This position serves as a Supervisory Police Officer (Lieutenant) within the Police and Security service at the Fort Harrison VA Medical Center, ensuring a safe and secure environment across all VA Administrations with various settings, including a variety of jurisdictional environments.

Duties

In this capacity, you will direct, coordinate and perform supervisory and non-supervisory policing law enforcement assignments and projects. Duties may include, but are not limited to: Protects the civil rights of all individuals on VA controlled property; Performs various law enforcement and administrative functions throughout the department; Manages, supervises and coordinates the Police Service law enforcement activities for a designated assigned area; Serves as a watch commander or administrative lieutenant at the geographic area level; Conducts inspections of personnel, equipment and facilities to ensure compliance with departmental policies and procedures; Establishes priorities to coordinate, plan, organize and complete work; Oversees human resource activities such as recruitment of vacancies; preparing, conducting and reviewing performance evaluations; takes disciplinary action; identifies and conducts specific training; approves and monitors leave requests; Responds to highly dangerous and active crimes in progress Makes independent decisions to take, direct and coordinate immediate steps to preserve life and property; Performs other related duties as assigned. Work Schedule: Varied (7:00am-7:00pm / 7:00pm-7:00am). Candidates must be willing to work weekends, irregular work hours and extended hours if determined by the needs of the service. Furthermore, candidates must be willing to be placed, detailed or temporarily assigned to other related services and/or locations, if necessary. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Supervisory Police Officer/PD99828A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not Required

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 08/23/2023. 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-9 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-8. 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. Individual Occupational Requirement (IOR): The Police Series 0083 has a minimum qualification entry requirement: Specialized Experience: Experience that provided knowledge of a body of basic laws and regulations, law enforcement operations, practices, and techniques and involved responsibility for maintaining order and protecting life and property. Creditable specialized experience may have been gained in work on a police force; through service as a military police officer; in work providing visitor protection and law enforcement in parks, forests or other natural resource or recreational environments; in performing criminal investigative duties; or in other work that provided the required knowledge and skills. AND, You may qualify based on your experience as described below: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-8 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: 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. 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 Lieutenant responsibilities. knowledge of common safety and security rules, regulations, procedures and practices to include effective restraint techniques, basic first aid and CPR to complete required assignments; writing 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. Knowledge and 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 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 guide operations to dispatch personnel, to properly enter and retrieve information on individuals and vehicles and to serve in a variety of other IC roles. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Criminal LawDecision MakingLeadershipManaging Human ResourcesSecurityTeaching Others 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. 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 Fort Harrison VA Medical Center 3687 Veterans Drive Fort Harrison, MT 59636 US
• Name: Ruthie Diaz
• Phone: (303) 202-8660
• Email: [email protected]