Chief Information Officer

U.S Government; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Chief Information Officer (CIO) to provide executive leadership and oversight for IT management within the Executive Office for Immigration Review. This role involves formulating strategic IT visions, initiating policy directives, and managing the agency's IT budget. The CIO will lead efforts to enhance information resources management, ensuring alignment with organizational goals while effectively supporting immigration adjudication processes. If you're ready to make a significant impact in a rewarding environment, this position offers an exceptional opportunity to lead IT initiatives at a federal level.

Qualifications

• Expert knowledge in interpreting laws and regulations for IT management.
• Experience in planning and overseeing enterprise-wide IT strategies.

Responsibilities

• Formulate the EOIR IT strategic vision and align it with departmental goals.
• Provide expert advice on IT matters to executive leadership.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic Planning

Information Technology Management

Customer Service

Regulatory Compliance

Education

Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs)

Mandatory Technical Qualifications (MTQs)

Job description

If you are interested in a rewarding and challenging career, this is the position for you!

This job is open to:

• The public

U.S. Citizens, Nationals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S.

Current federal employees whose agencies follow the U.S. Office of Personnel Management's hiring rules and pay scales.

Current federal employees whose agencies have their own hiring rules, pay scales and evaluation criteria.

• Senior executives

Individuals looking for an executive-level job and who meet the five Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs).

Duties

NOTE: The Chief Information Officer position is designated as SES General and may be filled by either a Career or Noncareer Senior Executive Service member.

The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) seeks highly qualified individuals to join our team of expert professionals in becoming a part of our challenging and rewarding Agency. The primary mission of the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) is to adjudicate immigration cases by fairly, expeditiously, and uniformly interpreting and administering the Nation's immigration laws. Under delegated authority from the Attorney General, EOIR conducts immigration court proceedings, appellate reviews, and administrative hearings. EOIR consists of three adjudicatory components: The Office of the Chief Immigration Judge, which is responsible for managing the Immigration Courts where Immigration Judges adjudicate individual cases; the Board of Immigration Appeals, which primarily conducts appellate reviews of these Immigration Judge decisions; and the Office of the Chief Administrative Hearing Officer, which adjudicates immigration-related employment cases.

This position is located in the Office of Information Technology, Executive Office for Immigration Review, U.S. Department of Justice. Incumbent serves as the Chief Information Officer (CIO). The CIO provides executive leadership and has oversight responsibility for the management, acquisition, and integration of EOIR's information resources, including mission and data systems, data center management, telecommunications, office networks, computer security (including policy, standards, and operations), vulnerability management, configuration management, data management, information sharing, and end-user computing. Provides overall IT portfolio management, recommends agency-wide IT program improvements, and oversees the formulation and execution of the agency's IT budget.

Typical work assignments will include:

• Formulating the overall EOIR IT strategic vision to align with the Department's IT Strategic Plan and Technical Standards while fulfilling the specific needs of the EOIR office.
• Initiating IT policy directives to ensure that information resources management operations and decisions are integrated with organizational planning, budget, financial management, human resources management, and program decisions.
• Developing a full and accurate accounting of information technology expenditures, related expenses, and results.
• Developing, coordinating, and implementing EOIR information policies, plans, utilization, security and evaluation for information technologies needed to support the agency's programs in the most effective and economical manner.
• Providing expert advice and guidance to executive and senior leadership on IT matters as related to EOIR programmatic and operational decisions.
• Translating highly sophisticated technical requirements into pragmatic and effective recommendations that focus on the application of IT to improve productivity and promote increased access to and availability of information.

Conditions of Employment

• You must be a U.S. Citizen or National.
• You must complete a background investigation, credit check, and drug test.
• You must file a financial disclosure statement in accordance with the Ethics in Government Act of 1978.
• Selective Service Registration is required, as applicable.
• Salary payments must be by direct deposit to a financial institution.
• Applicants seeking initial career appointment to the Senior Executive Service are subject to a one-year probationary period.
• Executive qualifications of each new career appointee to the SES must be certified by an independent Qualifications Review Board based on criteria established by OPM.
• Applicants who completed a Candidate Development Program (CDP) and have ECQs certified by an OPM Qualifications Review Board must provide a copy with their application.
• Applicants must meet all qualifications and eligibility requirements by the closing date of the announcement.

Qualifications

In order to qualify for the Chief Information Officer position, you must meet the following Executive Core Qualifications and Mandatory Technical Qualifications:

Executive Core Qualifications: Applicants seeking initial career appointment to the Senior Executive Service (SES) must submit narrative responses addressing each of the Executive Core Qualifications (ECQ). Current or former SES members must submit an SF-50 and/or QRB Certification of ECQs to show current or former service in the SES. OPM's Guide to the Senior Executive Services Qualifications provides detailed information on the ECQs.

• ECQ 1: Leading Change.
• ECQ 2: Leading People.
• ECQ 3: Results Driven.
• ECQ 4: Business Acumen.
• ECQ 5: Building Coalitions.

Mandatory Technical Qualifications:

• MTQ 1: Demonstrated expert knowledge interpreting and applying laws, regulations, executive orders, and other policies governing information technology management systems to achieve the agency mission.
• MTQ 2: Skill in planning, development, and oversight of enterprise-wide strategies, strategic and tactical IT plans, service delivery, Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC), implementing technology business management (TBM), agile program management, demand management, system and infrastructure modernization programs for large, diverse organizations.
• MTQ 3: Experience providing excellent customer service for large, regulatory, diverse and complex organizations; and consultation with various stakeholders and constituencies requiring management of strategic and competing objectives.

Additional information

Location will be in a non-detained Immigration Court in the continental United States.

Conditions of Employment: Only U.S. Citizens or Nationals are eligible for employment with the Executive Office for Immigration Review. Dual citizens of the U.S. and another country will be considered on a case-by-case basis. All DOJ applicants, both U.S. citizens and non-citizens, whose job location is with the U.S., must meet the residency requirement. For a total of three (not necessarily consecutive years) of the five years immediately prior to applying for a position, the applicant must have: 1) resided in the U.S., 2) worked for the U.S. overseas in a Federal or military capacity; or 3) been a dependent of a Federal or military employee serving oversees.

Note: Veterans' preference does not apply to this position.

How You Will Be Evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

Once the application process is complete, a review of your resume and supporting documentation will be conducted. The information in your Application Package will be compared with your responses to the assessment questionnaire to determine if you possess the minimum qualifications listed above.

If you meet minimum qualifications, your Application Package will be further reviewed to determine if you possess the Executive Core Qualifications (ECQ) and Mandatory Technical Qualifications (MTQ) listed above. You must submit a separate document addressing each of the five ECQs by-number and separate document addressing each of the three MTQs by-number. Failure to submit these documents will result in an ineligible determination. You must be thorough in addressing the ECQs and MTQs.

Required Documents

To apply for this position, you must provide a complete Application Package by 11:59 PM (ET) on 05/11/2025, which includes:

• Applicants seeking initial career appointment to the Senior Executive Service (SES) must submit narrative responses addressing each of the Executive Core Qualifications (ECQ).
• Current or former SES members must submit an SF-50 and/or QRB Certification of ECQs to show current or former service in the SES.
• All applicants must submit narrative responses addressing each of the Mandatory Technical Qualifications (MTQ).

You must submit a complete application by the close of the announcement.

The four points of notification are:

• Application Received or Application Incomplete
• Eligible (Application Referred) or Eligible (Application Not referred)
• Selected or Not Selected