Total 67 Legal / Public / Security job vacancies in BangPa-in

• Performs the administrative and personnel management functions relative to staff supervised. Establish guidelines and performance expectations for staff, which are clearly communicated through the formal employee performance management system. Observes workers' performance; demonstrates and conducts work performance critiques. Develops work improvement plans for the team, recommending personnel actions as necessary.
• Provides advice and counsel to employees related to work and administrative matters. Affects disciplinary measures as appropriate to the authority delegated. Reviews and approves or disapproves leave requests to maintain appropriate staffing levels for the division. Assures that subordinates are trained and fully comply with the provisions of all For Official Use Only 3 safety regulations. Hears and resolves complaints from employees engaging in ADR/mediation as needed.
• Builds and manages the workforce based on organizational goals, budget considerations and staffing needs. Recruits, selects, appraises and rewards staff; acts to address performance problems. The incumbent ensures performance plans for all assigned employees are properly created and utilized. Utilizes the division's employee recognition and award program.
• Mentors team employees, addresses individual learning needs and effectively offers feedback to identify and correct deficient areas. Provides or arranges technical training necessary for the accomplishment of individual and team tasks.
• Resolves personnel complaints or disciplinary problems with assistance from NCCM and human resources technical experts.
• Responds to calls transferred to the supervisory escalation queue or the Public Contact Representative (PCR) needs assistance in providing a response. Resolves calls received at this level by either answering the call immediately or by taking responsibility for "call back."
• Inspires, motivates, and guides others toward goal accomplishment, Coaches, mentors, and challenges subordinates; adapts leadership styles to a variety of situations; models high standards of honesty, integrity, trust, openness, and respect for the individual by applying these values to daily behaviors.

• Provides expert advice on data analytics strategies, including the design and implementation of innovative tools that support organizational goals. Advises leadership on how to leverage data analytics for operational improvements and customer engagement. Partners with cross-functional teams on pilot initiatives and supports the development of data-related technologies and methodologies that enhance decision-making and overall efficiency within PBS. Engages with key stakeholders to guide the use of data analytics in strategic planning, project execution, and performance management.

• Data Integrity and Accuracy. Establishes robust data governance frameworks, ensuring that the analytics tools and data systems are fed with accurate, up-to-date, and reliable data. Develops and implements processes to monitor and improve data quality, including data validation and cleaning. Collaborates with technical teams to ensure seamless data flow across various systems, ensuring data is structured for optimal analysis and reporting.

• Collaborates with Portfolio Management and Customer Engagement teams to assess their specific data needs and develop tailored analytics solutions that support strategic objectives. Works with these teams to improve data-driven decision-making, ensuring that data analytics tools meet evolving operational requirements. Facilitates collaboration between technical and non-technical stakeholders, translating business needs into technical specifications. 

• Collaborates with other subject matter experts or stakeholders to select the relevant sources of information, as needed, to perform job duties and makes strategic recommendations on data collection, integration, and retention requirements incorporating business requirements and knowledge of best practices. Provides strategic and technical guidance and hands-on support in the transfer of any required data needed for ad-hoc and ongoing analyses.

As a SUPERVISORY PLANNING DEPUTY you will be responsible for the following duties:

• Responsible for developing resource strategies that solve budget issues with a focus on short- and long-term Defense Working Capital Fund (WCF) budget planning, activity-based costing, pricing development, and regulatory requirements.
• Lead actions and activities necessary for programming reviews, studies, requirements determinations, and recommendations for annual DWCF product costing, pricing determination, and, at times, general fund programming activities.
• Manage the coordination and response to USD(I&S), OSD Comptroller, OMB, and Congress resource decisions and actions based on budget submissions.
• Analyze and coordinate the sequencing and timing of key program events and milestones, methods for evaluation of needs and goals, and plans across the PPBE process for DWCF multi-year programs.
• Provide leadership with sound planning, programming, budgeting, and execution (PPBE) recommendations and advice in compliance with laws, regulations, and policies for justifying, defending, and allocating resources to meet DCSA's priorities.
• Handle highly complex, sensitive, or ambiguous challenges facing DCSA and its organizations. Interact with, influence, and persuade high-ranking officials within and outside the OCFO, DCSA, and external organizations. Make decisions that have an impact within and outside the immediate organization and agency.
• Work with peers within the OCFO and across DCSA to address common issues and challenges, effectively communicate complex financial issues, recommended solutions, and/or the status of corrective actions to senior leadership.

