Supervisory CBP Officer

Duties

• Serving in an advisory capacity in planning and coordinating organizational functions activities that provide administrative and technical support to the Office of Field Operations and its relationship to high profile agency missions;xml:namespace prefix = "o" /
• Providing management and direction over organizational components engaged in enforcement and compliance activities as they relate to the Office of Field Operations mission;
• Providing critical strategic and operational information regarding terrorists and terrorist organizations, including method of observation;
• Developing and implementing significantly new program strategies related to ant-terrorism, threat assessment, intelligence and investigative interdiction efforts; and
• Serving as agency representative with top level officials of domestic and foreign counterparts.

Qualifications

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 qualify for the GS-15 level if you possess one year of specialized experience at the GS-14 level or equivalent performing duties such as:  

 

• Providing leadership in developing, implementing, and evaluating, and improving processes and procedures to monitor the effectiveness, efficiency, uniformity, and productivity of all Office of Field Operations program areas;
• Interpreting and enforcing CBP Laws, operations, law enforcement procedures, policies, and regulations; and xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /
• Leading, directing, or providing technical direction to others in performing inspection, intelligence analysis, and examinations on customs and border security issues.

Time-in-Grade: Current Federal employees must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade or equivalent grade band in the Federal service. 

**Competencies:**In addition, the following required competencies must be addressed in your resume: 

Leading Others

Inspires, motivates, and guides others toward goal accomplishment; ensures that staff members are appropriately selected, utilized, and appraised; develops others through coaching and mentoring; identifies and takes steps to prevent situations that could result in unpleasant confrontations; manages and resolves conflicts and disagreements in a positive and constructive manner; identifies training needs; provides constructive reinforcement; coaches others on how to perform tasks; acts as a source of information.

Team Building

Consistently develops and sustains cooperative working relationships in all aspects of the job; encourages and facilitates cooperation within the agency and between the agency and other organizations; fosters commitment, pride, trust, and group identity.

Performance and Results Management

Takes steps to achieve quality end products; is committed to continuous improvement; ensures that effective controls are in place; holds self and others accountable for meeting expectations; coordinates with other parts of the organization to accomplish goals; develops short and long-range plans that are realistic and appropriately comprehensive; includes contingency plans, as appropriate; monitors and evaluates plans; determines material and human resource requirements and ensures that needed resources are available; focuses on results and on measuring attainment of outcomes.

Decision Making and Problem Solving

Identifies and analyzes problems; distinguishes between relevant and irrelevant information to make logical judgments; provides solutions to individual and organizational problems; draws correct inferences from available information to make sound and well-informed decisions.

Creativity and Innovation

Develops insights into situations and applies innovative solutions to make organizational improvements; creates a synthesis of information from many sources; designs and implements new or cutting-edge programs and processes.

Technical Credibility

Has mastery of the technical knowledge required to perform the job and the jobs of those supervised; knows where to find key information that does not need to be memorized; understands near-term and long-range plans and determines how best to run the program to achieve organizational goals.

You will be required to carry a firearm while performing duties of this position. Maintaining firearm proficiency is also mandatory. Any person who has been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence cannot lawfully possess a firearm or ammunition. Candidates under consideration will be required to certify whether they have ever been convicted of such an offense. False or fraudulent information provided by candidates is criminally punishable by fine or imprisonment. On a quarterly basis, the candidate must meet prescribed firearms qualification requirements.