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WHAT IS THECRIMINAL INVESTIGATION (CI)DIVISION?\ \ A description of the business units can be found at:<https://www.jobs.irs.gov/about/who/business-divisions>\ \ IRS-CI Special Agents (SAs) are duly sworn federal law enforcement officers throughout all 50 states and US territories including special agent attachs located in 11 countries. As a SA, you will combine your accounting skills with law enforcement skills to investigate financial crimes. SAs fill a unique niche in the federal law enforcement community due to IRS-CI\'s broad jurisdiction of Title 18 and Title 31 crimes, in addition to our primary tax enforcement mission. SAs are known for their financial investigative expertise in areas, such as, tax fraud, public corruption, cybercrimes, narcotics, terrorism, and much more. Today\'s sophisticated schemes demand the analytical ability of financial investigators to trace transactions through complex financial records.\ \ Watch this video to learn more!\ \ \ The following are the duties of this position at the full working level. If this vacancy includes more than one grade and you are selected at a lower grade level, you will have the opportunity to learn to perform these duties and receive training to help you grow in this position.

• The Special Agent plans and conducts investigations relative to criminal statutes of tax administration, financial crimes, and other related offenses, which vary in levels of complexity and scope. The majority of the time is spent on investigations involving most or all of the following characteristics:
  • Indirect accounting methods to establish evidence
  • Precedent setting legal or investigative questions
  • Highly complex or unusual accounting problems
  • Information obtained from diversified sources gathered over a wide section of the country
  • Interrelationship of facts and evidence that are difficult to identify because of numerous holding companies, entities, etc.
  • A mixture of legal and illegal activities
• Performs other investigative and enforcement duties such as:
  • Testifying as a Government witness
  • Assisting the U.S. Attorney during the preparation of case for trial
  • Conducting collateral inquiries
  • Providing protection to persons and property
• Obtains, evaluates, integrates, and recommends actions on information items to identify larger areas of noncompliance (e.g., major profession, occupation, industry, or wide geographic area).
• May serve as a team leader and/or expert consultant in the information gathering function.
• Conducts or participates in surveillance, armed escorts, dignitary protection, undercover operations, execution of search and arrest warrants, seizures, etc.
• Protects the government\'s interest in enforcement activities.
• Maintains good physical condition in order to conduct criminal investigations, surveillance, protective assignments, undercover assignments, etc.

BASIC REQUIREMENTS :\ \ GL-07 LEVEL:You must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GL-05 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes experience in or related to investigation of criminal violations (e.g., suspected crimes or alleged fraud) that provided the specific knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the IRS Special Agent. Experience must have required: (1) the exercise of tact, initiative, ingenuity, resourcefulness and judgment in collecting, assembling, and developing facts, evidence and other pertinent data through investigative techniques hich included personal interview; (2) the ability to make oral and written reports and presentations of personally conducted or personally directed investigations, examinations, or inspections; AND (3) the ability to analyze and evaluate evidence and arrive at sound conclusions. To be qualifying, this experience must have been acquired in investigative work related to the ACCOUNTING OR AUDITING OF BUSINESS OR COMMERCIAL PRACTICES OF SUBJECTS INVESTIGATED.OR\ \ You may substitute education for specialized experience as follows: One full year of graduate level education (transcripts submitted must also indicate receipt of a bachelor\'s degree) which included or was supplemented by at least 15 semester/23 quarter hours in accounting plus an additional 9 semester/14 quarter hours from among the following fields: business law, economics, finance, tax law or money and banking.ORSuperior Academic Achievement may be met by having a Bachelor\'s degree, with one of the following: A GPA of 2.95 or higher on a 4.0 scale for all completed undergraduate courses or those completed in the last 2 years of study, or a