COMMAND SECURITY OFFICER, GS-0080-12 WITH SECURITY CLEARANCE

Duties If selected you will serve as the Command Security Officer for Coast Guard Sector New York, located within the National Park at Ft. Wadsworth on Staten Island. The position serves as a security advisor and primary point of contact for all security (personnel, physical, information, and industrial) related matters. Being a Coast Guard civilian makes you a valuable member of the Coast Guard team. Typical work assignments include: * Managing the full range of security programs for the organization to include: Personnel Security, Physical Security, Information Security, Industrial Security. * Developing and implementing security plans and policies; conducting training programs to disseminate to facility personnel. * Coordinating and conducting vulnerability assessments on personnel, facilities, or other sensitive resources and incorporating assessment data into contingency plans and procedures. * Developing and maintaining liaison with other Federal, State (U.S. Park Police), and local law enforcement (NYPD) and resource management agencies to share resources and enhance tactical and administrative capabilities to provide additional protection of people and property on public lands. * Developing and performing operational, advisory and evaluative work to protect/safeguard/handle classified/sensitive material/information; maintains security clearances and ensures reliability of employees and sensitive/classified data. * Developing and implementing complex security plans not only for daily use, but also for periods of heightened security and force protection during planned and unplanned events. Planned events, for example, would include national political conventions, dignitary visits, interagency exercises, New York City Marathon, Five Borough Bike Tour, and major events within Fort Wadsworth. Unplanned events would include terrorist threats, attacks, and/or natural disasters. * Developing new methods, criteria and/or policies for security plans involving access to grounds by employees, vendors and government personnel. * Planning and implementing protective methods and security procedures, using intrusion detection systems and devices, safes, storage containers, locks and locking systems, personnel entry control systems, ballistic protection measures, for the protection of personnel and property. * Investigating and analyzing a variety of unusual security problems, questions, or conditions associated with general questions or issues about physical security. * Managing the foreign travel program, including administering the travel program tracking system, assisting members personal and professional foreign travel requests and requirements and recommending/approving foreign travel requests. * Providing oversight for the local service security forces providing protective measures for the protection for personnel and property. Requirements Conditions of Employment * Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered for Selective Service. * U.S. Citizenship is required. * The position requires a valid state driver's license. All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement. This includes Time-In-Grade requirements for current status employees applying through merit promotion procedures. Status applicants applying for a promotion must have 52 weeks of service at the next lower grade. Qualifications QUALIFICATIONS: GS-12: To qualify for this position, you must have at least one full year of specialized experience comparable in difficulty and responsibility to at least the GS-11 level in the Federal service performing the following types of tasks on a regular and recurring basis: * Administers Coast Guard Security Programs by implementing enforcement of USCG, DHS and local policy and procedures. * Review and evaluates reports of investigations, personnel files, and other records to recommend whether to grant, deny, revoke, suspend, or restrict security clearances consistent with national security and/or suitability issues. * Coordinating and conducting vulnerability assessments on personnel, facilities, or other sensitive resources and incorporating assessment data into contingency plans and procedures. * Performs operational, advisory and evaluative work to protect/safeguard classified and sensitive information; maintains security clearances and ensures reliability of employees and sensitive/classified data. * Develops and maintains liaison with other Federal, State (U.S. Park Police), and local law enforcement (NYPD) and resource management agencies to share resources in order to provide additional protection of people and property on public lands. * Adjudicates and reviews security cases for completeness and accuracy, conducting pre-employment checks, identifying derogatory information, and documenting issues clearly and concisely. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work. National Service Experience (i.e., volunteer experience): 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. The Office of Personnel management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule, C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office. Education This position does not have a positive education requirement. If you are including education on your resume, report only attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. See Required Documents section for detail. FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet Federal qualification requirements if you can show that your foreign education is comparable to education received in accredited educational institutions in the United States. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence with your application. See Recognition of Foreign Qualifications click here Additional information Applicants will be required to complete questions contained on the Declaration for Federal Employment (OF-306) at the time a tentative job offer is made. Certain responses on the form could pose a problem with suitability for employment determinations. If you receive a conditional offer of employment for this position, you will be required to complete/make updates to the OF-306 and to sign and certify the accuracy of all information in your application, prior to entry on duty. False statements on any part of the application may result in withdrawal of offer of employment, dismissal after beginning work, or imprisonment. DHS uses e-Verify, an Internet-based system, to confirm the eligibility of all newly hired employees to work in the United States. Learn more about e-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities at click here Recruitment incentives may be authorized. All Federal employees are required to have Federal salary payments made by direct deposit. The Department of Homeland Security encourages persons with disabilities to apply, to include persons with intellectual, severe physical or psychiatric disabilities, as defined by 5 CFR § 213.3102(u), and/or Disabled Veterans with a compensable service-connected disability of 30 percent or more as defined by 5 CFR § 315.707. Veterans , Peace Corps / VISTA volunteers , and persons with disabilities possess a wealth of unique talents, experiences, and competencies that can be invaluable to the DHS mission. If you are a member of one of these groups, you may not have to compete with the public for federal jobs. To determine your eligibility for non-competitive appointment and to understand the required documentation, click on the links above or contact the Servicing Human Resources Office listed at the bottom of this announcement. More than 1 selection may be made from this announcement if additional identical vacancies in the same title, series, grade, and unit occur within 45 days from the date the certificate was issued. If you need a reasonable accommodation for the application and hiring process, please contact 571-607-2499. Decisions on granting reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis. Visit Reasonable Accommodation How You Will Be Evaluated You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above. We will review your résumé and supporting documentation to ensure you meet the basic qualification requirements. If you meet the minimum qualifications, your experience, education and training will be rated using the on-line self assessment questions that are based on the following competencies or knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to perform this job: *Knowledge of a wide range of security concepts, principles, and practices to analyze and resolve difficult and complex security problems regarding physical, information, operations, industrial, and personnel security. *Knowledge of a variety of security equipment and devices such as fencing variations, alarm and detective devices, closed circuit television systems, locking devices for doors, windows, vaults, gates, shielding for cables carrying ADP, communications and other electronic impulses that might be translatable or make a facility vulnerable to penetration, co