• Provides strategic leadership in developing and executing national strategies that optimize the utilization, performance, and value of GSA’s real property portfolio. This includes making informed investment, operational, and divestment decisions to enhance portfolio efficiency and effectiveness.
• Responsible for the strategic planning of and investment in GSA’s portfolio of owned and leased assets. Develops policies, processes and procedures to comply with legislative and regulatory requirements that apply across the entire PBS inventory. Ensures that policies, processes and procedures are successfully implemented and administered by national and regional staff. Ensures funding needs identified in capital programs are appropriately documented and supported for the successful defense of capital programs.
• Leads the review, development, and prioritization of projects within GSA’s annual Capital Investment and Leasing Program (CILP), ensuring that resources are allocated to projects that deliver the highest return on investment and strategic value aligns capital resources from the appropriate budget activities with the projects in PBS’s regions.
• Assesses and improves program effectiveness and/or complex management processes, projects and systems. Issues studied impact the entire region, headquarters and oftentimes the nation, in incumbent's analysis of and implementation of innovations in business matters, ensuring that PBS/GSA continues to develop and employ best in industry practices. Using technical leadership, outstanding creativity and exceptional judgment develops, defines and modifies research and/or programmatic objectives, devising innovative ways to solve problems of major importance to the agency.
• Develops and implements long-range work plans and schedules, or methods, procedures, etc. for the accomplishment of approved policies, goals, and objectives, and provides advice, counsel, or instruction to individual employees on both work and administrative matters. Supervisory functions include ensuring that job descriptions accurately depict the actual work requirements and that personnel actions are promptly initiated; planning and scheduling work; making assignments to subordinates based on priorities; and, accepting, amending or rejecting completed work.

The incumbent serves as the Lead Personnel Security Specialist in the NCA Human Resources Center and is responsible for leading the day-to-day activities and providing technical oversight of the personnel security program for all NCA employees to include all Personal Identity Verification (PIV) and e-App requirements. Acts as liaison with District Offices and Cemeteries on security issues and routinely coordinates with the Information Security Officer, and other Personnel Security Officers VA-wide.

Develops and implements Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA), and National Cemetery Administration (NCA) policies and procedures for the nationwide personnel security program. Ensures that the program meets all legal and mandatory requirements and that all agency regulatory requirements are followed. Conducts security and suitability adjudications related to background investigations for NCA employees, contractors and state cemetery employees. Reviews completed personnel suitability investigations with the purpose of providing recommendations on pre-employment and continued employment considerations.

Determines the impact of potential adverse or derogatory information; exercises personal judgment and discretion to evaluate the nature of information received and recommends or takes appropriate action. Maintains liaison with local agencies (police, criminal investigators, etc.) to ensure timely record checks are conducted on personnel. To ensure consistency with policy and guidance implementation, the incumbent is responsible for notifying employees in a timely manner of requirements for initiation of periodic reinvestigations.

Work schedule: Required to work Monday through Friday, 8:00 am to 4:30 pm.
Compressed/Flexible Schedule: May Be Available
Telework: Not Available
Remote: This is a Remote Position. Remote positions are where an employee works 100% of the time in non-VA-owned or leased space (i.e., work from home/100% telework).

Position Description Title/PD#: Lead Personnel Security Specialist/PD1664649
The full performance level of this position is GS - 13.

Relocation Expenses: Not Authorized
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Financial Disclosure Report: Not Required

• Performs administrative services in the following areas: security and pre-employment suitability, Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD) requirements, and Personal Identity Verification (PIV) card access controls.
• Makes preliminary pre-employment or eligibility determinations on applicants for positions for which applying. Reviews arrest reports and disposition of cases.
• Performs such tasks as evaluating the sensitivity determination for each position, as described by management based on need-to-know principles.
• Maintains a data base that accurately reflects timely submission of forms, to include fingerprints, reports, and satisfactory Electronic Questionnaire for Investigations Processing (e-QIP) submission.

• Serves as a Public Affairs Specialist (Digital Communication) in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Headquarters, Office of Public Affairs’ Digital Communication and Planning Branch.
• Develops modern and engaging social media and web content for the USACE's primary social media platforms and web site.
• Plans social media strategies and content to communicate focus areas, priorities and missions.
• Establishes and maintains working relationships with social media counterparts throughout USACE and in other government agencies.
• Works with functional experts and Public Affairs Specialists advising them on web accessibility, security, and posts content.
• Identifies target audiences and their informational needs, ensures the information on the web site is appropriate for public distribution, and corrects or removes inappropriate content.
• Advises command staff on public information matters related to social media and web content and advises USACE leaders on DOD and Army policies and procedures.

