In this position you will work as a member of the Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center (MWEOC), Emergency Services, Police/Security Services Branch. MWEOC is located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, approximately 60 miles west of Washington, DC. The ideal candidate for this position will have experience in physical information, personnel security plans, policies and procedures; security systems and devices.
Current Federal employees must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade or equivalent grade band in the Federal service. The time-in-grade requirement must be met within 30 days of the closing date of this announcement. To qualify for this position at the GS-09 level, you must possess one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-07 level in the Federal government, which has equipped you with the skills needed to successfully perform the duties of the position. Experience may be obtained in the federal government, a state or local government, or private sector, and must demonstrate the following: Assisting in evaluating physical, operational, administrative and/or information security programs AND; Scheduling meetings, briefings, and/or presentations for an organization OR; Providing support for the planning, installation and maintenance of physical security systems or components. OR You may substitute education for the above specialized experience. Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work if you have: A Master's Degree or equivalent graduate degree; OR 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree; OR LL.B., or J.D., if related; OR A combination of education or experience. To qualify for this position at the GS-11 level, you must possess one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-09 level in the Federal government, which has equipped you with the skills needed to successfully perform the duties of the position. Experience may be obtained in the federal government, a state or local government, or private sector, and must demonstrate the following: Evaluating physical, operational, administrative and/or information security programs AND; Scheduling and providing status on national security information during meetings, briefings, and/or presentations for an organization AND; Performing the planning, installation and maintenance of physical security systems or components OR; Reviewing facility engineering drawings for identification of security deficiencies. OR You may substitute education for the above specialized experience. Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work if you have: A Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree; OR 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree; OR LL.M, if related; OR A combination of education or experience. Please read the following important information to ensure we have everything we need to consider your application: Do not copy and paste the duties, specialized experience, or occupational assessment questionnaire from this announcement into your resume as that will not be considered a demonstration of your qualifications for this position. Please limit your resume to five pages. If more than five pages are submitted, only the first five pages will be reviewed to determine your eligibility and qualifications. Your resume serves as the basis for experience related qualification determinations, and you must highlight your most relevant and significant work experience and education (if applicable), as it relates to this job opportunity. Please use your own words, be clear, and specific when describing your work history. We cannot make assumptions regarding your experience. Are you qualifying based on your work experience? Qualifications are based on your ability to demonstrate in your resume that you possess one year of the specialized experience for this announcement at a comparable scope and responsibility. To ensure all of the essential information is in your resume, we encourage you to use the USAJOBS online Resume Builder. If you choose to use your own resume, it must contain the following information organized by experience/position: (1) job title, (2) name of employer, (3) start and end dates of each period of employment (from MM/DD/YY to MM/DD/YY), (4) detailed description of duties performed, accomplishments, and related skills, and (5) hours worked per week (part-time employment will be prorated in crediting experience). Federal experience/positions must also include the occupational series, grade level, and dates in which you held each grade level. Are you a current or former FEMA Reservist/Disaster Assistance Employee (DAE)? To accurately credit your experience from intermittent positions and Reservist Deployments, you must list the dates (from MM/DD/YY to MM/DD/YY) of deployments that are relevant to your qualifying experience, along with the job title and specific duties you were responsible for during each deployment. Determining length of General or Specialized Experience is dependent on the above information. Failure to provide the above information in your resume may result in your application being found "not qualified." 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 provides valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. For additional information on crediting experience and/or education, please reference the OPM General Schedule Qualification Standards
All MWEOC staff have emergency assignments and are considered deployed in place. Exercises and activations are planned and unplanned, and may require long hours, nights, weekends and holidays. All MWEOC employees are: (1) required to use a government-issued electronic device (to include cellular phones); (2) subject to recall during emergency situations; and (3) required to perform work in locations both above and below ground. What will I do in this position if hired? In this position, you will serve as a Security Specialist responsible for performing a variety of administrative and operational duties for security programs and compliance for physical security operational security, industrial security, administrative security, communications, information systems security programs and technical protective measures and procedures. Typical assignments include: Conducting protective service operations responsible for the handling and protection of officials. Performing uniformed law enforcement work in the protection of life, property, and the rights of individual citizens while enforcing and assuring compliance with statutes, laws, government facility rules and regulations and civil rights of all persons on property. Performing instructional duties that include but not limited to, tactical combat casualty care, firearms, defensive tactics, driving protective service operations, small unit tactics, active shooter, non-lethal training ammunition, specialized weapons, etc. Contributing to development and recommendations for security operations, policy, procedures and directives. Performing extensive risk management activities including conducting security surveys, inspections, and compliance reviews in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, Presidential Directives, Executive Orders, interagency directives, DHS and component policies. Federal Law Enforcement Training Certification or equivalent: Completion of a Uniform Police Training Program, or equivalent FLETC basic police training program must be obtained within one year of appointment. *Note: As a Security Specialist for this position you will also be required to carry a firearm while performing the above duties. You must complete in-service requirements and weapons qualification for the enforcement of arrest authority as conferred under 40 U.S.C 1315 authority. The position is covered by the 1996 Lautenberg Amendment to the Gun Control Act of 1968. What else do I need to know? At FEMA, our mission is to help people before, during and after disasters, and every employee at FEMA has a role in emergency management. Every FEMA employee has regular and recurring emergency management responsibilities, though not every position requires routine deployment to disaster sites. All positions are subject to recall around the clock for emergency management operations, which may require irregular work hours, work at locations other than the official duty station, and may include duties other than those specified in the employee's official position description. Travel requirements in support of emergency operations may be extensive in nature (weeks to months), with little advance notice, and may require employees to relocate to emergency sites with physically austere and operationally challenging conditions. Promotion Potential: Future promotions will be dependent on your ability to perform the duties at a higher level, the continuing need for an employee assigned to the higher level, and administrative approval.