Total 226 Legal / Public / Security job vacancies in Houston, Texas, USA

• Perform duties concerned with the physical protection of personnel, facilities, and assets against criminal, terrorist, or hostile activities for Corpus Christi Army Depot.
• Prepare physical security reports outlining deficient areas and recommends corrective actions.
• Perform duties concerning the physical protection of conventional arms, ammunition and explosives (AAE) against theft, sabotage, terrorism, loss or other criminal acts.
• Provide security input to all major MCA projects and Corps of Engineers with information to effect appropriate change orders to update facilities to meet new regulatory requirements.
• Develop and implement policies and procedures for the CCAD Security Program.
• Ensure completion of comprehensive installation-wide Physical Security Awareness Training and conduct inspections of facilities to include physical security inspections to reduce vulnerability to the intelligence threat.
• Physical Security Specialist, Will use U.S. Army Security Management System (CounterMeasures) SMS(CM) per AR 190-13, paragraph 2–13, to conduct PS inspections, surveys, for planning and programming.

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• Protects the civil rights of all individuals on VA controlled property;
• Performs various law enforcement and administrative functions throughout the department;
• Manages, supervises and coordinates the Police Service law enforcement activities for a designated assigned area;
• Serves as a watch commander or administrative lieutenant at the geographic area level;
• Conducts inspections of personnel, equipment and facilities to ensure compliance with departmental policies and procedures;
• Establishes priorities to coordinate, plan, organize and complete work;
• Oversees human resource activities such as recruitment of vacancies; preparing, conducting and reviewing performance evaluations; takes disciplinary action; identifies and conducts specific training; approves and monitors leave requests;
• Responds to highly dangerous and active crimes in progress
• Makes independent decisions to take, direct and coordinate immediate steps to preserve life and property;
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

• Monitors USIBWC Headquarters inquiry traffic and ensures that responses are timely and in accordance with established policy.
• Creates and posts social media content and reviews and edits draft social media posts submitted by other staff.
• Coordinates agency special events such as groundbreaking ceremonies and Citizen Forum meetings.
• Arranges for and makes informational presentations to the community and representatives of other governmental entities.
• Develops informational literature usable by the USIBWC in its public affairs activities.

Responsible for providing technical guidance in Personnel Security, Suitability, and Investigation Program for the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP).

Directs and coordinates investigations of applicants, employees, and contractors who are seeking or are employed in sensitive positions within the BOP.

Determine the adequacy and completeness of investigations; and evaluate the authenticity and pertinence of information to the case under adjudication.

Communicates directly with BOP employees at all levels to answer routine questions regarding the basic personnel security program.

Must be able to obtain and maintain a favorably adjudicated National Security Clearance at all times. Failure to obtain/maintain this clearance may results in the person being selected being reassigned to their former position or a position similar to the position they held prior to selection.

• Conduct meetings with high level officials to develop policies, procedures, and recommendations.
• Develop prevention program polices and procedures through collaboration with stakeholders including high level officials, outside agencies, and subordinate units.
• Exercise a full range of personnel management responsibilities for the People Pilot and all other assigned programs.
• Direct, manage, and supervise subordinate professional/administrative staff to ensure the accomplishment of goals.
• Ensure strategic coordination to allow for the and integration of pilot and prevention programs.
• Provide professional advice and serve as the principal advisor in the command's strategic integration planning and decision-making process.
• Exercise managerial and operational control for the strategic planning, review, study, and analysis of prevention activates.
• Oversee program planning, management, analyses, evaluation and execution of the People Pilot and associated prevention programs to meet strategic objectives.

• Serves as the Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence and Security, G2, United States Army Medical Center of Excellence (MEDCoE) with demonstrated mastery of all security programs.
• Serves as the principal advisor on intelligence, threat management, and security, providing recommendations to command leadership.
• Develops, plans, oversees, administers, manages, and enforces an intelligence-related multi-disciplined security program. Establishes policy regarding the Command's Security activities and programs.
• Serves as a technical authority on Installation Defense Threat Working Group, Insider Threat, and OPSEC working groups and review committees to evaluate and formulate policy and provides advice and guidance
• Acquires, analyzes, and interprets intelligence data to access potential security impacts on command operations and mission success.
• Coordinates intelligence and security activities across the command to ensure consistent application of security programs.
• Provides technical guidance and support on intelligence related security matters to enhance decision making and operational effectiveness.
• Exercises direct technical supervision of subordinate security professionals. Establishes priorities; develops work plans; sets quality and performance standards; plans and organizes resources to accomplish the mission.

Summary Continued - environmental, security, policy review, and public affairs resource management in support of the mission and the commander's priorities. Modifies standard methods, evaluates the effectiveness of information, and adapts approaches in developing new informational materials aimed at enhancing the understanding of recipients.

