What are the responsibilities and job description for the Student Volunteer position at U.S. Department of Labor?
Summary
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is accepting applications for Summer 2025 Student Volunteers. OIG serves the American Workforce, the Department of Labor, and the Congress by providing independent and objective oversight of Departmental programs through audits and investigations, and by combating the influence of labor racketeering in the workplace.
Learn more about this agency
Help Duties
Legal Services: Conducting research and analyzing the content of the Federal Records Act to interpret and apply applicable statutes, rules, regulations, and executive orders. Maintaining and developing law office SharePoint site and contributes to intranet webpage. Developing metrics and applies software applications. Reviewing and evaluating program policies and procedures. Drafts and recommends additional policies and procedures or modifications to existing guidance. Inventorying records, records scheduling, and gathering business process information, and documentation from entities within the office.
Office of Investigations: Review various DOL Agency Databases. Conduct research to provide information on the utilization of DOL grant funds for case targeting. Attend court hearings and meetings with agents and management. Assist agents and management with outreach activities with internal DOL and external partner agencies. Research and data analysis projects pertaining to DOL's Labor Certification and Unemployment Insurance programs. Draft correspondence, reports, and present findings during office meetings. Provide analytical support. Conduct database queries. Participate in meetings with client agencies. Assist with interviewing witnesses. Shredding, scanning, printing, and collating. Fleet vehicle maintenance.
Office of Management and Policy: Reviews, updates, and refines control implementation statements to ensure accuracy. Research and Document, research relevant compliance standards. Coordinate with stakeholders. Conduct quality checks to confirm accuracy and completeness of the control implementation statements. Document network configurations and support updates to diagrams and inventory. Support the implementation of network security policies/practices. Assist in monitoring network performance and troubleshooting connectivity issues. Assist in reviewing and updating security documentation. Support the assessment and remediation of vulnerabilities identified in scans. Participate in security awareness initiatives. Provide first-line IT support to resolve user incidents and requests. Assist in onboarding and offboarding processes, including device setup and account configuration. Update the inventory system using ServiceNow.
Office of Investigations/Branch of Policy and Operations: Work closely with criminal investigators to gain an understanding for investigations of alleged or suspected violations of criminal laws related to DOL-OIG jurisdiction. May participate in law enforcement activities to include, interviews, surveillance, search warrants, records reviews, evidence handling. Provides support to the OI-HQ Division of Investigations (DI) and regions. Participates in supporting a myriad of administrative/technical responsibilities. Supports projects to assist in divisional priorities.
Branch of Training and Special Programs: Conducts a variety of administrative, civil, and criminal investigations based on its statutory authority or special deputations. Providing oversight over three major investigative programs-unemployment insurance, labor racketeering, and labor trafficking; manages OI's resources at DOJ's National Unemployment Insurance Fraud Task Force/International Organized Crime Intelligence and Operations Center. Assists OI's law enforcement personnel. This includes being assigned a variety of administrative and technical tasks related to criminal investigations falling within OI's investigative jurisdiction. May be tasked with supporting projects.
Branch of Complaint Intake and Analysis (Hotline): Work closely with Branch of Complaint Intake & Analysis (Hotline) team members. Under direct supervision, may participate in complaint handling activities, reviewing complaints received by OIG Hotline, preparing referral letters and responses to complainants, entering data in the Office of Investigations (OI) case management system, following up with complainants regarding concerns reported, handling, and processing duties.
Office of Audit: Works closely with senior risk analyst. Strength, Weakness, Opportunity and Threat (SWOT) analyses to identify risks and select audit subjects. Writer-Editor will work closely with our staff writer-editors to conduct writing-related research, writing and editing materials, such as reports, guidance, articles, newsletters, training materials, brochures and pamphlets, updating the OA OPR intranet site. Reviewing OA data, building reports based on these findings and recommending ways to improve OA's performance metrics. Works closely with OA teams on performance audits, including the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program. On-the-job training for audit-related activities, collecting and analyzing data and documents, preparing audit workpapers, drafting sections of audit reports. Participates in internal and external meetings with federal and state agencies, briefings, responding to media and congressional inquiries.
