirm your eligibility. Do not upload Adobe portfolio documents. Adobe portfolio documents are not viewable by our agency's staffing offices. It is your responsibility to ensure all required documents have been submitted prior to the closing de of the announcement. Agency contact informion Brandon Nicknadavich brandon.nicknadavich@dfc.gov Address Internional Development Finance Corporion 1100 New York Ave. NW Washington, DC 20527 US Next steps For stus updes on your applicion, please follow the directions listed above in the How to Apply section. Once your online applicion is submitted you will receive a confirmion notificion by email. If you are selected for an interview for this position, you contacted directly. A final job offer for this position is typically made within several weeks after the closing de of the vacancy announcement. After confirming a job offer, all other applicants notified of their non-selection. Fair and transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request Required Documents Help To apply for this position, you must submit a complete Applicion Package which includes: 1. Your resume showing work schedule, hours worked per week, des of employment and duties performed.
IMPORTANT UPDATE
Your resume must not exceed two (2) pages. If your resume exceeds the two-page limit, you removed from considerion for this announcement. 2. Your responses to the applicion questionnaire: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/13061171 3.
Other supporting documents:
Cover Letter, optional College transcript(s), if qualifying based on educion. If using foreign educion, submit a Certifice of Foreign Equivalency (refer to the Educion, Foreign Educion, section in this vacancy announcement). Veterans' Preference documention, if applicable (e.g., DD-214 showing type of discharge/character of service, SF-15 Form and reled documention, VA letter, etc.) Career Transition Assistance Program/Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program documention, if applicable (e.g., Certificion of Expected Separion, Reduction-In-Force Separion Notice, or Notice of Proposed Removal; SF-50 th documents the RIF separion action; and most recent performance appraisal.) How to Apply Help Please read the entire announcement and all the instructions before you begin an applicion. To apply and be considered for this position, you must complete all required questionnaires, assessments and submit all required documention as specified in the How to Apply and Required Documents section. The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on the closing de of the announcement to receive considerion. The applicion process is as follows: Click the Apply Online button. Answer the questions presented in the applicion and tach all necessary supporting documention. Click the Submit Applicion button prior to 11:59 PM (ET) on the announcement closing de. If you are required to complete any USA Hire Assessments, you notified after submitting your applicion. The notificion provided in your applicion submission screen and via email. The notificion will include your unique assessment access link to the USA Hire system and the completion deadline. Additionally, in USAJOBS you can click "Track this applicion" to return to your assessment completion notice. Access USA Hire using your unique assessment link. Access is granted through your USAJOBS login credentials. Review all instructions prior to beginning your assessments. You will have the opportunity to request a testing accommodion before beginning the assessments should you have a disability covered under the Rehabilition Act of 1973 as amended. Set aside about two (2) hours to take the USA Hire Assessments; however, most applicants complete the assessments in less time. If you need to stop the assessments and continue ler, you can re-use your unique assessment link. Your responses to the USA Hire Assessments reused for one year (in most cases) from the de you complete an assessment. If future applicions you submit require completion of the same assessments, your responses automically reused. Visit the USA Hire Applicant Resource Center for practice assessments and assessment preparion resources https://support-usahire.opm.gov/hc/en-us . To upde your applicion, including supporting documention: During the announcement open period, return to your USAJOBS account, find your applicion record, and click Edit my applicion . This option will no longer be available once the announcement has closed. To view the announcement stus or your applicion stus: Visit https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/howto/applicion/stus/ . Your applicion stus page is where you can view your applicion stus, USA Hire assessment completion stus, and review your notificions sent by the hiring agency regarding your applicion. Do not submit photographs with your applicion package. Documents with photographs may not be seen by hiring officials - you must remove your image from any badges, licenses, etc. If your resume includes a photograph or other inapproprie merial or content (e.g. SSN or DOB), your resume will not be used to make eligibility and qualificion determinions and you will not be considered for this vacancy. Documents submitted as part of the applicion package, to include supplemental documents, may be shared beyond the Human Resources Office. Some supplemental documents such as military orders and marriage certifices may contain personal informion for someone other than you. You may sanitize these documents to remove another person's personal informion before you submit your applicion. You may be asked to provide an un-sanitized version of the documents if you are selected to confirm your eligibility. Do not upload Adobe portfolio documents. Adobe portfolio documents are not viewable by our agency's staffing offices. It is your responsibility to ensure all required documents have been submitted prior to the closing de of the announcement. Expand Hide how to apply Agency contact informion Brandon Nicknadavich brandon.nicknadavich@dfc.gov Address Internional Development Finance Corporion 1100 New York Ave. NW Washington, DC 20527 US Next steps For stus updes on your applicion, please follow the directions listed above in the How to Apply section. Once your online applicion is submitted you will receive a confirmion notificion by email. If you are selected for an interview for this position, you contacted directly. A final job offer for this position is typically made within several weeks after the closing de of the vacancy announcement. After confirming a job offer, all other applicants notified of their non-selection. Expand Hide next steps Fair and transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request Overview Help Accepting applicions Locion Washington, DC 2 vacancies No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible Yes—as determined by the agency policy. Remote job No Relocion expenses reimbursed No Salary $85,447 - $158,322 per year Pay scale & grade
GS 11 - 13
Promotion potential 13 Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job. Work schedule Full-time Travel Required Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position. Appointment type Permanent Occupions and job series Supervisory stus No Federal service type This job is in the Competitive Service Represented by a union Yes Drug test No Security clearance Not Required Position sensitivity and risk Jobs require a and some require a . The type depends on the job. Background check type Financial disclosure required No Some jobs require to identify conflicts of interests. Announcement number 26-ODP-DE-13061171-BN Control number 884405600