Total 25 Legal / Public / Security job vacancies in Chicago - Corporate

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING DAY TO DAY

As a Public Health Advisor, you will use your knowledge of and experience to optimize business results and customer experience by:

• Planning, developing, and implementing public behavioral health programs in collaboration with local, state, other Federal and/or international governments and various public, nonprofit, and private and health related organizations.
• Reviewing congressional and legislative actions; assessing impact on public health program activities, initiatives, and policies; and initiating action accordingly.
• Conducting and/or assisting in the development and delivery of training courses (e.g., community planning, prevention and intervention, outreach strategies, data collection, etc.,); and assisting with special studies and/or demonstrations.

This position will be filled at the GG-07 grade level. Incumbent may be advanced non-competitively to the established target grade upon meeting developmental benchmarks, performance requirements, and other requirements, as applicable established for the career program or specifically for the incumbent.

-Assists with conducting Federal Personnel Background Investigations, many of which are sensitive or controversial, where allegations, hearsay information, or other vague or intangible information of an adverse nature exist.-Evaluates individual's trustworthiness for access to classified information, placement in a sensitive position, retention in the military services, or placement in Federal employment.-Assists with collecting and developing information from a variety of sources.-Prepares reports of investigation in accordance with DOD guidelines and instructions.

If selected for this position, you will serve as a Senior Legal Assistant (OA) for OCDETF for the United States Attorney's Office (USAO), Northern District of Illinois. Typical work assignments will include:

• Provides expert advice on complex organized crime and drug investigations and prosecutions.
• Serves as a legal assistance subject matter expert and provides training and guidance to other support staff.
• Maintains current knowledge of regulations, laws applicable to domestic and international drug trafficking and associated organized crime.
• Provides a variety of direct legal support to one or more AUSAs.
• Prepares a wide variety of legal documents, many of which are voluminous and complex in format.

• Ensures accuracy of information input in the Rapid Time Automated Personnel Identification System (RAPIDS) to issue the Common Access Card (CAC) for service members, DoD civilians and contractors
• Coordinates and maintains access control systems including ID Badge systems, CCTV, and Intrusion Detection System (IDS) as it pertains to physical security regulations.
• Responsible for issuance, documentation, and accountability for variety of security and access badges.
• Perform duties to protect personnel, facilities, and USACE assets against criminal or hostile activities, sabotage, unauthorized disclosure, espionage, natural disasters, and terrorism.
• Responsible for observing all applicable safety rules, regulations, and directives.
• Maintains the security office website and security manager in implementing security education and motivation programs.

• Ensures accuracy of information input in the Rapid Time Automated Personnel Identification System (RAPIDS) to issue the Common Access Card (CAC) for service members, DoD civilians and contractors.
• Coordinates and maintains access control systems including ID Badge systems, CCTV, and Intrusion Detection System (IDS) as it pertains to physical security regulations.
• Responsible for issuance, documentation, and accountability for variety of security and access badges.
• Perform duties to protect personnel, facilities, and USACE assets against criminal or hostile activities, sabotage, unauthorized disclosure, espionage, natural disasters, and terrorism.
• Responsible for observing all applicable safety rules, regulations, and directives.
• Maintains the security office website and security manager in implementing security education and motivation programs.

This position is located in the Public Buildings Service, Real Estate Division (RED). This division manages the acquisition of leased space – and the renovation of existing leased and federal space – to support customer agency real estate needs.

This position has job functions that must be executed within specific geographic locations. The official duty station is a federal facility, leased space, or an alternative worksite (typically the employee’s home) within the specified geographic area: Chicago, IL; Springfield, IL; Indianapolis, IN; Milwaukee, WI; Detroit, MI; Battle Creek, MI; Grand Rapids, MI; Cincinnati, OH; Cleveland, OH; Columbus, OH; Minneapolis, MN; St. Paul, MN and Fort Snelling, MN.  You will be expected to report to a specific GSA duty location at least one or more days a pay period depending upon the terms of the agency’s telework policy.

Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Serves as an expert in project management and serves as the primary point of contact in developing and maintaining Division project management policy, practice, and training regimens. This includes developing and maintaining policy and training documents by staying abreast of Public Buildings Service (PBS), Regional, and Division project management dynamics in both leased and federal space.
• Serves as a knowledge expert/resource to all Project Management Branches and Division staff overall as required on all aspects of project management, developing and providing guidance, one-to-one guidance if requested, formal and informal training or briefings or other information sharing in this program area.
• Identifies project management innovations, precedent-setting projects or new training (within and outside of the Federal Government) in the field that would help grow project management within the Great Lakes Region.
• Engages in helping to resolve questions of project management policy and practice, attending various project or program discussions to offer project management policy and practice guidance or evaluating proposed courses of action to keep projects in line with Public Buildings Services (PBS) and Division policy and practices. 
• Responsible for liaising with, organizing, leading, and facilitating the Division senior or Expert and Supervisory Project Managers as a Project Management Council, in parity and concert with the Lease Contracting Officer (LCO) Council in order to help ensure project management and lease procurement policy, practice and training are coordinated and harmonized to the maximum extent possible across the project delivery spectrum.

What will I do in this position if hired?

In this Civil Engineer position, typical assignments include:

• Reviewing design and construction plans, cost estimates and schedules in Hazard Mitigation Assistance grant applications; and
• Validating cost estimates and cost-effectiveness analyses; and
• Providing assistance to internal and external partners on FEMA's benefit cost analysis tool and methodology; and
• Serving as an engineering and cost-effectiveness technical expert for training development, policy review and working groups in support of Mitigation programs; and
• Conducting training and relaying technical information effectively to internal and external non-technical partners; and
• Providing program guidance and other technical assistance to states, tribes and communities on projects with complex engineering work.

What else do I need to know?

At FEMA, our mission is to help people before, during and after disasters, and every employee at FEMA has a role in emergency management. Every FEMA employee has regular and recurring emergency management responsibilities, though not every position requires routine deployment to disaster sites. All positions are subject to recall around the clock for emergency management operations, which may require irregular work hours, work at locations other than the official duty station, and may include duties other than those specified in the employee's official position description. Travel requirements in support of emergency operations may be extensive in nature (weeks to months), with little advance notice, and may require employees to relocate to emergency sites with physically austere and operationally challenging conditions.

This announcement is for a position as a CORE (Cadre of On-Call Response/Recovery Employee). CORE employees are full-time employees hired to directly support the response and recovery efforts related to disasters. Employees are hired under the Robert T. Stafford Act and are excluded from the provisions of title 5, United States Code, governing jobs in the competitive service. They can be hired under a streamlined process instead of a competitive process. After three years of continuous service, Stafford Act employees may be granted competitive eligibility to apply for permanent full-time positions at FEMA.

This position will be hired into a temporary 4-year, excepted service appointment. Appointments may be renewed based on workload, funding, and supervisory approval.

FEMA is committed to ensuring that its workforce reflects the diversity of the nation. At FEMA, our workforce includes the many identities, races, ethnicities, backgrounds, abilities, ages, cultures, and beliefs of the people we serve. To learn about FEMA's ongoing diversity and inclusion efforts, reasonable accommodation process, and the FEMA Core Values, please visit www.fema.gov.

This Supervisory Federal Air Marshal (SFAM) position is located in the Chicago Field Office, Field Operations Division, Law Enforcement/Federal Air Marshal Service (LE/FAMS), Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Additional duties include but are not limited to:

• Directs the work of subordinate FAMs and performs supervisory duties including assigning tasks, setting priorities, monitoring and evaluating performance, coaching, and developing employee capabilities, approving leave, and taking and recommending corrective/disciplinary action.
• Establishes and maintains liaison with other federal, state and local law enforcement at all levels, including those from private industry.
• Articulates the LE/FAMS goals and objectives to local, state and federal law enforcement partners, as well as a myriad of transportation security stakeholders.

This Supervisory Federal Air Marshal (SFAM) position is located in the Chicago Field Office, Field Operations Division, Law Enforcement/Federal Air Marshal Service (LE/FAMS), Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Additional duties include but are not limited to:

• Directs the work of subordinate FAMs and performs supervisory duties including assigning tasks, setting priorities, monitoring and evaluating performance, coaching, and developing employee capabilities, approving leave, and taking and recommending corrective/disciplinary action.
• Establishes and maintains liaison with other federal, state and local law enforcement at all levels, including those from private industry.
• Articulates the LE/FAMS goals and objectives to local, state and federal law enforcement partners, as well as a myriad of transportation security stakeholders.

