The Director, Transborder Security Center position is located within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A), Office of the Deputy Under Secretary for Analysis. I&A specializes in sharing unique intelligence and analysis with operators and decision-makers to identify and mitigate threats to the homeland.

Duties

The Director, Transborder Security Center serves as the principal I&A substantive advisor on US border threats, serving the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, and reporting directly to the DHS Deputy Under Secretary for Analysis. This position consolidates the core capabilities of I&A related to border security under one organizational roof. The Director will manage, prioritize, and align I&A activities-analysis, policy, reports officer deployments, collection support, onsite component support, and state and local outreach against common goals and objectives. Specific responsibilities include: Represents the Department on intelligence related to border threats with other senior officials in the Intelligence Community (IC), with senior-level private sector stakeholders, and with senior representatives of selected international partners. Serves as the principal advisor to the DHS senior management on border security issues and represents DHS with various federal Senior Executive Service (SES), Senior Intelligence Service, military flag rank, and senior agency official level committees, steering groups, and working groups. Manages and leads a program that integrates information from DHS components, the IC, other federal partners, and state, local, tribal, and private sector partners to provide analysis and share intelligence on US border threats for the full range of homeland security stakeholders. Develops and manages a mature, professional border security intelligence analysis enterprise that addresses priorities set by the Secretary as well as the Director of National Intelligence's National Intelligence Priorities Framework. Develops an analytic program that assesses border threats to the Homeland and produces actionable, all-source analysis for entities involved in countering such threats. Provides tailored analysis on border threats to the Homeland for the Secretary, DHS operating components and headquarters offices, state, local, and private sector partners, and the IC and other federal departments and agencies. Ensures border security priorities are represented in I&A collection management and requirements integration processes developed for DHS components and supportive of IC and federal, state, local, tribal, and private sector partners. Develops robust outreach to DHS partners at the state, local, and private sectors to provide homeland security intelligence support and to promote analytic collaboration on border security issues. This includes ensuring that the classification of products is appropriately downgraded to expand dissemination. Manages the substantive engagement on border security issues with IC partners, including managing the office's analytic efforts on border threats with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Manages I&A's budget for border security analysis and field support. Provides strategic leadership in developing plans that address the border security needs of the Department's intelligence analysis enterprise.

Requirements

• You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this position.
• Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered for Selective Service.
• You may be required to undergo periodic drug testing.
• You must be able to obtain/maintain a Top Secret/Special Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) security clearance.
• Selectee will be required to complete form OGE-278, Executive Personnel Financial Disclosure Form.
• You will serve a one-year probationary period unless you previously completed the probationary period in the SES.
• You must submit to a pre-employment drug test.

