Supervisory Transportation Security Specialist - Transportation Security Administration - Arlington, Virginia - EXPIRED

The incumbent serves as the Director of the Security Threat Assessment Operations Division, Office of Intelligence and Analysis (OIA), Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS). You will lead and manage the division and be responsible for the end-to-end security threat assessment operations business processes and capabilities necessary to support programs and functional capabilities. You will also be accountable for support to on-going (24 x 7) operations to fulfill the mission of conducting person-centric threat assessments and identifying individuals who have been identified as posing a threat to the transportation system by virtue of their terrorism nexus, criminality, or immigration status.

Managerial responsibilities include directing the work of employees responsible for people screening operations. You will be responsible for conducting data analysis, trends, and associated reports and for the operational support to multiple 24x7 centers, overseeing the operation of all manual adjudication and security threat assessments, as well as participating in the transportation security crises and incident management. This position may require occasional shift work.

Your duties will include but are not limited to:

• Coordinating response to identified threats within TSA, FBI, ICE, TSA Field Officials, Intelligence Community, and other interested stakeholders.
• Collaborating with technologists to understand scope of technology capabilities versus process changes.
• Defining, executing, and sustaining security threat assessment processes, management reporting and internal controls.
• Establishing and maintaining management processes within the operation and derogatory dataset criteria.
• Notifying internal TSA leadership of imminent threats and briefs the Senior Leader team on potential implications to transportation security.
• Reviewing privacy programs and periodically planning and enacting adjustments in response to compliance reviews.
• Developing and implementing quality assurance protocols.
• Serving as the first independent review of resource requirements for operational efforts.
• Providing operational requirements and pre-requisites for transitioning future developments and improvements into ongoing operations.

Supervisory duties includes: Supervising subordinate managers and indirectly supervising staff. Participating in strategic planning; communicating the organization\'s vision, goals and objectives; setting priorities; assigning tasks and responsibilities; monitoring and evaluating performance of organizational units, managers, and employees; coaching and developing staff and assessing and developing organizational capabilities; approving leave; and taking or approving corrective/disciplinary actions as appropriate.

To qualify for the SV-L Pay Band, you must have one year of specialized experience at the SV-K Pay Band or GS-15 in the Federal service or equivalent experience state or local government or the private sector. Specialized experience is defined as experience that has equipped you with the knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Such experience includes performing time sensitive analysis and decision making, risk management based reporting related to the counterterrorism mission of conducting person-centric threat assessments, and identifying individuals who may pose a threat to the transportation system by virtue of their terrorism nexus, criminality, or immigration status.

National Service Experience (i.e., Volunteer experience): 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). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

You must meet the qualification requirements for this position no later than the closing date of the vacancy announcement.