Senior Confidential Assistant

Senior Confidential Assistant Department of Housing and Urban Development Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development Summary This position is loced in the Department of Housing and Urban Development , Asst Secretary for Community Planning and Development . Learn more about this agency Summary This position is loced in the Department of Housing and Urban Development , Asst Secretary for Community Planning and Development . Learn more about this agency Overview Help Accepting applicions Posted this month

• Apply by 06/01/26 Due by 11:59 p.m. ET on June 1, 2026 Locion Alexandria, VA No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible Yes—as determined by the agency policy. Remote job No Relocion expenses reimbursed No Salary $169,279
• $197,200 per year Pay scale & grade GS 15 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 No Drug test No Security clearance Other 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-HUD-12949625 Control number 870451200 This job is open to Help Internal to an agency Current federal employees of the hiring agency th posted the job announcement. Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL) Federal employees whose job, agency or department was elimined and are eligible for priority over other applicants. Clarificion from the agency This job is open to: 1. Current HUD Office of Community Planning and Development (CPD) internal employees qualifying as Stus Candides, or current HUD Office of Community Planning and Development internal employees serving on a Veterans Recruitment Appointment (VRA), or 2. CTAP eligibles. Duties Help HUD's Mission The mission of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is to foster strong communities by supporting access to quality, affordable housing, expanding the housing supply, and unlocking homeownership opportunities for the American people. The Department is committed to furthering the promise of self-sufficiency in every American while promoting economic development to revitalize rural, tribal, and urban communities across the country. This position is loced in the Office of Community Planning and Development (CPD). CPD seeks to develop viable communities by promoting integred approaches th provide decent housing, a suitable living environment, and expand economic opportunities for low and modere-income persons. The primary means toward this end is the development of partnerships among all levels of government and the prive sector, including for-profit and non-profit organizions. As a Senior Confidential Assistant , you will: Be responsible for the interpretion and implemention of legislion, regulions, and new legislive issuances as well as policies governing other programs and having an impact on CPD. Provide input for studies of CPD activities th are conducted by other federal agencies such as the Government Accountability Office and nional public interest groups. Represent CPD leadership in meetings with OMB, other federal agencies, and other HUD organizional elements and outside groups. Requirements Help Conditions of employment The official duty stion for this position in Alexandria, Virginia . Failure to report to duty this locion may be grounds for a disciplinary action, including removal.

Key Requirements:

Must be U.S. Citizen or U.S. Nional. A probionary or trial period may be required. Continued employment is contingent upon supervisory certificion th continued employment nefit the Federal Service; the certificion will occur no less than 30 days before the end of the probionary/trial period. Must successfully complete a background investigion. Complete a Declarion for Federal Employment to determine your suitability for Federal employment, the time requested by the agency. Have your salary sent to a financial institution of your choice by Direct Deposit/Electronic Funds Transfer. If you are a male applicant born after December 31, 1959, certify th you have registered with the Selective Service System or are exempt from having to do so. Go through a Personal Identity Verificion (PIV) process th requires two forms of identificion from the Form i-9. Federal law requires verificion of the identity and employment eligibility of all new hires in the U.S. Obtain and use a Government-issued charge card for business-reled travel. Please refer to "Additional Informion Section for additional Conditions of Employment." Qualificions You must meet the following requirements within 30 days of the closing de of this announcement.

Specialized Experience:

For the GS-15 , you must have one year (52 full weeks) of specialized experience a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-14 grade level in the Federal service . Specialized Experience for this position includes:

• Work across programs and offices to make stregic recommendions and facilite sensitive decisions, including those reled to policy coordinion and regulion, with executive-level officials.
• Collabore with other federal agencies, external organizions, and internal offices across the Department on cross-cutting programs and operional initiives.
• Develop outreach merials and planned and executed nional events while ensuring alignment with Administrion priorities.

The experience may have been gained in either the public, prive sector or volunteer service . One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-time work is considered on a prored basis. To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indice des of employment by month/day/year, and indice number of hours worked per week on your resume.

Time-in-Grade:

In addition to the above requirements, you must meet the following time-in-grade requirement , if applicable: For the GS-15 you must have been the GS-14 level for 52 weeks.

