- Position Title
- Supervisory Personnel Security Specialist
- Agency
- Veterans Health Administration
- Announcement Number
- CBTE-12716868-25-MJK Opens in new window
- Open Period
- Wednesday, April 2, 2025 to Monday, April 7, 2025
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Eligibilities
1.
Do you claim Veterans’ Preference?
Preferences
1.
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.
If you responded yes to any of the items below, you will need to include a SF-50 specifying your prior service.
Your resume must be submitted in English and include the following information for each job listed:
- Job title Duties (be as detailed as possible)
- Month & year start/end dates (e.g. June 2007 to April 2008)
- Full-time or part-time status (include hours worked per week)
- Series and Grade, if applicable, for all Federal positions you have held
- Please be aware that your answers will be verified against information provided on your resume. Be sure that your resume clearly supports your responses to all of the questions by addressing your work experience in detail.
By submitting your application, you are certifying, to the best of your knowledge and belief, all the information submitted by you with your application for employment is true, complete, and made in good faith, and that you have truthfully and accurately represented your work experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education (degrees, accomplishments, etc.). The information you provide as part of your application may be investigated. You are also certifying, and acknowledging, that misrepresenting your experience or education, or providing false or fraudulent information in, or with your application, may affect your eligibility for appointment and/or continued employment. False or fraudulent statements may be punishable by fine or imprisonment (18 U.S.C. 1001).
Assessment 1
Select the appropriate answer to each of the following questions based on your current level of experience and/or education that demonstrates your ability to perform the duties of this position. When answering the questionnaire, remember that your experience subject to verification by investigation. You may be asked to provide specific examples or documentation of experience as proof to support your answers, or you may be required to verify a response by a practical demonstration of your claimed ability to perform a task.
1.
Time-In-Grade Restriction GS-12: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements. (If you have not held a GS grade at any time in the past 52 weeks, this question does not apply to you and pick the appropriate option below.) For this vacancy applicants must have held grade GS-11 or higher for at least a year to be eligible for the GS-12 grade level of this position. The grade must have been held in the Federal service but may have been in any occupation.
Select “Yes” or “No” to the following question(s).
2.
Do you have have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-11 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include: Oversees the daily operation of a unit and ensures that agency policies and priorities are being followed; performs a wide range of personnel security/suitability concepts, principles, and practices while reviewing, analyzing and resolving complex personnel security issues; conducts adjudications of personnel suitability; interpreting policy, providing authoritative interpretations and guidance to management officials and other personnel security officers; program planning at a major organizational level; addresses system and technical issues and resolves problems for staff; Conducting and administering training to Human Resources staff. This experience must be detailed in your resume to receive credit.
For each task in the following groups, choose the statement from the list below that best describes your experience and/or training.
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided.
3.
Performs High Risk, moderate and low risk adjudications in cases of facility upper management and Network office personnel and/or subordinate organizations as applicable.
4.
Provide assistance to managers as needed of Personal Identification Cards (PIV) Card Issuing (PCI) managers to ensure uniformity in the interpretation of Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12) and the issuance and revocation the Personal Identification.
5.
Oversee the daily operation of the unit and ensures that agency policies and priorities are being followed.
6.
Planning at a major organizational level PIV Program. Applying policy direction to specific operating requirements and developing guidance for applying PIV policy, procedures, techniques, and methods to a variety of work situations and various degrees or levels of controls for Medical Center and Network personnel.
7.
Counsels subordinates, develops performance standards, and rates staff. Encourages and acts upon employee suggestions for work improvement.
8.
Establishes, gathers, and coordinates record of evidence in support of proposed personnel security and suitability actions and decisions.
9.
Provides guidance and renders decisions on complex determinations unresolved by subordinates on a continuous basis through
review of completed work and assessment of results obtained.
review of completed work and assessment of results obtained.
10.
Provides expert advice to subordinate organizations when servicing affiliates, clinical trainees on time limit appointments, contractors, and without compensation employees.
11.
Resolves minor complaints from employees; refers group grievances and more serious unresolved complaints to a higher-level supervisor or manager; effects minor disciplinary measures such as warnings and reprimands and
recommends action in more serious cases.
recommends action in more serious cases.
12.
Respond to problems or questions involving implementation of personnel security and suitability guidelines at lower levels and for inspecting new or established personnel security and suitability programs for adequacy, efficiency, and need for improvement
13.
Serves as the Network e-QIP administrator providing expert advice to Human Resource personnel responsible for initiating and reviewing background investigations at facilities within the Network.
14.
Identifies and determines training priorities regarding VA's Personnel Security and Suitability Program and is responsible for conducting and administering such training to Human Resources staff and other facility staff as necessary.
15.
Effects minor disciplinary measures, such as warnings and reprimands, recommending other action in more serious cases and identifies and arranges development and other training needs of employees.
16.
Identify vulnerabilities within new or established personnel security and suitability programs and arranging for the appropriate specialists to remedy these vulnerabilities.
17.
Conducts analysis of various personnel security and suitability programs to determine activity trends and compliance with applicable regulatory requirements.
18.
Periodically reviews, by audit or spot check, position risk/sensitivity level designations via PDAT to ensure that all positions have been appropriately designated.
19.
Process adverse actions as they relate to suitability issues up to, but not limited to the development of suitability and employee relation case files that document contact with the applicant, appointee or employee in the processing of the request for personnel
20.
Oversees employees assigned as the Position Risk/Sensitivity Level Coordinator and serves as backup in his/her absence.
21.
Responsible for coordination, preparation, and submission of all Service-level, facility, Network, and VACO reports that may be required for OPM's e-QIP System.