This Program Assistant position is located in the Chicago Field Office, Field Operations Division, Law Enforcement/Federal Air Marshal Service (LE/FAMS), Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS). If selected for this position, you will serve as a Program Assistant and Point of Contact (POC) responsible for providing overall operational support on general administrative and program issues regarding policies, procedures, and requirements governing office operations. Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Provides general support to the Administrative Unit.
• Performs data entry where appropriate with a high level of accuracy, and little or no supervision. Initiating personnel actions for employee awards, promotions, reassignments, demotions, etc.
• Maintains a purchase card for supplies, materials, professional development classes, etc. Assisting with the budget by running reports from financial system and updating a record keeping workbook.
• Processes time and attendance for the field office by entering leave and payroll data into the time and attendance database.
• Serves as a custodian for the field office government vehicles; tracks information, log-in books, and vehicle maintenance; tracks/managing government fleet credit card.
• Serves as Workers Compensation Coordinator (WCC); uploads and maintains claim records, etc. with the Department of Labor/Office of Workers Compensation.
• Serves as the travel regulations and policies POC; verifies and certifies all travel authorizations and vouchers in the government travel system, ensures that all travelers get reimbursed; and handles all travel arrangements for the Supervisory Air Marshal in Charge (SAC).
• Maintains files, records, schedules and calendars for assigned squads within the field office such as Employee Performance Files (EPFs), administrative files, and physical/stress exams, recording TSA Online Learning Center training courses, etc.
• Updates specific squad rosters, and other FAM contact information.

This Program Assistant position is located in the Chicago Field Office, Field Operations Division, Law Enforcement/Federal Air Marshal Service (LE/FAMS), Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS). If selected for this position, you will serve as a Program Assistant and Point of Contact (POC) responsible for providing overall operational support on general administrative and program issues regarding policies, procedures, and requirements governing office operations. Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Provides general support to the Administrative Unit.
• Performs data entry where appropriate with a high level of accuracy, and little or no supervision. Initiating personnel actions for employee awards, promotions, reassignments, demotions, etc.
• Maintains a purchase card for supplies, materials, professional development classes, etc. Assisting with the budget by running reports from financial system and updating a record keeping workbook.
• Processes time and attendance for the field office by entering leave and payroll data into the time and attendance database.
• Serves as a custodian for the field office government vehicles; tracks information, log-in books, and vehicle maintenance; tracks/managing government fleet credit card.
• Serves as Workers Compensation Coordinator (WCC); uploads and maintains claim records, etc. with the Department of Labor/Office of Workers Compensation.
• Serves as the travel regulations and policies POC; verifies and certifies all travel authorizations and vouchers in the government travel system, ensures that all travelers get reimbursed; and handles all travel arrangements for the Supervisory Air Marshal in Charge (SAC).
• Maintains files, records, schedules and calendars for assigned squads within the field office such as Employee Performance Files (EPFs), administrative files, and physical/stress exams, recording TSA Online Learning Center training courses, etc.
• Updates specific squad rosters, and other FAM contact information.

This Transportation Security Specialist - Explosives (TSS-E) position is located Chicago Midway Airport (MDW), Transportation Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Duties include but are not limited to:

• Serving as a key component of a multi-layered security approach.
• Applying experience and technical knowledge of explosives to assess threats.
• Educating the screening workforce in the detection of threats.
• Supporting explosive vulnerability assessments in all modes of transportation.
• Responding to and assessing all unresolved checkpoint and checked baggage alarms involving possible explosives, IED components or actual IEDs, rendering a final decision on alarm resolution.
• Assessing the interrelationships between initiators, power supplies, and chemicals. Determining if devices are improvised explosives, commercial explosives, or mixed explosives (fuel mixtures).
• Deploying in support of risk mitigation efforts to deter, detect, and prevent the introduction of IEDs, IED components or other deadly or dangerous items into the airport environment.
• Participating with evaluation teams in conducting covert drills to determine effectiveness of the training programs, recommending individuals remediation, and identifying potential security vulnerabilities.
• Mentoring and training the front line screening workforce to increase their operational knowledge of explosives and IED components.