Help Requirements
Conditions of Employment
In order to be eligible for this opportunity you must be able to obtain academic credit from your institution OR a third-party stipend of at least $15.00 per hour or higher if the locality you are selected for has a higher minimum wage than $15.00.
Legal Services: Conducting research and analyzing the content of the Federal Records Act to interpret and apply applicable statutes, rules, regulations, and executive orders. Maintaining and developing law office SharePoint site and contributes to intranet webpage. Developing metrics and applies software applications. Reviewing and evaluating program policies and procedures. Drafts and recommends additional policies and procedures or modifications to existing guidance. Inventorying records, records scheduling, and gathering business process information, and documentation from entities within the office.
Office of Investigations: Review various DOL Agency Databases. Conduct research to provide information on the utilization of DOL grant funds for case targeting. Attend court hearings and meetings with agents and management. Assist agents and management with outreach activities with internal DOL and external partner agencies. Research and data analysis projects pertaining to DOL's Labor Certification and Unemployment Insurance programs. Draft correspondence, reports and present findings during office meetings. Provide analytical support. Conduct database queries. Participate in meetings with client agencies. Assist with interviewing witnesses. Shredding, scanning, printing, and collating. Fleet vehicle maintenance.
Office of Management and Policy: Reviews, updates, and refines control implementation statements to ensure accuracy. Research and Document, research relevant compliance standards. Coordinate with stakeholders. Conduct quality checks to confirm accuracy and completeness of the control implementation statements. Document network configurations and support updates to diagrams and inventory. Support the implementation of network security policies/practices. Assist in monitoring network performance and troubleshooting connectivity issues. Assist in reviewing and updating security documentation. Support the assessment and remediation of vulnerabilities identified in scans. Participate in security awareness initiatives. Provide first-line IT support to resolve user incidents and requests. Assist in onboarding and offboarding processes, including device setup and account configuration. Update the inventory system using ServiceNow.
Office of Investigations/Branch of Policy and Operations: Work closely with criminal investigators to gain an understanding for investigations of alleged or suspected violations of criminal laws related to DOL-OIG jurisdiction. May participate in law enforcement activities to include, interviews, surveillance, search warrants, records reviews, evidence handling. Provides support to the OI-HQ Division of Investigations (DI) and regions. Participates in supporting a myriad of administrative/technical responsibilities. Supports projects to assist in divisional priorities.
Branch of Training and Special Programs: Conducts a variety of administrative, civil, and criminal investigations based on its statutory authority or special deputations. Providing oversight over three major investigative programs-unemployment insurance, labor racketeering, and labor trafficking; manages OI's resources at DOJ's National Unemployment Insurance Fraud Task Force/International Organized Crime Intelligence and Operations Center. Assists OI's law enforcement personnel. This includes being assigned a variety of administrative and technical tasks related to criminal investigations falling within OI's investigative jurisdiction. May be tasked with supporting projects.
Branch of Complaint Intake and Analysis (Hotline): Work closely with Branch of Complaint Intake & Analysis (Hotline) team members. Under direct supervision, may participate in complaint handling activities, reviewing complaints received by OIG Hotline, preparing referral letters and responses to complainants, entering data in the Office of Investigations (OI) case management system, following up with complainants regarding concerns reported, handling, and processing duties.
Office of Audit: Works closely with senior risk analyst. Strength, Weakness, Opportunity and Threat (SWOT) analyses to identify risks and select audit subjects. Writer-Editor will work closely with our staff writer-editors to conduct writing-related research, writing and editing materials, such as reports, guidance, articles, newsletters, training materials,
brochures and pamphlets, updating the OA OPR intranet site. Reviewing OA data, building reports based on these findings and recommending ways to improve OA's performance metrics. Works closely with OA teams on performance audits, including the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program. On-the-job training for audit-related activities, collecting and analyzing data and documents, preparing audit workpapers, drafting sections of audit reports. Participates in internal and external meetings with federal and state agencies, briefings, responding to media and congressional inquiries.
