Security Specialist

Salary: $101,375.00 to $131,790.00 Per Year

This position is located in Maynard, MA. The ideal candidate will have experience in: Constructing, maintaining, and securing fixed, mobile, or restricted-access facilities. Reviewing, interpreting and applying complex security policies, directives, or standards to protect sensitive facilities, classified information, proprietary data, or physical assets. Also leading inspections, audits, and risk assessments to identify threats, vulnerabilities, and corrective actions.

Major duties

What will I do in this position if hired? This position is in the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Response Division, Logistics Branch, MERS Section, Mobile Emergency Response Support (MERS) Detachments. The detachments provide mobile telecommunications, operations, logistical, and information processing support to Federal response personnel at special events and emergency/disaster field operations. Typical assignments include: Developing, implementing, and managing the detachment's security programs: information, personnel, security education and training, operations, physical, access control, anti-terrorism, and alarm and video systems security. Developing, writing, and implementing the plans, procedures, detachment policies, and instructions necessary to ensure applicable protection of personnel, information, equipment, and operations from sabotage, espionage, terrorism, threats, and theft. Establishing a comprehensive security program for the Disaster Field Office, satellite locations, and special events when deployed as Security Manager. Conducting security surveys, risk assessments, and investigations as required. Establishing liaisons, coordinating activities, threat information, and any applicable security support with Federal/State/local law enforcement organizations, the Federal/State security community, and private security counterparts 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.

Qualifications

The qualification requirements listed below must be met by the closing date of this announcement. To qualify for this position at the GS-12 level, you must possess one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-11 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: Developing a comprehensive security program covering anti-terrorism, crisis management, physical security, information security, operations security, personnel security, and security education, and Implementing access control, alarm, video, telecommunications, and computer systems security measures to protect detachment operations, and Managing multi-faceted security programs to support organizational readiness and risk reduction. 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. 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 grade level, occupational series 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.