District Director (Non-LEO)

• Manages the planning and implementation of all OLMS program and associated administrative operations within an assigned geographical territory. Formulates annual program operations plans for an assigned geographic jurisdiction which are congruent with established budgetary and administrative requirements.
• Directs and supervises OLMS program activity under the LMRDA and related statutes including: criminal and civil investigations; investigative audits of labor organizations under the agencys Compliance Audit and International Compliance Audit Program (CAP and I-CAP) to detect criminal and civil violations of the LMRDA and related statutes.
• Serves as the OLMS spokesperson in dealings with federal and state or local agencies union officials interest groups press and medial representatives and others.
• Directly supervises staff work and support staff. Ensure timely and quality completion of assignments technical sufficiency of work and conformance with agency policies and procedures. Evaluates provides counseling training and advice to subordinate staff and performs the full ranted of established supervisory functions.
• Develops long-range plans for office operations which identify program areas in need of special emphasis recognize future priorities and project future resource needs in terms of staffing time and funding considerations.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: The investigative work supervised often involves prolonged hours of interviews or record reviews in hazardous hostile environments. Many records are obtained from reluctant sources via administrative or grand jury subpoena. The work may involve considerable exertion to obtain transport and ultimately review records. The work requires interviews of witnesses or targets in remote work sites at irregular unpredictable or unscheduled hours. Complex investigations are multi-tiered requiring concentration and endurance. Documents are often difficult to obtain and financial records may have to be completely reconstructed to assess both the subjects guilt and the unions loss. The work may involve interviewing contacts or developing leads in uncomfortable often hostile environments oftentimes outside normal working hours. The position may also require working for prolonged periods of time without adequate rest.

Conducting investigations requires frequent travel to various geographic sites with or without other investigators. Investigations may require locating witnesses and records and then conducting extensive prolonged interviews at irregular hours to satisfy stress provoking time constraints. Travel is sometimes necessary in severe weather on remote roads in hazardous areas or under hazardous conditions for up to three weeks at a time. Some casework may have to be done over protracted shift periods and at irregular hours. Interviews may be conducted in arduous circumstances with reluctant witnesses sometimes exposing the investigator to personal risk. Prosecution support work frequently requires unusually long workdays and long periods away from the assigned duty station.

Considerable endurance is often required to review voluminous records and physical strength is required for lifting and transporting them. Investigators must often lift heavy boxes or equipment categorize store and secure evidence all independent of outside help.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: Managerial or supervisory duties are typically performed in office settings but may involve participation in on-site investigative work. This on-site work often occurs during evening or other irregular hours in crime ridden areas factories on construction sites or at depots. Investigative activities bring the investigator into direct contact with individuals facing potential criminal charges loss of their freedom and livelihood known to commit attempt or threaten to commit violence against union members who own weapons or are alleged to have ties to organized crime. These contacts also expose the investigator to highly contested hostile internal union political and power struggles. These and other situations described above may place the investigator in physical jeopardy.