Education
To be eligible for this unpaid student volunteer opportunity, you must be currently enrolled or accepted for enrollment on at least a half-time basis at a qualifying educational institution, for the purpose of obtaining a diploma, degree, or certificate. Current students must have a grade-point average of 2.0 or higher on a 4.0 scale. If selected, you must maintain a 2.0 or higher-grade point average on a 4.0 scale throughout the duration of the program. You must submit with your application a current academic transcript and/or other official documentation from your academic institution demonstrating your eligibility for selection.
If you do not submit sufficient academic documentation necessary to demonstrate that you meet the eligibility described in this announcement, your application will be deemed incomplete, and you will be ineligible for further consideration for this vacancy.
An academic year of undergraduate education is defined as 30 semester hours, 45 quarter hours, or the equivalent in an accredited college or university and vocational or technical institution.
See the Required Documents section of this announcement. If you do not submit a transcript (unofficial or official) indicating your possession of the required education, you will not be considered for this position.
Any applicant falsely claiming an academic degree from an accredited school will be subject to actions ranging from disqualification from federal employment to removal from federal service.
If your education was completed at a foreign college or university, you must show comparability to education received in accredited educational institutions in the United States and comparability to applicable minimum coursework requirements for this position. Click Evaluation of Foreign Education for more information.
If the student is not currently enrolled or is between academic programs, the student may have a brief interim period of not more than five months during which the student must demonstrate a bona fide intention of continuing to pursue a course of study immediately after the interim period has ended. This documentation may be provided through an official letter from the academic institution confirming the student's status as a continuing student, or similar documentation.
Graduating seniors from high school, college or graduate school who are not continuing their education will not be considered eligible.
Additional information
Additional Conditions Of Employment
The mission of the Department of Labor (DOL) is to protect the welfare of workers and job seekers, improve working conditions, expand high-quality employment opportunities, and assure work-related benefits and rights for all workers. As such, the Department is committed to fostering a workplace and workforce that promote equal employment opportunity, reflects the diversity of the people we seek to serve, and models a culture of respect, equity, inclusion, and accessibility where every employee feels heard, supported, and empowered.
Refer to these links for more information: GENERAL INFORMATION, REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION, ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTATION, FORMER FEDERAL EMPLOYEES
As a condition of employment, all personnel must undergo a background investigation for access to DOL facilities, systems, information and/or materials before they can enter on duty: BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION
Applicants must meet all legal and regulatory requirements. Reference the Required Documents section for additional requirements
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Statement: The mission of the Department of Labor (DOL) is to protect the welfare of workers and job seekers, improve working conditions, expand high-quality employment opportunities, and assure work-related benefits and rights for all workers. As such, the Department is committed to fostering a workplace and workforce that promotes equal employment opportunity, reflects the diversity of the people we seek to serve, and models a culture of respect, equity, inclusion, and accessibility where every employee feels heard, supported, and empowered.
Benefits:
A Student Volunteer is not an employee of the Federal Government for any purposes other than injury compensation and laws relating to the Federal Tort Claims Acts. Therefore, service time is not creditable for leave accrual or any other federal employee benefits. Students are not eligible for noncompetitive conversion to positions in the Federal service.
Student Volunteers are eligible to receive transit benefits.
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Office of Inspector General
200 Constitution Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20210
US
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is accepting applications for Summer 2025 Student Volunteers. OIG serves the American Workforce, the Department of Labor, and the Congress by providing independent and objective oversight of Departmental programs through audits and investigations, and by combating the influence of labor racketeering in the workplace.
Learn more about this agency
Help Duties
Legal Services: Conducting research and analyzing the content of the Federal Records Act to interpret and apply applicable statutes, rules, regulations, and executive orders. Maintaining and developing law office SharePoint site and contributes to intranet webpage. Developing metrics and applies software applications. Reviewing and evaluating program policies and procedures. Drafts and recommends additional policies and procedures or modifications to existing guidance. Inventorying records, records scheduling, and gathering business process information, and documentation from entities within the office.
