International Trade Analyst

About the role

This position is with the Department of Homeland Security, within U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Trade, Trade Policy & Programs, located in San Francisco, California, Washington, District of Columbia, Miami, Florida, Atlanta, Georgia, Detroit, Michigan, Buffalo, New York, New York, New York, and Houston, Texas.

Duties

• Analyzing results of trade trends and enforcement operations for risk and program effectiveness, while demonstrating initiative and managing time effectively.
• Participating in collaborative efforts with others to facilitate project completion.
• Planning, executing, monitoring, and evaluating enforcement of trade laws and areas of risk.
• Writing operational policy for regulatory implementation of trade laws, recommending corrective action, and providing possible solutions based on level of risk.
• Performing issue-focused analysis for CBP's senior leadership and in response to department or congressional inquiries by preparing letters, memoranda, and reports.
• Representing CBP/OT in a variety of settings and meetings.
• Administering, developing, and maintaining effective working relationships with high-level officials and agency representatives, and meeting with key customers and coordinating officials to assess satisfaction, explain policy and procedures, and resolve problems.
• Identifying issues and developing short- and long-term commercial trade intervention strategies to determine if enforcement actions are needed or if new or enhanced policy should be established.

Qualifications

You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this position. Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered with Selective Service. All pre-employment processes will be conducted in English. You may be required to pass a background investigation. CBP follows the DHS Drug-Free Workplace Plan for drug testing procedures. As an employee of CBP, you will be joining a workforce that is dedicated to accomplishing our mission while maintaining the trust of our Nation by strictly adhering to all government ethics standards. Your conduct will be subject to the ethics rules applicable to all Executive Branch employees, and to CBP employees specifically, as well as the criminal conflict of interest statutes. Once you enter on duty, these rules include obtaining approval for outside employment or business activity, to ensure such employment or business activity is not prohibited and does not interfere or conflict with performance of your official duties. Please review further details via the following link.

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office.

Your resume must explicitly indicate how you meet the requirement of having been physically located in the United States or its protectorates for at least three of the last five years, or meet the residency waiver conditions.

The Department of Homeland Security encourages persons with disabilities to apply, to include persons with intellectual, severe physical or psychiatric disabilities, as defined by 5 CFR 213.3102(u), and/or Disabled Veterans with a compensable service-connected disability of 30 percent or more as defined by 5 CFR315.707. Veterans, Peace Corps/VISTA volunteers, and persons with disabilities possess a wealth of unique talents, experiences, and competencies that can be invaluable to the DHS mission.