The Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Inspector General is currently looking for a Criminal Investigator in the Office of Invesigations. Join our professional team of auditors, criminal investigators, and inspectors who help support DOE's mission through performance and financial audits, inspections of management issues and administrative allegations, and investigations into alleged violations of law.
As a Criminal Investigator for the Office of Investigations, you will be responsible for the following: Develop investigative plans and independently execute operations involving alleged or suspected criminal violations of Federal law (including contract/grant fraud, procurement fraud, and program corruption) characterized by multiple subjects, complex financial/electronic records, and operational obstacles.
Conduct interviews, interrogations, surveillance, consensual monitoring, undercover operations, and physical or electronic evidence searches; execute search and arrest warrants; issue administrative subpoenas; and manage crime scene evidence in strict compliance with legal chain-of-custody rules.
Perform detailed evaluations of complex documentary, financial, and electronic data (e.g., bank records, contracts, electronic communications); analyze complex patterns and interrelationships; assess witness credibility; and resolve contradictory, missing, or fragmentary information.
Draft clear, complete, and legally supportable written products, including Reports of Investigation (ROIs), prosecutive summaries, search/arrest warrant affidavits, and subpoena requests; present case findings to Assistant U.S. Attorneys and agency officials; and provide sworn testimony before grand juries, courts of law, or administrative bodies.
Develop operational contacts, build investigative sources, and coordinate joint enforcement activities with Federal, State, local, and foreign law enforcement partners, prosecutors, and technical experts to resolve complex jurisdictional and investigative matters. This position is being advertised as part of a career-ladder opportunity (GL-09/GS-11) FPL 13. The duties described above reflect the position at GS-11 grade level.
If selected at the lower grade level (GL-09), you will perform similar duties of a more conventional scope and complexity under closer supervisory guidance.
Continuing from the Qualification Section Above: In order to qualify, you must meet the eligibility and qualifications requirements as defined above by the closing date of the announcement. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: Criminal Investigation Series 1811 Volunteer Experience: "Experience" refers to paid and unpaid experience.
Examples of qualifying unpaid experience may include: volunteer work done through National Service programs (such as Peace Corps and AmeriCorps); as well as work for other community-based philanthropic and social organizations. Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills; and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.
You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Time-in-Grade: Any individual who is currently holding, or has held within the previous 52 weeks, a General Schedule position under non-temporary appointment in the competitive or excepted service, must meet time-in-grade requirements (must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade or equivalent in the Federal service).
Time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement. Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal civilian employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appt.
If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements: To qualify based on education, you must submit a legible copy of transcripts from an accredited institution with your name, school name, credit hours, course level, major(s), grade-point average or class ranking, and date degree conferred.
Transcripts do not need to be official, but if you are selected for this position and you used your education to qualify, you must provide official transcripts before you begin work. Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S.
Department of Education. If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet qualification requirements, you must show that your education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S.
accredited college or university. Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating. CONTINUED FROM THE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION SECTION BELOW: Shared Certificates: The Department of Energy shares lists of applicants among its internal Departmental Elements and organizations.
You may be referred for consideration to other DOE Hiring Managers throughout the Department for more than one position based on this application. By applying to this announcement, you understand your application materials may be shared with multiple Hiring Mangers throughout DOE. If additional positions are filled from this announcement conditions of employment may differ. You will be notified if you are referred for additional positions.
This position is with Department of Energy Headquarters, Department of Energy.
The posted pay range is $63780 – $111087/yr.
This position is eligible for telework.
This position requires a Q Access Authorization security clearance.
Applications close on 2026-09-08.
This position is open under the 'Fed Transition' hiring path.
Source: USAJOBS.gov — U.S. Federal Government
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