Criminal Investigator (Special Agent)
Company: Internal Revenue Service
Location: San Rafael
Posted on: January 19, 2023
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Job Description:
Duties
WHAT IS THE CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION (CI) DIVISION?
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IRS-CI Special Agents (SAs) are duly sworn federal law enforcement
officers throughout all 50 states and US territories including
special agent attaches located in 11 countries. As a SA, you will
combine your accounting skills with law enforcement skills to
investigate financial crimes. SAs fill a unique niche in the
federal law enforcement community due to IRS-CI's broad
jurisdiction of Title 18 and Title 31 crimes, in addition to our
primary tax enforcement mission. SAs are known for their financial
investigative expertise in areas, such as, tax fraud, public
corruption, cybercrimes, narcotics, terrorism, and much more.
Today's sophisticated schemes demand the analytical ability of
financial investigators to trace transactions through complex
financial records.
The following are the duties of this position at the full working
level. If this vacancy includes more than one grade and you are
selected at a lower grade level, you will have the opportunity to
learn to perform these duties and receive training to help you grow
in this position.
Requirements
Conditions of Employment
Qualifications
Federal experience is not required. The experience may have been
gained in the public sector, private sector or One year of
experience refers to full-time work; part-timework is considered on
a prorated basis. To ensure full credit for your work experience,
please indicate dates of employment by month/year, and indicate
number of hours worked per week, on your resume.
You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of
this announcement:
GS-07 SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: You must have one year of specialized
experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent
to the GS-5 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized
experience for this position includes experience in or related to
investigation of criminal violations that provided the specific
knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties
of the IRS Special Agent. Experience must have required: (1) the
exercise of tact, initiative, ingenuity, resourcefulness and
judgment in collecting, assembling, and developing facts, evidence
and other pertinent data through investigative techniques which
included personal interview; (2) the ability to make oral and
written reports and presentations of personally conducted or
personally directed investigations, examinations, or inspections;
AND (3) the ability to analyze and evaluate evidence and arrive at
sound conclusions. To be qualifying, this experience must have been
acquired in investigative work related to the ACCOUNTING OR
AUDITING OF BUSINESS OR COMMERCIAL PRACTICES OF SUBJECTS
INVESTIGATED.
OR
EDUCATION: You may substitute education for specialized experience
as follows:
NOTE: Superior Academic Achievement is credited only if you have
completed all the requirements for a bachelor's degree which
included or was supplemented by at least 15 semester/23 quarter
hours in accounting plus an additional 9 semester/14 quarter hours
from among the following fields: finance, economics, business law,
tax law, or money and banking.
GS-09 SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: You must have one year of specialized
experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent
to the GS-7 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized
experience for this position includes: experience in or related to
investigation of criminal violations that provided the specific
knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to successfully perform the
duties of this position. The experience must have been acquired in
investigative work related to the ACCOUNTING OR AUDITING OF
BUSINESS OR COMMERCIAL PRACTICES OF SUBJECTS INVESTIGATED.
Experience must be sufficient to demonstrate the ability to gather
intelligence, analyze and evaluate raw investigative data, prepare
comprehensive written investigative reports, and investigate
complex claims involving suspected crimes or alleged fraud.
Examples of qualifying experience include: Investigating criminal
cases requiring the use of recognized investigative methods and
techniques and that may have included appearing in court to present
evidence; Supervising or conducting interviews or interrogations
that involved eliciting evidence, data, or surveillance
information; Investigating computerized business and/or accounting
systems and forming sound conclusions as to related criminal
business practices and compliance with Federal laws and
regulations.
OR
EDUCATION: You may substitute education for specialized experience
as follows:
COMBINATION OF EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION: You may qualify by a
combination of experience and education. Options for qualifying
based on a combination will be identified in the online
questions.
For examples of specialized experience, click .
You must also meet the following special requirements:
MAXIMUM ENTRY AGE: Provisions of Public Law 93-950 and Public Law
100-238 allow the imposition of a maximum age for original
appointments to a law enforcement officer position within the
Federal government. The date immediately preceding your 37th
birthday is the final date of referral for selection. This age
restriction does not apply to those who have previously served in a
Federal civilian (not military) law enforcement position covered by
Title 5 U.S.C. Section 8336 (c) provisions and preference eligible
veterans.
You must pass a medical examination prior to being appointed. This
position requires moderate to arduous physical exertion involving
walking and standing, use of firearms, and exposure to inclement
weather. Manual dexterity with free motion of fingers, wrists,
elbows, shoulders, hips, and knee joints is required. Arms, hands,
legs, and feet must function sufficiently in order for applicants
to perform the duties satisfactorily.
Vision: Near vision, corrected or uncorrected, must be sufficient
to read Jaeger type 2 at 14 inches. Normal depth perception,
peripheral vision, and the ability to distinguish shades of
color-by-color plate tests are required. If you have undergone
refractive surgery, you must meet Treasury approved requirements,
including documentation that you have passed exam and protocol
testing. Visual acuity requirements are expressed in terms of the
Snellen vision test. Uncorrected distant vision must test 20/200,
and corrected vision must test 20/20 in one eye, and 20/30 in the
other.
