The Office of Inspector General (OIG) is an independent office whose mission is to promote excellence, integrity, and accountability throughout the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). In our dynamic environment, the OIG conducts investigations, audits, evaluations, and inspections to enhance program effectiveness and efficiency and to detect and prevent waste, fraud, and mismanagement in DHS programs and operations.

Duties

The Security Specialist is a valuable member of the Office of Inspector (OIG), Office of Management, Assets, Security, and Readiness Division. Typical assignments include: Provides cross-functional support for ASR enterprise services - integrating and providing security, property, safety, and facility actions and expertise to provide services and support to OIG customers and stakeholders. Provides security support in a wide range of administrative and security functional areas to help ensure the protection of OIG employees, assets, and information. Manages the operation of classified discussion, processing, and storage spaces. Implements security policy and guidance to protect unclassified, sensitive, and national security information.

Requirements

• You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this position
• You must successfully pass a background investigation
• You must be able to obtain a Sensitive Compartmented Information security clearance
• You will be required to undergo periodic drug testing
• Financial disclosure is required
• Selective Service registration required
• Completion of one year probationary may be required
• Submission of Performance Appraisal is mandatory.
• Completion of USA Hire assessment is mandatory.

Qualifications

You must meet all qualification requirements by the closing date of this vacancy announcement. If you are a current federal employee, you must meet all time-in-grade and time-after competitive appointment qualifications by the closing date of this vacancy announcement. To make an accurate determination, you will need to include on your resume your federal position title, pay plan, occupational series, grade level, agency, dates for which you held the grade level (stated as MM/YYYY to MM/YYYY, OR MM/YYYY to PRESENT), and total hours worked per week. 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). Minimum Qualifications for GS-9: You qualify for the GS-9 position if you possess one year of specialized experience at the equivalent to GS-7 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience at this level includes: Demonstrated responsibility executing a portion of one of the following security disciplines at a federal agency or contractor activity protecting sensitive or national security information: physical security (PHYSEC), personnel security (PERSEC), information security (INFOSEC), operational security (OPSEC), communications security (COMSEC), industrial security, or security education, training, and awareness (SETA) Limited analytical, evaluative, and technical skills assessing security posture, guidance, and controls to achieve compliance. Minimum Qualifications for GS-11: You qualify for the GS-11 position if you possess one year of specialized experience at the equivalent to GS-9 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience at this level includes: Demonstrated responsibility executing portions of at least two of the following security disciplines at a federal agency or contractor activity protecting sensitive ornational security information: physical security (PHYSEC), personnel security(PERSEC), information security (INFOSEC), operational security (OPSEC),communications security (COMSEC), industrial security, or security education, training, and awareness (SETA). Limited experience analytical, evaluative, and technical skills assessing securityposture, guidance, and controls to achieve compliance and protect from unauthorized disclosure, misuse, theft, espionage, sabotage, or loss. Minimum Qualifications for GS-12: You qualify for the GS-12 position if you possess one year of specialized experience at the equivalent to GS-11 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience at this level includes: Demonstrated responsibility executing portions of three (or more) of the following security disciplines at a federal agency or contractor activity protecting sensitive or national security information: physical security (PHYSEC), personnel security (PERSEC), information security (INFOSEC), operational security (OPSEC), communications security (COMSEC), industrial security, or security education, training, and awareness (SETA) Limited analytical, evaluative, and technical skills assessing security posture, guidance, and controls to achieve compliance, recommend improvements, mitigate risks, and protect from unauthorized disclosure, misuse, theft, espionage, sabotage, or loss. 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 qualification requirements listed above must be met by the closing date 06/21/2024of this announcement. Current federal employees must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade level or equivalent grade band in the federal service. The time-in-grade requirement must be met by the closing date 06/21/2024of this announcement. 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.

Education

MINIMUM EDUCATION FOR GS-9:

Successful completion of Master's or equivalent graduate degree
OR

2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree

OR

LL.B. or J.D., if related.

OR

Combinations of education and specialized experience, as described above, to meet the total requirements.

MINIMUM EDUCATION FOR GS-11:Successful completion of a Ph.D or equivalent doctoral degree, three full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree,

OR

LL.M., if related.

OR

Combinations of education and specialized experience, as described above, to meet the total requirements.

Contacts

• Address Office of Inspector General 245 Murray Lane SW Washington, DC 20528 US
• Name: Dhymee Fields
• Email: [email protected]