NOTE: Based on current hiring restrictions, selectees may be subject to additional approvals prior to an offer being extended. The position is in the Bureau of the Fiscal Service (FS), Information & Security Services (ISS), Asset Protection Division, Personnel Security Branch, ensuring protection of Fiscal Service people, data, dollars, and physical assets, accomplished via personnel, physical, and cyber security programs. The primary purpose is to administer the Personnel Security program.

Duties

The following are the duties of this position at the GS-12. If you are selected at a lower grade level, you will have the opportunity to learn to perform all these duties, and will receive training to help you grow in this position. - As a senior level Personnel Security Specialist, the incumbent performs the most complex and important duties of the Security Division related to its Service wide responsibilities in the areas of Personnel Security. In this capacity, the incumbent participates in the development and implementation of Service wide Personnel Security policy, programs and initiatives designed to protect data and information, automated systems, personnel, facilities, property, and other assets, both tangible and intangible, from the full spectrum of intentional and non-intentional human threats. - Develop and document procedures, policies, forms or other instruments needed to carry out the Personnel Security Program. Conducts the necessary research to support new or changing policy. - Act as subject matter expert when participating in interagency studies to examine improvements to the security clearance process, baseline training for personnel security adjudications, or performing gap analysis in background investigations from OPM and other providers for process improvements. - Advise the Division Director, DAC, CIO, and Executive Board as needed about new developments and advances in personnel security changes, requirements, and technology when researching and developing out-year (5-10 years) budgets, workload projections, equipment, and process requirements. Recommend how current personnel security programs can be updated and improved, while still remaining in compliance with policies and procedures. - As part of a comprehensive security review of the Revenue Collections Management Program, provides on-site audit and program review of personnel security practices at private financial institutions throughout the nation that serve as high asset collection points for Treasury, State Department, and IRS collection operations. Through written and verbal communications with stakeholders, provides remedial actions to strengthen or correct personnel security processes.

Requirements

Qualifications

You must meet the following requirements within 30 days of the closing date of this announcement. The experience may have been gained in either the public, private sector or volunteer service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-time work is considered on a prorated basis. To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/day/year, and indicate number of hours worked per week on your résumé. Specialized Experience: For the GS-07, you must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility at the GS-05 level in the Federal service or equivalent, which have equipped the candidate with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Specialized experience for this position includes experience performing administrative work, in support of senior Personnel Security Specialists, primarily concerned with formulation and application of basic security policy, procedures, concepts, methods, systems, and programs involving the loyalty and reliability of people, in order to determine the suitability and security eligibility of individuals for entry and retention in sensitive and non-sensitive positions. - Examples of this experience could include any of the following: - Experience with computer software applications on a regular and recurring basis, to include e-mail, the internet, spreadsheets, word processing, and presentation programs. - Retrieving, gathering, and generating data; composing a variety of written material; entering information into established databases or logs. - Providing general and technical information by interfacing with the general public and other members of the federal government. - Providing superior customer service to the general public and other bureau members. - Providing detail oriented work products with a minimum of supervision OR You may substitute education for specialized experience as follows: 1 full year of graduate level education (18 Semester hours, 27 Quarter hours or equivalent) or You may have a bachelors degree and meet one of the following requirements for superior academic achievement: A GPA of 3.0 or higher on a 4.0 scale for all completed undergraduate courses or those completed in the last 2 years of study, or a GPA of 3.5 or higher on a 4.0 scale for all courses in the major field of study or those courses in the major completed in the last 2 years of study, or rank in the upper one third of the class in the college, university, or major subdivision, or membership in a national honor society recognized by the Association of College Honor Societies. OR You may qualify on a combination of education and experience. To combine education and experience, the total percentage of experience at the required grade level compared to the requirement, as well as the percentage of completed education compared to the requirement must equal at least 100 percent. In addition to the above requirements, you must meet the following time-in-grade requirement, if applicable: For the GS-07, you must have been at the GS-05 level for 52 weeks.

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Contacts

• Address
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• Phone: 304-480-7300
• Email: [email protected]