Clarification from the agency

Open to the public.

The incumbent serves as Chief, Office of Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, (ISR) Systems and Technology (CG-26) for the Assistant Commandant for Intelligence (CG-2), U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, Washington, DC. The incumbent serves as a technical authority and Coast Guard Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Coast Guard intelligence program information technology (IT) capabilities, oversees the Coast Guard Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) Information Assurance program and perform the duties of, and be certified to serve as, the TS//SCI Authorizing Official. Addresses a wide variety of issues pertaining to the assessment of Coast Guard IT systems capabilities, requirements, policy compliance and special technical advisory functions regarding national, theater and tactical level technical intelligence IT systems.

Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Serves as an IT senior official with authority to formally operate an information system at an acceptable level of risk to organizational operations (including mission, functions, image, or reputation), organizational assets, individuals, other organizations, and the United States.
• Develops and maintains business systems, and information processes to support the core mission systems' banking needs; develops information technology (IT) rules and requirements that describe baseline and target architectures. Ensures stakeholder security needs are fully considered throughout the enterprise architecture, from reference models to segment and solution designs, as well as the systems that support the organization's mission and business operations.
• Manages and directs the preparation of reports and provides training, guidance, and mentoring.
• Performs leadership and oversight over the organization and staff. Performs the full range of supervisory responsibilities for staff. Manages, supervises, assigns, and reviews the work of subordinates; plans and carries out the training and development of staff, including on the job training or formal training; prepares performance standards and performance appraisals, and evaluates staff performance; and makes recommendations on rewards and disciplinary actions according to employee's performance or conduct. Interviews candidates, making authoritative final decisions involving staff selection and hiring. Performs all managerial and supervisory responsibilities in accordance with Federal Merit Principles and Equal Employment Opportunities Policies.
• Determines and manages the Division's contract budgets, software, and personnel. Determines and presents final required monetary funding and justifications of necessary applications and systems for inclusion into the overall Office budget.

Conditions of employment

All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement.

Do NOT include the following types of information in your resume:

• Social Security Number (SSN)
• Date of Birth (DOB)
• Photos of yourself (if included on your resume you will not be considered for this position)
• Personal information: such as age, gender, religious affiliation, etc.

Key Requirements:
To ensure the accomplishment of our mission, DHS requires every employee to be reliable and trustworthy. To meet those standards, all selected applicants must undergo and successfully pass a background investigation for TS/SCI Clearance as a condition of placement into this position. This may include e.g. a credit check after initial job qualifications are determined, a review of financial issues such as delinquency in the payment of debts, child support and/or tax obligations, as well as certain criminal offenses and illegal use or possession of drugs.

• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Must be registered or exempt from the Selective Service. See www.sss.gov
• A one-year probationary period may be required.
• To ensure the accomplishment of our mission, DHS requires every employee to be reliable and trustworthy. To meet those standards, all selected applicants must undergo and successfully pass a background investigation. This position requires a Top Secret Clearance with SCI.
• This is not a Bargaining Unit position.
• All Federal employees are required to have Federal salary payments made by direct deposit.
• This position requires the selectee to pass a pre-employment drug test.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications for IT Specialist (INFOSEC) position(s): You must possess IT-related experience demonstrating each of the four competencies listed below. (You must have IT-related experience demonstrating each of these four competencies on your resume, if you do not, you will be rated ineligible for further consideration.)

NOTE: All experience statements (i.e., duties, specialized experience, or occupational assessment questionnaire) copied from this announcement and pasted into your resume will not be considered as a demonstration of your qualifications for this position.

• Attention to Detail - Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail.
• Customer Service - Works with clients and customers (that is, any individuals who use or receive the services or products that your work unit produces, including the general public, individuals who work in the agency, other agencies, or organizations outside the Government) to assess their needs, provide information or assistance, resolve their problems, or satisfy their expectations; knows about available products and services; is committed to providing quality products and services.
• Oral Communication - Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.
• Problem Solving - Identifies problems; determines accuracy and relevance of information; uses sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives, and to make recommendations.

In addition to the four competencies above, you must meet the following:

Specialized experience at the GS-15 level you must meet the following qualifications:

• Experience serving as a senior program manager over an enterprise IT portfolio (custom-developed and COTS applications), ensuring successful delivery/operations of e-commerce, underwriting, asset management, accounting, and data warehouse solutions aligned to agency/enterprise priorities.
• Experience establishing and enforcing secure engineering practices and integrating cybersecurity requirements across design, development, implementation, sustainment, and system disposition, embedding and managing risk, incident response, resiliency, and recovery for enterprise systems.
• Experience developing business systems and IT rules/requirements (baseline/target architectures) and ensuring stakeholder security requirements are adequately addressed across enterprise architecture (reference models, segment/solution architecture) for mission and business processes.
• Experience leading long/short-range operational planning and managing resources by overseeing deliverables, budgets, procurement/contract management, and monitoring fiscal/administrative controls to support major IT programs and services.

NOTE: Education cannot be substituted for experience at this grade level.

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.

All requirements must be met by 07/22/2026 the closing date of the announcement.

How you will be evaluated

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

We will review your resume and supporting documentation to ensure you meet the basic qualification requirements. Under the provisions of direct hiring authority, rating, ranking and veterans' preference does not apply; therefore any responses to the questionnaire will not be used to determine a scored rating. All applicants who meet the minimum qualifications in the job opportunity announcement, will be referred for selection consideration. The necessary competencies to perform this job are:

In order to be considered for this position, you must complete all required steps in the process. In addition to the application and application questionnaire, this position requires an online assessment. The online assessment measures critical general competencies required to perform the job.

The assessment includes a cut score based on the minimum level of required proficiency in these critical general competencies. You must meet or exceed the cut score to be considered. You will not be considered for the position if you score below the cut score or fail to complete the assessment.

If you meet the minimum qualifications, you will be placed in one of the following categories:

1. Best-Qualified: Applicants possessing experience that substantially exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position and demonstrate high proficiency in all of the critical competencies, including all Selective Placement Factors (SPF) and appropriate Quality Ranking Factors (QRF) as determined by the job analysis.
2. Well-Qualified: Applicants possessing experience that exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position and demonstrates acceptable proficiency in all of the critical competencies, including all SPFs and appropriate QRFs as determined by the job analysis
3. Qualified: Applicants possessing experience that meets the minimum qualifications of the position and demonstrate basic proficiency in most of the critical competencies, including all SPFs and appropriate QRFs as determined by the job analysis.

If you are best qualified, you may be referred to the hiring manager for consideration and may be called for an interview.

Interviews may be required for this position. Failure to complete the interview may result in removal from further consideration.

Veterans: Qualified veterans who have a compensable service-connected disability of at least 10% are listed in the best-qualified category, except when the position being filled is scientific or professional at the GS-09 grade level, or higher. (This position is not considered scientific/professional.) Other 10-point preference eligible and veterans with 5-point preference who meet the eligibility and qualification requirements are placed above non-preference eligible within the category in which they qualify. View information on veterans' preference.

Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP) Eligibles: If you have never worked for the federal government, you are not ICTAP eligible. View information about ICTAP eligibility ICTAP eligibility on OPM's Career Transition Resources website. To be considered well qualified under ICTAP, you must be rated at a minimum score of [insert score] for this position. In addition, you must submit the supporting documents listed under the required documents section of this announcement.