Hearing: Hearing loss, as measured by an audiometer, must not
exceed 30 decibels (A.S.A. or equivalent I.S.O.) in either ear in
the 500, 1000, and 2000 Hz ranges. You must be able to hear the
whispered voice at 15 feet with each ear without the use of a
hearing aid.
Other Medical Requirements: You must possess emotional and mental
stability. Any condition that would hinder full, efficient
performance of the duties of this position or that would cause an
individual to be a hazard to himself/herself or to others is
disqualifying.
All of the medical requirements MUST be met at the time of initial
examination/test. Applicants failing to meet the medical
requirements at the time of their initial examination/test will be
considered ineligible for the position.
For more information on qualifications please refer to .
Education
For positions with an education requirement, or if you are
qualifying for this position by substituting education or training
for experience, submit a copy of your transcripts or equivalent. An
official transcript will be required if you are selected.
A college or university degree generally must be from an accredited
(or pre-accredited) college or university recognized by the U.S.
Department of Education. For a list of schools which meet these
criteria, please refer to .
FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or
universities may be used to meet the requirements. You must show
proof the education credentials have been deemed to be at least
equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education program.
It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying.
Click for Foreign Education Credentialing instructions.
Additional information
You will be limited to a maximum of five (5) location choices. If
selected, one of your selected locations will become your official
post of duty.
This is an open continuous announcement. The IRS anticipates
filling approximately 300 vacancies. Applicants may apply at any
time during the open period. However, applicants are referred on a
first-in first-out basis. Qualified applicants applying early and
successfully completing the assessment process will be referred
before those applying later. Contingent upon funding and space
requirements, one or more vacancies may be filled at the locations
listed in this announcement as they become available. If sufficient
applicants are received prior to the closing date, this
announcement may be closed early.
Benefits
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 that are designed to
make your federal career very rewarding. .
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 information on the specific
benefits offered.
Required Documents
The following documents are required and must be provided with your
application. All application materials, including transcripts, must
be in English.
Please note that if you do not provide all required information, as
specified in this announcement, your application will be determined
incomplete, and you will not be considered for this position (or
may not receive the special consideration for which you may be
eligible).
If you are requesting a reasonable accommodation to the USA Hire
Competency Based Assessments, submit documentation to support your
request, including the Reasonable Accommodation Request Form found
.
If you are relying on your education to meet qualification
requirements:
Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution
recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to
be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the
attendance and/or degrees from
.
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in
this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may
affect the overall rating.
How to Apply
The following instructions outline our application process. You
must complete this application process and submit any required
documents by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on 01/31/2023 and/or
cut-off dates in this announcement. We are available to assist you
during business hours (normally 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. ET, Monday -
Friday). If applying online poses a hardship, please contact us by
noon ET on 01/31/2023.
To preview the Application Questionnaire, please click the
following link:
To update your application, including supporting documentation, at
any time during the announcement open period, return to your
USAJOBS account (). There you will find a record of your
application, the application status, and an option to Edit my
application. This option will no longer be available once the
announcement has closed.
To verify the status of your application both during and after the
announcement open period, log into your USAJOBS account at . On the
Home page, scroll down and locate your job application. Once the
job has been located, click the "Track this application" link on
the right under the application date. The page will refresh to
display the Agency's Application Information page where you can
scroll down and review any notifications the agency has sent you.
The Application Status will appear along with the date your
application was last updated. For information on what each
Application Status means, visit:
Reasonable Accommodation (RA) Requests (USA Hire Competency Based
Assessments): If you believe you have a disability (i.e., physical
or mental), covered by the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended
and Americans with Disabilities Act 1990 as amended, that would
interfere with completing the USA Hire Competency Based
Assessments, you will be granted the opportunity to request a
reasonable accommodation in your online application. Requests for
Reasonable Accommodations for the USA Hire Competency Based
Assessments and appropriate supporting documentation for Reasonable
Accommodation must be received prior to starting the USA Hire
Competency Based Assessments. Decisions on requests for Reasonable
Accommodations are made on a case-by-case basis. If you meet the
minimum qualifications of the position, after notification of the
adjudication of your request, you will receive an email invitation
to complete the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments. 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 Reasonable Accommodation, please review the Procedures for
Requesting a Reasonable Accommodation for Online Assessments
here:
Agency contact information
(ERC) Employee Resource Center
Phone
Email
Website
Address
CI - Criminal Investigation
1111 Constitution Ave NW
Washington, DC 20224
US
Next steps
Treasury believes in a working environment that supports inclusion;
please view our reasonable accommodation policies and procedures at
. We provide reasonable accommodation to applicants with
disabilities on a case-by-case basis; contact us if you require
this for any part of the application and hiring process.
Based on your application and your responses to the application
questionnaire, you may be presented with instructions on how to
access the USA Hire system to complete the online assessments. The
online assessments must be completed within 48 hours following the
close of this announcement. You will have the opportunity to
request a testing accommodation for the assessment should you have
a disability covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act
(ADA).
Your assessment results will be kept on record for three years and
used toward future positions for which you might apply that require
the same assessments. If you fail any part of the assessment you
will need to wait 12 months from your test date to retake it. Due
to a change in testing requirements, scores rendered prior to
12/1/2021 will no longer be valid.
Please notify us if your contact information changes after the
closing date of the announcement. If your email mailbox is full or
blocked (SPAM) you may not receive important communication that
could affect your consideration for this position.
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Please read the following guidance.
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