Job Description
Senior Policy Advisor
LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
Government Accountability Office
Audit Policy and Quality Assurance (APQA)
Summary
GAO supports the Congress in meeting its constitutional responsibilities to legislate, appropriate, and oversee the Federal government. This position is in the Office of Audit Policy and Quality Assurance (APQA). APQA assists the Comptroller General, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Quality Officer, and mission teams in ensuring that GAO's products and services are of the highest quality. The incumbent performs a variety of duties associated with GAO's quality assurance system.
Duties
Band IIB staff apply mastery of audit and evaluation design and implementation and quality assurance policies and procedures to highly complex tasks, assignments, and projects having problems or issues not susceptible to treatment by generally accepted methods. With the supervisor providing administrative direction, Band IIB employees have full responsibility for planning and carrying out projects and assignments. Completed work is considered authoritative and normally accepted without significant change. Assignments require the resolution of critical problems affecting the work of other experts or major aspects of GAO programs, engagements, or other activities. As a technical authority, the Band IIB employee must frequently interpret nonspecific guidelines and develop applications to specific assignments.
As a Senior Policy Advisor, PE-0301-IIB, your typical work assignments may include the following:
Apply insight, experience, judgment, and knowledge of auditing standards and GAO policy requirements in planning and managing all aspects of work to maximize effectiveness.
Lead projects by managing all aspects of planning, execution, options evaluation (including cost and implementation challenges), and reporting, and ensuring the quality and value of all related products for the full range of projects and initiatives.
Provide statistical analysis of an organization's processes to improve efficiencies.
Lead by example through initiative, creativity, and flexibility in conducting work, and through anticipating and dealing effectively with obstacles.
Develop highly productive relationships with internal and external parties, foster teamwork, collaboration, coordination, and matrixing to accomplish goals and effectively utilize resources.
Recognize and leverage members' knowledge, skills, and abilities; consistently providing appropriate direction, guidance, and opportunities; and motivating and teaching others to achieve high quality results in a timely manner.
Provide constructive input, promote, and support organizational policies and change efforts after related decisions are made.