Qualifications

As a basic requirement for entry into the SES, applicants must provide evidence of progressively responsible executive leadership and supervisory experience that is indicative of senior executive level management capability and directly related to the skills and abilities outlined under Executive Core Qualifications and Technical Qualifications listed below. Typically, experience of this nature will have been gained at or above the GS-14/15 grade level in the federal service or its equivalent in the private sector. As such, your resume should demonstrate that you have the knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully fulfill responsibilities inherent in most SES positions such as: Directing the work of an organizational unit; Ensuring the success of one or more specific major programs or projects; Monitoring progress toward strategic organizational goals, evaluating organizational performance and taking action to improve performance; Supervising the work of employees; and Exercising important policymaking, policy determining, or other executive functions. The application process used to recruit for this position is RESUME-BASED Method. The applicant must address the Mandatory Technical Qualifications (MTQs) and Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) within their resume. Resumes must not exceed five (5) pages. We recommend that your resume emphasize your level of responsibilities, the scope and complexity of the programs managed, and your program accomplishments, including the results of your actions. You will be evaluated to determine if you meet the minimum qualifications required of the position and on the extent your application demonstrates that you possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities required of the position. Please be sure to give concrete examples of your experience and demonstrate the complexity of the knowledge you possess. EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS (ECQs): YOUR RESUME MUST CLEARLY DOCUMENT AND DEMONSTRATE THE FOLLOWING EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS (ECQs) EVIDENCE WITHIN YOUR RESUME NOT TO EXCEED FIVE PAGES: ECQ 1 - LEADING CHANGE. This core qualification involves the ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment. Leadership Competencies: Creativity & Innovation, External Awareness, Flexibility, Resilience, Strategic Thinking, Vision. ECQ 2 - LEADING PEOPLE. This core qualification involves the ability to lead people toward meeting the organization's vision, mission, and goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts. Leadership Competencies: Conflict Management, Leveraging Diversity, Developing Others, Team Building. ECQ 3 - RESULTS DRIVEN. This core qualification involves the ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to make decisions that produce high-quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks. Leadership Competencies: Accountability, Customer Service, Decisiveness, Entrepreneurship, Problem Solving, Technical Credibility. ECQ 4 - BUSINESS ACUMEN. This core qualification involves the ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically. Leadership Competencies: Financial Management, Human Capital Management, Technology Management. ECQ 5 - BUILDING COALITIONS. This core qualification involves the ability to build coalitions internally and with other Federal agencies, State and local governments, nonprofit and private sector organizations, foreign governments, or international organizations to achieve common goals. Leadership Competencies: Partnering, Political Savvy, Influencing/Negotiating. Detailed information on each ECQ, the underlying and fundamental competencies, sample narratives and a tips sheet for writing effective ECQs are available in the "Guide To Senior Executive Service Qualifications" Senior Executive Service Executive Core Qualifications and Senior Executive Service Qualifications & Fundamental-Competencies. TECHNICAL QUALIFICATION (TQ)s: IN ADDITON, YOU WILL BE EVALUATED ON ALL OF THE FOLLOWING TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS (TQs): Your responses to the TQs should be embedded/addressed within your resume not to exceed five pages. TQ 1. .Demonstrated knowledge of the national Intelligence Community (IC) border security and experience conducting activities-analysis, policy, reports officer deployments, collection support, onsite component support, and state and local outreach-against common goals and objectives. TQ 2. Demonstrated experience communicating with and advising senior officials, providing intelligence support, contributions, intelligence requirements unique access/data holdings that may be leveraged by other federal partners, and state, local, tribal, and private sector (SLTTPS) partners entities. TQ 3. Demonstrated foundational understanding of the principles of intelligence collection and analysis, crisis operations support, and application of oversight principles (privacy, civil rights and civil liberties) to intelligence operations. NOTE: Your demonstrated leadership ability and the evidence of the ECQs and TQs must be clearly shown in your resume. A separate narrative statement will not be accepted. A sample 5-page resume that incorporates ECQs and TQs can be viewed on this link (indexed at page 29 - 37) http://www.opm.gov/ses/references/GuidetoSESQuals_2012.pdf. YOU WILL BE ELIMINATED FROM FURTHER CONSIDERATION IF YOU FAIL TO MEET OR FULLY ADDRESS EACH MANDATORY EXECUTIVE CORE AND TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS AND IF YOUR RESUME EXCEEDS FIVE (5) PAGES. Veteran's Preference does not apply to the Senior Executive Service. Current or Former Political Appointees: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize any employment offers made to current or former (within the last 5 years) political Schedule A, Schedule C, or Noncareer SES employees in the Executive Branch. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, or Noncareer SES employee, please indicate this in your resume. Serving in a Schedule A, Schedule C, or Noncareer SES appointment WILL NOT eliminate you from consideration.

Education

There is no educational requirement for this position.

Contacts

• Address Department of Homeland Security Headquarters OCHCO/HRMS/MS #0170 6595 Springfield Center Drive Springfield, VA 20598-0170 US
• Name: Trinice Clayborne
• Phone: 202-870-2886
• Email: [email protected]