- Position Title
- Criminal Investigator (ICE Representative)
- Agency
- Immigration and Customs Enforcement
- Announcement Number
- HSI-OIA-12246449-MP-KD Opens in new window
- Open Period
- Thursday, January 11, 2024 to Thursday, January 25, 2024
For preview purposes only. To apply, please return to the USAJOBS announcement and click the Apply button.
Eligibilities
1.
Are you a current U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) employee who is serving on a career or career-conditional appointment?
Preferences
1.
Select the location(s) you want to be considered for. You must choose at least one location.
2.
Which of the following items describes your current or recent (within the last five years) political appointee service? If you responded yes to any of the items below, you will need to include a SF-50 specifying your prior service.
3.
I acknowledge that I am solely responsible for the answers and documentation submitted in my online application. I understand that my answers cannot be altered once I have submitted my application and the announcement has closed. I certify that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, all of the information contained in my online application for Federal Employment is true, correct, complete, and made in good faith. I understand that a false or fraudulent answer to any question or item on any part of my online application may be grounds for not hiring me, or for firing me after I begin work, and may be punishable by fine or imprisonment or both (See section 1001 of title 18, United States Code).
By clicking "Yes" below, I certify that I accept responsibility for the responses and documentation submitted in my online application and that the information I have provided is true to the best of my knowledge.
By clicking "Yes" below, I certify that I accept responsibility for the responses and documentation submitted in my online application and that the information I have provided is true to the best of my knowledge.
4.
Do any of your family members work for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement?
(A family member means an individual with any of the following relationships to the applicant: (1) Spouse, and parents thereof; (2) Sons and daughters, and spouses thereof; (3) Parents, and spouses thereof; (4) Brothers and sisters, and spouses thereof; (5) Grandparents and grandchildren, and spouses thereof; (6) Domestic partner and parents thereof, including domestic partners of any individual in (2) through (5) of this definition; and (7) Any individual related by blood or affinity whose close association with the employee is the equivalent of a family relationship.)
(A family member means an individual with any of the following relationships to the applicant: (1) Spouse, and parents thereof; (2) Sons and daughters, and spouses thereof; (3) Parents, and spouses thereof; (4) Brothers and sisters, and spouses thereof; (5) Grandparents and grandchildren, and spouses thereof; (6) Domestic partner and parents thereof, including domestic partners of any individual in (2) through (5) of this definition; and (7) Any individual related by blood or affinity whose close association with the employee is the equivalent of a family relationship.)
5.
If the answer to the question above is yes, please provide the relative(s)' name, relationship, and the ICE office or organization for which your relative(s) works (if known).
If the answer to the question above is no, please indicate 'not applicable'. (limit 1,000 characters)
If the answer to the question above is no, please indicate 'not applicable'. (limit 1,000 characters)
6.
Applicants who have permanently held a position with a full performance level equivalent to GS-13 or higher in the competitive service can be referred for selection without competition under our agency merit promotion procedures. Please provide an SF-50 to prove your claim. Without an SF-50 as proof, we cannot apply non-competitive rules. Military rank, details and temporary promotions do not count.
The SF-50 submitted MUST indicate the same full performance level (or higher) equivalent to the full performance level shown on this vacancy, career or career-conditional (Tenure 1 or 2), and the status as a competitive service employee (Position Occupied is 1).
Your response to the following question will be used to determine whether or not you can be categorized as a non-competitive eligible.
Have you ever held (or do you currently hold) a competitive service position on a permanent basis in the federal government with a full performance level equivalent to GS-13 or higher?
The SF-50 submitted MUST indicate the same full performance level (or higher) equivalent to the full performance level shown on this vacancy, career or career-conditional (Tenure 1 or 2), and the status as a competitive service employee (Position Occupied is 1).
Your response to the following question will be used to determine whether or not you can be categorized as a non-competitive eligible.
Have you ever held (or do you currently hold) a competitive service position on a permanent basis in the federal government with a full performance level equivalent to GS-13 or higher?
Conditions of Employment
1.
There is a time-in-grade (TIG) requirement for promotion into this position. Have you completed 52 weeks in a position at or above the GS-12 grade level?
2.
Conviction of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence, as outlined in the vacancy announcement, is disqualifying. A misdemeanor crime of domestic violence is any offense involving the use of physical force, or the threatened use of a deadly weapon, committed by a current or former domestic partner, parent, or guardian of the victim. Have you ever been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence?
