Total 13 Finance / Banking / Insurance job vacancies in Dublin, California

• Direct and coordinate division activities relating to the provision of plan technical assistance and oversight of Medicare Parts C and D, or MMP drug and health plans assigned to the Division.
• Provide authoritative direction, guidance, and technical assistance to all types of drug and health plans assigned to the Division, implementing CMS policies and instructions.
• Collaborate and demonstrate teamwork working with other Divisions operating in the Group, on cross-cutting program, operational, and staffing matters, to achieve program results.
• Oversee the implementation of corrective actions and make recommendations to the Group Director for enforcement actions.
• Set priorities, prepare schedules for completion of work, assign work based on priorities, give advice and provide counsel or instruction to employees on both work and administrative matters.

• Serve as a senior advisor to management and executive leadership on developing and implementing strategic plans in support of achieving the PI/PE and MR functional program objectives.
• Perform complex reviews, evaluations, and follow-up of key initiatives to assure that goals, objectives, and deadlines are met.
• Provide leadership on a variety of special assignments involving all aspects of the management of health care and/or health care financing programs and projects.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of existing policies and reviews new policy and legislative initiatives for potential impact on OPOLE and/or the Agency.
• Participate in and makes key authoritative contributions to top-level discussions and planning sessions on management program policy development.

• Direct the work of Health Insurance Specialists and contractor staff. Plans work to be accomplished by subordinates, establishes long and short-term priorities, and prepares schedules for completion of work.
• Formulate short and long-range DIMO-related plans, goals, and objectives, identifying resources needed to achieve optimum results.
• Collaborate with federal agencies, clinical and analytical experts, and healthcare management (e.g., providers, payers, states, businesses, community agencies, etc.) to assist in assessing the impact of new innovation models.
• Manage Health Insurance Specialists supporting model participants, monitoring program participants for compliance, and fostering learning and collaboration as points of contact for participants, providers, and other stakeholders.
• Directs the analysis of new or proposed program policy, regulations, or legislation impacting assigned areas of plan operations in coordination with CMS Headquarters.

• Assists attorneys in all aspects of the investigation and litigation of claims, including in connection with preparing and taking discovery, researching and drafting pleadings, motions and briefs, preparing for settlement, and preparing and participating in trials.
• Supports attorneys in drafting, reviewing, analyzing, or responding to legislative proposals or implementing rules and regulations.
• Prepares legal memoranda and other written documents in accordance with legal standards of practice involving interpretation of certain provisions of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, FDIC Bylaws and Resolutions, and FDIC Rules and Regulations, and other laws or regulations relative to the FDIC’s operations.
• Contributes in the preparation of legal opinions as well as briefs and other documents for judicial and administrative proceedings.

• Develop, implement, and maintain operational requirements, including standard operating procedures, as well as databases to manage and analyze programmatic information such as routine and ad hoc report, deliverables, and programmatic documentation.
• Gather and analyze information, conduct various reviews and studies to assess ongoing operations, program vulnerabilities and initiating/ recommending improvements or appropriate action.
• Respond to inquiries regarding program oversight activities to a variety of internal and external stakeholders.
• Establish and maintain contacts and working relationships with both internal and external stakeholders required to plan and execute tasks.
• Respond to inquiries regarding program activities to a variety of internal and external stakeholders.

• Assists attorneys in all aspects of the investigation and litigation of claims, including in connection with preparing and taking discovery, researching and drafting pleadings, motions and briefs, preparing for settlement, and preparing and participating in trials.
• Supports attorneys in drafting, reviewing, analyzing, or responding to legislative proposals or implementing rules and regulations.
• Prepares legal memoranda and other written documents in accordance with legal standards of practice involving interpretation of certain provisions of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, FDIC Bylaws and Resolutions, and FDIC Rules and Regulations, and other laws or regulations relative to the FDIC’s operations.
• Contributes in the preparation of legal opinions as well as briefs and other documents for judicial and administrative proceedings.

APPLICATION LIMIT: This vacancy announcement is limited to the first 150 applications received and will close at 11:59PM Eastern Time on the day that we receive the 150th application, or at 11:59PM Eastern Time on the listed closing date, whichever occurs first.  

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As a Lead Human Resources Specialist, GS-201-13, you will be responsible for:

•  Division to include, direction, integration, management, and supervision of recruitment, selection and placement programs, and classification programs.  
•  Providing advice and direction to management on Human Resources issues, practices, and processes using expert knowledge of governing laws, merit systems principles, and Office of Personnel Management (OPM) rules and policy requirements.  
•  Articulating and communicating to the team the assignment, project, problems to be solved, actionable events, milestones, and/or program issues under review.  

• Develop, implement, and maintain program oversight strategy and processes, maintain operational requirements, including standard operating procedures and processes for overseeing entities that provide health care and prescription drug services.
• Monitor entities processes to identify program vulnerabilities and ensure continuing compliance with Agency agreements/contracts and all statutory, regulatory and sub-regulatory requirements are met.
• Gather and analyze information, conduct various reviews and studies to assess ongoing operations, program vulnerabilities, and initiate/recommend improvements or appropriate action.
• Develop, evaluate, and refine regulations, manuals, program guidelines, program memoranda, policy letters and instructions to effectively communicate policy to Agency stakeholders regarding compliance, audit and oversight programs.

