• Plans, coordinates, and supervises assigned personnel to ensure efficient and timely completion of all work activities.
• Supervises, trains, and advises assigned personnel to promote consistent performance and professional growth.
• Plans and prepares assigned projects, exercising necessary supervisory authority to ensure completion within established timeframes.
• Manages an extensive enterprise budget to advance technical innovation, uphold standards and training, and sustain both standard and non standard exploitation equipment.
• Directs effort towards Technical Exploitation and forensics of computer systems, and other electronic devices, to support the organization’s operational effectiveness.
• Establishes and maintains direct liaison with officials to coordinate strategies, standards, and development efforts.
• Represents the organization during deployment to support the initiatives of the Theater COCOMs and Command Partners.
• Manages production workflows, data standards, and forensic dissemination requirements to ensure accuracy and compliance across the organization.
• Enhances exploitation capabilities and coordinates and synchronizes efforts with intelligence and law enforcement components to ensure unified operational outcomes.
• Provides oversight of a multi faceted digital exploitation enterprise to ensure effective triage, acquisition, and dissemination of digital evidence.
• Anticipates information shortfalls related to Captured Enemy Material (CEM) focused intelligence problems and evaluates data for consistency and correlation with other sources to support accurate analytical outcomes.
• Recommends the implementation of emerging technical solutions to strengthen command exploitation strategies.
• Prioritizes taskings for emerging technology research and development, sustainment budgeting, and forensic standards maintenance to support intelligence and law enforcement partners.
• Formulates, develops, and implements CEM collection and exploitation strategies to address priority intelligence requirements.

Conditions of employment

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance with Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) access for the duration of employment.
• The position may require temporary duty (TDY) 30 days or less travel to various locations up to 30% of the time.
• Position is subject to random drug testing. Incumbent must pass a drug test.
• This position requires a pre-employment physical and thereafter prior to OCONUS travel over 30 days. Individual must be able to maintain qualifications for required access to perform temporary duty with other governmental agencies as directed.
• This position is deployable and may require extended TDY to OCONUS locations. This position requires a pre-employment physical and thereafter prior to OCONUS travel over 30 days.
• Must be willing to undergo and successfully complete counter-intelligence scope polygraph with No Deception Indicated (NDI).
• Employee must reside within the local area (50 miles) and able to report to work within an hour notice.
• Appointment to this position is subject to a one-year probationary period unless the appointee has previously met the requirements as described in 5 CFR Part 315. While probationary the incumbent can be terminated with limited appeal rights.
• Appointment to this position is subject to a one-year supervisory probationary period unless the appointee has previously met the requirements as described in 5 CFR Part 315.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: US Citizens

In order to qualify, you must meet the education AND experience requirements described below. 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). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

Basic Requirement for Supervisory Physical Scientist (Digital Forensic Examiner/Latent Prints):

A. Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in physical science, engineering, or mathematics that included 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science such as mechanics, dynamics, properties of materials, and electronics.

OR

B. Combination of Education and Experience: Courses equivalent to one of the majors, as shown in A above, that included at least 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science, plus appropriate experience or additional education.

In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below:

Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience in 1.) Assists in planning and coordinating project activities to ensure efficient workflow execution of mission tasks; AND 2.) Assists in prioritizing responsibilities for emerging technology research and development, sustainment initiative budgeting, and forensic standards maintenance to support organizational needs; AND 3.) Understanding and managing production workflows, data standards, and digital forensic dissemination while coordinating exploitation efforts with intelligence and law enforcement partners; AND 4.) Supports identifying information gaps, recommending emerging technical solutions, and applying CEM exploitation strategies to meet the organization's intelligence requirements. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-12).

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

Once the announcement has closed, a review of your application package (resume, supporting documents, and responses to the questionnaire) will be used to determine whether you meet the qualification requirements listed on this announcement. Please follow all instructions carefully when applying, errors or omissions may affect your eligibility.

If, after reviewing your resume and/or supporting documentation, a determination is made that you have inflated your qualifications and/or experience, you may lose consideration for this position.

You may claim Priority Placement Program (PPP) preference.

Veterans and Military Spouses will be considered along with all other candidates.

Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP). If you are a Federal employee in the competitive service and your agency has notified you in writing that you are a displaced employee eligible for ICTAP consideration, you may receive selection priority for this position. To receive selection priority, you must: (1) meet ICTAP eligibility criteria (2) be rated well-qualified for the position and; (3) submit the appropriate documentation to support your ICTAP eligibility. To be considered well-qualified and receive selection priority applicants must satisfy all qualification requirements for the position and receive a score of 90 or above. Additional information about the program is on OPM's Career Transition Resources website

The documents you are required to submit vary based on whether or not you are eligible for preference in federal employment. A complete description of preference categories and the associated required documents is in the Applicant Checklist for Public Announcements.

As described above, your complete application includes your resume, your responses to the online questionnaire, and documents which prove your eligibility to apply. If you fail to provide these documents, you will be marked as having an incomplete application package and you will not be considered any further.

1. Your resume:

• Your resume must be two pages or less and must support the specialized experience described in this announcement. Resumes exceeding two pages will be removed from consideration.
• For each relevant work experience, make sure you include the employer's name, job title, start and end dates (include month and year), for qualifications purposes, the number of hours worked per week, and a brief description that show you can perform the tasks at the required level listed in the job announcement. If your resume does not contain this information, your application may be marked as incomplete, and you may not receive consideration for this position.
• Use plain language. Avoid using acronyms and terms that are not easily understood. The hiring agency will not make assumptions about what's in your resume.
• If your resume includes a photograph or other inappropriate material or content, it will not be used to make eligibility and qualification determinations, and you may not be considered for this vacancy.
• For additional information, to include formatting tips, see: What to include in your resume.

2. Other supporting documents:

• Cover Letter, optional
• Most recent Performance Appraisal, if applicable
• This position has an individual occupational requirement and/or allows for substitution of education for experience. If you meet this requirement based on education you MUST submit a copy of your transcript with your application package or you will be rated ineligible. See: Transcripts and Licenses

NOTE: Documents submitted as part of the application package, to include supplemental documents, may be shared beyond the Human Resources Office. Some supplemental documents such as military orders and marriage certificates may contain personal information for someone other than you. You may sanitize these documents to remove another person's personal information before you submit your application. You may be asked to provide an un-sanitized version of the documents if you are selected to confirm your eligibility.

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