Time After Competitive Appointment:

Candides who are current Federal employees serving on a non-temporary competitive appointment must have served least three months in th appointment. Educion This job does not have an educion qualificion requirement. Additional informion

OTHER INFORMATION

We may select from this announcement or any other source to fill one or more vacancies. Relocion expenses will not be paid. Relocion incentive will not be paid. Recruitment incentive will not be paid. This is a non-bargaining unit position. This position is Exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). HUD offers alternive and flexible work schedules. This announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies for similar positions across HUD. During the online applicion process, you asked to specify if you would like your applicion informion shared with other hiring managers in the Program Office listed in this announcement or in other HUD Program Offices. Opting to share your applicion informion will not impact your applicion for this announcement, nor will it guarantee further considerion for additional positions.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

(CONTINUED): HUD employees are subject to a number of government-wide and HUD specific ethics laws and regulions, including restrictions on working in a real este reled business, and having Section 8 tenants, along with other prohibited interests and activities. To review applicable ethics rules and HUD specific restrictions, please https://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/general_counsel/ethics . 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 . Review our 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. Your applicion includes your resume, responses to the online questions, and required supporting documents. Please be sure th your resume includes detailed informion to support your qualificions for this position; failure to provide sufficient evidence in your resume may result in a "not qualified" determinion.

Ring :

Eligible and qualified applicants evalued through a structured interview based on the competencies listed below. The interview conducted by subject mter expert(s) of the position as a formal assessment. Communicions and Media

• Knowledge of the production, communicion and disseminion of informion and ideas to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media. Educion and Training
• Knowledge of teaching, training, research, making presentions, lecturing, testing, and other instructional methods. Technical Competence
• Uses knowledge th is acquired through formal training or extensive on-the-job experience to perform one's job; works with, understands, and evalues technical informion reled to the job; advises others on technical issues. Teamwork
• Encourages and facilites cooperion, pride, trust, and group identity; fosters commitment and team spirit; works with others to achieve goals.

To be considered for final selection, applicants must demonstre highly qualified experience in these designed competencies during the structured interview. If you are among the top qualified candides, your applicion may be referred to a selecting official for considerion. You may be required to participe in a selection interview." If you are a displaced or surplus Federal employee (eligible for the Career Transition Assistance Plan(CTAP)/Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP )) you must be assigned the middle cegory or better to be red as "well qualified" to receive special selection priority. 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 . Review our 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 A complete applicion includes: 1.

A resume:

All applicants are required to submit a resume either by creing one in USAJOBS or uploading one of their own choosing. (Cover letters are optional.) USA Jobs restricts resume uploads to a maximum of 2 pages . Resumes tached in other sections (such as "Documents" or "Other") will not be considered in the determinion of specialized experience. If multiple resumes are submitted, the resume submitted last (based on time stamp) the only one reviewed as a part of your applicion. To ensure readability, resumes must be formted using an easy-to-read font (such as Lo, Calibri, or Arial) with a minimum font size of 10-points and margins no smaller than 0.5 inches. Failure to follow these formting guidelines may result in disqualificion from further considerion. To receive full credit for relevant experience, please list the month/de/year and number of hours worked for experience listed on your resume. For resume writing guidance, please USAJOBS Help Center

• How do I write a resume for a federal job?

2.

Vacancy question responses:

All applicants are required to complete vacancy question responses by clicking the apply online button of this vacancy announcement. 3.

Performance Appraisal or explanion:

Submit a copy of all pages of your most recent completed annual performance appraisal, ded within 12 months of the opening de of this announcement, th includes the final ring. In cases where the performance appraisal is more than 12 months old, incomplete, missing pages, or unavailable, you must tach a written explanion of the reasons. Failure to do so may prevent you from being considered for this position. If you do not have your most recent performance appraisal or have not received one in the last 12 months, please submit a stement as to why it is not available when completing your questionnaire. 4. Submission of any required documents identified below, if applicable: Please note th if you do not provide all required informion, as specified in this announcement, you may not be considered for this position (or may not receive the special considerion for which you may be eligible)

CURRENT EMPLOYEES

• Documention Reling to Your Federal Employment
• Submit a copy of your most recent SF-50 (Notificion of Personnel Action) showing competitive service as Tenure 1 or 2 (Block 24), Position Occupied as 1
• Competitive Service (Block 34), current Grade (Block 18) and Salary (Block 20).

Submit a copy of your most recent SF-50 th indices you are a current HUD employee of the Office of Community Planning and Development . IF you do not have a copy of your SF-50 th indices this informion, you must upload an explanion. Applicions without this informion will not be Typically Award SF-50s do not provide the required informion. If the full performance level of your position is different from the grade indiced in Block 18, please provide proof of the full performance level. If your highest permanent grade is different from your current grade, submit a copy of an additional SF-50 showing th grade. If you are currently on a Veterans' Recruitment Appointment (VRA) or Disability Appointment , you must submit a copy of an SF-50 indicing th type of appointment. Also, you must submit a copy of your DD214 or other documention showing des of service and type of discharge and any other applicable documents such as

SF-15, VA

letters, etc.