As an Information Technology (IT) Risk Specialist, you will:

• Develop risk-based institution-specific examination plans (for large, complex, or high-concern institutions) that comply with all applicable guidelines and include procedures for testing an institution's unique risks.
• Conduct IT examinations in accordance with generally accepted IT audit standards and guidelines to ensure that the institution's information technology and business systems are adequately controlled, monitored, and assessed.
• Provide support and technical assistance to OE examiners and management in conducting IT examination activities.
• Maintain responsibility for planning IT examination activities for low to moderate to highly-complex institutions.
• Recommend new or improved IT examination techniques or methods to enhance future examinations.
• Conduct related conferences and communicates with institution officials, as appropriate, to obtain feedback and reactions to examination findings and to convey information concerning corrective action or regulatory guidance.
• Write examination entrance and report transmittal letters to board members, internal and external correspondence related to examinations or projects, Enforcement Action Memoranda as necessary, and other materials that are essential to complete the reporting process and maintain ongoing communication with institution personnel.

As an Information Technology (IT) Risk Specialist, you will:

• Develop risk-based institution-specific examination plans (for large, complex, or high-concern institutions) that comply with all applicable guidelines and include procedures for testing an institution's unique risks.
• Conduct IT examinations in accordance with generally accepted IT audit standards and guidelines to ensure that the institution's information technology and business systems are adequately controlled, monitored, and assessed.
• Provide support and technical assistance to OE examiners and management in conducting IT examination activities.
• Maintain responsibility for planning IT examination activities for low to moderate to highly-complex institutions.
• Recommend new or improved IT examination techniques or methods to enhance future examinations.
• Conduct related conferences and communicates with institution officials, as appropriate, to obtain feedback and reactions to examination findings and to convey information concerning corrective action or regulatory guidance.
• Write examination entrance and report transmittal letters to board members, internal and external correspondence related to examinations or projects, Enforcement Action Memoranda as necessary, and other materials that are essential to complete the reporting process and maintain ongoing communication with institution personnel.

• Lead projects to develop and implement health insurance programs such as Medicare, CHIP, and private plans.
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with outside partners to ensure successful planning and execution of these projects.
• Develop operational requirements for overseeing health care and prescription drug services.
• Recommend improvement actions based on your assessments and monitor entities to ensure compliance with agency agreements and all relevant laws and regulations
• Collaborate with the CMS Office of Legislation and Congressional committees to conduct impact analyses or mark-ups of various legislative option

What will I do in this position if hired?

In this Insurance Specialist position, you will serve as an Insurance Specialist at a Public Assistance (PA) Consolidated Resource Center (CRC). Typical duties include:

Typical assignments include:

• Reviewing and interpreting coverage of all lines of commercial insurance, including but not limited to policies providing coverage against flood, wind, and earthquake.
• Adjusting a wide range of insurance claims based on disaster related damage to avoid duplication of benefits.
• Interpreting National Flood Insurance Program claims.
• Communicating effectively orally and in writing for the purposes of exchanging information with stakeholders in meetings, by telephone, and email.
• Working with teammates and partners to address insurance matters as required by statute, regulation, and policy.

What else do I need to know?

At FEMA, our mission is to help people before, during and after disasters, and every employee at FEMA has a role in emergency management. Every FEMA employee has regular and recurring emergency management responsibilities, though not every position requires routine deployment to disaster sites. All positions are subject to recall around the clock for emergency management operations, which may require irregular work hours, work at locations other than the official duty station, and may include duties other than those specified in the employee's official position description. Travel requirements in support of emergency operations may be extensive in nature (weeks to months), with little advance notice, and may require employees to relocate to emergency sites with physically austere and operationally challenging conditions.

This announcement is for a position as a CORE (Cadre of On-Call Response/Recovery Employee). CORE employees are full-time employees hired to directly support the response and recovery efforts related to disasters. Employees are hired under the Robert T. Stafford Act and are excluded from the provisions of title 5, United States Code, governing jobs in the competitive service. They can be hired under a streamlined process instead of a competitive process. After three years of continuous service, Stafford Act employees may be granted competitive eligibility to apply for permanent full-time positions at FEMA.

This position will be hired into a temporary 4-year, excepted service appointment. Appointments may be renewed based on workload, funding, and supervisory approval.

This position has promotion potential to the IC-1101-12. Promotions are dependent on your ability to perform the duties at a higher level, successful performance review displaying at least one year of experience at the lower grade, the continuing need for an employee assigned to the higher level, and management approval.

FEMA is committed to ensuring that its workforce reflects the diversity of the nation. At FEMA, our workforce includes the many identities, races, ethnicities, backgrounds, abilities, ages, cultures, and beliefs of the people we serve. To learn about FEMA's ongoing diversity and inclusion efforts, reasonable accommodation process, and the FEMA Core Values, please visit www.fema.gov.

At the full performance level, major duties include:

• Makes technical and administrative decisions on reasonable accommodation requests; provides consultative services to managers, employees, and applicants and develops appropriate interventions for management involving the full spectrum of the Reasonable Accommodation Program.
• Reviews accommodation case files for accuracy, appropriateness and completeness. Monitors the status of accommodation requests at all stages in the process and provides reports, as necessary.
• Prepares, evaluates and presents quantitative and qualitative analytical reports for management to determine the extent to which reasonable accommodation policies and programs meet corporate objectives and are effective making recommendations for program improvements where appropriate.
• Reviews dashboards, analyzes data and employment practices, and prepares metrics to enhance understanding of organizational performance and client service delivery as well as drive policy and program decisions to eliminate barriers to full reasonable accommodation of affected groups.
• Provides guidance and education to supervisors, managers, and employees on the reasonable accommodation process; conducts training and or/provides training resources, such as workshops, seminars, webinars, and meetings for managers, supervisors, employees, and staff involved in programs and activities related accessibility for individuals with disabilities.