United States Secret Service Hiring for Investigative Analyst (Insider Threat) Job at Washington, DC Full Time

Investigative Analyst (Insider Threat)

The selectee will serve as Investigative Analyst (Insider Threat) in the Office of Professional Responsibility. Typical work assignments include:

• Evaluating Insider Threat policies, procedures, and techniques; performing a broad range of Insider Threat inquiries, Risk Management assignments, and Insider Threat projects; training staff; reviewing intelligence processes to ensure compliance with Secret Service guidelines; and implementing Insider Threat practices and methods.
• Analyzing classified and unclassified reports to identify internal/external threats, researching and evaluating adversary capabilities, composition, and the nature of threats and assessing the threat impact on the United States Secret Service dual investigative and protective missions.
• Utilizing information systems and databases for insider threat activities and creating products such as SPOT reports, presentation materials, and training materials via Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Cloud).
• Briefings stakeholders on counterintelligence anomalies and efforts by foreign intelligence entities and providing courses of action for threat mitigation.

Conditions of Employment

You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this position.

Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered for Selective Service.

You must successfully pass a background investigation.

Conditions of Employment:

If selected for this position, you will be required to:

Obtain and maintain a top secret with Tier 5 with SCI clearance. For more information visit https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/diversity-equity-inclusion-and-accessibility/reference-materials/federal-hiring-mythbusters-criminal-records.pdf OPM Mythbuster Page.

Submit to a drug test prior to your appointment and random drug testing while you occupy the position.

Undergo occasional travel.

Qualifications

GS-13: You qualify for the GS-13 level (starting salary $112,015) if you possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 level performing duties such as: analyzing and evaluating Insider Threat policies, procedures, and techniques; reviewing classified and unclassified documentation to identify threats; utilizing computer software programs to produce assessments/reports; training staff on insider threat processes; and briefing stakeholders on insider threat activities.

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.

Time-in-Grade Requirements: Under competitive merit promotion procedures, any individual who is currently holding, or who has held within the previous 52 weeks, a General Schedule position under a non-temporary appointment in the competitive or excepted service, must meet “time-in-grade” requirements (have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade of the grade for which you are applying). Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to current competitive service employees applying for a Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment. NOTE: All current or former Federal employees must provide a copy of their SF-50, “Notice of Personnel Action” that indicates proof of status and time-in-grade eligibility. The SF-50 must include your position, title, series, grade, step, tenure (1 or 2), and type of service (Competitive or Excepted). You may need to submit more than one SF-50 to comply.

Qualifications Must Be Met: The qualification requirements listed above must be met by the closing date of this announcement.

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 an educational requirement.

Additional information

Building on a Tradition of Excellence and Meeting the Challenges of the Future. The Secret Service is a premier law enforcement organization with two critical national security missions: protect our nation’s leaders and to conduct criminal investigations. Our team members continue a tradition of excellence – whether investigating financial crime or protecting national and visiting foreign leaders. In the Secret Service, we serve the country with duty, loyalty, justice, integrity and courage. In the Secret Service, we:

Protect the President, the Vice President, and other leaders; investigate threats against them; and safeguard their residences and other facilities

Plan and implement security designs for National Special Security Events

Investigate financial crimes including fraud, identity theft and computer-based attacks on banking or telecommunications infrastructure

Any offers of employment made pursuant to this announcement will be consistent with all applicable authorities, including Presidential Memoranda, Executive Orders, interpretive U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) guidance and U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) plans and policies concerning hiring. These authorities are subject to change.

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 http://www.uscis.gov/e-verify E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities,

If you receive a conditional offer of employment for this position, you will be required to complete an https://www.opm.gov/forms/pdf_fill/OF0306.pdf Optional Form 306, Declaration for Federal Employment, 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, fine, or imprisonment.

This position will require a credit check after a conditional offer of employment has been accepted.

The agency’s current Telework Policy allows for up to 80% telework, which equates to eight (8) business days per pay-period with traditional work schedule. In addition, we do offer compressed or flexible work schedules with appropriate approval.

Relocation expenses will not be authorized.

More than one selection may be made from this announcement if additional identical vacancies in the same title, series, grade and unit occur.

Applying to this announcement certifies that you give permission for DHS to share your application with others in DHS for similar positions.

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. https://www.fedshirevets.gov/job-seekers/special-hiring-authorities/#content Veterans, https://www.peacecorps.gov/returned-volunteers/careers/noncompetitive-eligibility/ Peace Corps https://www.vistacampus.gov/after-vista/career VISTA volunteers, and http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/disability-employment/ 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.

View https://www.dhs.gov/homeland-security-careers/common-terms-announcements common definitions of terms found in this announcement.