DUTIES:

• Coordinates the planning and development of complex, high level public affairs assignments in support of commander's programs and priorities.
• Researches, drafts, coordinates, produces, and reviews public affairs products such as news releases, talking points, fact sheets, news and feature articles, web-based content, briefings, speeches and scripts, newsletters, photographs, videos, pod casts, and other materials.
• Represents the office with a variety of installation and local governmental, media, community engagement, service, and educational organizations.
• Assists in the planning, organizing and carrying out the visual information program.

• Implements and administers the Information Security Program for the directorate.
• Administers the Industrial Security Program. Reviews solicitation and contract documents to ensure they include the appropriate security clauses and language.
• Implements and administers the Personnel Security Program for the directorate.
• Assists organization security managers in implementing security education and motivation programs.
  

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Salary Information: The salary range for Dallas, TX (DAL - Dallas Love Field) is $42,995 to $60,002 or $20.60 to $28.75 per hour and includes locality pay of 26.91%.

This Transportation Security Officer position is located in Transportation Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security (DHS). As a Transportation Security Officer (TSOs) within Security Operations (SO), you will provide security and protection of air travelers, airports and aircraft in a courteous and professional manner. Duties may include but are not limited to:

• Operating various screening equipment and technology to identify dangerous objects in baggage, cargo and on passengers, and preventing those objects from being transported onto aircraft.
• Performing searches and screening, which may include physical interaction with passengers (e.g., pat-downs, search of property, etc.), conducting bag searches and lifting/carrying bags, bins, and property weighing up to 50lbs.
• Controlling terminal entry and exit points.
• Interacting with the public, giving directions and responding to inquiries.
• Maintaining focus and awareness while working in a stressful environment which includes noise from alarms, machinery and people, crowd distractions, time pressure, and disruptive and angry passengers, in order to preserve the professional ability to identify and locate potentially life threatening or mass destruction devices, and to make effective decisions in both crisis and routine situations.
• Engaging in continuous development of critical thinking skills, necessary to mitigate actual and potential security threats, by identifying, evaluating, and applying appropriate situational options and approaches. This may include application of risk-based security screening protocols that vary based on program requirements.
• Retaining and implementing knowledge of all applicable Standard Operating Procedures, demonstrating responsible and dependable behavior, and is open to change and adapts to new information or unexpected obstacles.

What will I do in this position if hired?

In this Emergency Management Specialist (Public Assistance) position, you will be Collecting, organizing, and reviewing Applicant-submitted documentation in support of Public Assistance grants where work is complete.

Typical assignments include:

• Collecting, organizing, and reviewing Applicant-submitted documentation in support of Public Assistance grants where work is complete.
• Reviewing and validating Applicant-submitted documentation in support of Public Assistance grants where work is complete.
• Developing damage description and dimensions, scopes of work, and costs based on Applicant-provided documentation.
• Identifying missing information and coordinating with counterparts to resolve.
• Identifying potential eligibility issues and addressing those issues in coordination with leadership in field and Consolidated Resource Center offices.
• Reviewing contract documentation, ensuring alignment with proper procurement procedures and accuracy of submitted costs.
• Communicating and elevating issues as necessary to eliminate the need for after actions.

What else do I need to know?

At FEMA, our mission is to help people before, during and after disasters, and every employee at FEMA has a role in emergency management. Every FEMA employee has regular and recurring emergency management responsibilities, though not every position requires routine deployment to disaster sites. All positions are subject to recall around the clock for emergency management operations, which may require irregular work hours, work at locations other than the official duty station, and may include duties other than those specified in the employee's official position description. Travel requirements in support of emergency operations may be extensive in nature (weeks to months), with little advance notice, and may require employees to relocate to emergency sites with physically austere and operationally challenging conditions.

This announcement is for a position as a CORE (Cadre of On-Call Response/Recovery Employee). CORE employees are full-time employees hired to directly support the response and recovery efforts related to disasters. Employees are hired under the Robert T. Stafford Act and are excluded from the provisions of title 5, United States Code, governing jobs in the competitive service. They can be hired under a streamlined process instead of a competitive process. After three years of continuous service, Stafford Act employees may be granted competitive eligibility to apply for permanent full-time positions at FEMA.

This position will be hired into a temporary 4-year, excepted service appointment. Appointments may be renewed based on workload, funding, and supervisory approval.

This position has promotion potential to the IC-0089-12. Promotions are dependent on your ability to perform the duties at a higher level, successful performance review displaying at least one year of experience at the lower grade, the continuing need for an employee assigned to the higher level, and management approval.

