Revenue Administration, Tax, and Customs Advisors - Personal Services Contractor

REVENUE ADMINISTRATION, TAX, and CUSTOMS ADVISORS

GLOBAL ASSIGNMENTS

SCOPE OF POSITION: The U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Technical Assistance (OTA) is recruiting experienced professionals for its Revenue Administration program ( revenue includes the money collected from tax and customs compliance) on a competitive basis for intermittent assignments under personal services contracts. This announcement is for global technical assistance assignments. We are recruiting for assignments in Africa, Asia, Europe, and South and Central America. We thus have specific interest in specialists willing to accept assignments worldwide. Current country assignments include North Macedonia, Ukraine, Moldova, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Namibia, Kenya, Madagascar, Cabo Verde, and Sri Lanka. Short-term assignments normally consist of a series of trips of two to three weeks each. In addition to intermittent assignments, there may be a limited number of resident assignments, which place advisors in a host country for one year or more. Applicants must be willing to accept often arduous international travel.

QUALIFICATIONS: Treasury is seeking candidates who possess expertise in one or more areas of revenue administration, both tax and customs administration.

Required qualifications:

• For tax administration experts, a minimum of ten years' experience, to include one or more of the following complex and specialty areas:
• tax audit (including computer assisted audit, audits of large and multinational companies, issues involving international tax, transfer pricing, financial products, financial instruments such as cryptocurrencies, and other specialized sector audit experience),
• dispute resolution,
• compliance risk management,
• returns and payment processing,
• collection/debt management,
• taxpayer service and education, and
• tax fraud.
• For customs administration experts, a minimum of ten years' experience, to include one or more of the following complex and specialty areas:
• US Customs and Border Protection procedures and regulatory framework and associated documentary requirements,
• compliance expertise (including experience implementing internal controls or risk assessments),
• customs valuation,
• harmonized tariff classification system,
• trade agreements,
• rules of origin,
• excise tax,
• post clearance audit,
• border operations, and
• border control.
• Additional complex and specialty areas applicable to both tax and customs administration experts, requiring a minimum of ten years' experience:
  • Expertise in human capital management, including organizational design, performance management, and training and development is also sought.
  • Criminal investigation, internal audit / inspections and anticorruption program development skills are needed.

Preferred qualifications for either tax or customs administration experts:

• Increasingly automation and Artificial Intelligence applications are being used to handle routine tax and customs administrative issues and applicants should have an awareness of the implications for revenue administration.
• OTA is encountering growing demand for tax and customs technical support for digital revenue initiatives (AI tool integration, cybersecurity, and new information system implementation.) Experience in designing, implementing and applying these tools for tax, customs, or related administrative activities is needed.
• Leadership skills and experience in developing and implementing major reforms including strategic and operational planning and managing change are valuable as well.
• Certain assignments require candidates to have significant project management experience, including the ability to prepare project work plans, statements of work and manage human resources.
• In addition to technical skills, we are looking for individuals with outstanding communication skills, who are especially effective at assessing client needs and then providing effective oral and written guidance.
• Prior foreign technical assistance work and knowledge of a foreign language are highly desirable but not required.
• Recent experience working at large State level tax agencies, Internal Revenue Service, Customs and Border Protection or major accounting firms is highly desirable as well.

Candidates must be U.S. citizens.

SALARY AND BENEFITS: Salaries will be negotiated in accordance with program regulations prescribed by the Office of Technical Assistance not to exceed the Senior Executive Service EX- III hourly equivalent. The current starting hourly rate is from $81.11 to $100.38 per hour.

Background checks and Security Clearance: Secret.

The advisor will work in developing and transitional countries worldwide to support U.S. Treasury and U.S. Government economic and national security objectives. The advisor may be deployed to countries with elevated threat levels, including potentially high/critical threat posts, as determined by the U.S. Government.

Successful applicants must be able to obtain State Department medical clearance for worldwide travel. If selected, the applicant will be required to fulfill Office of Government Ethics financial disclosure requirements.

HOW TO APPLY: Applicants (individuals) should submit a cover letter and resume by e-mail to: recruitment@ota.treas.gov. Companies should not submit resumes on behalf of individuals. For consideration, emailed applications should not be sent, or contain a cc, to any OTA, IRS, or other government personnel or email address.

Please reference Solicitation 2032K826R00015 your cover letter and resume. When e-mailing, the subject line must contain the following: Solicitation 2032K826R00015 Revenue Advisors Applicant's Last Name, First Name. Emails received not containing this subject line will be deemed non-responsive, and thus will not be forwarded to the program office/selection official(s) for consideration.

No phone calls please and no hand carries. This announcement is open and continuous until December 31, 2026, although selections may be made in advance of that date.

Please be advised that all contractors, if hired, must obtain a Unique Entity Identifier.

The U.S. Government is an Equal Opportunity Employer