This vacancy is for a GS-0080-9, Personnel Security Specialist located in the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Coast Guard, SECURITY CENTER CHESAPEAKE-CG-SPM-SC2 in CHESAPEAKE, Virginia.
You will serve as a Personnel Security Specialist and be responsible for serving as a member of the Adjudicative Team; processing security clearance actions for various personnel groups; providing customer service; and supporting communications, records maintenance, quality control, and policy coordination for the Security Center, including interim clearances, SCI access, and HSPD-12 activities. Being a Coast Guard civilian makes you a valuable member of the Coast Guard team. Typical work assignments include: Retrieving, reviewing, and evaluating electronic case files, supporting documents, and prior investigative records to support personnel security determinations. Requesting, obtaining, and analyzing prior outside agency investigations to identify relevant information for clearance or suitability processing. Reviewing and assessing investigative submissions to determine eligibility for interim clearance, pre-appointment processing, or other personnel security actions. Receiving, scoping, and preparing case documents, clearance applications, suitability applications, and electronic security questionnaires for processing. Initiating, coordinating, processing, and documenting security clearance requests through database entries, case tracking, discrepancy resolution, and procedural compliance. Reasonable Accommodation (RA) Requests: If you believe you have a disability (i.e., physical or mental), covered by the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended that would interfere with completing the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, you will be granted the opportunity to request a RA in your online application. Requests for RA for the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments and appropriate supporting documentation for RA must be received prior to starting the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments. Decisions on requests for RA are made on a case-by-case basis. If you meet the minimum qualifications of the position, after notification of the adjudication of your request, you will receive an email invitation to complete the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, based on your adjudication decision. You must complete all assessments within 48 hours of receiving the URL to access the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments if you received the link after the close of the announcement. To determine if you need a RA, please review the Procedures for Requesting a Reasonable Accommodation for Online Assessments. Reasonable Accommodation Information
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. Are you qualifying based on education? Submit a copy of your college transcript (unofficial is acceptable) from an accredited institution. Once selected & prior to appointment, applicants must provide an official college transcript. 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 U.S. (see FOREIGN EDUCATION below). College Transcript: If this position requires specific educational course work to qualify, or you are qualifying based in whole or part on education, you are required to provide all unofficial transcripts (undergraduate, graduate, etc.) by the closing date of this announcement or you will be disqualified from further consideration. Transcripts should be legible and detailed, showing course number and department (i.e., bio 101, math 210, etc.), course title, number of credit hours, and grade earned. If course content cannot be easily identified from the title of the course as listed on your transcript, you must submit an official course description from the college/university that reflects the content at the time the course was taken. 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. To receive this credit, you must submit evidence of equivalency as provided by a credentialling evaluation service. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence with your application. See Recognition of Foreign Qualifications click here Only experience and education obtained by the closing date of this announcement will be considered.
mary.a.williams@uscg.mil
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