Major duties and responsibilities include:

• Ensures new employees are properly oriented and familiarized with applicable policies and
  procedures.
• Hears and resolves grievances and employee complaints, reviews serious disciplinary cases
• Ensures that all training requirements are met for Police Service staff and that performance
  proficiency meets the goals of the service.
• Explores training opportunities for staff to improve or enhance delivery of services and
  increase officers' cultural competencies
• Ensures police staff are properly trained to operate a variety of equipment and/or security
  systems.
• Observes, evaluates, and prepares reports on the performance of department personnel.
• Develops programs to alter the behavior of employees whose work performance is below
  acceptable standards
• Plans, assigns and explains work requirements to subordinate supervisors for new or changed
  programs and the functions, goals, processes, skills, and needs.
• Develops solutions to continuing problems in the quality of work and operating effectiveness
  and takes or recommends necessary corrective actions.
• Evaluates resumes of prospective candidates and conducts interviews to assist in selecting
  appropriate candidates.
• Develops duty schedules, plans and directs facility law enforcement and security operations
  to ensure compliance with agency policy and protection priorities
• Develops local policies and implements corrective procedures to alleviate identified law
  enforcement and physical security problems.
• Develops and implements the physical security plans and objectives for the facility.
• Conducts physical security surveys and vulnerability assessments, analyzes findings to
  determine weaknesses, prioritizes vulnerabilities, and determines necessary courses of action
  to mitigate risk.
• Evaluates surveys/assessments for the purpose of improving overall facility safety and
  security processes.
• Acts as a law enforcement and security subject matter expert by interpreting security policies
  and procedures and providing guidance to senior facility leadership, other service chiefs,
  program managers.
• Plans, directs, and updates the crime prevention program and exercises direction and control
  of investigations into criminal activities.
• Makes, coordinates, directs, or delegates the arrests of person(s).
• Ensures crime scenes and potential evidence is identified, collected and protected pursuant to
  law.
• Responds accordingly during natural disasters, terrorist acts, major accidents/incidents and
  criminal activity which poses a threat to patients, employees, visitors, property or continuity
  of operations.

Designated Drug-Testing Position: Applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA. Applicants will not be appointed to the position if a verified positive drug test result is received.

Work Schedule: 7:30am - 4:00pm; Monday - Friday
Telework: Available; at the discretion of the Agency/Supervisor
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Position Description/PD#: Security Officer (Detail)/PD99956S
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized.

Conditions of employment

• You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job
• All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
• You may be required to serve a probationary period
• Subject to background/security investigation
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process
• Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP)

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 07/25/2025.

Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-13 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-12. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade.

Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment. You may qualify based on your experience as described below:

• Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-12 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Possess a broad level of knowledge of security and law enforcement practices and policies; Possess knowledge of general and specific security administration programs, how to integrate systems, provide the appropriate application and coordinate with multiple departments to execute tasks; Experience providing technical expertise to complete and oversee assignments requiring the application and theories and development of solutions to complex security problems; Possess expert knowledge necessary to work through overlapping and conflicting requirements pertaining to security barriers, SSTV, key and access control, operational access, new construction design, and overall security/convenience; Experience interpreting existing and new policy issuances and recommending guidance related to safety and security; Experience working with and managing multi-layered security systems to advise management on improvements or additions to existing systems; Experience implementing Veteran-specific policing techniques, such as de-escalation; Possess specialized knowledge of the health issues, some severe, and social problems experienced by many Veterans; Knowledge and experience related to planning for and minimizing active threat situations as well as deescalating encounters with weapons-carrying Veterans.

You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position:

• Education and Training
• Managing Human Resources
• Physical Security
• Security

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; religions; 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.

Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment.

Physical Requirements: The position is required to exert considerable and strenuous physical effort on a regular basis while performing the functions of the position. These functions are normally performed while the position conducts security surveys and inspections, which require crawling in unusually confined building areas. May be called upon to defend themselves and members of staff, patients or the public against physical attack and may be required to exercise deadly force if necessary. Requirements of the position include maintaining firearms qualifications, climbing flights ofstairs, carrying heavy equipment/patients during emergencies, running, bending, stooping, physical restraint of aggressive persons, being subjected to assaults by persons evading arrest. Inspections and audits of security systems, constructions sites, and full searches require the performance of duties in a variety of inclement weather conditions walking, crawling in wooded or over-grown field conditions in all elements of seasonal weather.

For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE.

Narrative responses are not required at this time. If you are referred for consideration, you may be asked to submit additional job related information, which may include, but not limited to; responses to the knowledge, skills and abilities; completion of a work sample, and/or contact for an interview. Your resume and/or supporting documentation will be verified. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your rating or consideration for employment.

The Department of Veterans Affairs performs pre-employment reference checks as an assessment method used in the hiring process to verify information provided by a candidate (e.g., on resume or during interview or hiring process); gain additional knowledge regarding a candidate's abilities; and assist a hiring manager with making a final selection for a position.

For more information on the "Who may apply" eligibility requirements, please refer to the OHRM Status Candidates and Other Candidate Definitions document.

Placement Policy: The posting of this announcement does not obligate management to fill a vacancy or vacancies by promotion. The position may be filled by reassignment, change to lower grade, transfer, appointment, or reinstatement. Management may use any one or any combination of these methods to fill the position.

It is the policy of the VA to not deny employment to those that have faced financial hardships or periods of unemployment.

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