As a Safety and Occupational Health Manager, at the full performance level you will perform the following duties:

• Supervise a workforce of safety professionals.
• Providing technical guidance to all levels of management and field offices on complex safety and health issues.
• Designing and developing national policy supporting ICE's Safety Program.
• Developing standards where occupational safety and health standards do not exist or do not adequately cover hazardous conditions and operations.
• Collaborating with the major programs of ICE to promote occupational safety and health, engage management in incorporating safety in all aspects of operations(list in bullet format; no more than 5 bullets)

This Program Analyst position is located in Civil Rights, Liberties, Ombudsman and Traveler Engagement (CRLOTE), Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Duties include but are not limited to:

• Analyzes and evaluates program areas to determine areas in which progress is unsatisfactory and to determine courses of action to remedy deficiencies.
• Establishes methodology and procedures for compiling, consolidating, reviewing, analyzing, tracking, and editing the program work requirements, budgets, and related documentation necessary to develop plans covering TSA requirements.
• Formulate projects and recommend assessment criteria for the evaluation of TSA operational programs and contributes to the performance of meeting mission requirements.
• Communicates with internal and external managers as well as representatives of other government agencies and private industries to obtain information and provide guidance on critical funding/program issues and make recommendations affecting the major programs. These communications frequently involve negotiation and/or persuasion.
• Provides support to assigned COR by performing contract administration duties in accordance with responsibilities delegated from Contracting Officers (COs) and Contracting Specialists (CSs), including package development, financial tracking of invoices, closeout activities, personnel security (PERSEC) audit support, and other COR activities.

• Serve as principal advisor to the Information System Security Manager (ISSM).
• Provide technical guidance on security portals.
• Lead the development of security plans for cloud systems operating at Enterprise Cloud Management Agency (ECMA).
• Lead team in analyzing intelligence information to develop computer intrusion intelligence products.
• Review policies to provide technical recommendations for change to security posture.
• Make recommendations on the approval of computer operations.
• Analyze vulnerabilities of existing computer security programs.
• Ensure contract personnel are in compliance with security networks.

Primary duties include but are not limited to the following:

• The National Contact Center (NCC) centralizes VBA's contact center activities and provides greater consistency and higher quality service by customer-facing employees.
• NCC employees may have contacts via telephone, email, video, or chat with the public for the purposes of (1) advising and providing information on benefits and rights; (2) explaining pertinent legal provisions, regulations, and related administrative practices and their application to specific cases; (3) assisting individuals regarding how best to provide needed documents and evidence required, and/or (4) initiating inquiries to resolve errors, delays, or other problems in obtaining benefits. The employees will also assist with the completion of claim and appeal related work.
• Assists the inquirer with determining the short-term and long-term circumstances that might influence a choice between various benefits. Programs include, but are not limited to, compensation and pension benefits, home loan eligibility, education, health care, life insurance, burial benefits, vocational rehabilitation services, fiduciary assistance, general Social Security Administration benefit programs, and other Federal, state, and local domestic relations and assistance programs.
• Explains the types of documents necessary to facilitate timely processing of claims and appeals and assists with obtaining and completing such documents and forms in accordance with the type of claim or appeal being submitted.
• Explains VBA rating decisions and provides explanations for the decisions using extensive knowledge of VA benefits and services, claim and appeal processing procedures, and all pertinent information available within the systems of record.
• Performs claim or appeal related work including, but not limited to, providing comprehensive claim or appeal status updates using mandatory scripting requirements, processing change of address requests, establishment of, or change to direct deposit banking information, burial allowance claims, dependency claim, etc.
• Appropriately responds to interactions where the customer wishes to speak/discuss to a "supervisor," by attempting to deescalate the interaction by immediately addressing the inquirer's needs prior to referral for a contact by a supervisor

APPLICATION LIMIT: This vacancy announcement is limited to the first 50 applications received and will close at 11:59PM Eastern Time on the day that we receive the 50th application, or at 11:59PM Eastern Time on the listed closing date, whichever occurs first.  

