The incumbent serves as a uniformed Physical Security Specialist providing services including, but not limited to, assisting in managing the security program for the VA Boston Healthcare System (Jamaica Plain campus) to ensure individuals requiring access have been vetted. The incumbent provides security and assistance to veterans, patients, employees, contractors, volunteers, affiliates, visitors, and others who frequent VA facilities daily.

Duties

The incumbent serves as a uniformed Physical Security Specialist (Uniformed) ensuring a safe and secure environment across VHA within various settings, including a variety of jurisdictional environments, such as VHA Medical Centers and facilities, Inpatient Clinics, Outpatient Clinics, and domiciliaries throughout the United States. ***Selectee must attend a two-week Physically Security Class at the Law Enforcement Training Center.*** Major duties include, but are not limited to: Protects patients, employees, contractors, volunteers, affiliates, and visitors within a facility. Evaluates risk, develops physical security procedures and measures to safeguard personnel, property, and operations from unauthorized access, espionage, terrorism, sabotage, damage and theft. Provides suggestions on matters pertaining to security systems and security of assets. Conducts security surveys to identify conflicts with security requirements/regulations and recommends actions. Conducts system audits and evaluates reports of alleged security violations. Provides input and drafts changes regarding physical security policy, doctrine, utility and implementation to higher leadership's review and approval. Ensures security requirements and appropriate safeguards are implemented (including cameras, panic and intrusion alarms). Monitors and evaluates present and planned security projects to ensure timely and quality service. Provides input during the design and construction of planned projects concerning security engineering and electronic security systems. Collects information and prepares reports on facility compliance with operations and regulations. Develops various physical security-related documents, spreadsheets, graphs, reports and presentations using various automated systems and software packages. Enters, accesses, and retrieves information in the medical center computer system. Maintains a tracking report to ensure physical security surveys are followed up promptly. Establishes, develops, and maintains effective working relationships with other offices/agencies within and outside an organization. Meets and coordinates with key customers and officials to assess customer satisfaction, explain organization policy and procedures, and resolve problems that arise. Empathizes, engages, and communicates with all individuals they encounter to ensure a positive outcome and the safety of the facility and its occupants. Attends security meetings and gathers new or changed security program information to share with security personnel. Responds to reports of a crime in progress and/or calls for police assistance. Takes appropriate actions to pursue and apprehend offenders. Books and takes accused individuals before the appropriate District Court or State Magistrate. Provides control and leadership of emergencies until relieved by higher authority. Seeks, detects and protects all evidence, victims and witnesses. Appears at preliminary hearings and/or testifies at trials when needed. Conducts full investigations over prolong periods or when solutions cannot be achieved during normal patrol shift. Questions/takes statements from victims, witnesses, complainants and interrogates suspects ensuring clarification of conflicting statements. Work Schedule: To Be Determined by Police Management Telework: Not Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Physical Security Specialist (Uniformed)/PD523-99826-S Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved 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, 11/21/2023. 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-7. 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. ***Must attend and pass the physical security course in Little Rock, AR, within 6 months of appointment to this position.*** You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: You must have at least one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level (GS-7) in Federal service that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. Specialized experience is demonstrated work experience to include, but not limited to: The incumbent ensures security requirements, including appropriate safeguards, cameras, panic and intrusion alarms are implemented. Monitors and evaluates existing present and planned security projects to ensure timely and quality service conforms to statutory, contractual and technical requirements. Receives training in conducting system audits and evaluates reports of alleged security violations. Analyzes facts and performs appropriate research and prepares detailed responses. Researches and recommends appropriate courses of action to correct physical and industrial security issues that impact an assigned area. Initiates appropriate actions to pursue and apprehend offenders who are leaving the scene of a crime or who attempts to resist arrest. Subdues individuals causing disturbances. Identifies and arrests violators based on eyewitness accounts. Takes charge at crime scenes restricting access to only those persons required to be present. NOTE: Your experience must be fully documented on your resume in order to receive credit. OR, SUBSTITUTION OF EDUCATION FOR EXPERIENCE: Successful completion of a master's degree or equivalent graduate degree or two full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree in a related field of study that demonstrates the ability to perform the duties of the position or LLB. or J.D., if related. NOTE: This education must have been obtained at an accredited college or university. If you select this option, you must submit a copy of your transcript with your application. Education cannot be credited without documentation. Education at the graduate level in an accredited college or university meets the requirements for positions at GS-7 through GS-11. Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work. One year of full-time graduate education is considered to be the number of credit hours that the school attended has determined to represent 1 year of full-time study. If that information cannot be obtained from the school, 18 semester hours should be considered as satisfying the 1 year of full-time study requirement. Part-time graduate education is creditable in accordance with its relationship to a year of full-time study at the school attended. OR, COMBINATION OF EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: Equivalent combinations of successfully completed graduate-level education (beyond the first year) and specialized experience, as described above, which meet the total experience requirements for this grade level. NOTE: The education portion must include graduate courses that demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of this position. This education must have been obtained in an accredited college or university. If you select this option, you must submit a copy of your transcript with your application. Education cannot be credited without documentation. Combinations of successfully completed post-high school education and experience may be used to meet total qualification requirements for the grade levels and may be computed by first determining the applicant's total qualifying experience as a percentage of the experience required for the grade level; then determining the applicant's education as a percentage of the education required for the grade level; and then adding the two percentages. The total percentages must equal at least 100 percent to qualify an applicant for that grade level. Only graduate education in excess of the amount required for the next lower grade level may be used to qualify applicants for positions at grades GS-9 and GS-11. (When crediting education that requires specific course work, prorate the number of hours of related courses required as a proportion of the total education to be used.) The following is an example of how education and experience may be combined. This is an example only, and is not all-inclusive. The position to be filled is a Physical Security Specialist (Uniformed), GS-0080-9. An applicant has 6 months of specialized experience equivalent to GS-7 and 1 year of graduate level education. The applicant meets 50 percent of the required experience but none of the required education, since he or she does not have any graduate study beyond that which is required for GS-7. Therefore, the applicant meets only 50 percent of the total requirement and is not qualified for the position. (The applicant's first year of graduate study is not qualifying for GS-9.) You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Computer SkillsCriminal LawInterpersonal SkillsPersonnel Security and SafetyPublic Safety and SecuritySecurity 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 full use of extremities, normal hearing, and vision to conduct on-site security surveys, inspections, and assessments. The duties require prolonged standing, walking, crouching, bending, lifting, reaching, pushing, stooping, and climbing stairs and ladders indoors and outdoors. On-site surveys, inspections, and assessments require exposure to a wide variety of working elements, both indoors and outside, general and specialized office space. Clothing is subject to being soiled when checking basements, crawl space, attics and other similar areas. 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

A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.

Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.

Contacts

• Address VA Boston Healthcare System 940 Belmont Street Brockton, MA 02301 US
• Name: Jonathan Montgomery
• Phone: 734-905-2529
• Email: [email protected]