Selectee must reside within 50 miles of the location identified in the announcement. (50 miles from Oakland, CA). Who May Be Considered: Internal to an agency - Current Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Federal civilian employees Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP) View common definitions of terms found in this announcement.

Duties

Typical work assignments include: As Regional Chief, oversees and directs the daily and long-range activities of subordinate supervisory and non-supervisory Chemical Security Inspectors and Regulatory Analyst in a multi-state region. Provides senior leadership and technical expertise on matters pertaining to legislation and regulations, threat and business intelligence, and builds relationships at the executive level with industry and government stakeholders across the Region. Responsible for executing DHS and CISA Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), drafting Field Operating Instructions (FOIs), and providing advice and direction to leadership, subordinates, and chemical facility representatives. Review and evaluate chemical security support initiatives and make recommendations to the Regional Director. Plan, lead, and coordinate projects that will effectively and efficiently improve the safety and security of high-risk chemical facilities in the Region. Execute program evaluations and quality assurance functions, and the coordination of internal control reviews, to ensure that existing business processes are effective and consistent with agency policies. Respond to policy questions related to the management of the Chemical Security program and serve as the public face of CISA's Chemical Security program throughout the Region. Develops multi-year regional plans in the areas of performance management and budget integration and activity-based costing, to include providing input to, executing, monitoring, and reporting on a regional spend plan. Responsible for ensuring the Chemical Security Team has appropriate knowledge of the applicable laws, regulations, guidelines, and standards of chemical security protection policies and regulatory guidelines to ensure proper execution of the mission and compliance activities where applicable. Ensures regional staff is prepared for incident management responsibilities outlined in the DHS incident management directives. This includes ensuring participation in regional emergency preparedness workshops, seminars, intelligence briefings, tabletop exercises, and full-scale exercises involving the integrated validation of governmental and private sector contingency plans related to chemical security.

Requirements

Qualifications

To be considered minimally qualified for this position, you must demonstrate that you have the required experience for the respective grade level in which you are applying. You qualify for the GS-15 grade level, if you have: EXPERIENCE: At least one (1) year of specialized experience at the GS-14 grade level (or equivalent) performing the following duties: Lead efforts across the organization to coordinate, maintain, and expand chemical security outreach to senior Federal, state and local officials, chemical security facility representatives, and industry organizations to gather and share information on chemical facilities of interest to include for voluntary, non-regulatory purposes; Ensure compliance with regulatory programs such as the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) Program, and to identify potentially non-compliant facilities; Develop and implement strategic plans to determine work to be accomplished across the organization in pursuit of applicable regulatory and voluntary programs, to include establishing short and long-term priorities, and preparing and monitoring schedules for completion of work; Lead efforts to identify, schedule, participate and conduct information-sharing forums, workshops, and conferences for chemical infrastructure owners and operators as well as for Federal, state, local and tribal public safety personnel; and Lead regional policy analysis efforts, including modeling, forecasting and trends analysis to identify issues related to regulatory and voluntary chemical security programs within the region and develop and execute appropriate solutions for addressing them. 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. Time-in-Grade Requirements: Under competitive merit promotion procedures, any individual who is currently holding, or who has held within the previous 52 weeks, a General Schedule position under a non-temporary appointment in the competitive or excepted service, must meet "time-in-grade" requirements (have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade of the grade for which you are applying). Time After Competitive Appointment: By the closing date specified in this job announcement, current Federal civilian employees must wait at least 90 days after their latest non-temporary appointment from a competitive service referral certificate before promotion, transfer, reinstatement, reassignment, or detail. All qualification requirements, including Time-in-Grade, must be met by the closing date of this announcement. Qualification AND Time-in-Grade claims will be subject to verification.

Education

Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted.

Contacts

• Address Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency 1616 Fort Myer Dr. Arlington, VA 22209 US
• Name: Allison Brooks
• Phone: 202-604-6710
• Email: [email protected]