We encourage you to read this entire vacancy announcement prior to submitting your application.

As a Supervisory General Attorney, GS-0905-14, you will be responsible for:
•    Ensuring that the team's complaint investigations, compliance reviews, and proactive enforcement activities are factually accurate and legally sound.
•    Providing professional leadership and guidance to team members in conducting, and improving civil rights complaint investigations, compliance review, proactive enforcement, and technical assistance activities.  
•    Providing legal guidance to the team on the analysis of evidence, investigative reports, resolution letters, and negotiated settlements.  
•    Planning and conducting complete on-site investigations.  
•    Conducting compliance reviews of selected recipient institutions with respect to the requirements of appropriate statues and regulations.

APPLICATION LIMIT: This vacancy announcement is limited to the first 50 applications received and will close at 11:59PM Eastern Time on the day that we receive the 50th application, or at 11:59PM Eastern Time on the listed closing date, whichever occurs first.  

We encourage you to read this entire vacancy announcement prior to submitting your application.

As a Supervisory Equal Opportunity Specialist, GS-0360-14, you will be responsible for:
• Provides team and program leadership in the planning and conduct of complaint investigations, compliance reviews, proactive enforcement activities, and the provision of technical assistance.
• Supervises and participates in the activities of the case resolution team, coordinates with other OCR teams, plans and assigns work, assures that quality and quantity requirements are met, evaluates performance, deals with officials of other units in the organization, advises management officials at higher levels on group complaints, effects disciplinary actions, recommends personnel actions, and promotes team building.
• Provides professional leadership and guidance to team members, state and institutional officials in conducting, extending and improving civil rights complaint investigation, compliance review, proactive enforcement and technical assistance activities. Provides leadership in establishing and maintaining positive relationships with customers including state officials, recipients, civil rights organizations, and education groups.
• Conducts extremely complex complaint investigations that are likely to result in major precedent-setting decisions and is responsible for each phase of the case through resolution. If enforcement is necessary, the Team Leader provides expert testimony in an administrative hearing or subsequent court actions.
• Reviews the allegations, identifies, analyzes and interprets considerable pertinent data, interviews witnesses, develops legal theories and investigative plans.

This position is 100% remote and the US location is negotiable after selection. Work sites outside of the U.S. are prohibited. Your salary will be based upon the locality pay of your work site after selection.

To view the salary range including locality pay for your particular location, please visit this link to the 2024 OPM Salary Tables.

Applications received as a result of job fairs, recruitment events, and emergency hiring mechanisms in support of this hiring initiative will also be accepted during open and closing date of this announcement.

IT Specialists (INFOSEC) are a mission critical occupation for HRSA. These positions are responsible for the analysis of system and/or security requirements, the development and implementation of mission critical applications for the agency's Information Technology operations.

As an IT Specialist - Info Sec - Information Systems Security Officer (ISSO), you will serve as a technical authority/subject matter expert for HRSA on matters involving the vulnerabilities and threats to HHS' information technology systems.

Your major duties and responsibilities will include:

• Developing/updating system security plans, risk assessments, disaster recovery, and contingency plans, incident response and additional system development life-cycle security documentation.
• Overseeing the security posture for one or more system(s) throughout the entire lifecycle; providing continuous monitoring through scheduled audits, controls testing, and audit reviews, and escalates issues as needed.
• Facilitating remediation/mitigation of weaknesses tracked on the Plan of Action and Milestones to reduce risk and address weaknesses to the system.
• Providing Continuous Monitoring support/guidance by reviewing security documentation, logs, scans and ensuring system backups are performed.
• Conducting security impact assessments when system changes or additions occur to the system, evaluate compliance with IT security requirements, compare them with expected results, and make recommendations.

As an Equal Opportunity Investigator, at the full performance level, you will perform the following duties:

• Utilizes a variety of investigative techniques such as interviews or fact-finding conferences, and a variety of instruments such as requests for information, position statements, exchange of letters or memoranda, interrogatories, and affidavits to investigate alleged violations of Federal equal employment opportunity laws;
• Requests documentary evidence and interview witnesses and responsible management officials (RMOs) to obtain their testimony about the claims;
• Prepares affidavits tailored to the appropriate model of proof for review and signature by these witnesses and RMOs; AND
• Uses evidence obtained during the investigation to write and organize the Report of Investigation (ROI), as well as to prepare an investigative summary which summarizes the ROI.