Why work for the Federal Bureau of Prisons? You can have a meaningful career with an agency that truly values a diverse workforce. You will find a diverse workforce employed from entry level jobs to senior management positions. We protect public safety by ensuring federal offenders serve their sentences of imprisonment in facilities that are safe, humane, and provide reentry programming. Employees at correctional facilities perform correctional work regardless of their specific occupation.

Duties

Serves as the Intelligence Operations Officer in the Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism Branch, Correctional Programs Division, Central Office, Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). Due to the sensitive nature of the number of investigative/review issues, including staff misconduct or threat matters, it is necessary to have access to virtually all routine record systems and secure areas of the institution. Therefore, it is paramount that the integrity and confidentially of sensitive records are protected. Primary role is to actively serve as an agency liaison with all local Federal law enforcement task force operations, Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), law enforcement intelligence consortiums, and similar groups/activities which are engaged in operations that could provide meaningful intelligence information regarding offenders already in BOP custody. Serves as the corrections expert on inmate activities within the institution, conducts database and Sentry research for task force dissemination and other law enforcement agencies, assists with criminal investigations, and provides meaningful intelligence information regarding offenders already in BOP custody, or projected as entering BOP custody in the future. NOTE: Required to qualify for and maintain TOP SECRET security clearance. Along with all other correctional institution employees, incumbent is charged with responsibility for maintaining security of the institution. The staff correctional responsibilities precede all others required by this position and are performed on a regular and recurring basis.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship is Required.
• See Special Conditions of Employment Section.

Qualifications

To be considered for the position, you must meet the following qualification requirements: Education: There is no substitution of education for specialized experience for this position. OR Experience: You must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the next lower grade level in federal service. Specialized experience is directly related experience that included substantial involvement with a correctional program and provided a thorough knowledge of correctional techniques, or experience in meeting and dealing with people that demonstrated the ability to work effectively with inmates and associates in a correctional environment. Experience must have also demonstrated the ability to perform supervisory or administrative duties successfully. This includes (1) understanding the problems of custody, treatment, training, and release of inmates of penal or correctional institutions; (2) a thorough and comprehensive knowledge of an institution's internal policies, programs, regulations, and procedures; and (3) training subordinates, coordinating and directing activities and functions, evaluating performance of operations and the effectiveness of programs, and maintaining high standards or work objectives. This experience must have been gained in an administrative position, or in other positions that included the successful direction, or assistance in the direction of, an entire correctional program or a major phase of such a program. Some examples of this qualifying experience are: Experience in conducting database and Sentry research for task force dissemination and other law enforcement agencies; assisting with criminal investigations and providing meaningful intelligence information regarding offenders. Experience in coordinating the release and sharing of BOP intelligence with law enforcement agencies, consistent with BOP policy, federal rules, statutes, and DOJ guidelines. Experience in gathering intelligence regarding the identity of individual security threat characteristics, group threat characteristics and information regarding feuds, treaties, alliances, outside support groups and similar information. If applicable, credit will be given for paid and unpaid experience. To receive proper credit, you must show the actual time (such as the number of hours worked per week) spent in activities. **Your eligibility for consideration will be based on your responses to the questions in the application.**

Education

See Qualifications Section for education requirements, if applicable.

ONLY if education is a requirement/substitution for specialized experience, applicant MUST upload legible transcripts as verification of educational requirement. Transcripts MUST be uploaded and electronically linked from USAJOBS at the time you apply and MUST include identifying information to include School Name, Student Name, Degree and Date Awarded (if applicable). All academic degrees and coursework must be completed at a college or university that has obtained accreditation or pre-accreditation status from an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. For a list of schools that meet this criteria, Click Here.

Foreign Education: For information regarding foreign education requirements, please see Foreign Diploma and Credit Recognition at the U.S. Department of Education website: Recognition of Foreign Qualifications.

If you are selected for this position and qualified based on education (i.e. basic education requirement and/or substitution of education), you will be required to provide an OFFICIAL transcript prior to your first day on duty.

Contacts

• Address JUSTICE, BUREAU OF PRISONS Consolidated Staffing Unit 346 Marine Forces Drive Grand Prairie, Texas 75051 United States
• Name: CSU
• Phone: 972-352-4200
• Email: [email protected]