This vacancy is for a Supervisory Security Specialist in the Office of the Secretary within the Department of Commerce. All Office of Security, Insider Risk and Continuity employees are considered Emergency Employees and may be required to assist in providing essential services during an emergency, weather, or COOP event at the worksite, an alternate location, or via telework.

Duties

As a Supervisory Security Specialist, you will perform the following duties: Manage and/or directly support various security functions to include personnel, information, physical, communications, industrial, and continuity and emergency management. Confer with, assist, and advise bureau management and other senior staff on security precedents, planning and policy development. Evaluate and recommend measures designed to safeguard personnel to prevent unauthorized access to equipment, facilities, material, and documents; and to safeguard them against espionage, sabotage, damage, and theft. Manage all aspects of the Foreign Visitor Access Program. Direct the work of subordinate staff and perform supervisory responsibilities that include assigning work, establishing performance criteria and standards, evaluating performance, providing technical and administrative advice and assistance as needed, resolving complaints and grievances, providing staff development plans, and taking disciplinary actions. This Job Opportunity Announcement may be used to fill other Supervisory Security Specialist ZA-0080-4 (FPL:04) positions within the Department of Commerce in the same geographical location with the same qualifications and specialized experience. This position is also advertised under OS-OSY-DE-25-12659270, which is open to Delegated Examining eligible applicants. You must apply to both announcements if you want to be considered for both.

Requirements

Qualifications

Qualification requirements in the vacancy announcements are based on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards Handbook, which contains federal qualification standards. This handbook is available on the Office of Personnel Management's website located at: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/ Applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and responsibility to the next lower grade level in the Federal Service. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular competencies/knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. This experience need not have been in the federal government. 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. This position is being filled under the DOC Alternative Personnel System (CAPS). The system replaced the Federal GS pay plan structure. Under CAPS, positions are classified by career, pay plan, and pay band. Non supervisory positions cap out at interval 3 of the band. The ZA-IV is equivalent to the GS-13/14 grade levels. The Band IV is equivalent to the grades 13/14 on the GS pay scale. Supervisors are eligible for supervisory performance pay, increasing their salaries by up to six percent higher than the maximum rate of their pay bands (achievable through pay for performance increases only). To qualify at the ZA-IV level: You must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the ZA-03 or GS-12 in the Federal service or its non-federal equivalent. Specialized experience is defined as: 1. Advising senior management and key stakeholders on a wide range of security activities, including personnel, information, physical, communications, industrial, and continuity and emergency management security programs. 2. Developing and implementing security polices to ensure adherence to program requirements and regulations. 3. Working with foreign visitor access programs. 4. Assigning work, establishing performance criteria and standards, evaluating performance, resolving complaints and grievances, and taking disciplinary actions. Your resume should clearly show at least three statements of the specialized experience.

Education

There is no positive education requirement for this position.

Contacts

• Address Office of the Secretary 1401 Constitution Ave NW Washington, DC 20230 US
• Name: Cathy Mason
• Email: cmason@doc.gov