Office of Investigations: Review various DOL Agency Databases. Conduct research to provide information on the utilization of DOL grant funds for case targeting. Attend court hearings and meetings with agents and management. Assist agents and management with outreach activities with internal DOL and external partner agencies. Research and data analysis projects pertaining to DOL's Labor Certification and Unemployment Insurance programs. Draft correspondence, reports, and present findings during office meetings. Provide analytical support. Conduct database queries. Participate in meetings with client agencies. Assist with interviewing witnesses. Shredding, scanning, printing, and collating. Fleet vehicle maintenance.
Office of Management and Policy: Reviews, updates, and refines control implementation statements to ensure accuracy. Research and Document, research relevant compliance standards. Coordinate with stakeholders. Conduct quality checks to confirm accuracy and completeness of the control implementation statements. Document network configurations and support updates to diagrams and inventory. Support the implementation of network security policies/practices. Assist in monitoring network performance and troubleshooting connectivity issues. Assist in reviewing and updating security documentation. Support the assessment and remediation of vulnerabilities identified in scans. Participate in security awareness initiatives. Provide first-line IT support to resolve user incidents and requests. Assist in onboarding and offboarding processes, including device setup and account configuration. Update the inventory system using ServiceNow.
Office of Investigations/Branch of Policy and Operations: Work closely with criminal investigators to gain an understanding for investigations of alleged or suspected violations of criminal laws related to DOL-OIG jurisdiction. May participate in law enforcement activities to include, interviews, surveillance, search warrants, records reviews, evidence handling. Provides support to the OI-HQ Division of Investigations (DI) and regions. Participates in supporting a myriad of administrative/technical responsibilities. Supports projects to assist in divisional priorities.
Branch of Training and Special Programs: Conducts a variety of administrative, civil, and criminal investigations based on its statutory authority or special deputations. Providing oversight over three major investigative programs-unemployment insurance, labor racketeering, and labor trafficking; manages OI's resources at DOJ's National Unemployment Insurance Fraud Task Force/International Organized Crime Intelligence and Operations Center. Assists OI's law enforcement personnel. This includes being assigned a variety of administrative and technical tasks related to criminal investigations falling within OI's investigative jurisdiction. May be tasked with supporting projects.
Branch of Complaint Intake and Analysis (Hotline): Work closely with Branch of Complaint Intake & Analysis (Hotline) team members. Under direct supervision, may participate in complaint handling activities, reviewing complaints received by OIG Hotline, preparing referral letters and responses to complainants, entering data in the Office of Investigations (OI) case management system, following up with complainants regarding concerns reported, handling, and processing duties.
Office of Audit: Works closely with senior risk analyst. Strength, Weakness, Opportunity and Threat (SWOT) analyses to identify risks and select audit subjects. Writer-Editor will work closely with our staff writer-editors to conduct writing-related research, writing and editing materials, such as reports, guidance, articles, newsletters, training materials, brochures and pamphlets, updating the OA OPR intranet site. Reviewing OA data, building reports based on these findings and recommending ways to improve OA's performance metrics. Works closely with OA teams on performance audits, including the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program. On-the-job training for audit-related activities, collecting and analyzing data and documents, preparing audit workpapers, drafting sections of audit reports. Participates in internal and external meetings with federal and state agencies, briefings, responding to media and congressional inquiries.
Help Requirements
Conditions of Employment
- Must be at least 16 years old and eligible to work in the United States of America (USA).
- Must be actively enrolled or accepted for enrollment at least half-time at a qualifying educational institution at the time of selection and must maintain such enrollment throughout the duration of this program.
- Must be in good academic standing as defined by the agency as 2.0 GPA or higher.
- For minors aged 16 or 17: If selected for a student volunteer position, you must also submit a work permit prior to coming onboard.
- In order to be eligible for this opportunity you must be able to obtain academic credit from your institution OR a third-party stipend of at least $15.00 per hour or higher if the locality you are selected for has a higher minimum wage than $15.00.