CAREER TRANSITION ASSISTANCE PLAN

(CTAP)

DOCUMENTATION

: If you are a displaced or surplus Federal employee, click

CTAP/ICTAP

for eligibility and a detailed list of required documents you must submit in order to be eligible. How to Apply Help HUD has partnered with the Department of Treasury to provide certain personnel services to its organizion. Treasury's responsibilities include advertising vacancies, accepting and handling applicions, and extending job offers. Please review the entire announcement before applying. The following instructions outline our applicion process. You must complete this applicion process and submit any required documents by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on the closing de of this announcement. We are available to assist you during business hours (normally 8:00 a.m.

• 5:00 p.m. ET, Monday
• Friday).

If applying online poses a hardship, please contact us by noon ET on the announcement's closing de. HUD provides reasonable accommodion to applicants with disabilities on a case-by-case basis. Please contact us if you require this for any part of the applicion and hiring process. To begin, click Apply to access the online applicion. You will need to be logged into your USAJOBS account to apply. If you do not have a USAJOBS account, you will need to cree one before beginning the applicion. Follow the prompts to select your resume and/or other supporting documents to be included with your applicion package. You will have the opportunity to upload additional documents to include in your applicion before it is submitted. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process. After acknowledging you have reviewed your applicion package, complete the Include Personal Informion section as you deem approprie and click to continue with the applicion process. You taken to the online applicion which you must complete in order to apply for the position. Complete the online applicion, verify the required documention is included with your applicion package, and submit the applicion. To verify the stus of your applicion: Log into your USAJOBS account ( USAJOBS Login ) A list of announcements in which you have applied the Welcome screen Under "applicion stus," click "Track this applicion" and you taken to the agency website where you can check your applicion stus. For more informion regarding the job and applicant stus, please refer to https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/how-to/applicion/stus/ . If you wish to make changes/updes to your applicion and the vacancy is still open, you can click on the job announcement and "Upde Applicion" to be taken back to your applicion. No updes can be made once the announcement has closed. Please notify us if your contact informion changes after the closing de of the announcement. Also, note th if you provide an email address th is inaccure or if your mailbox is full or blocked (e.g., spam-blocker), you may not receive important communicion th could affect your considerion for this position. For more informion regarding the job and applicant stus, please refer to USAJOBS Help Center

• How to see your applicion and job stus To preview the questionnaire: https://apply.

usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12949625 The Fair Chance to Compete for Jobs Act prohibits specific inquiries concerning an applicant's criminal or credit background unless the hiring agency has made a conditional offer of employment to the applicant. An applicant may submit a complaint, or any other informion, to the agency within 30 calendar days of the de of alleged non-compliance by contacting: FairChanceAct@hud.gov Wh are criminal history inquiries? Agency contact informion Applicant Call Center Phone 304-480-7300 hudinquiries@fiscal.treasury.gov Address Asst Secretary for Community Planning and Development Treasury Common Services Center Parkersburg, WV 26101 US Next steps Once the online questionnaire is received, you will receive an acknowledgement email th your submission was successful. We will review your resume and transcript(s) (if approprie) to ensure you meet the basic qualificion requirements. We will evalue each applicant who meets the basic qualificions on the informion provided and may interview the best-qualified applicants. After making a tentive job offer, we will conduct any required suitability and/or security background investigion. 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 A complete applicion includes: 1.

A resume:

All applicants are required to submit a resume either by creing one in USAJOBS or uploading one of their own choosing. (Cover letters are optional.) USA Jobs restricts resume uploads to a maximum of 2 pages . Resumes tached in other sections (such as "Documents" or "Other") will not be considered in the determinion of specialized experience. If multiple resumes are submitted, the resume submitted last (based on time stamp) the only one reviewed as a part of your applicion. To ensure readability, resumes must be formted using an easy-to-read font (such as Lo, Calibri, or Arial) with a minimum font size of 10-points and margins no smaller than 0.5 inches. Failure to follow these formting guidelines may result in disqualificion from further considerion. To receive full credit for relevant experience, please list the month/de/year and number of hours worked for experience listed on your resume. For resume writing guidance, please USAJOBS Help Center

• How do I write a resume for a federal job?

2.

Vacancy question responses:

All applicants are required to complete vacancy question responses by clicking the apply online button of this vacancy announcement. 3.

Performance Appraisal or explanion:

Submit a copy of all pages of your most recent completed annual performance appraisal, ded within 12 months of the opening de of this announcement, th includes the final ring. In cases where the performance appraisal is more than 12 months old, incomplete, missing pages, or unavailable, you must tach a written explanion of the reasons. Failure to do so may prevent you from being considered for this position. If you do not have your most recent performance appraisal or have not received one in the last 12 months, please submit a stement as to why it is not available when completing your questionnaire. 4. Submission of any required documents identified below, if applicable: Please note th if you do not provide all required informion, as specified in this announcement, you may not be considered for this position (or may not receive the special considerion for which you may be eligible)

CURRENT EMPLOYEES

• Documention Reling to Your Federal Employment
• Submit a copy of your most recent SF-50 (Notificion of Personnel Action) showing competitive service as Tenure 1 or 2 (Block 24), Position Occupied as 1
• Competitive Service (Block 34), current Grade (Block 18) and Salary (Block 20).

