Tiffany Hooper

Strategic and collaborative leader with over 18 years of directing, leading, and managing engagements designed to deliver results for USDA and OIG. Excellent reputation for achieving strategic goals, developing employees, and driving operational improvements. Experience working across mission areas and offices to achieve organizational goals.

• Participated in preparations for our agency’s house appropriations hearing including memorizing the body of work produced during the most recent fiscal period and planned for the upcoming fiscal period. Attended the hearing and provided information to the front office necessary to respond to congressional requests because of that hearing.
• Made updates to and published, for use by the organization, templates for performing inspections and documenting independence requirements, in accordance with the revised Quality Standards for Inspections and Evaluations.
• Represented the Office of Audit in organizational wide efforts to update the management challenges report for the entire OIG as well as to achieve organizational alignment with data that feeds from our back-end systems to publicly facing dashboards.
• Since March 2020, I led the unit in its issuance of 9 engagement reports containing 11 combined findings and 23 recommendations to improve the operations of USDA programs, including implementing grants management controls to ensure awards comply with federal regulations, improving the accuracy of improper payment reporting in the accompanying material to the financial statements and increasing transparency with the public when the statuses of programs change.
• Despite being the smallest audit unit, we have issued as many as or more engagements than units twice our size. These results include monetary results totaling more than $302 million. Since I have become the Director of the unit, we have issued reports that include $302 million monetary recommendations which resulted in a return on investment of of $158 for every dollar invested in this unit.

• Michelle Emigh, Director, Quality Assurance, VA OIG, (202) 615-1464
• Nina Murphy, Assistant Inspector General for Audit, EEOC OIG, (202) 320-7201
• Chris Dentel, Inspector General, CPSC OIG, (301) 504-764

• Graduate of the Excellence in Government Fellows Program. This program focuses on bringing together high-performing GS-14s and 15s across the government to obtain training on leadership and work collaboratively on projects designed to tackle critical issues agencies face. The project completed by my group resulted in a redesigned Intranet by USDA OIG that is currently in operation.
• Franklin Covey certified facilitator for the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and Leading at the Speed of Trust courses.
• Table Group certified facilitator for the 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. This course focuses on improving team function and relationships to increase efficiency and results.
• Earned the Human Resource Management certificate from the American Management Association by completing Succession Planning, Training the Trainer, Strategic Planning and Virtual and Remote Teamwork coursework.

• Certified Government Financial Manager (CGFM)
• Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE)