The incumbent serves as a senior uniformed physical security specialist ensuring a safe and secure environment across various settings including VA medical centers and facilities, inpatient clinics, outpatient clinics, and domiciliaries throughout the United States. The incumbent provides security and assistance to Veterans, patients, employees, contractors, volunteers, affiliates, visitors, and others who frequent VA facilities daily.

Duties

Coordinates physical security programs and conducts audits and provides oversight of other physical security specialists at medical centers across the region. Assists in evaluating risk and developing procedures and physical security measures designed to safeguard personnel, property, and operations from unauthorized access, espionage, terrorism, sabotage, damage and theft. Serves on focused groups regarding physical security policy, doctrine, utility and implementation. Provides input in discussions and drafts changes for higher leadership's review and approval. 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. Provides input during assigned phases of the design and construction of planned agency projects concerning security engineering and electronic security systems. Collects information and prepares reports on facility compliance with agency operations and regulations. Identifies conflicts between agency and office of information technology security requirements/regulations during security surveys. Researches the requirements for each service and suggests courses of action to the supervisor for a final decision. 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. Performs law enforcement assignments to prevent or resolve offenses. Books the accused; takes the accused before the appropriate District Court or magistrate; confers with the prosecutors; appears before the grand jury upon request; appears at preliminary hearings; and/or testifies at trial, if needed. Responds to reports of a crime in progress and/or calls for police assistance. 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. Seeks, detects, and protects all evidence, victims, and witnesses. Oversees emergency, crowd, and/or civil disturbance control, including bomb threat, search procedures and proper completion of reports for each. Takes immediate action to control and evacuate the area. Provides control and leadership of emergencies until relieved by higher authority. Performs bomb search functions as required. Coordinates such search activities with the local bomb squad. Answers violent individual calls, interceding in physical assaults in progress or other incidents requiring police intervention to minimize the possibility of injury to all parties. Conducts investigations when solutions cannot be achieved during a normal patrol shift. Conducts full investigations over prolonged periods. Questions and takes statements from victims, witnesses, and complainants, and clarifies conflicting statements and interrogates suspects. Applies all correct rules for search and seizure and obtains search arrest warrants. Analyzes facts to identify suspects. Develops case information necessary to place charges and prosecute offenders. Arrests, or directs the arrest of individuals who have violated federal or state criminal codes. Pursues and arrests persons fleeing a crime scene or attempting to resist arrest. Books and takes the accused before the appropriate U.S. District Court or State Magistrate. Maintains an awareness of violations of federal offenses, and individuals acting in a suspicious manner, which may result in theft, burglary, pilferage, assault, or other crime. Responds to situations requiring immediate and courteous assistance when dealing with patients, visitors, and employees. Performs law enforcement work involved in the preservation of the law, the arrest or apprehension of violators and aids citizens in emergencies, including the protection of civil rights. Utilizes security services and sensitive, non-critical computer system data information for police activities in accordance with agency security policies. Assures that all data remains confidential; that all hard copy data are maintained in secure files; and does not permit unauthorized personnel or others access to system or access to materials. Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Position Description/PD#: Physical Security Specialist (Uniformed)/PD608-99797-S Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not approved

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 04/18/2024. 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-9. 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 as described below: Specialized Experience: At least one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level (GS-9) in Federal service that has equipped the applicant 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. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level. Creditable examples specialized experience include, but are not limited to: knowledge of industrial security to establish and monitor physical security procedures for contractors in compliance with VA regulations and negotiated security agreements; knowledge of building construction blueprints and contracts to provide physical security input on planned projects concerning security engineering and electronic security systems; knowledge of the interrelationship of personnel, information, industrial, automation, counterterrorism, and visit security program areas to assist others in the development of physical plans and procedures. NOTE: Your experience must be fully documented on your resume in order to receive credit. OR, Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have successfully completed 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. Graduate education must be in a related field of study to the position being filled and clearly demonstrates the ability to perform the duties of the position. 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 full­time 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: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. Equivalent combinations of successfully completed graduate-level education (beyond the second year) and specialized experience, as described above, meet the total experience requirements for this grade level. 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 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. 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-0080-11. An applicant has 9 months of specialized experience equivalent to GS-9 and 2 1/2 years of creditable graduate level education in major field of study related to police science, criminal justice, or a comparable degree program related to the work of the position. The applicant meets 75 percent of the required experience and 50 percent of the required education, i.e., the applicant has 1 /2 year of graduate study beyond that required for GS-9. Therefore, the applicant exceeds the total requirement and is qualified for the position. (The applicant's first 2 years of graduate study are not qualifying for GS-11.) 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. Wearing of safety clothing and equipment when in construction or industrial areas is 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 Manchester VA Medical Center 718 Smyth Road Manchester, NH 03104 US
• Name: Jonathan Montgomery
• Phone: 734-905-2529
• Email: [email protected]