Security Specialist

Summary

About the Position: This position is in the Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS). Employees occupying DCIPS positions are in the Excepted Service and must adhere to U.S. Code, Title 10, as well as Department of Defense Instruction 1400.25. This position is located at the 595th Transportation Brigade in Camp Arifijan, Kuwait. RECRUITMENT/RELOCATION INCENTIVE may be requested and authorized up to 25% of base salary per year (biweekly) for a period of service up to 2 years.

Duties

• •Serves as the Brigade S-2 Security Specialist encompassing both security and intelligence activities for day-to-day operations of the 595th Transportation Brigade.
• •Performs a wide variety of administrative, technical, and analytical duties to support the development of program policies and requirements, and reviews budget/program estimates.
• •Develops, coordinates, and directs security and intelligence management on transportation operations within the CENTCOM areas of responsibility.
• •Determines the suitability and verifies security eligibility and SCI access of individuals.
• •Manages Information security program by reviewing classified documents for proper classifications and markings, secure storage, and final disposition.
• •Serves as the primary technical expert regarding foreign visits and contacts with foreign nationals.
• •Manages the Physical Security, Industrial Security and Force Protection Programs.
• •Performs Intelligence Officer duties by providing Headquarters Command and subordinate units up to the minute threat information affecting personnel, facilities, equipment and operations within the CENTCOM AOR.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities. Current Army Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS) Employee Current Department of Army Civilian Employees Current Department of Defense (DOD) Civilian Employee (non-Army) Current DoD Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS) Employee (non-Army) Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS) Interchange Agreement Non-Department of Defense (DoD) Transfer Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability Retirement Priority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference Eligible Selection is subject to restrictions resulting from Department of Defense referral system for displaced employees. In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below. 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). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document. To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe at least one year of experience which prepared you to do the work in this job. Specialized experience is defined as experience which includes analyzing security and intelligence technical methods, policies, regulations, and procedures to provide advice and guidance in three or more security program areas to include Personnel Security, Information Security, Physical Security, Industrial Security, Foreign Disclosure, Operations Security, and/or Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) and SCI Facilities; identifying and resolving security problems and program inefficiencies; and identifying and analyzing security threats in order to provide solutions and recommendations to alleviate and minimize vulnerabilities. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GG/GS-11). Specialized experience is progressively responsible intelligence-related security work directly related to the position being filled. Creditable experience may include previous military experience, experience gained in the private sector or in another government agency as long as it was at a level at least equivalent to the next lower band in the series. This is a(n)Intelligence (General) Career Field position. ========Other Information=========== Payment of Permanent Change of Station (PCS) costs is authorized, subject to the provisions of the Joint Travel Regulations. When you perform a PCS with the government, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) considers the majority of your entitlements to be taxable. Visit https://www.dfas.mil/civilianemployees/civrelo/Civilian-Moving-Expenses-Tax-Deduction/ for more information.