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Position Title
SECURITY SPECIALIST (PROTECTION)
Agency
Army National Guard Units
Announcement Number
NE-11529786-AR-22-118 Opens in new window
Open Period
Thursday, June 9, 2022 to Friday, June 24, 2022
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CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
MILITARY MEMBERSHIP IS REQUIRED FOR THIS POSITION. FOR QUESTIONS REGARDING ELIGIBILITY TO JOIN THE NEBRASKA ARMY NATIONAL GUARD PLEASE CONTACT THE LOCAL RECRUITING OFFICE AT 402-309-7458. (limit characters)
1. This position is open to applicants Area 1 ONLY applicants. What is your current area of consideration?

AREA 1: Current permanent and indefinite technicians of the Nebraska Army or Air National Guard; and current Title 5 employees of the Nebraska Military Department who are military members of the Nebraska National Guard.
AREA 2: All Drill Status/M-Day members and temporary technicians of the Nebraska Air or Army National Guard.
AREA 3: Current military service members who are willing and eligible to become members of the Nebraska Air or Army National Guard.
AREA 4: All qualified candidates eligible and willing to become a member of the Nebraska National Air or Army National Guard prior to the effective date of hire.
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2. Are you Officer in the grades of O3 - O4? (limit characters)
3. This position is covered by the Domestic Violence Misdemeanor Amendment (30 Sep 96) of the Gun Control Act (Lautenberg Amendment) of 1968. An individual convicted of a qualifying crime of domestic violence may not perform the duties of this position.

Have you ever been convicted of a qualifying crime of domestic violence?
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4. APPLICANTS MUST BE ABLE TO OBTAIN AN MINIMUM OF A TOP SECRET CLEARANCE TO BE CONSIDERED ELIGIBLE. Do you currently possess a Top Secret or higher security clearance, or able to obtain a Top Secret Clearance? (limit characters)
Assessment 1
Please answer all questions truthfully and to the best of your ability. (limit characters)
Select “Yes” or “No” to the following question(s). (limit characters)
1. Do you possess at least 36 months experience in the Security career field or intelligence career field to include technical training schools and drill-status working experience. Security Forces and Intelligence training experiences are not required for individuals performing Chief of information Protection duties/responsibilities; Security Officer duties/responsibilities; or, Special Security Representative duties/responsibilities. Apply the following specialized competencies (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities) factors, as applicable to the seven organizational disciplines of Series GS-0080 and each discipline's requirements? (limit characters)
2. Do you possess experience or training related to the below general duty requirements?

The organizational location of this position is in the Joint Force Headquarters, Office of the Adjutant General, personal staff. This position serves as the State's force protection security specialist for anti-terrorism and related physical and operational security programs' policies. Must successfully complete the military approved Level II Anti-terrorism Training Course within first 90 days of appointment to the applicable position description. To qualify, must have experience in formulating and implementing plans and processes, overcoming obstacles and conflicts, and managing the state's force protection and anti-terrorism programs. Must have expert experiences in reviewing, analyzing, and assessing law enforcement sensitive information. Experienced in managing and directing assigned program areas, conducting studies and reviews; and, writing, publishing and implementing force protection policies and projects. Knowledgeable in security program specialties to include physical, personnel, and operational security. Experienced in correctly identifying and resolving conflicting and complex policy and program objectives, and procedures within the security functional area. Experienced in the specialized field of force protection and anti-terrorism, and physical and operations security. Has comprehensive, authoritative knowledge of Executive Orders, legislation, and Department of Defense, National Guard Bureau, United States Army, US Air Force, Major Commands and Major Components' policy requirements. Experienced in formulating comprehensive and integrated state force protection programs; and experienced in applying regulatory requirements and reducing command specific vulnerabilities. Competent to apply innovative and new security theories and concepts to provide overall enhanced security of installation resources and personnel. Knowledgeable of law enforcement and security policy requirements and procedures. Possess communication skills to develop organizational working relationships and able to manage program segments with diverse military, civilian, professional, and technical populations. Capable and skilled to provide recommendations for making key decisions and policy development on short and long term security planning. Competent on a broad range of security program relationships, as well as, has significant experiences in applying appropriate policy requirements in the areas of Incidents, Surveys, and Resolution of Findings and associated elements of physical security and information security. Has a working knowledge of DoD Regulation 5240.1-R, Executive Order 12333, Air Force Instruction 10-114, and Army Regulation 380-10. Competent to manage and work with classified operational security information. Has the competence to effectively articulate and efficiently provide advice and recommendations to supervisors and other security experts or groups at higher and lower echelons. Experienced in computer programs and maintains expert computer working skills to write reports, access the internet to research intelligence reports and current world events, and to maintain command level Security programs. Experienced in conducting Capable of and managing long-range studies, projects, or forecasts, either as an independent group member or as the organizer/director. Experienced in enhancing security systems efficiencies or forecasting future security planning, policies, and programs. Ability to quickly assimilate disparate data and render knowledgeable and accurate assessments of the implications of such data. Ability to apply facts and estimate derived results using numerous sources to a variety of problems having different technical aspects. Competent on complying with force protection objectives, conducting project priorities, along with determining, scheduling and managing needed resources. Experienced in effectively articulating program actions, progress, conflicts, controversial issues, and conditions with far reaching implications. Experienced in researching, interpreting, analyzing and applying Presidential Executive Orders, Director Central Intelligence Directives, Defense Intelligence Agency Manuals, DoD Manuals, Air Force Manuals, Air Force Instructions, and local Operating Instructions. Experienced as the technical authority and expert on developing local guidance and interpreting security guidelines which include major components, major commands, National Guard Bureau guidance; along with national security policy statements, Executive Orders, DoD and Air Force policies and concepts, and special security policy directives from other sources to include international, host nation, and other agencies such as Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines and Coast Guard. Competent in using initiatives and resourcefulness in researching and implementing new and improved security methods and procedures and establishes criteria for identifying and analyzing trends in security violations and other lapses in security. Experienced in managing programs that involve tasks, assignments, and projects which utilize and require the application of a variety of different and unrelated security criteria and processes; or, have experiences in developing new local procedures to meet force protection requirements. Experienced in providing analysis and testing of a variety of established techniques and methods to evaluate alternatives and arrive at decisions, conclusions, or recommendations regarding the JFHQ-ST force protection and anti-terrorism programs and procedures. Experienced in coordinated with other organizations and agencies to ensure compatibility with their existing protection security systems and demands on available resources. Experienced in the interpretation and reconciliation on various security protection and anti-terrorism program requirements and methodology from the major military components, and major commands, and higher headquarters. Competent in formulating and implementing security approaches, policies, and practices, which are consistent with these higher level requirements while meeting command and subordinate organizational objectives. Has the ability to make decisions involving the interpretation of considerable data; application of established security methods, equipment, techniques, and objectives to a variety of situations.
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Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided. (limit characters)
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Serves as the JFHQ-State authority and expert on all matters involving protection functional elements and integration of enabling functional requirements, policy, procedures, program status and serves as the conduit of information between the intelligence community and local state and federal law enforcement.