3.
Do you have a current valid state driver's license?
4.
For approved Secondary Law Enforcement covered positions under 5 USC 8331 (20) and 8401 (17), previous experience in a primary (rigorous) law enforcement position, or equivalent outside the federal government, is a prerequisite.
Primary position means a position whose primary duties are:
Primary position means a position whose primary duties are:
- Investigation, apprehension, or detention of individuals suspected or convicted of offenses against the criminal laws of the United States.
- (1) Is clearly in the law enforcement field; and
- (2) Is in an organization having a law enforcement mission; and
- (3) Is either -
- (i) Supervisory; i.e., a position whose primary duties are as a first-level supervisor of law enforcement officers in primary positions; or
- (ii) Administrative; i.e., an executive, managerial, technical, semi-professional, or professional position for which experience in a primary law enforcement position, or equivalent experience outside the Federal government, is a prerequisite.
5.
Mobility is a factor in this position. Are you willing to sign a Mobility Agreement?
6.
Have you engaged in sexual abuse in a prison, jail, holding facility, community confinement facility, juvenile facility, or other institution as defined in 42 USC 1997?
7.
Have you been convicted of engaging or attempting to engage in sexual activity facilitated by force, overt or implied threats of force, or coercion, or where the victim did not consent or was unable to consent or refuse, or have you been civilly or administratively adjudicated to have engaged in such activity?
8.
Are you a current or former Criminal Investigator, GS-1811-13 employee with ICE who holds or has held the position on a permanent basis?
Assessment 1
The following question will be used to determine whether or not you meet the minimum qualification requirements for this position. You may wish to consult the vacancy announcement for a description of those requirements.
1.
Do you possess one year of specialized experience at the GS-12 grade level or equivalent performing duties such as:
- Preparing investigative reports which present aspects of investigations in sufficient detail and accuracy to aid in supporting possible prosecution and/or administrative action;
- Coordinating and giving overall direction on highly sensitive and complex criminal investigations that require an expert level of planning and coordination;
- Providing leadership in investigative matters which require gathering information and Intelligence, developing facts and evidence, performing analysis, and preparing detailed investigative reports and
- Conducting investigations having national or international dimensions and implications.
- Preparing investigative reports which present aspects of investigations in sufficient detail and accuracy to aid in supporting possible prosecution and/or administrative action;
- Coordinating and giving overall direction on highly sensitive and complex criminal investigations that require an expert level of planning and coordination;
- Providing leadership in investigative matters which require gathering information and Intelligence, developing facts and evidence, performing analysis, and preparing detailed investigative reports and
- Conducting investigations having national or international dimensions and implications.
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided.
2.
Select the choice which best describes your ability to coordinate and give overall direction to highly sensitive and complex criminal investigations that require an expert level of planning and coordination.
3.
Select the choice which best describes your ability to develop and modify the objectives and goals of program assignments, developing strategies in cooperation with federal, state, local, and foreign law enforcement groups.
4.
Select the choice which best describes your ability to provide leadership in such investigative matters as gathering information and intelligence, developing facts and evidence, performing analysis, and preparing detailed investigative reports and oral briefings for financial, fraud, strategic, smuggling, and/or general criminal investigation.
5.
Select the choice which best describes your ability to plan, organize, and conduct comprehensive investigations or surveys involving highly delicate matters, issues, and investigative problems for which there are few, if any, established criteria, in the shortest time frame possible.
6.
Select the choice which best describes your ability to conduct investigations having national or international dimensions and implications.
7.
Select the choice which best describes your ability to oversee cases that are highly controversial and sensitive, and have important national security, economic, financial, and investigative implications.
8.
Select the choice which best describes your ability to participate in counter-terrorism working groups, intelligence sharing with foreign officials and handles national security issues.
9.
Select the choice which best describes your ability to collect and analyze operational and strategic enforcement intelligence that is used as input into the national investigative system.
10.
Select the choice which best describes your ability to generate information or intelligence directed at identifying and detecting individuals and groups involved in various criminal activities inimical to national security interests of the United States.
11.
Select the choice which best describes your ability to prepare investigative reports which present aspects of investigation in sufficient detail and accuracy to aid in supporting possible prosecution and/or administrative action.