- Non-resident candidates must have three years of residency in the United States to meet the residency requirement for background investigations.
- See Additional Conditions of Employment under Additional Information.
In order to be eligible for this opportunity you must be able to obtain academic credit from your institution OR a third-party stipend of at least $15.00 per hour or higher if the locality you are selected for has a higher minimum wage than $15.00.
Legal Services: Conducting research and analyzing the content of the Federal Records Act to interpret and apply applicable statutes, rules, regulations, and executive orders. Maintaining and developing law office SharePoint site and contributes to intranet webpage. Developing metrics and applies software applications. Reviewing and evaluating program policies and procedures. Drafts and recommends additional policies and procedures or modifications to existing guidance. Inventorying records, records scheduling, and gathering business process information, and documentation from entities within the office.
Office of Investigations: Review various DOL Agency Databases. Conduct research to provide information on the utilization of DOL grant funds for case targeting. Attend court hearings and meetings with agents and management. Assist agents and management with outreach activities with internal DOL and external partner agencies. Research and data analysis projects pertaining to DOL's Labor Certification and Unemployment Insurance programs. Draft correspondence, reports and present findings during office meetings. Provide analytical support. Conduct database queries. Participate in meetings with client agencies. Assist with interviewing witnesses. Shredding, scanning, printing, and collating. Fleet vehicle maintenance.
Office of Management and Policy: Reviews, updates, and refines control implementation statements to ensure accuracy. Research and Document, research relevant compliance standards. Coordinate with stakeholders. Conduct quality checks to confirm accuracy and completeness of the control implementation statements. Document network configurations and support updates to diagrams and inventory. Support the implementation of network security policies/practices. Assist in monitoring network performance and troubleshooting connectivity issues. Assist in reviewing and updating security documentation. Support the assessment and remediation of vulnerabilities identified in scans. Participate in security awareness initiatives. Provide first-line IT support to resolve user incidents and requests. Assist in onboarding and offboarding processes, including device setup and account configuration. Update the inventory system using ServiceNow.
Office of Investigations/Branch of Policy and Operations: Work closely with criminal investigators to gain an understanding for investigations of alleged or suspected violations of criminal laws related to DOL-OIG jurisdiction. May participate in law enforcement activities to include, interviews, surveillance, search warrants, records reviews, evidence handling. Provides support to the OI-HQ Division of Investigations (DI) and regions. Participates in supporting a myriad of administrative/technical responsibilities. Supports projects to assist in divisional priorities.
Branch of Training and Special Programs: Conducts a variety of administrative, civil, and criminal investigations based on its statutory authority or special deputations. Providing oversight over three major investigative programs-unemployment insurance, labor racketeering, and labor trafficking; manages OI's resources at DOJ's National Unemployment Insurance Fraud Task Force/International Organized Crime Intelligence and Operations Center. Assists OI's law enforcement personnel. This includes being assigned a variety of administrative and technical tasks related to criminal investigations falling within OI's investigative jurisdiction. May be tasked with supporting projects.
Branch of Complaint Intake and Analysis (Hotline): Work closely with Branch of Complaint Intake & Analysis (Hotline) team members. Under direct supervision, may participate in complaint handling activities, reviewing complaints received by OIG Hotline, preparing referral letters and responses to complainants, entering data in the Office of Investigations (OI) case management system, following up with complainants regarding concerns reported, handling, and processing duties.
Office of Audit: Works closely with senior risk analyst. Strength, Weakness, Opportunity and Threat (SWOT) analyses to identify risks and select audit subjects. Writer-Editor will work closely with our staff writer-editors to conduct writing-related research, writing and editing materials, such as reports, guidance, articles, newsletters, training materials,
brochures and pamphlets, updating the OA OPR intranet site. Reviewing OA data, building reports based on these findings and recommending ways to improve OA's performance metrics. Works closely with OA teams on performance audits, including the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program. On-the-job training for audit-related activities, collecting and analyzing data and documents, preparing audit workpapers, drafting sections of audit reports. Participates in internal and external meetings with federal and state agencies, briefings, responding to media and congressional inquiries.
