Security Officer

Full Job Description

About the Position: Serve as the Black Sea Area Support Team (BSAST) Security Manager, and is responsible for all matters pertaining to Security.

Directs, plans, develops, coordinates, implements and administers programs designed primarily to protect personnel, classified and sensitive unclassified defense information, material, operations, and/or facilities from compromise, unauthorized disclosure, acts of terrorism, sabotage, espionage and common criminal acts.

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.

Current Department of Army Civilian Employees Applying on Time-Limited Assignments 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; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.

Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes: Developing security plans involving operating requirements for physical security, personnel security, industrial security, information security, and specialized security programs; AND Applying security principles, ideas, and theories to review, analyze, and resolve difficult and complex security problems; and Identifying security vulnerabilities for resolution.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-11).

Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-11).

Major Duties:

• Serve as the Area Support Group- Black Sea (ASG-BS) Security Manager responsible for all matters pertaining to security.
• Direct programs designed primarily to protect personnel, classified and sensitive unclassified information, material, operations, and facilities from compromise, unauthorized disclosure, acts of terrorism and sabotage.
• Interpret and/or define minimal and broad guidelines to program development, requiring the application of new concepts and theories to problems not susceptible to treatment by accepted security measures.
• Control for all aspects of the administration and execution of the security office to include annual budget preparation and submission of all required reports.
• Responsible for Planning, developing and implementing the ASG-BS personnel security program including security clearances, personnel suitability and classified access programs.