Government Information Specialist

As a Government Information Specialist, you will:

• Serve as the senior technical and program expert for the Bureau's Privacy programs, with responsibility for developing and monitoring guidelines for agency-wide application. Provide guidance in the development and establishment of Privacy policies and procedures to ensure that significant Privacy issues are identified and addressed. Assess Privacy program alignment with strategic objectives, develop policy, evaluate program execution, and provide expert advice and guidance to executive level staff. Serve as a technical authority for highly complex issues.
• Review policy guidelines, standard operating procedures, risk-assessments, and significant cases to identify systemic trends indicating the need to update policy, procedures, or training on Bureau-wide basis. Perform updates to Privacy policies, regulations and operating procedures that typically require extensive research and development of program specific regulatory, policy, advisory, and assessment criteria consistent with broad legislative or other higher authority guidance and emerging case law. Recommend the adoption and application of new and unprecedented methods, approaches, and assessment criteria to ensure program or project requirements are aligned with strategic objectives and may recommend advanced approaches or applications for adoption Bureau-wide. Review all proposed team-level policies and procedures that have a privacy component and makes recommendations for proposed changes in management and program processes.
• Respond to queries from policy-making boards and executives concerning the impact major policy initiatives or events will have upon Privacy policies and operations including addressing sensitive operational or program issues of significant interest to Bureau executives, other Federal agencies, the administration, Congress, and/or the media.