Education
To be eligible for this unpaid student volunteer opportunity, you must be currently enrolled or accepted for enrollment on at least a half-time basis at a qualifying educational institution, for the purpose of obtaining a diploma, degree, or certificate. Current students must have a grade-point average of 2.0 or higher on a 4.0 scale. If selected, you must maintain a 2.0 or higher-grade point average on a 4.0 scale throughout the duration of the program. You must submit with your application a current academic transcript and/or other official documentation from your academic institution demonstrating your eligibility for selection.
If you do not submit sufficient academic documentation necessary to demonstrate that you meet the eligibility described in this announcement, your application will be deemed incomplete, and you will be ineligible for further consideration for this vacancy.
An academic year of undergraduate education is defined as 30 semester hours, 45 quarter hours, or the equivalent in an accredited college or university and vocational or technical institution.
See the Required Documents section of this announcement. If you do not submit a transcript (unofficial or official) indicating your possession of the required education, you will not be considered for this position.
Any applicant falsely claiming an academic degree from an accredited school will be subject to actions ranging from disqualification from federal employment to removal from federal service.
If your education was completed at a foreign college or university, you must show comparability to education received in accredited educational institutions in the United States and comparability to applicable minimum coursework requirements for this position. Click Evaluation of Foreign Education for more information.
If the student is not currently enrolled or is between academic programs, the student may have a brief interim period of not more than five months during which the student must demonstrate a bona fide intention of continuing to pursue a course of study immediately after the interim period has ended. This documentation may be provided through an official letter from the academic institution confirming the student's status as a continuing student, or similar documentation.
Graduating seniors from high school, college or graduate school who are not continuing their education will not be considered eligible.
Additional information
Additional Conditions Of Employment
- A Student Volunteer must receive academic credit towards graduation, or must receive a third-party stipend, grant, or other equivalent financial aid for the assignment and the amount must be equivalent to $15.00 per hour, or the minimum wage rate for the geographic area in which the work will be performed, whichever is higher.
- Must have a high school diploma or have an equivalent General Education Development certificate, and are accepted and enrolled on at least a half-time basis at a qualifying post-secondary educational institution (e.g., junior or community college, four-year college/university, graduate school, or vocational training institution);
- Appointees must sign a DOL Student Volunteer Agreement form, DL1-6082.
The mission of the Department of Labor (DOL) is to protect the welfare of workers and job seekers, improve working conditions, expand high-quality employment opportunities, and assure work-related benefits and rights for all workers. As such, the Department is committed to fostering a workplace and workforce that promote equal employment opportunity, reflects the diversity of the people we seek to serve, and models a culture of respect, equity, inclusion, and accessibility where every employee feels heard, supported, and empowered.
Refer to these links for more information: GENERAL INFORMATION, REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION, ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTATION, FORMER FEDERAL EMPLOYEES
As a condition of employment, all personnel must undergo a background investigation for access to DOL facilities, systems, information and/or materials before they can enter on duty: BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION
Applicants must meet all legal and regulatory requirements. Reference the Required Documents section for additional requirements
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Statement: The mission of the Department of Labor (DOL) is to protect the welfare of workers and job seekers, improve working conditions, expand high-quality employment opportunities, and assure work-related benefits and rights for all workers. As such, the Department is committed to fostering a workplace and workforce that promotes equal employment opportunity, reflects the diversity of the people we seek to serve, and models a culture of respect, equity, inclusion, and accessibility where every employee feels heard, supported, and empowered.
Benefits:
A Student Volunteer is not an employee of the Federal Government for any purposes other than injury compensation and laws relating to the Federal Tort Claims Acts. Therefore, service time is not creditable for leave accrual or any other federal employee benefits. Students are not eligible for noncompetitive conversion to positions in the Federal service.
Student Volunteers are eligible to receive transit benefits.
Read more
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Office of Inspector General
200 Constitution Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20210
US
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