Become part of the team that safeguards the financial system from the abuses of financial crime. At the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), we are at the forefront in preventing and detecting terrorist financing, money laundering, and other financial crime. Serve at the nation's financial intelligence unit and protect the United States financial system from criminals and terrorist financiers.

Duties

The following are the duties of this position at the GS-13. If you are selected at a lower grade level, you will have the opportunity to learn to perform all these duties, and will receive training to help you grow in this position. As an Industrial Security Specialist, you will: Plan develop, and implement industrial security policies and procedures to ensure classified material, including TS/SCI material, is released only to cleared contractors and that classified contracts are not awarded to uncleared contractors. Provide foreign release determination for each solicitation or notes that solicitation is unrestricted. Monitor, approve, advise, and or prepare all security and administrative processes required during the course of classified contracts to include security classification specification, release of classified documents, certification of need-to-know, visit authorizations, downgrading instructions, and return/destruction of classified material or authority to retain classified material at contract completion. Develop policies, instructions, procedures, control systems, and methods regarding the classification, declassification, and protection of classified national defense information originated by contractors (i.e., document marking, safeguarding and use, personnel access controls, need to know criteria, physical storage and control, security education, and transmitting, transferring, reproducing, and destroying information).

Requirements

Qualifications

You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement. Specialized experience for the GS-13: You must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service which has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Specialized experience for this position is defined as experience in ALL of the following: Assisting with the planning and development of security policies and procedures; AND Preparing security and administrative processes required during the course of classified contracts; AND Determining classification, clearance levels and appropriate access to sensitive and/or classified information; AND Assisting with foreign release determinations for solicitations. Examples of qualifying experience include: Conducting inspections, surveys and investigations of government or nongovernmental facilities and personnel in order to determine protection of sensitive materials/information and compliance with laws and regulations; or Serving as a technical contact for a wide variety of security management functions such as the National Industrial Security Program (NISP), Foreign Ownership Control or Influence (FOCI); or Conducting security surveys of assigned contractor facilities and pre-contract award surveys; or Reviewing contract documents, program security classification guides and Contract Security Classification Specifications. Specialized experience for the GS-12: You must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service which has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Specialized experience for this position is defined as experience in ALL of the following: Preparing security and administrative processes required during the course of classified contracts; AND Determining classification, clearance levels and appropriate access to sensitive and/or classified information; AND Assisting with foreign release determinations for solicitations. Examples of qualifying experience are: Serving as a technical contact for a wide variety of security management functions such as the National Industrial Security Program (NISP), Foreign Ownership Control or Influence (FOCI); or Conducting security surveys of assigned contractor facilities and pre-contract award surveys; or Reviewing contract documents, program security classification guides and Contract Security Classification Specifications. Specialized experience for the GS-11: You must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-9 grade level in the Federal service which has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Specialized experience for this position is defined as experience in ALL of the following: -Determining classification, clearance levels and appropriate access to sensitive and/or classified information; AND Assisting with foreign release determinations for solicitations. Examples of qualifying experience are: Serving as a technical contact for a wide variety of security management functions such as the National Industrial Security Program (NISP), Foreign Ownership Control or Influence (FOCI); or Reviewing contract documents, program security classification guides and Contract Security Classification Specifications. OR You may substitute education for specialized experience as follows: a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree; OR 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree; OR A LL.M., if related; OR You may qualify on a combination of education and experience. To combine education and experience, the total percentage of experience at the required grade level compared to the requirement, as well as the percentage of completed education compared to the requirement must equal at least 100 percent. Only graduate level education in excess of the first 36 semester hours (54 quarter hours) may be combined to be considered for qualifying education. The experience may have been gained in either the public, private sector or volunteer service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-time work is considered on a prorated basis. To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/day/year, and indicate number of hours worked per week on your résumé.

Education

Education Requirements: The education generally must be from an accredited (or pre-accredited) college or university recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. If you are qualifying based on foreign education, you must submit proof of creditability of education as evaluated by a credentialing agency. Refer to the OPM instructions.

Contacts

• Address CFO MANAGEMENT DIVISION Administrative Resource Center Parkersburg, WV 26101 US
• Name: Applicant Call Center
• Phone: 304-480-7300
• Email: [email protected]