Director, Office of Industries

U.S. International Trade Commission
Washington - United States
S: $121,956.00 - $183,300.00

The USITC is an independent Federal agency that adjudicates import injury cases and provides the President and Congress with high-quality analysis and technical support on international trade, tariff, and competitiveness issues. The USITC also publishes the United States' Tariff schedule.

Commission employees report that they have a high degree of job satisfaction. The Commission was rated "Most Improved Small Agency" in 2013 by the Partnership for Public Service and was ranked 8th out of 29 small Federal agencies in the 2014 "Best Places to Work" index. You will find a collegial working environment throughout the Commission that is dedicated to the continued development of your technical and managerial skills, and a commitment to provide balance between your work and personal life.

As the Director of the Office of Industries, you will provide executive leadership to the USITC office that is responsible for analyzing and producing pertinent qualitative and quantitative data and analysis on industry, economic and technical matters relating to the competitive posture of the United States in agriculture, mining, services, and manufacturing in domestic and world markets. This Office is focused on developing, maintaining, and utilizing knowledge with respect to a wide range of commodities and industries in order to provide information, reports, and technical services to President and/or Congress, pertaining to international trade and related international industry and economic issues. You will also serve as a key member of the executive leadership of the Commission, actively participating in activities that drive the strategic direction of the Commission and optimize resource usage to further the Commission's mission.

In addition to international trade expertise, we are also seeking an individual with extensive experience leading teams of highly technical skilled professionals and supervisors with demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with external and internal customers and staff to achieve strategic and statutory goals.

As the Director of Industries, you will provide executive leadership to a staff that:

• Insures the maintenance of current information and comparative data on manufacturing processing techniques, costs, quality, productive capacity, productivity, transportation, sources of materials, consumption, demand, marketing, and other factors having a bearing on the relative capabilities of domestic and foreign enterprises;
• Develops and maintains a continuing and close working relationship with domestic producers, importers, and distributors, for the purposes of maintaining sources of information necessary for the fulfillment of the Commission's and Office's missions; and, provides expert advice to the agency, the Commission, the public, Congress or the President. The expert advice will be used to analyze industries in investigations or agency programs, to undertake studies or research of particular industries; and to produce papers and articles of interest to the international trade community.
• As a senior executive, you will have direct responsibility for managing the Office of Industries, including determining strategic and annual goals and objectives, establishing performance plans and objectives, assigning work, evaluating performance, supporting agency human resource, equal employment opportunity and labor relations policies and objectives, managing fiscal resources, and ensuring adherence to security, privacy and internal control requirements within your organization. Along with other agency senior executives, you will take an active role in agency-wide management activities.

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