Job at a glance
In this position, you will serve as a Security Assistant providing support to the Office of the Chief Financial Officer's Field-Based Operations Unit facility in Biloxi, MS, ensuring the security of staff, operations, assets, and facilities. The ideal candidate will have practical knowledge of personnel, industrial, and physical security program requirements sufficient to provide administrative and operational support for security functions at the facility.
Major duties: What will I do in this position if hired? In this Security Assistant position, you will perform specialized duties working within a variety of functional security program areas involving a wide variety of problems or situations. Typical assignments include: Assisting in a variety of clerical functions in support of a vehicle registration program, fingerprinting, and other security tasks.
Inspecting security systems, access points, lighting, alarms, CCTV, and fence lines. Conducting patrols, random vehicle Inspections, physical security surveys, and visual monitoring by designated contractors. Conducting security clearance actions, verifying documents/credentials of internal and external personnel, and protecting sensitive information against compromise. Creating, issuing, and activating Personal Identity Verification (PIV) cards according to the requirements of the Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 (HSPD-12) program.
Requirements: To ensure the accomplishment of our mission, DHS requires every employee to be reliable and trustworthy. To meet those standards, all selected applicants must undergo, successfully pass, and maintain a background investigation for a Public Trust (moderate risk) as a condition of placement into this position. This may include a credit check after initial job qualifications are determined, a review of 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 (please visit: Mythbuster on Federal Hiring Policies for additional information).
For more information on background investigations for Federal jobs, please visit OPM Investigations. Conditions of Employment: You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this position. You must successfully pass a background investigation. Selective Service registration required. You must be able to obtain and maintain a Government credit card. You must be able to deploy with little or no advance notice to anywhere in the United States and its territories for an extended period of time.
Please review the Additional Information section for additional key requirements. Education: Education substitution: This position permits applicants to qualify based on education (or a combination of education and experience), as outlined in the "requirements" section. If you are using education to qualify, you must submit a copy of your transcripts (unofficial are acceptable) with your online application.
Once selected and prior to appointment, applicants must provide official college transcripts. Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet Federal qualification requirements if you can show that your foreign education is comparable to education received in accredited educational institutions in the United States. For example, specific courses accepted for college-level credit by an accredited U.S.
college or university, or foreign education evaluated by an organization recognized for accreditation by the Department of Education as education equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. college or university. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence with your application. Visit the Department of Education's Recognition of Foreign Qualifications for more information.