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Senior Advisor
Citizenship and Immigration Services · Posted 63 days ago
Hybrid Camp Springs, MD $169K – $197K Apply by Jul 24, 2026 Miscellaneous Administration And Program ENTJESFJESTJISTJ
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Protect your homeland and defend your culture. Join USCIS, America's frontline defense against illegal foreign infiltration and fraud. As an Senior Advisor, you will support and deliver sound and well-informed advice to the senior executive leadership on critical issues, processes, and programs that have a wide-ranging impact.
What You'll Do
- →Provides advice to agency top executive leadership on matters involving citizenship and immigration services, operations and programs.
- →Delivers confidential, highly sensitive and executive-level support for managing and directing complex and highly sensitive national security programs and federal efforts.
- →Conducts complex and high-priority special assignments on behalf of the agency's leadership involving extensive research, fact-finding, and program improvements.
- →Manages correspondence processes and review the critical and politically sensitive cases for the Director or Deputy Director’s signatures, to include correspondence sent to USCIS and DHS leadership, the President or Senior White House officials.
- →Manages long–range plans to re-engineer executive correspondence clearance processes, procedures, and vetting process proposals with other USCIS offices.
Requirements
- ✓Conditions of Employment: You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen or U.S.
- ✓Residency Requirement: There is a residency requirement for all applicants not currently employed by U.S.
- ✓Citizenship and Immigration Services.
- ✓This residency requirement states that candidates must have, for three of the last five years immediately prior to applying for this position; (1) resided in the United States; OR (2) worked for the United States Government as an employee overseas in a Federal or Military capacity, OR (3) been a dependent of a U.S.
- ✓Federal or Military employee serving overseas.
- ✓Probationary Period: You may be required to serve a probationary period of 1 year.
- ✓EDUCATIONAL SUBSTITUTION: There is no educational substitution at this grade.
- ✓Any offers of employment made pursuant to this announcement will be consistent with all applicable authorities, including Presidential Memoranda, Executive Orders, interpretive U.S.
- ✓Office of Personnel Management guidance and U.S.
- ✓Office of Management and Budget plans and policies concerning hiring.
- ✓These authorities are subject to change.
- ✓Applying to this announcement certifies that you give permission for DHS to share your application with others in DHS for similar positions.
- ✓Common definitions for hiring terms found in this announcement.
Benefits
- ★DHS offers competitive salaries and an attractive benefits package, including health, dental, vision, life, and long-term care insurance; retirement plan; Thrift Savings Plan [similar to a 401(k)]; Flexible Spending Account; Employee Assistance Program; personal leave days; and paid federal holidays.
- ★Other benefits may include flexible work schedules; telework; tuition reimbursement; transportation subsidies; uniform allowance; health and wellness programs; and fitness centers.
- ★DHS is committed to employee development and offers a variety of employee training and developmental opportunities.
- ★For more information, go to the DHS Careers website and select "Benefits." Disabled veteran leave will be available to any Federal employee hired on or after November 5, 2016, who is a veteran with a service- connected disability rating of 30 percent or more.
Personality Fit
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