Total 387 Legal / Public / Security job vacancies in wa remote kambaldanorseman region

Typical work assignments include, but are not limited to:

• Provide recommendations and guidance to management on areas such as risk management and internal control.
• Develop and implement of accounting and standard operating procedures and business processes.
• Recommend changes to systems requirements resulting from findings of internal and financial audits of programs and operations.
• Direct, implement, and coordinate a variety of fiscal policy and audit related activities impacting activities and operations.
• Provides analytical support for problem definitions, troubleshooting and/or resolution, planning methodologies, policies, and procedures.
• Plans and conducts special studies, either as a member of a task force or with team members.
• Recommend actions to achieve organizational financial objectives, and recommends future program objectives and improvements.
• Review fiscal operating policies and procedures, and applicable laws, regulations, and program guidelines.
• Monitor and assess training activities and programs within OCFO.
• Assists in developing and evaluating functional systems specifications for financial control.
• Provide analysis of workload transactions, work processes, financial management, and on the interpretation of audit and accounting standards and regulations.
• Responsible for evaluating the content of new or modified regulations, policies, or laws.

Typical work assignments include, but are not limited to:

• Provide recommendations and guidance to management on areas such as risk management and internal control.
• Develop and implement of accounting and standard operating procedures and business processes.
• Recommend changes to systems requirements resulting from findings of internal and financial audits of programs and operations.
• Direct, implement, and coordinate a variety of fiscal policy and audit related activities impacting activities and operations.
• Provides analytical support for problem definitions, troubleshooting and/or resolution, planning methodologies, policies, and procedures.
• Plans and conducts special studies, either as a member of a task force or with team members.
• Recommend actions to achieve organizational financial objectives, and recommends future program objectives and improvements.
• Review fiscal operating policies and procedures, and applicable laws, regulations, and program guidelines.
• Monitor and assess training activities and programs within OCFO.
• Assists in developing and evaluating functional systems specifications for financial control.
• Provide analysis of workload transactions, work processes, financial management, and on the interpretation of audit and accounting standards and regulations.
• Responsible for evaluating the content of new or modified regulations, policies, or laws.

This Case Management Assistant position is located Direct Reports, Civil Rights and Liberties, Ombudsman and Traveler Engagement, Transportation Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Duties include but are not limited to:

• Using detailed knowledge and experience, accesses the redress case management database to process and track redress applications from the traveling public, and reviews incoming applications for completeness ensuring that they are referred to the correct partner organization for analysis.
• Assists supervisor in researching and obtaining information to prepare findings, review plans and special studies.
• Prepares a wide variety of recurring and nonrecurring reports and other documents and reviews/finalizes documents prepared by others.
• Carries out administrative support functions including organizational inbox management and file maintenance. Incumbent plans and coordinates the work of the office.
• Composes and reviews outgoing correspondence and action papers submitted to ensure that the materiel is properly prepared, coordination is completed, procedural requirements have been met, grammar is correct, and security markings are correctly applied.

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.

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.

This Instructional Systems Specialist position is located Enterprise Support, Training & Development (T&D), Training Operation Division and Training Centers Division, Transportation Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Duties include but are not limited to:

• Serves as a principal technical expert providing professional advice and guidance on a variety of complex and time critical training-related issues. Ensures course learning objectives, organizational training requirements, and agency mission and goals are validated and incorporated into curriculum design process.
• Monitors the overall effectiveness of the instructional design programs for instructor led and web-based training programs that are based on the Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation (ADDIE) model. Applies professional skills and knowledge to develop innovative and effective solutions for evaluation issues and established T&D curriculum development standards and policy.
• Establishes, adjusts, or redefines curriculum development standards, develops quality control assessment tools and methodologies.
• Briefs and provides authoritative advice to the course sponsors, subject matter experts, headquarters, field managers, senior leadership, and represents the Division at meetings, conferences, and workshops relating to curriculum development and management; to include, related policy development, program responsibilities and operations.
• Implements a proactive planning strategy to ensure timely introduction of new or revised procedures, techniques, or operational concepts to achieve the mission requirements. Assesses and validates agency training needs through activities such as analyzing organizational performance data, consulting with program offices and subject matter experts, as well as conducting surveys, interviews, and focus groups with employees and instructors. Provides program offices and subject matter experts with continual feedback (utilizing all communication methods) regarding all aspects of the training program; and recommends cost-effective and learner-centric applications for the conduct of training.
• Collaborates with course sponsors, subject matter experts, headquarters and field managers, and senior leadership to determine the appropriate strategy and approach for deploying training to the target audience.
• Produces well defined and educationally sound, training products, interventions and supporting documentation as described in TSA Management Directives and established local policy and procedures.

