Securing Travel, Protecting People - At the Transportation Security Administration, you will serve in a high-stakes environment to safeguard the American way of life. In cities across the country, you would secure airports, seaports, railroads, highways, and/or public transit systems, thus protecting America's transportation infrastructure and ensuring freedom of movement for people and commerce.

Duties

This Transportation Security Specialist position is located in the Systems Operation Control Section (SOCS), Flight Operations Branch, Flight Operations Division, Law Enforcement/Federal Air Marshal Service (LE/FAMS), Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Duties include, but are not limited to: Provides coordination, communication, and collaboration of information and domain awareness in support of the LE/FAMS. Responds to a broad range of LE/FAMS requirements related to operations, training and procedures. Monitors and collects data on all transportation security incidents to correlate and characterize the operational information from internal and external stakeholders affecting all modes of transportation. Communicates findings to management and SOCS Assistant Supervisory Air Marshal in-Charge (ASAC) in order for leadership to make incident management recommendations and decisions. Participates in training evolutions and exercises including intra-agency, inter-agency, regional and national level events enhancing professional skill, reinforcing core position functionalities, and improving mission readiness and performance. Analyzes the characterizations of the training events to proactively make recommendations to leadership for internal resource deployment and overall understanding of pertinent guidance material and nature of events. Communicates with management for making characterization inputs on potential/emerging threats so that SOCS leadership can make appropriate threat assessments and operational decisions. Creates and disseminates daily operations briefs, required reports and notifications, operational messages, and information papers. Demonstrates advanced knowledge of operations, procedures, technologies and methodologies to assess and manage LE/FAMS missions. Demonstrates advanced knowledge of SOCS technical systems including but not limited to WebEOC, Mission Scheduler Notification System (MSNS), AirCrews, WebEx, and Microsoft Teams. Serves as a mentor and conducts training for other SOCS employees. Other duties as assigned. The major duties described above reflect the full performance level of this position. Typically, the lower pay bands (G & H Band) perform the same duties but will receive more guidance and training; and/or projects/work assignments may be less complex.

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for the SV-G pay band (equivalent to the GS-5/7/9), you must meet one of the qualification requirements (A, B, OR C) outlined below: A. Education: 4-year course of study leading to a bachelor's degree; OR B. Experience: 3 years of general experience, 1 year of which was equivalent to at least GS-4 performing duties such as: Analyzing problems to identify significant factors, gathering pertinent data, and recognizing solutions; Planning and organizing work; and Communicating effectively orally and in writing; OR C. Combining of Education and Experience: Combinations of successfully completed post-high school education and experience may be used to meet total qualification requirements for the grade level 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. GRADUATE EDUCATION: Education at the graduate level in an accredited college or university in the amounts indicated above meets the requirements for this position. 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 one year of full-time study. If that information cannot be obtained from the school, 18 semester hours should be considered as satisfying the one year of full-time study requirement. To qualify for the SV-H Pay Band (equivalent to GS-11/12), you must have one year of specialized experience at the SV-G Pay Band or GS-9 in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private sector. Specialized experience is defined as experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Such specialized experience is defined as: Working in an operations/incident command center monitoring message traffic from internal and external stakeholders; AND Using WebEOC, MSNS, and AirCrews in the formulation and documentation of security incident reporting. To qualify for the SV-I Pay Band (equivalent to GS-13), you must have one year of specialized experience at the SV-H Pay Band or GS-12 in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private sector. Specialized experience is defined as experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Such specialized experience is defined as: Assessing and managing security incident communications crossing organizational boundaries, international boundaries or multi-modal transportation sectors; AND Preparing and disseminating security incident reports and initial recommendations for response to internal components and/or other agencies. Credit for experience is given based on a 40-hour workweek. Part-time experience is credited on a part-time ratio, i.e., working 20 hours per week for two months equals one month of experience. No additional credit is given for overtime. National Service Experience (i.e., volunteer experience): 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; religious; 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. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office. Resumes must include the following: Narrative description of duties with start and end dates (including the month and year) for work experience. State the number of hours worked in a position (i.e. full-time or part-time). If part-time, state the total number of hours worked per week. Performance level (i.e. band or grade) Utilizing the USAJOBS Resume Builder and completing all available fields is strongly encouraged. You must meet the qualification requirements for this position no later than the closing date of the vacancy announcement.

Education

For positions requiring positive education requirements, or if you are using education to meet all or part of the qualification requirements, you MUST submit a copy of your transcripts or an itemized list of college courses from an accredited college or university, which includes equivalent information from the transcript (course title, semester/quarter hours, and grade/degree earned) in your resume. The information must be provided with the application by the closing date of the announcement. If selected, the applicant must supply a transcript or certification of degree.

Contacts

• Address Federal Air Marshal Service 6595 Springfield Center Dr Springfield, VA 22150 US
• Name: HC ServeU Customer Care
• Email: [email protected]