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Responsible for synchronizing daily operations and integration, coordination and plans resource management requirements for the Protection Program functional elements of Antiterrorism (AT), Intelligence Support to Antiterrorism, Emergency Management (EM), Insider Threat, Law Enforcement (LE), Mission Assurance (MA), and Physical Security (PS) for the State.

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Receives filter, focus, and fuse information from military intelligence sources, publicly available information sources, and local, state and federal law enforcement sources to develop a clear understanding of real or potential threat to all state forces.

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Plans, conducts, directs the conduct of, or coordinates on site security studies, projects, assessments, and surveys of the State in relationship to protection activities.

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Represents the Adjutant General at meetings, conferences, workshops, panels, etc., at NGB, MAJCOM, MACOM and other federal agency levels as the state Protection Officer.

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May supervise AGR, Title 32, Title 5, contractors, and/or state employees directly, and through subordinate supervisors.

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Interacts and meets with other agencies and local authorities such as personnel from the local Homeland Defense Office, FBI, Active-Duty Installations/facilities, civil authorities, fire departments, hospitals, and airports to provide a forum for the crossflow of information and work together on community issues and threats.

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Prepares protection plans, templates and planning tools for subordinate units, writes comprehensive all hazard plans, directs the use of active, and passive security measures, and incorporates random antiterrorism measures to protect personnel, installations and Geographically Separated Units (GSU's), conducts protection resource management to prioritize and generate protective measure.

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Provides recommendations, briefings, updates, and staff studies across a broad range of security specialties to influence installation-level decision-making and policy development.

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12. As previously explained, your ratings in this Occupational Questionnaire are subject to evaluation and verification based on the documents and references you submit. Later steps in the selection process are specifically designed to verify your responses. Deliberate attempts to falsify information will be grounds for not selecting you from employment following acceptance.

I understand that if I make an intentional false statement, or commit deception or fraud in this application and its supporting materials, or in any documents or interview associated with the examination process, I may be fined or imprisoned (18 USC 1001); my eligibility may be canceled, I may be denied an appointment or I may be removed and debarred from Federal Service (5 CFR part 731). I understand that any information I give will be investigated.

Please take this opportunity to review your ratings to ensure their accuracy. By agreeing to the statement below, you are confirming that you: (1) understand this warning, (2) have reviewed your responses to this questionnaire for accuracy, (3) verify that your responses accurately describe your current level of experience and capability; and (4) realize you must join the respective Nebraska National Guard and wear the military uniform.

Failure to agree to this statement or answer this question will make you ineligible from further consideration for the position.
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