This position is located in the Office of Security & Law Enforcement (OS &LE), Office of Operations, Security and Preparedness, Veterans Affairs Central Office, Department of Veterans Affairs. The Office of Operations, Security and Preparedness coordinates the Department's emergency management, preparedness, security, and law enforcement activities to ensure the Department can continue to perform VA's mission essential functions under all circumstances across the spectrum of threats.

Duties

Major Duties: - Plan and conduct protective service missions. - Performs activities to assure the personal safety of the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs. - Conducts advanced physical security surveys to ensure that the Secretary or Deputy Secretary operates and functions in a secure an environment. - Conducts investigations of all possible threats against the Secretary or Deputy Secretary, both verbal and written. - Prepare investigative reports, affidavits, search and / or arrest warrants, and prospective summaries. - Conduct internal identification of emergent crime patterns and series as reported through internal and external reporting sources.

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 11/20/2024. 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-13 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-12. 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. See the Required Document section below for more information regarding the SF-50s needed to verify time-in-grade. You may qualify based on your experience as described below: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-12 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Specialized experience includes experience conducting executive protection service operations for top level civilian government executives or military dignitaries during all phases of operations, up to and including major National Special Security Events (NSSE) to include local and travel advance security details, motorcade movements, full threat assessment determinations, and all manner of coordination with other local, state, federal, and military executive protection teams. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: 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; religions; 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. 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. For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at http://://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

Education

There is no educational substitution at this grade level.

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: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.

Contacts

• Address Office of Accountability and Whistleblower Protection 810 Vermont Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20420 US
• Name: Lasha Perry
• Phone: 2148572496 X5928
• Email: [email protected]