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Reporting to the associate director, the assistant director leads the Risk Analytics & Integration function within the Financial Research, Risk & Application Group (FRRA), which identifies, monitors, and analyzes potential risks across the banking sector and provides forward-looking insights that inform supervisory priorities and policy responses. The Assistant Director sets the analytical and strategic direction for the function and owns the Board's integrated, system-wide supervisory risk view.

The function comprises three teams: Architectural Risk Coherence (ARC), which ensures risk signals across portfolios and districts are defined, classified, and tracked consistently; Vulnerability Interactions & Stress Trajectory Analysis (VISTA), which develops scenarios and forward-looking top-down and bottom-up models of bank balance sheets and income statements; and Vulnerability Evaluation & Supervisory Tracking (VEST), which translates ARC and VISTA outputs into a coherent Board-level risk view and produces a periodic system-wide vulnerability assessment. The Assistant Director oversees these teams and their managers, owns cross-portfolio risk integration and prioritization, represents the function in S&R governance forums, and coordinates with Reserve Banks so that system-wide analysis reflects supervisory realities across portfolios. The role integrates and prioritizes; it does not conduct firm-level examinations or replace portfolio supervision.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

1.         Sets strategic and analytical direction for the Risk Analytics & Integration function; owns the integrated system-wide risk view and the framework for turning structural analytics, forward-looking assessments, and external signals into a coherent picture.

2.         Oversees the ARC, VISTA, and VEST teams and their managers, establishes priorities and quality standards, allocates resources, manages performance, and builds analytical and supervisory capability.

3.         Owns cross-portfolio risk integration and prioritization: maintains the risk taxonomy, system-wide risk inventory, and structured prioritization framework, ensuring vulnerabilities are visible, comparable, and traceable across portfolios and over time.

4.         Directs the periodic system-wide vulnerability assessment, integrating taxonomy outputs, structural analytics, stress testing results, Reserve Bank signals, and emerging thematic risks; articulates key risks, drivers, and interactions to inform supervisory planning and findings determinations.

5.         Owns structured system-risk communication within S&R, ensuring system-level assessments are clearly articulated to senior leadership and governance forums.

6.         Represents the function in S&R governance forums; coordinates with Reserve Banks and across teams; promotes methodological coherence and surfaces analytical gaps, duplication, and blind spots.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience majoring in Economics. finance or a related quantitative discipline. PhD in economics, finance or a related quantitative discipline preferred

• Experience leading multidisciplinary analytical or quantitative teams, including managing other managers.

• Minimum years of experience: 10

• Management years of experience: 5

• This function will also rely on input from Reserve Bank analytical teams and will work with System co-leads for system-wide prioritization.  

    Strategic thinker with demonstrated strong project execution and project management capabilities, analytical skills, political savvy, and conflict mediation skills.

    Demonstrated experience and commitment to fostering collaboration and employee engagement.

    Ability to lead and manage staff and projects effectively, set priorities, assess performance, guide staff development and make budgetary recommendations.

    Ability to balance competing interests among a variety of clients and readily readjust priorities to respond to pressing and changing client demands.  Must be able to anticipate and meet the clients' needs while maintaining high-quality end products.

    Exceptional organization savvy and agility as demonstrated by ability to manage across organizational boundaries, building high performing teams and strengthen teams, diminishing organizational silos, and facilitating effective group and team dynamics.

    Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with all levels of staff and management.

Stakeholder Contacts:

    Has regular contact with all staff in the function(s) to stay connected to the pulse of the division, provide leadership, and act as a role model.

    Has frequent contact with senior staff and other professionals in the division, elsewhere at the Board, and the Reserve Banks regarding matters pertaining to area(s) of responsibility.

    Has frequent contact with members of the Board, both in discussions and through memoranda, regarding matters pertaining to area(s) of responsibility.

    Has frequent contact with individuals from other federal agencies, international organizations, and in the private sector regarding the subject matters in area(s) of responsibilities.

Board Competencies:

    Decision Quality: Makes timely, thoughtful, strategic decisions.

    Learning Agility: Takes responsibility for building organizational agility.

    Drive for Excellence: Delivers results by developing shared vision and direction for the organization.

    Perspective and Strategic Agility: Leads and acts with the future in mind.

    Collaborative Relationships: Sets the tone for collaborative organization.

    Effective Communication: Effectively speaks and acts on behalf of the Board.

Officer and Internal Management Responsibilities:

    Acts as responsible steward to the function(s), Division, and Board by demonstrating proficiency in the Board's espoused competencies.

    Balances and mitigates key organizational and functional risks where appropriate, and develops and executes sustainable risk mitigation strategies.

    Fosters a continuous learning culture.

    Exercises appropriate judgment and decision-making in complex situations.

    Demonstrates innovation and thought leadership relevant to future-state organizational and functional people strategies.

    Demonstrates strong leadership and management skills aligned to the Board's espoused values.

    Keeps skills and knowledge current and aligned to best practices relative to key rules, regulations, and policies, as well as economic, political, and social trends that affect the organization. Understands near-term and long-term needs for the organization and determines how operations should be positioned to meet such needs.

    Demonstrates proficiency in political savvy, organizational savvy, and interpersonal communication skills.

    Provides guidance, coaching, and feedback to, and conducts performance reviews for managers and other direct reports, and ensures same is provided to all function staff.

    Responsible for accomplishing approved program objectives for area(s) of responsibility within the financial and personnel resources allocated by the Board and the division's senior management.

    Participates in the development of the division's strategic plan, goals, and budget. Recommends program objectives and their priorities for area(s) of responsibility.

    Recommends personnel actions involving promotions, reclassifications, merit increases, and reassignments or separations in area(s) of responsibility.

Position Demands:

    Ability to exercise independent and sound judgment in establishing objectives for assigned area(s) of responsibility that provide support and services for the divisions and Board's missions.

    Ability to translate customer service and organizational development theories and best practices into effective strategies for adoption in area(s) of responsibility to achieve and maintain high levels of customer service.

    Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, to the Board and individual members thereof, senior Board staff, other Board and Reserve Bank staff, and staff at other government agencies and in the private sector on complex and technical matters.

    Ability to be an effective spokesperson and advocate for the Board and the division in outside contacts, which may involve significant business dealings.

    Ability to operate under pressure to meet deadlines accurately and in a timely manner.

Notes:

• This position is in Washington, DC and requires an on-site presence.
• Some travel may be required