Submit a copy of your most recent SF-50 th indices you are a current HUD employee of the Office of Community Planning and Development . IF you do not have a copy of your SF-50 th indices this informion, you must upload an explanion. Applicions without this informion will not be Typically Award SF-50s do not provide the required informion. If the full performance level of your position is different from the grade indiced in Block 18, please provide proof of the full performance level. If your highest permanent grade is different from your current grade, submit a copy of an additional SF-50 showing th grade. If you are currently on a Veterans' Recruitment Appointment (VRA) or Disability Appointment , you must submit a copy of an SF-50 indicing th type of appointment. Also, you must submit a copy of your DD214 or other documention showing des of service and type of discharge and any other applicable documents such as

SF-15, VA

letters, etc.

CAREER TRANSITION ASSISTANCE PLAN

(CTAP)

DOCUMENTATION

: If you are a displaced or surplus Federal employee, click

CTAP/ICTAP

for eligibility and a detailed list of required documents you must submit in order to be eligible. How to Apply Help HUD has partnered with the Department of Treasury to provide certain personnel services to its organizion. Treasury's responsibilities include advertising vacancies, accepting and handling applicions, and extending job offers. Please review the entire announcement before applying. The following instructions outline our applicion process. You must complete this applicion process and submit any required documents by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on the closing de of this announcement. We are available to assist you during business hours (normally 8:00 a.m.

• 5:00 p.m. ET, Monday
• Friday).

If applying online poses a hardship, please contact us by noon ET on the announcement's closing de. HUD provides reasonable accommodion to applicants with disabilities on a case-by-case basis. Please contact us if you require this for any part of the applicion and hiring process. To begin, click Apply to access the online applicion. You will need to be logged into your USAJOBS account to apply. If you do not have a USAJOBS account, you will need to cree one before beginning the applicion. Follow the prompts to select your resume and/or other supporting documents to be included with your applicion package. You will have the opportunity to upload additional documents to include in your applicion before it is submitted. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process. After acknowledging you have reviewed your applicion package, complete the Include Personal Informion section as you deem approprie and click to continue with the applicion process. You taken to the online applicion which you must complete in order to apply for the position. Complete the online applicion, verify the required documention is included with your applicion package, and submit the applicion. To verify the stus of your applicion: Log into your USAJOBS account ( USAJOBS Login ) A list of announcements in which you have applied the Welcome screen Under "applicion stus," click "Track this applicion" and you taken to the agency website where you can check your applicion stus. For more informion regarding the job and applicant stus, please refer to https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/how-to/applicion/stus/ . If you wish to make changes/updes to your applicion and the vacancy is still open, you can click on the job announcement and "Upde Applicion" to be taken back to your applicion. No updes can be made once the announcement has closed. Please notify us if your contact informion changes after the closing de of the announcement. Also, note th if you provide an email address th is inaccure or if your mailbox is full or blocked (e.g., spam-blocker), you may not receive important communicion th could affect your considerion for this position. For more informion regarding the job and applicant stus, please refer to USAJOBS Help Center

• How to see your applicion and job stus To preview the questionnaire: https://apply.

usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12949625 The Fair Chance to Compete for Jobs Act prohibits specific inquiries concerning an applicant's criminal or credit background unless the hiring agency has made a conditional offer of employment to the applicant. An applicant may submit a complaint, or any other informion, to the agency within 30 calendar days of the de of alleged non-compliance by contacting: FairChanceAct@hud.gov Wh are criminal history inquiries? Expand Hide how to apply Agency contact informion Applicant Call Center Phone 304-480-7300 hudinquiries@fiscal.treasury.gov Address Asst Secretary for Community Planning and Development Treasury Common Services Center Parkersburg, WV 26101 US Next steps Once the online questionnaire is received, you will receive an acknowledgement email th your submission was successful. We will review your resume and transcript(s) (if approprie) to ensure you meet the basic qualificion requirements. We will evalue each applicant who meets the basic qualificions on the informion provided and may interview the best-qualified applicants. After making a tentive job offer, we will conduct any required suitability and/or security background investigion. 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 Posted this month

• Apply by 06/01/26 Due by 11:59 p.m. ET on June 1, 2026 Locion Alexandria, VA No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible Yes—as determined by the agency policy. Remote job No Relocion expenses reimbursed No Salary $169,279
• $197,200 per year Pay scale & grade GS 15 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 No Drug test No Security clearance Other 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-HUD-12949625 Control number 870451200