This Transportation Security Specialist - Explosives (TSS-E) position is located Chicago Midway Airport (MDW), Transportation Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Duties include but are not limited to:

• Serving as a key component of a multi-layered security approach.
• Applying experience and technical knowledge of explosives to assess threats.
• Educating the screening workforce in the detection of threats.
• Supporting explosive vulnerability assessments in all modes of transportation.
• Responding to and assessing all unresolved checkpoint and checked baggage alarms involving possible explosives, IED components or actual IEDs, rendering a final decision on alarm resolution.
• Assessing the interrelationships between initiators, power supplies, and chemicals. Determining if devices are improvised explosives, commercial explosives, or mixed explosives (fuel mixtures).
• Deploying in support of risk mitigation efforts to deter, detect, and prevent the introduction of IEDs, IED components or other deadly or dangerous items into the airport environment.
• Participating with evaluation teams in conducting covert drills to determine effectiveness of the training programs, recommending individuals remediation, and identifying potential security vulnerabilities.
• Mentoring and training the front line screening workforce to increase their operational knowledge of explosives and IED components.

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Salary Information: The salary range for Chicago, IL (ORD - Chicago O'Hare International Airport) is $44,180 to $61,657 or $21.17 to $29.54 per hour and includes locality pay of 30.41%.

This Transportation Security Officer position is located in Transportation Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security (DHS). As a Transportation Security Officer (TSOs) within Security Operations (SO), you will provide security and protection of air travelers, airports and aircraft in a courteous and professional manner. Duties may include but are not limited to:

• Operating various screening equipment and technology to identify dangerous objects in baggage, cargo and on passengers, and preventing those objects from being transported onto aircraft.
• Performing searches and screening, which may include physical interaction with passengers (e.g., pat-downs, search of property, etc.), conducting bag searches and lifting/carrying bags, bins, and property weighing up to 50lbs.
• Controlling terminal entry and exit points.
• Interacting with the public, giving directions and responding to inquiries.
• Maintaining focus and awareness while working in a stressful environment which includes noise from alarms, machinery and people, crowd distractions, time pressure, and disruptive and angry passengers, in order to preserve the professional ability to identify and locate potentially life threatening or mass destruction devices, and to make effective decisions in both crisis and routine situations.
• Engaging in continuous development of critical thinking skills, necessary to mitigate actual and potential security threats, by identifying, evaluating, and applying appropriate situational options and approaches. This may include application of risk-based security screening protocols that vary based on program requirements.
• Retaining and implementing knowledge of all applicable Standard Operating Procedures, demonstrating responsible and dependable behavior, and is open to change and adapts to new information or unexpected obstacles.

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Salary Information: The salary range for Chicago, IL (ORD - Chicago O'Hare International Airport) is $44,180 to $61,657 or $21.17 to $29.54 per hour and includes locality pay of 30.41%.

This Transportation Security Officer position is located in Transportation Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security (DHS). As a Transportation Security Officer (TSOs) within Security Operations (SO), you will provide security and protection of air travelers, airports and aircraft in a courteous and professional manner. Duties may include but are not limited to:

• Operating various screening equipment and technology to identify dangerous objects in baggage, cargo and on passengers, and preventing those objects from being transported onto aircraft.
• Performing searches and screening, which may include physical interaction with passengers (e.g., pat-downs, search of property, etc.), conducting bag searches and lifting/carrying bags, bins, and property weighing up to 50lbs.
• Controlling terminal entry and exit points.
• Interacting with the public, giving directions and responding to inquiries.
• Maintaining focus and awareness while working in a stressful environment which includes noise from alarms, machinery and people, crowd distractions, time pressure, and disruptive and angry passengers, in order to preserve the professional ability to identify and locate potentially life threatening or mass destruction devices, and to make effective decisions in both crisis and routine situations.
• Engaging in continuous development of critical thinking skills, necessary to mitigate actual and potential security threats, by identifying, evaluating, and applying appropriate situational options and approaches. This may include application of risk-based security screening protocols that vary based on program requirements.
• Retaining and implementing knowledge of all applicable Standard Operating Procedures, demonstrating responsible and dependable behavior, and is open to change and adapts to new information or unexpected obstacles.