National Operations Center (NOC) Duty Director at DHS Headquarters

About the role

This position is located in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Office of Situational Awareness (OSA). The primary purpose of this position is to provide the National Operations Center (NOC) continuous onsite Senior Level judgment, experience, and authority of a 24/7 watch consisting of representatives of DHS, Intelligence Community, Law Enforcement, Department of Defense, other critical Federal Departments and State and Local partners. Non-BU: This is a non-bargaining unit position. As a National Operations Center (NOC) Duty Director, GS-0301-15, your typical work assignments may include: Monitoring the developing situation until a decision is made to stand-down or elevate the level of incident response, possibly resulting in a National IMAT activation, UCG, department working group, or other incident management entity assuming primary reporting responsibility. Overseeing incident management handoff between the National Operations Center (NOC) and any other incident management entity, assuming primary reporting responsibility. Serving as final quality control and release authority for all distributed NOC products. Providing daily executive briefings to Senior DHS leaders including Secretary, Deputy Secretary, S1/S2 Chiefs of Staff, S1/S2 Deputy Chief of Staffs, and the Secretary's counselors. This announcement will be open for 5 business days OR until the first 100 applications have been received, whichever happens first. View common definitions of terms found in this announcement: Common Definitions. Specialized Experience: You must have at least one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level in federal service (GS-14) or public or private sector equivalent. For this position, specialized experience is defined as: Applying extensive, senior-level experience in homeland security, emergency management, interagency coordinator, or military operations to lead and optimize complex incident management programs. Providing staff with policy, procedure, or guideline updates to ensure compliance with work assigned. Maintaining continuous, proactive oversight of emerging threat landscape to deliver authoritative recommendations on strategic incident escalation thresholds. Ability to synthesize complex, operational data into high-impact verbal briefings and written executive communications for senior agency leadership. NOTE: Your resume must explicitly indicate how you meet this requirement, otherwise you will be found ineligible. Substitution of education in lieu of specialized experience may not be used for this grade level. All qualifications and eligibility requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement. Time-in-grade: Current General Schedule (GS) federal employees, and those that have served in GS positions within the last 52 weeks, must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade, or a combination of the next lower grade level and an equivalent band in the federal service by the closing of this announcement. Note: Current or former Federal employees MUST submit a copy of their SF-50 Form which shows competitive service appointment ("position occupied" block 34 on the SF-50 should show a "1"), tenure group (block 24 should show a 1 or 2), grade, and salary. If you are applying for a higher grade, please provide the SF-50 Form which shows the length of time you have been in your current/highest grade (examples of appropriate SF-50s include promotions, With-in Grade/Range Increases, and SF-50s dated a year apart within the same grade/job). If you have promotion potential in your current position, please provide proof. Employees applying with an interchange agreement must provide proof of their permanent appointment. IF YOU DO NOT SUBMIT ALL OF THE REQUIRED DOCUMENTATION, YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE CONSIDERATION AS A STATUS CANDIDATE. 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. Current or Former Political Appointees: 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. Essential Personnel Position - This position may be designated as essential personnel. Essential personnel must be able to serve during continuity of operation events without regard to declarations of liberal leave or government closures due to weather, protests, and acts of terrorism or lack of funding. Failure to report for or remain in this position may result in disciplinary or adverse action in accordance with applicable laws, rules, and regulations. (5 U.S.C. 7501-7533 and 5 CFR, Part 752, as applicable). Incumbent will be required to deploy primarily to support Secretary's Field Support Team in response to elevated threat levels, incident responses, National Special Security Events (NSSE), or training exercises. Such deployments will require deployment to areas outside the National Capital Region. Deployment areas may suffer the effects of a natural or man-made incident and may be done under short notice, therefore incumbent must be able to deploy into areas under expeditionary conditions.