The incumbent serves as a supervisory Police Officer (Captain) ensuring a safe and secure environment across all VA administrations within various settings, including a variety of jurisdictional environments, such as VHA Medical Centers and facilities, Inpatient Clinics, Outpatient Clinics, domiciliaries and administrative sites throughout the United States.

Duties

Directs/Performs a variety of supervisory and non-supervisory policing law enforcement assignments and projects that are performed on Departmental property; including any properties owned, leased, or licensed when consistent with Federal laws, regulations, VA policy and operational guidance. Works in collaboration with the Major who serves as the incumbent's immediate supervisor. Provides services routinely at all segments of VA facilities located over large geographical areas, some of which may be in different states, counties, municipalities, or townships. Performs certain elements of the work away from Departmental properties when consistent with Federal law, regulation, VA policy and operational guidance. Provides leadership in protecting Veterans, volunteers, and others on Departmental property, U.S. officials, other individuals, and him or herself during any given situation against threats to personal safety when force becomes necessary to enforce laws and regulations. Performs various law enforcement and administrative functions throughout VA. Manages, supervises and coordinates the VHA, PS law enforcement activities for designated assigned area. Performs a broad range of supervisory responsibilities over other law enforcement policing staff. Serves as a watch commander or administrative lieutenant at the geographic area level. Participates in Incident Command roles as needed during serious incidents. Supervises a team of police lieutenants, sergeants, police officers, detectives and other law enforcement staff, who carry out day-to-day, routine crime suppression and investigative functions. Supervises the administrative and support functions of non sworn personnel. Inspects personnel, facilities, and tactics for safety and/or training needs. Establishes priorities to coordinate, plan, organize and complete work effectively and efficiently. Ensures all policies and procedures are followed and adhered to. Oversees human resources activities; and leads, prioritizes, assigns, reviews, approves, and disapproves employees' assignments and related assignments. Monitors and reviews the status and progress of the work and makes workload adjustments to ensure the workload is balanced. Prepares, conducts, and reviews performance evaluations; takes disciplinary actions; and identifies and conducts specific designated training. Approves and monitors leave requests. Responds to highly dangerous and active crimes in progress and makes independent decisions to takes, directs, and coordinates immediate steps to preserve life and property. Pursues or apprehends suspects and criminals; makes arrests which may involve physically restraining or subduing individual(s) and possible use of deadly force; interviews and interrogates victims, witnesses, suspects, and other contact persons; and protects the crime scene for processing; and processes suspects. Establishes and implements community relations service programs and attends public events. Researches, assesses needs, and establishes specific programs to address neighborhood law enforcement, administrative, or operational issues. Maintains liaison with numerous municipals, government, civic organizations, and private citizens to establish and maintain rapport to facilitate the Department's functions and to promote neighborhood safety and community policing programs. Develops and maintains cooperative and professional relationships with VHA and PS employees, managers, and representatives from other departments and organizations. Reviews reports and operational plans and discussing issues with personnel. Performs various administrative duties in law enforcement planning and operations, including reviewing and preparing activity reports and correspondence, monitoring budget, tracking budget requests for assigned area, and overseeing equipment needs. Performs other duties as assigned. Work Schedule: Panama Schedule 11:00 - 23:00, 23:00 - 11:00 Telework: Not eligible Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Supervisory Police Officer (Captain)/PD99815S Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 07/18/2023. Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-10 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-09. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment. Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-09 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Through knowledge of an extensive body of standardized, optional, and innovative investigative procedures, techniques, and methods to detect, investigate, and resolve crimes and other incidents that are beyond the scope or requirements to oversee law enforcement criminal activities, including patrol conducting stakeout operations, and executing investigative techniques, resulting in arrests of suspects and, in some instances, in changes in patrol operating methods. Detailed knowledge of federal, state, county, and local laws, legal codes, court procedures, and law enforcement regulations, methods and procedures and law enforcement requirements that apply to facilities depending upon their geographical location and the type of jurisdiction to ensure policing compliance and to prevent and resolve offenses. Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, and government regulations, to apply common safety and security rules, regulations, procedures and practices, including effective restraint techniques, basic first aid, and CPR. Leadership skills, techniques, principles and procedures to assign, schedule, supervise, train and evaluate the work of PS law enforcement staff supervised and to carry out responsibilities. Written communication skills to prepare a variety of policing related reports, logs and documents for immediate supervisor's review and approval and to listen and understand directions, information and ideas presented verbally and in writing. Effective skills of policing procedures to properly conduct search and seizure of evidence/contraband, pursue and apprehend persons fleeing a crime scene or attempting to resist arrest; to identify and arrest violators based on eyewitness accounts; to serve warrants and subpoenas to individuals on the property and to support dignitaries and activities specifically designated by the facility Director. Knowledge of firearms and tactics for deployment in emergencies to carry out policing emergency services and procedures, such as weapons and chemical agents, negotiations, building layouts, terrorist threats and counterterrorism methods, search and rescue techniques, and crowd and demonstration control. Skills overseeing reports generated by staff using various automated systems and equipment, including National Crime Information Center (NCIC) terminal, internal Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) surveillance system, National Incident Management System (NIMS) and Incident Command System (ICS) to provide guidance of operations to dispatch personnel and to properly enter and retrieve information on individuals and vehicles. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Administration and ManagementCriminal LawDecision MakingLeadershipManaging Human ResourcesSecurity Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment. Physical Requirements: The work requires, on a regular and recurring basis, considerable and strenuous physical exertion such as running, frequent climbing of multiple flights of stairs, and carrying items weighing over 50 pounds. It requires stamina, physical agility, dexterity, and the strength to pursue, apprehend or detain persons who are often uncooperative, assaultive, and/or armed. Work Environment: The work involves both moderate and high risks and possible endangerment of life or serious injury that requires the exercise of safety precautions and use of personal protective equipment The work is performed in settings in which there is regular and recurring exposure to moderate to severe discomforts and unpleasantness, such as high temperatures in confined spaces, high temperatures due to mandatory protective personal equipment, or adverse weather conditions during extended periods of traffic and patrol duties. The work involves moderate risk requiring exercise of safety precautions when working around hazardous materials such as toxic gases, explosives, infectious biological materials, and others that pose a moderate risk of exposure. For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

Education

There is no educational substitution at this grade level.

Contacts

• Address Palo Alto VA Medical Center 3801 Miranda Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94304 US
• Name: Eugene Jacobs
• Email: [email protected]