Director, Transborder Security Center

Summary

The Director, Transborder Security Center position is located within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A), Office of the Deputy Under Secretary for Analysis. I&A specializes in sharing unique intelligence and analysis with operators and decision-makers to identify and mitigate threats to the homeland.

This job is open to

Clarification from the agency

All groups of qualified individuals - ALL US CITIZENS

Duties

The Director, Transborder Security Center serves as the principal I&A substantive advisor on US border threats, serving the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, and reporting directly to the DHS Deputy Under Secretary for Analysis. This position consolidates the core capabilities of I&A related to border security under one organizational roof. The Director will manage, prioritize, and align I&A activities-analysis, policy, reports officer deployments, collection support, onsite component support, and state and local outreach against common goals and objectives.

Specific responsibilities include:

Represents the Department on intelligence related to border threats with other senior officials in the Intelligence Community (IC), with senior-level private sector stakeholders, and with senior representatives of selected international partners.

Serves as the principal advisor to the DHS senior management on border security issues and represents DHS with various federal Senior Executive Service (SES), Senior Intelligence Service, military flag rank, and senior agency official level committees, steering groups, and working groups.

Manages and leads a program that integrates information from DHS components, the IC, other federal partners, and state, local, tribal, and private sector partners to provide analysis and share intelligence on US border threats for the full range of homeland security stakeholders.

Develops and manages a mature, professional border security intelligence analysis enterprise that addresses priorities set by the Secretary as well as the Director of National Intelligence's National Intelligence Priorities Framework.

Develops an analytic program that assesses border threats to the Homeland and produces actionable, all-source analysis for entities involved in countering such threats.

Provides tailored analysis on border threats to the Homeland for the Secretary, DHS operating components and headquarters offices, state, local, and private sector partners, and the IC and other federal departments and agencies.

Ensures border security priorities are represented in I&A collection management and requirements integration processes developed for DHS components and supportive of IC and federal, state, local, tribal, and private sector partners.

Develops robust outreach to DHS partners at the state, local, and private sectors to provide homeland security intelligence support and to promote analytic collaboration on border security issues. This includes ensuring that the classification of products is appropriately downgraded to expand dissemination.

Manages the substantive engagement on border security issues with IC partners, including managing the office's analytic efforts on border threats with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

Manages I&A's budget for border security analysis and field support.

Provides strategic leadership in developing plans that address the border security needs of the Department's intelligence analysis enterprise.

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this position.

Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered for Selective Service.

You may be required to undergo periodic drug testing.

You must be able to obtain/maintain a Top Secret/Special Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) security clearance.

Selectee will be required to complete form OGE-278, Executive Personnel Financial Disclosure Form.

You will serve a one-year probationary period unless you previously completed the probationary period in the SES.

You must submit to a pre-employment drug test.

Qualifications

As a basic requirement for entry into the SES, applicants must provide evidence of progressively responsible executive leadership and supervisory experience that is indicative of senior executive level management capability and directly related to the skills and abilities outlined under Executive Core Qualifications and Technical Qualifications listed below. Typically, experience of this nature will have been gained at or above the GS-14/15 grade level in the federal service or its equivalent in the private sector. As such, your resume should demonstrate that you have the knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully fulfill responsibilities inherent in most SES positions such as:

Directing the work of an organizational unit;

Ensuring the success of one or more specific major programs or projects;

Monitoring progress toward strategic organizational goals, evaluating organizational performance and taking action to improve performance;

Supervising the work of employees; and

Exercising important policymaking, policy determining, or other executive functions.

The application process used to recruit for this position is RESUME-BASED Method. The applicant must address the Mandatory Technical Qualifications (MTQs) and Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) within their resume. Resumes must not exceed five (5) pages.

We recommend that your resume emphasize your level of responsibilities, the scope and complexity of the programs managed, and your program accomplishments, including the results of your actions. You will be evaluated to determine if you meet the minimum qualifications required of the position and on the extent your application demonstrates that you possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities required of the position. Please be sure to give concrete examples of your experience and demonstrate the complexity of the knowledge you possess.

EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS (ECQs): YOUR RESUME MUST CLEARLY DOCUMENT AND DEMONSTRATE THE FOLLOWING EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS (ECQs) EVIDENCE WITHIN YOUR RESUME NOT TO EXCEED FIVE PAGES:

ECQ 1 - LEADING CHANGE. This core qualification involves the ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment. Leadership Competencies: Creativity & Innovation, External Awareness, Flexibility, Resilience, Strategic Thinking, Vision.

ECQ 2 - LEADING PEOPLE. This core qualification involves the ability to lead people toward meeting the organization's vision, mission, and goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts. Leadership Competencies: Conflict Management, Leveraging Diversity, Developing Others, Team Building.

ECQ 3 - RESULTS DRIVEN. This core qualification involves the ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to make decisions that produce high-quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks. Leadership Competencies: Accountability, Customer Service, Decisiveness, Entrepreneurship, Problem Solving, Technical Credibility.

ECQ 4 - BUSINESS ACUMEN. This core qualification involves the ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically. Leadership Competencies: Financial Management, Human Capital Management, Technology Management.

ECQ 5 - BUILDING COALITIONS. This core qualification involves the ability to build coalitions internally and with other Federal agencies, State and local governments, nonprofit and private sector organizations, foreign governments, or international organizations to achieve common goals. Leadership Competencies: Partnering, Political Savvy, Influencing/Negotiating.

Detailed information on each ECQ, the underlying and fundamental competencies, sample narratives and a tips sheet for writing effective ECQs are available in the "Guide To Senior Executive Service Qualifications" and .