This Instructional Systems Specialist position is located Enterprise Support, Training & Development (T&D), Training Operation Division and Training Centers Division, Transportation Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Duties include but are not limited to:

• Serves as a principal technical expert providing professional advice and guidance on a variety of complex and time critical training-related issues. Ensures course learning objectives, organizational training requirements, and agency mission and goals are validated and incorporated into curriculum design process.
• Monitors the overall effectiveness of the instructional design programs for instructor led and web-based training programs that are based on the Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation (ADDIE) model. Applies professional skills and knowledge to develop innovative and effective solutions for evaluation issues and established T&D curriculum development standards and policy.
• Establishes, adjusts, or redefines curriculum development standards, develops quality control assessment tools and methodologies.
• Briefs and provides authoritative advice to the course sponsors, subject matter experts, headquarters, field managers, senior leadership, and represents the Division at meetings, conferences, and workshops relating to curriculum development and management; to include, related policy development, program responsibilities and operations.
• Implements a proactive planning strategy to ensure timely introduction of new or revised procedures, techniques, or operational concepts to achieve the mission requirements. Assesses and validates agency training needs through activities such as analyzing organizational performance data, consulting with program offices and subject matter experts, as well as conducting surveys, interviews, and focus groups with employees and instructors. Provides program offices and subject matter experts with continual feedback (utilizing all communication methods) regarding all aspects of the training program; and recommends cost-effective and learner-centric applications for the conduct of training.
• Collaborates with course sponsors, subject matter experts, headquarters and field managers, and senior leadership to determine the appropriate strategy and approach for deploying training to the target audience.
• Produces well defined and educationally sound, training products, interventions and supporting documentation as described in TSA Management Directives and established local policy and procedures.

The Personnel Security Specialist is responsible for the day-to-day activities of the Personnel Security Program. The position is very confidential, complex, and highly sensitive nature. The incumbent has responsibility of the Personal Identity Verification Program (PIV) which is a Government-wide identification standard for secure and reliable identity credentials issued by the Federal Government to its employees, contractors, affiliates, and volunteers. The PIV Program is required by Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD) 12 and outlined in Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 201-2.

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Conducts security and suitability adjudications related to background investigations
• Reviews completed 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 judgement 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
• Notifies employees in a timely manner of requirements for initiation of periodic reinvestigations
• Ensures the personnel security program and the PIV program are in compliance with regulations
• Recommends or takes action on cases where the facts are not completely ascertained, or where there is contradictory evidence or incomplete, inconclusive or controversial material
• Reviews results and makes decisions concerning the adjudication of all Special Agreement Checks (SACs) and Tiered investigations received from OPM
• Drafts and issues Proposed Action Letters (PALs) and Final Action Letters (FALs) to applicants and appointees whose investigative results contain actionable suitability information
• Notifies proper management officials when pertinent suitability information appears in investigative reports
• Follows up on personnel security cases with issues. Analyzes information and provides a variety of reports for review at all levels
• Monitors, documents and evaluates security processes to ascertain trends and makes recommendations for appropriate corrective action
• Implements policies and procedures for the Personnel Security Program
• Ensures that the program meets all legal and mandatory requirements and that all agency regulatory requirements are followed
• Provides technical guidance and advice on matters pertaining to personnel security
• Maintains all appropriate VA Handbooks, Manuals, Directives, Circulars, and Bulletins regarding the security and suitability program
• Processes andoversees the submission of higher-level investigations to the VA-Adjudication Center (VA-AC)
• Monitors the oversight of the Electronic Questionnaires for Investigations Processing (e-QIP) system
• Tracks the date released and follows up with the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to ensure timely closure for all cases (SACs, NACls, MBls, and BIs)
• Performs audits and spot checks the Employee's Official Personnel Folders (e-OPF's) to review for compliance with personnel security related documents
• Works with the Consolidated Classification Unit (CCU) to ensure that all position descriptions have appropriate risk level as determined by Position Designation Tool (PDT)
• Works with Staffing and Processing and Records Section to ensure each position has the appropriate risk and sensitivity level designated in HR SMART
• Ensures that security activities are in accordance with ADP security policies

• Manages the planning, coordinating, conducting, and reporting of a full range of criminal investigations.
• Serves as the technical and programmatic OIG liaison with Federal Prosecutive and investigative offices for special investigations of an extremely complex and sensitive nature.
• Oversee and coordinate special multi-jurisdictional investigations with high programmatic and/or national impact.
• Oversee and coordinate cases which may involve key executive officials of this Agency, other agencies or departments, and State, county, or local governments.
• Directs and coordinates in-depth reviews and evaluations of criminal investigations and program operations.
• Manages a continuing program for the training and professional development of the criminal investigators and analysts.