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Writer-Editor
Office of the Inspector General · Posted 64 days ago
About the Role
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) is an independent office whose mission is to promote excellence, integrity, and accountability throughout the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). In our dynamic environment, the OIG conducts investigations, audits, evaluations, and inspections to enhance program effectiveness and efficiency and to detect and prevent waste, fraud, and mismanagement in DHS programs and operations.
What You'll Do
- →This position is located in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Office of Inspector General (OIG), Office of Audits.
- →The OIG conducts and supervises independent audits, investigations, and inspections of the programs and operations of DHS, and recommends ways for DHS to carry out its responsibilities in the most effective, efficient, and economical manner possible.
- →The OIG also seeks to deter, identify, and address fraud, abuse, mismanagement, and waste of taxpayer funds invested in Homeland Security.
- →The Office of Audits oversees financial and performance audits, as well as attestation engagements.
- →These audits cover multiple functional and program areas, such as financial statements, cyber security, acquisitions, grants, critical infrastructure, disasters, law enforcement and terrorism, immigration, and transportation security.
- →Auditors examine DHS programs or activities in a formalized, detailed, and in-depth way.
- →As a Writer-Editor, the incumbent helps project teams produce reports and other written products that present the results of OIG audits and reviews persuasively, comprehensively, and understandably to stakeholders, Congress, the media, and the public.
- →The incumbent uses communications strategies, analytical methods, critical thinking, knowledge of language and writing principles, and a general knowledge of audit methods to understand and improve the delivery of complex information to diverse audiences.
- →Duties include: Using knowledge of language and writing principles and analytical methods to help project teams create, revise, and finalize reports and related documents that clearly explain and present the results of audits and reviews of Department of Homeland Security programs and operations, which generally include substantive issues with policy implications.
- →Assisting as needed with other written products, such as testimony, memorandums, correspondence, communications suitable for digital media, briefing material for oral presentations, and mandated semiannual and annual reports.
- →Working cooperatively and tactfully with a wide range of project teams, as well as managers, giving advice and guidance and ensuring teams' analytical techniques, project findings, and conclusions are described in well-organized, clear, concise, and easily understood reports and other relevant documents.
- →Helping teams use "plain language" to convey technical and sensitive information clearly and concisely, thus ensuring reports are understandable to a wide audience without sacrificing thoroughness, accuracy, and nuance.
- →Helping teams select pertinent information to include in written products; determine the most logical and effective organization; ensure narrative is fair and balanced; identify and resolve deficiencies in writing; create visual aids to better convey analysis; and increase interest in, and attention to, reports.
- →Consistently applying OIG's writing guidelines and other style practices, plain language principles, and grammar and punctuation rules to reports and other documents.
Requirements
- ✓There is no education substitution for this position.
Personality Fit
Job ID: c74e0ff3-5c01-4a36-9ffd-f912414184d9
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