The LTC Charles S. Kettles VA Medical Center is recruiting to fill the Security Specialist - Compliance Officer position. This position is responsible for ensuring a safe and secure environment across VHA within various settings, including a variety of jurisdictional environments, such as VHA VISNs, Medical Centers and facilities, Inpatient Clinics, Outpatient Clinics, and domiciliaries throughout the United States.

Duties

The following is a list of the duties but not limited to: Coordinate's quality assurance program across the VISN by coordinating efforts or functions that impact multiple Medical Centers and sites of care. Develops and leads implementation of VISN-wide initiatives on behalf of VHA Police Services and VISN Leadership. Acts on behalf of VISN Police Services leadership and VHA Police Services leadership as needed to coordinate and manage a multi-Medical Center quality assurance program. Responsible in providing recommendations in the development, and periodic updating of local VA law enforcement and security policy for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Assist in ensuring compliance with law enforcement policies designed to ensure the preservation of the public peace, the protection of life and property, the prevention of crime, the arrest and prosecution of violators of law, and the proper enforcement of all laws, regulations, directives, and administrative issuances related to the VHA and its associated facilities. Compliance duties consist of auditing, analyzing, and developing reports and action plans related to key program indicators published by the, Office of Security & Law Enforcement, Office of Inspector General, Government Accountability Office, and any other agencies conducting audits of the VHA's law enforcement and security programs. Participants in process improvement initiatives and drives police service in being a High Reliability Organization (HRO). Serves as the local facility lead for the development of law enforcement and security policy. Ensures reviews of all law enforcement and security directives and manuals to ensure the information contained therein is accurate and up to date. Conducts assessments of policy compliance to identify program weaknesses and areas requiring improvements and recommends changes to the Security Officer. Assists the Security Officer with developing action plans related to the findings, and monitors time sensitive progress to mitigating vulnerabilities assessed during program reviews. Participates in short- and long-range strategic planning designed to incorporate improvements and lessons learned into program operations. Serves as the local liaison with the Office of Inspector General, Government Accountability Office, Police Program Inspections and any other agencies conducting audits of the VHA's law enforcement and security programs. Manages all audit findings by monitoring corrective actions, reviewing recommendations for corrective actions, and ensuring deadlines are met. Analyzes the data to detect unsatisfactory trends or weaknesses in the law enforcement and security program. Advises the local VA Chief of Police on policy and compliance issues related to VHA law enforcement and security programs and maintains professional liaisons with internal VHA and Departmental offices as they relate to matters affecting the policy development. Manages the VA Police department's accreditation process to include ensuring compliance and training and various types of presentations to department personnel and conducts regular reviews. Develops, writes, revises, and manages the Police Service catalog of policies and forms to meet accreditation standards; and maintains accreditation files. Audits work practices, providing guidance and recommendations, and presents findings and corrective actions. Selects and applies established Quality Assurance (QA) operating procedures, accepted methods, and practices (e.g. statistical sampling, surveillance, and auditing procedures), using generalized instructions, procedural guides or precedent material from similar assignments and makes independent determinations on procedural acceptability. Plan, design and implement an overall risk management process for the VA Police organization, including analysis of the financial impact when risks occur. Provides higher management with reports, evaluated information, budgetary proposals, and similar products necessary for effective direction police operations. Analyzes and evaluates the effectiveness of law enforcement activities compliant to applicable agency law enforcement operating procedures and guidelines. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 7:30am - 4:00 pm, Administrative hours . Telework: Ad Hoc available if approved. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Security Specialist/PD99728S 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, 03/13/2024. 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-11 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-09. 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. You may qualify based on your experience and/or education s described below: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-09 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Security administration and protection regulations, policies, procedures, and practices to serve as a participant in meetings and ad hoc committees developing local VA implementing plans and instructions; Developing formal proposals, business plans and presentations to persuade buy in at all levels of the organization in order to effectively carry out methods, techniques and policies to protect human and capital assets of the organization; Using techniques designed to develop processes to evaluate program benchmarks and apply strategies and workflow to improve, measure and evaluate improvements to program outcomes based on audits and program review findings.. OR, Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have possess a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree, or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree, or LL.M., if related. Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work. OR, Combination: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. You must possess a combination of Graduate Education beyond a Master's Degree (leading to a PhD) and Specialized Experience. Such experience and education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work. NOTE: You must clearly demonstrate that you possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities on your resume, or you will not qualify for the position. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Administration and ManagementAnalytical ReasoningAuditingCommunicationComplianceStrategic Thinking 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 is primarily sedentary, although some slight physical effort may be required. 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: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.

Contacts

• Address Ann Arbor VA Medical Center 2215 Fuller Road Ann Arbor, MI 48105 US
• Name: Eric Earns
• Phone: (989) 397-4981
• Email: [email protected]