Are you interested in a rewarding and challenging career? This position is located in the Small Business Administration, Office of Inspector General, Disaster Assistance Programs Group within the Auditing Division.Qualifications:In order to qualify for this position, your resume must provide sufficient evidence of experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to perform the duties of the position. Therefore, we encourage you to submit a thorough resume that directly relates to this position.
To qualify for this position, applicants must meet the basic requirements and specialized experience listed below.
Basic Requirement: GS-0511 Series
- Degree: accounting, auditing; or a degree including auditing courses in a related field such as business administration, finance, or public administration that included or was supplemented by 24 semester hours in accounting. The 24 hours may include up to 6 hours of credit in business law; OR
Combination of education and experience: at least 4 years of experience in Performance Auditing, or an equivalent combination of performance auditing experience, college-level education, and training that provided professional auditing knowledge. The applicant's background must also include one of the following:
- A certificate as a Certified Internal Auditor or a Certified Public Accountant, obtained through written examination; or
- Completion of the requirements for a degree that included substantial course work in auditing or accounting, e.g., 15 semester hours.
Additional information on the qualification requirements is outlined in the OPM Qualifications Standards Handbook of General Schedule Positions. It is available for your review on OPM's Qualifications web site.
Specialized Experience Statement:
- To qualify at the GS-11 level, you must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-9 level that includes serving on an audit team and assisting in performing a variety of complex performance audit assignments to include: contributing to the development of audit programs and plans; collecting and analyzing data; ensuring that evidence collected is sufficient, relevant, competent and properly documented; developing audit findings that are convincing and well-supported and contain all required elements; conducting segments of meetings with key officials of the audited activities to obtain necessary information and discuss audit findings; and preparing segments of audit or inspection reports that provide a logical structure for presenting the audit results; OR
- 3 years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree.
Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g. Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (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 that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
TIME-IN-GRADE: If you are a current career or career-conditional federal employee applying for promotion under Merit Promotion you must have completed a minimum of 52 weeks in positions at the next level lower than the position being filled.
All qualification requirements must be met by 11:59 pm (Eastern Time) on 08/21/2026.Education:There is a positive education requirement for this position. Transcripts/certificates must be provided with your application that reflects the requirements of this position.
NOTE: Transcripts/certificates must be provided to show proof of education; failure to submit required documents by the close of the announcement may result in an ineligible rating.APPLICANTS PLEASE NOTE: 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 (particularly positions with a positive education requirement.) Therefore, applicants must report only attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Verify School accreditation. All education claimed by applicants will be verified by the appointing agency accordingly.
If you are selected for this position and qualified based on education (i.e. basic education requirement and/or substitution of education), you will be required to provide an OFFICIAL transcript prior to your first day on duty.
*** If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. *** For further information, click on: Foreign Education.Employment Type: OTHER