FEMA is committed to ensuring that its workforce reflects the diversity of the nation. At FEMA, our workforce includes the many identities, races, ethnicities, backgrounds, abilities, ages, cultures, and beliefs of the people we serve. To learn about FEMA's ongoing diversity and inclusion efforts, reasonable accommodation process, and the FEMA Core Values, please visit www.fema.gov.

This Supervisory Transportation Security Officer position is located at Waco Regional Airport (ACT), Transportation Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security (DHS). As a Supervisory Transportation Security Officer (STSO), you will be responsible for mitigating actual and potential threats against civil aviation and other transportation modes. You will also perform and supervise in your area of specialty, which may include Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) and Lead Transportation Security Officers (LTSOs) in the performance of all security functions related to the screening of people, property, and cargo through the use and application of procedures, techniques, and technology. In addition, you will make independent, security-based decisions using intelligence, critical thinking, experience, observation, and passenger engagement. Typical duties include, but are not limited to:

• Conducting and supervising subordinate employees in conducting pre-board security screening of persons, their carry-on and checked baggage/cargo.
• Overseeing screening checkpoint(s) and/or baggage screening operations on a day-to-day basis to include equipment, personnel, and the scheduling and rotation of personnel.
• Participating in the development of new policies and procedures, and recommending changes in policy and procedures based on observation of work, as required.
• Participating in the development of strategic planning initiatives, workforce planning, succession planning initiatives, and other reports and documents for TSA and superiors.
• Engaging in continuous development of critical thinking skills necessary to mitigate security threats by identifying, evaluating, and applying appropriate situational options and approaches.
• Preparing various types of communications such as morning briefings, checkpoint logs, reports, and documents that are germane to the work performed.
• Developing incident information and reports for Law Enforcement Officers (LEOs) and superiors.
• Serving as a member of the National Screening Force.

As a Telecommunications Specialist (Aviation), your typical work assignments may include:

• Participating in sensitive covert activities requiring the installation and recovery of electronic devices.
• Tracking and intercepting airborne surveillance to assist personnel with investigative operations by integrating the use of electronic communications equipment.
• Designing and modifying large and diverse inventory of highly specialized state-of-the-art electronics used in surveillance and information gathering activities to support criminal investigations and prosecutions.
• Participating in maintenance of covert and concealed surveillance equipment.
• Analyzing networks, including radio frequency-based (e.g., cellular, radio, Wi-Fi) and internet protocol-based, to determine the best technological approach (i.e. electronic surveillance, communication, and interception) to use in support of an investigative operations.

At the GS-7 level, you will:

• Researches and interprets legal and regulatory material for use by the supervisor or coworkers.
• Performs varied routine legal support or law-related functions. Analyzes portions of legal issues, questions or cases.
• Collects data from a variety of reference sources in office and prepares documents for use by attorneys or other legal support staff.
• Assembles materials for staff associated with briefings, conferences, and meetings.

One or more positions may be filled (in the organization advertised and/or in other organizations), if appropriate to the position.

Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Protects the civil rights of all individuals on VA controlled property;
• Performs various law enforcement and administrative functions throughout the department;
• Manages, supervises and coordinates the Police Service law enforcement activities for a designated assigned area;
• Serves as a watch commander or administrative lieutenant at the geographic area level;
• Conducts inspections of personnel, equipment and facilities to ensure compliance with departmental policies and procedures;
• Establishes priorities to coordinate, plan, organize and complete work;
• Oversees human resource activities such as recruitment of vacancies; preparing, conducting and reviewing performance evaluations; takes disciplinary action; identifies and conducts specific training; approves and monitors leave requests;
• Responds to highly dangerous and active crimes in progress
• Makes independent decisions to take, direct and coordinate immediate steps to preserve life and property;
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Provide legal support across the full range of Army Morale, Welfare, and Recreation (MWR) and NAFI practice areas, with an emphasis on NAF contracting, including acquisition strategy, statement of work preparation, solicitation, drafting, negotiation and administration of contracts; contract claims and disputes; vendor agreements, public private ventures and debt collection; acquisition and use of NAF property and interests in real property including facility construction, and maintenance and restoration. As well as fiscal law matters involving the application of fiscal law statutes, regulations and budget policies as they pertain to non-appropriated and appropriated funds.

Provide advice and guidance in the areas of Freedom of Information Act/Privacy Act matters, and other administrative law matters resulting from operations and responsibilities of operating large military installations.

Provides oral and written legal advice concerning the activities of IMCOM G-9.

Performs in-depth legal research.

Serves as ethics counselor.

Coordinates actions with other staff elements and with installations, IMCOM Staff, IMCOM Directorates, AMC, Department of the Army, and higher level legal and staff offices, as appropriate.