FOIA Program Manager

FOIA Program Manager

Requirements

• The ability to complete a government agency background check.
• PMP Certification strongly preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred (Equivalent prior military experience may be substituted)
• 15 years or more related experience overseeing FOIA programs and managing contractor teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide oversight, review, and feedback to Contractor staff serving in FOIA Subject Matter Expert (SME) and FOIA Team Leader positions and ensure FOIA Goals (turnaround times).
• Receive new FOIA requests and triage them to ensure they are sufficient to process based on the FOIA and/or PA and complete the intake process by reviewing and assigning them.
• Conduct record searches and apply lawful exemptions and redactions.
• Release responsive records to requesters within prescribed timeframes.
• Provide information on CBP FOIA procedures and processes to employees and FOIA requesters.
• Assist FOIA specialists in implementing privacy policies and procedures.
• Process records in response to litigation requests, with same deliverables as non-litigation requests.
• Process complex FOIA requests by conducting record searches, reviewing, organizing, and analyzing search results, applying lawful exemptions, and redacting responsive records in compliance with FOIA policy and established program procedures and practices; and
• Release redacted responsive records to the requester, research and analyze sensitive classified and controversial data in order to make pertinent FOIA determinations and evaluate various correspondence and reports to determine FOIA applicability and associated polices.

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP Certification strongly preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred (Equivalent prior military experience may be substituted)