Job opening: Security Specialist
Salary: $139 395 - 181 216 per year
Published at: Jul 12 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
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Duties
WHAT IS THE CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION (CI)DIVISION?
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Vacancy will be filled in the following specialty areas:
Criminal Investigation, Global Operations, Narcotics and National Security Section.
The following are the duties of this position at the full working level.
Develops policies, procedures, and standards for the CI Security Program. Performs extremely complex and significant functions in the development of decisions and policies and provides technical guidance designed to protect CI personnel, facilities, property, and other assets, both tangible and intangible, from the full spectrum of intentional and non-intentional human threats, as well as man-made and natural disasters.
Advises senior and executive level management on the most complex security matters involving personnel and physical security in order to resolve questions pertaining to appropriate cost-effective security measures commensurate with the threat; overlapping or conflicting requirements; security budget/resources distribution; and strategies for integrating appropriate physical security, personnel security, and similar questions.
Interprets national security directives for their applicability to the security program and ensures classified material protection and control requirements are established, implemented, and periodically updated for all CI offices at all levels.
Develops written guidelines related to controlling the creation, access, use, protection, storage, and disposition of classified national security information entrusted to CI.
Creates and maintains a network of Classified Document Custodians and Top Secret Control Officers responsible for overseeing the program in field offices.
Qualifications
Federal experience is not required. The experience may have been gained in the public sector, private sector or Volunteer Service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-timework is considered on a prorated basis. To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/year, and indicate number of hours worked per week, on your resume.
You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement:
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: GS-14 LEVEL: To be eligible for this position at this grade level, you must meet the requirements below.
At least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the grade 13 that demonstrated mastery in security specialization administration programs and policy requirements, concepts, principles, and practices sufficient to develop policies, procedures and standards for a large organization. Your experience should include advising top management on the most complex security policy matters, designing and conducting investigations, evaluating security program operations, resolving major conflicts in security policy and program objectives and organizing studies and recommending methods for enhancing the efficiency of security systems; Knowledge of acquisition management policies and procedures and cost-benefit analysis principles and methods. In addition, your experience should include planning and carrying out and integrating work, resolving most of the conflicts that arise, and interpreting policy in terms of established objectives. At this level you should have experience investigating and analyzing a variety of unusual security conditions (e.g., trends in security violations), formulating projects or studies to alter existing security systems substantially, or establishing criteria (e.g., developing specifications for security programs in a number of data processing centers). You will also exercise a great deal of personal judgment and discretion with broad latitude for interpreting and applying guidelines across the organization.
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MEET TIME IN GRADE (TIG) REQUIREMENT: You must meet applicable TIG requirements to be considered eligible. To meet TIG for positions above the GS-05 grade level, you must have served at least one year (52 weeks) at the next lower grade (or equivalent) in the normal line of progression for the position you are applying to. Advancement to positions up to GS-05 is permitted if the position to be filled is no more than two grades above the lowest grade held within the preceding 52 weeks.
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TIME AFTER COMPETITIVE APPOINTMENT: By the closing date (or if this is an open continuous announcement, by the cut-off date) specified in this job announcement, current civilian employees must have completed at least 90 days of federal civilian service since their latest non-temporary appointment from a competitive referral certificate, known as time after competitive appointment. For this requirement, a competitive appointment is one where you applied to and were appointed from an announcement open to "All US Citizens".
For more information on qualifications please refer to OPM's Qualifications Standards.
Education
A copy of your transcripts or equivalent documentation is required for positions with an education requirement, or if you are qualifying based on education or a combination of education and experience. An official transcript will be required if you are selected. If the position has specific education requirements and you currently hold, or have previously held, a position in the same job series with the IRS, there is no need to submit a transcript or equivalent at this time. Applicants are encouraged, but are not required, to submit an SF-50 documenting experience in a specific series. A college or university degree generally must be from an accredited (or pre-accredited) college or university recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. For a list of schools which meet these criteria, please refer to
Department of Education Accreditation page.
FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the requirements. You must show proof the education credentials have been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education program. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying. Click
here (Section 3, Explanation of Terms) or
here for Foreign Education Credentialing instructions.
Contacts
- Address CI
1111 Constitution Ave NW
Washington, DC 20224
US
- Name: (ERC) Employee Resource Center
- Phone: 866-743-5748
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