Security Specialist (Port), GS-0080-13

This position is located in the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Coast Guard First District, Prevention Department, Boston, MA

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

This role coordinates emergency response and port security planning efforts by providing policy guidance and technical expertise to ensure all field units are prepared for any contingency involving natural disasters, oil or chemical discharges, or terrorist incidents. 

Being a Coast Guard civilian makes you a valuable member of the Coast Guard team.

Typical work assignments include:

• Coordinating Maritime Security planning efforts, programs, and projects.
• Serving as a technical expert, exercising independence and political judgment in developing and maintaining relationships with various stakeholders in the government (federal, state, and local) and private industry.
• Managing a security/law enforcement program throughout a major agency organizational component of the Coast Guard.
• Developing planning and exercises guidance for the First District’s Maritime Security Program and advises senior leaders on applicable security standards.
• Reviewing and developing new or proposed District-wide security policies, procedures, and guidelines for response to any contingency including natural disaster, oil/chemical discharge, or terrorist threat or incident.

Qualifications for GS-13:  You must have at least 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-12 in the Federal service. Examples of specialized experience include: Developing and interpreting broad security policies and regulations; investigating and analyzing a variety of unusual maritime security problems, questions or conditions; formulating projects or studies to alter existing security systems substantially.

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.