Security Specialist at Joint Activities

About the role

About the Position: This position is in the Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS). Employees occupying DCIPS positions are in the Excepted Service and must adhere to U.S. Code, Title 10, as well as Department of Defense Instruction 1400.25. This position is located at the HQ USSOUTHCOM, Security and Intelligence Directorate, Doral Miami, Florida. Incumbent functions with significant duties in the execution of the command's SCIF program, designed to protect the foreign liaison officers, and national level agency personnel, equipment, facilities, information, and processes. Work involves physical protection of personnel, facilities, installations, and other sensitive materials, resources, and processes against criminal, terrorist, or hostile activities. Conducts security evaluations and tests the security systems and guards. Provides guidance and assistance for processing SCI position and eligibility requests. Assists with the administration and oversight of the security guard force assigned to protect the USSOUTHCOM compound. Conducts SCI physical security of SCIFs. Applies knowledge of physical security and information security to establish adequate controls and safeguards, ensuring that buildings, material, and equipment are protected against theft, illegal entry, sabotage, and/or terrorism. Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities. Army DCIPS positions apply Veteran's Preference to preference eligible candidates as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 U.S.C., in accordance with the procedures provided in DoD Instruction 1400.25, Volume 2005, DCIPS Employment and Placement. In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below. 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). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience. To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe at least one (1) year of experience to the next lower grade (GG/GS-11) which prepared you to do the work in this job. Specialized experience is defined as: 1) Administering/oversight of Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) program; 2) Administering Temporary Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities (T-SCIFS); AND 3) Administering and maintaining physical security standards. Specialized experience is progressively responsible intelligence-related security work directly related to the position being filled. Creditable experience may include previous military experience, experience gained in the private sector or in another government agency as long as it was at a level at least equivalent to the next lower band in the series.