Revenue Policy/Administration/Customs Advisor - Personal Services Contractor

REVENUE POLICY / ADMINISTRATION / CUSTOMS ADVISORS

                                               GLOBAL ASSIGNMENTS

SCOPE OF POSITION: The U.S. Treasury Department Office of Technical Assistance is recruiting experienced professionals in Revenue Policy and Revenue Administration on a competitive basis for intermittent assignments under personal services contracts. This announcement is for global technical assistance assignments. We are recruiting for assignments in Africa, Asia, Europe, and South and Central America. We thus have specific interest in specialists willing to accept assignments worldwide. For purpose of this document, “revenue” includes tax and non-tax revenues as well as customs compliance. Current assignments include, for example, Ukraine, Moldova, Uzbekistan, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Argentina, Guatemala, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, Côte d’Ivoire, and Cameroon. Short-term assignments normally consist of a series of trips of two to three weeks each. In addition to intermittent assignments, there may be a limited number of resident assignments, which place advisors in a host country for one year or more. Applicants must be willing to accept often arduous international travel.

QUALIFICATIONS: Treasury is seeking candidates who possess expertise in revenue policy or revenue administration, including customs administration.

Revenue administration experts should have strong experience in any of the following areas of revenue administration: tax and revenue administration law, executive management, audit (including computer assisted audit, international tax, transfer pricing and specialized audit experience), dispute resolution, compliance risk management, internal audit / inspections and anticorruption program development, collection, returns and payment processing, tax forms design, taxpayer service and education, public affairs and media relations, human resources, training, tax fraud/criminal investigations and IT systems.  Treasury is seeing increasing demand for technical assistance in IT project management and implementing new tax systems, as well as developing large tax and criminal investigation programs and organizations.

Customs administration experts should have a strong expertise in the following areas: classification, valuation, rules of origin, transfer pricing, human resources, post clearance audit, trade agreements, risk management, broker compliance, advance rulings, WTO trade facilitation agreement, targeting and investigation, anti-corruption, IT systems, executive management, drafting/review of revenue laws and regulations.

Revenue policy experts should possess experience in any of the following: organizing revenue policy analysis organizations; review, analysis and development of revenue and tax policy proposals; drafting and review of revenue laws and regulations; review and analysis of the economic impact of tax and fiscal policy changes; and application of statistical modeling to revenue forecasting.

Certain assignments require candidates to have significant project management experience, including the ability to prepare project work plans, statements of work and manage human resources. In addition to technical skills, we are looking for individuals with outstanding communication skills, who are especially effective at assessing client needs and then providing effective oral and written guidance. Prior foreign technical assistance work and knowledge of a foreign language are highly desirable, but not required. There is a special interest currently in individuals with both technical skills and bilingual fluency in English and French, Spanish, and Ukrainian.

Candidates must be U.S. citizens.

SALARY AND BENEFITS: Salaries will be negotiated in accordance with program regulations prescribed by the Office of Technical Assistance not to exceed the Senior Executive Service EX- III hourly equivalent. The current starting hourly rate is from 74.60 to $93.39 per hour.

Background checks and Security Clearance: Secret.  

The advisor will work in developing and transitional countries worldwide to support U.S. Treasury and U.S. Government economic and national security objectives. The advisor may be deployed to countries with elevated threat levels, including potentially high/critical threat posts, as determined by the U.S. Government.

Successful applicants must be able to obtain State Department medical clearance for worldwide travel.If selected, the applicant will be required to fulfill Office of Government Ethics financial disclosure requirements.

HOW TO APPLY: Applicants should submit a cover letter and resume by e-mail to: recruitment@ota.treas.gov. For consideration, emailed applications should not be sent, or contain a cc, to any OTA, IRS, or other government personnel or email address.

Please reference Solicitation 2032K823R00005 on your cover letter and resume. When e-mailing, the subject line must contain the following: Solicitation 2032K823R00005 – Revenue (Policy/Admin/Customs) Advisors – Applicant’s Last Name, First Name. Emails received not containing this subject line will be deemed non-responsive, and thus will not be forwarded to the program office/selection official(s) for consideration.

No phone calls please and no hand carries. This announcement is open and continuous until June 30, 2023, although selections may be made in advance of that date.

The U.S. Government is an Equal Opportunity Employer