TECHNICAL QUALIFICATION (TQ)s:

IN ADDITON, YOU WILL BE EVALUATED ON ALL OF THE FOLLOWING TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS (TQs): Your responses to the TQs should be embedded/addressed within your resume not to exceed five pages.

TQ 1. .Demonstrated knowledge of the national Intelligence Community (IC) border security and experience conducting activities-analysis, policy, reports officer deployments, collection support, onsite component support, and state and local outreach-against common goals and objectives.

TQ 2. Demonstrated experience communicating with and advising senior officials, providing intelligence support, contributions, intelligence requirements unique access/data holdings that may be leveraged by other federal partners, and state, local, tribal, and private sector (SLTTPS) partners entities.

TQ 3. Demonstrated foundational understanding of the principles of intelligence collection and analysis, crisis operations support, and application of oversight principles (privacy, civil rights and civil liberties) to intelligence operations.

NOTE: Your demonstrated leadership ability and the evidence of the ECQs and TQs must be clearly shown in your resume. A separate narrative statement will not be accepted.

A sample 5-page resume that incorporates ECQs and TQs can be viewed on this link (indexed at page 29 - 37) .

YOU WILL BE ELIMINATED FROM FURTHER CONSIDERATION IF YOU FAIL TO MEET OR FULLY ADDRESS EACH MANDATORY EXECUTIVE CORE AND TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS AND IF YOUR RESUME EXCEEDS FIVE (5) PAGES.

Veteran's Preference does not apply to the Senior Executive Service.

Current or Former Political Appointees: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize any employment offers made to current or former (within the last 5 years) political Schedule A, Schedule C, or Noncareer SES employees in the Executive Branch. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, or Noncareer SES employee, please indicate this in your resume. Serving in a Schedule A, Schedule C, or Noncareer SES appointment WILL NOT eliminate you from consideration.

Education

There is no educational requirement for this position.

Additional information

Background Investigation: To ensure the accomplishment of its mission, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) requires each and every employee to be reliable and trustworthy. To meet those standards, all selected applicants must undergo and successfully complete a background investigation for Top Secret/ Sensitive Compartment Information clearance as a condition of placement in this Special Sensitive position. This review includes financial issues such as delinquency in the payment of debts, child support and/or tax obligations, as well as certain criminal offenses and illegal use or possession of drugs.

Any offers of employment made pursuant to this announcement will be consistent with all applicable authorities, including Presidential Memoranda, Executive Orders, interpretive U. S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and U. S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) guidance, and Office of Management and Budget plans and policies concerning hiring. These authorities are subject to change.

Pursuant to Executive Order 12654 and DHS policy, DHS is committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and, therefore, conducts random and other drug testing of its employees in order to ensure a safe and healthy work environment. Headquarters personnel in safety- or security-sensitive positions are subject to random drug testing and all applicants tentatively selected for employment at DHS Headquarters are subject to drug testing resulting in a negative test result.

If you receive a conditional offer of employment for this position, you will be required to complete an Optional Form 306, Declaration for Federal Employment, and to sign and certify the accuracy of all information in your application, prior to entry on duty. False statements on any part of the application may result in withdrawal of offer of employment, dismissal after beginning work, fine, or imprisonment.

DHS uses, an Internet-based system, to confirm the eligibility of all newly hired employees to work in the United States. Learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities.

How You Will Be Evaluated

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

A multi-step process is used to evaluate and refer applicants:

1. Minimum requirements: Your application must show that you meet all requirements including the education and/or experience required for this position. You may be rated "not qualified" if you do not possess the qualification requirements for the position. If your application is incomplete, you may be found "ineligible".

2. Rating and Ranking: A panel of subject matter experts will review your application and evaluate your qualifications for this position based on the information in your application. Your application will be rated, based on the extent and quality of your experience, education, and training relevant to the duties of this position. Interviews will be at the discretion of the panel and/or selecting official.

3. Referral: If you are among the top qualified candidates, your application will be referred to a selecting official for consideration and possible interview. The DHS Executive Resources Board (ERB) will review results and make recommendations on final selections to the appointing authority where final interviews and reference checks may occur. Only the selectee will be required to write Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) narratives.

Your supporting documents are an integral part of the process for determining your qualifications for the position. If your responses are not supported by your resume, you will be eliminated from consideration. After reviewing your resume and supporting documentation, if a determination is made that you have inflated your qualifications or experience, you may lose consideration for this position. Incomplete or late applications will not receive further consideration.

The application process to recruit for this position is the RESUME-BASED method. Separate written narratives addressing the ECQs and TQs will not be considered at this time. Evidence of your qualifications for the ECQs and TQs must be clearly demonstrated in your resume, and no more than five (5) pages will be accepted. A sample 5-page resume that incorporates ECQs and TQs can be viewed on this link (indexed at page 29 - 37) .

Unless you have already been certified by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Review Board (QRB) in the past, your ECQs must be certified by the QRB before appointment can occur.

Required Documents

To apply for this position, you must provide a complete Application Package which includes:

1. Resume

Please submit a PDF version resume that DOES NOT exceed 5 pages.

Your resume must show evidence of progressively responsible leadership experience that is indicative of senior executive-level management capability and directly related to the executive core qualifications and the technical qualifications listed in the Qualifications section in one document. Information exceeding 5 pages WILL NOT be considered.

Your resume should emphasize your level of responsibility, scope and complexity of programs managed, program accomplishments, policy initiatives undertaken, and the results of your actions.

Your resume must show evidence of progressively responsible