The CIO at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is looking for a new chief of staff to help managed the day-to-day operations and represent the agency at interdepartmental meetings and with Congress and other outside groups.
The Office of the CIO is looking for someone with considerable administrative experience (GS-15 or higher) to work with staff and contractors on daily and long-term management issues.
USAJobs: ICE OCIO Chief of Staff
The role will function in support of ICE CIO Michael Brown, who stepped in to the lead IT position last year.
The job posting lists five key duties for the position:
- Representing the OCIO by serving as a close advisor on major issues and problems affecting operational policies and programs and collaborating with agency leaders, senior leaders at other agencies, congressional officials and executives with private sector organizations.
- Preparing and contributing to reports and other presentations on program planning and evaluation and designing and conducting a wide variety of comprehensive studies and detailed analyses of complex functions and processes related to long-range planning.
- Formulating and recommending plans to improve program policies, practices, methods and organizational structure and adjust schedules and priorities to meet new requirements or unforeseen situations.
- Providing expert advice and guidance on the most challenging problems facing the agency on a national or international scope; assisting and carrying out analytical studies involving the planning, development and implementation of major agency programs of national scope and impact relating to program operations.
- Providing direct supervisory and functional oversight of the civilian and contractor staff engaged in OCIO's processes for communications, organizational taskings, internal audit compliance, etc.
The position is open to all U.S. citizens able to qualify for a top secret security clearance.
The full-time job offers a salary range of $128,000 to $160,000 a year. Interested applications should submit their resumes through USAJobs by Friday, April 22.
Aaron Boyd is an awarding-winning journalist currently serving as editor of Federal Times — a Washington, D.C. institution covering federal workforce and contracting for more than 50 years — and Fifth Domain — a news and information hub focused on cybersecurity and cyberwar from a civilian, military and international perspective.
