Total 38 Legal / Public / Security job vacancies in WA - Remote - East Kimberley Region

Primary duties include but are not limited to the following:

• The National Contact Center (NCC) centralizes VBA's contact center activities and provides greater consistency and higher quality service by customer-facing employees.
• NCC employees may have contacts via telephone, email, video, or chat with the public for the purposes of (1) advising and providing information on benefits and rights; (2) explaining pertinent legal provisions, regulations, and related administrative practices and their application to specific cases; (3) assisting individuals regarding how best to provide needed documents and evidence required, and/or (4) initiating inquiries to resolve errors, delays, or other problems in obtaining benefits. The employees will also assist with the completion of claim and appeal related work.
• Assists the inquirer with determining the short-term and long-term circumstances that might influence a choice between various benefits. Programs include, but are not limited to, compensation and pension benefits, home loan eligibility, education, health care, life insurance, burial benefits, vocational rehabilitation services, fiduciary assistance, general Social Security Administration benefit programs, and other Federal, state, and local domestic relations and assistance programs.
• Explains the types of documents necessary to facilitate timely processing of claims and appeals and assists with obtaining and completing such documents and forms in accordance with the type of claim or appeal being submitted.
• Explains VBA rating decisions and provides explanations for the decisions using extensive knowledge of VA benefits and services, claim and appeal processing procedures, and all pertinent information available within the systems of record.
• Performs claim or appeal related work including, but not limited to, providing comprehensive claim or appeal status updates using mandatory scripting requirements, processing change of address requests, establishment of, or change to direct deposit banking information, burial allowance claims, dependency claim, etc.
• Appropriately responds to interactions where the customer wishes to speak/discuss to a "supervisor," by attempting to deescalate the interaction by immediately addressing the inquirer's needs prior to referral for a contact by a supervisor

APPLICATION LIMIT: This vacancy announcement is limited to the first 50 applications received and will close at 11:59PM Eastern Time on the day that we receive the 50th application, or at 11:59PM Eastern Time on the listed closing date, whichever occurs first.  

We encourage you to read this entire vacancy announcement prior to submitting your application.

As a Supervisory General Attorney, GS-0905-14, you will be responsible for:
•    Ensuring that the team's complaint investigations, compliance reviews, and proactive enforcement activities are factually accurate and legally sound.
•    Providing professional leadership and guidance to team members in conducting, and improving civil rights complaint investigations, compliance review, proactive enforcement, and technical assistance activities.  
•    Providing legal guidance to the team on the analysis of evidence, investigative reports, resolution letters, and negotiated settlements.  
•    Planning and conducting complete on-site investigations.  
•    Conducting compliance reviews of selected recipient institutions with respect to the requirements of appropriate statues and regulations.

APPLICATION LIMIT: This vacancy announcement is limited to the first 50 applications received and will close at 11:59PM Eastern Time on the day that we receive the 50th application, or at 11:59PM Eastern Time on the listed closing date, whichever occurs first.  

We encourage you to read this entire vacancy announcement prior to submitting your application.

As a Supervisory Equal Opportunity Specialist, GS-0360-14, you will be responsible for:
• Provides team and program leadership in the planning and conduct of complaint investigations, compliance reviews, proactive enforcement activities, and the provision of technical assistance.
• Supervises and participates in the activities of the case resolution team, coordinates with other OCR teams, plans and assigns work, assures that quality and quantity requirements are met, evaluates performance, deals with officials of other units in the organization, advises management officials at higher levels on group complaints, effects disciplinary actions, recommends personnel actions, and promotes team building.
• Provides professional leadership and guidance to team members, state and institutional officials in conducting, extending and improving civil rights complaint investigation, compliance review, proactive enforcement and technical assistance activities. Provides leadership in establishing and maintaining positive relationships with customers including state officials, recipients, civil rights organizations, and education groups.
• Conducts extremely complex complaint investigations that are likely to result in major precedent-setting decisions and is responsible for each phase of the case through resolution. If enforcement is necessary, the Team Leader provides expert testimony in an administrative hearing or subsequent court actions.
• Reviews the allegations, identifies, analyzes and interprets considerable pertinent data, interviews witnesses, develops legal theories and investigative plans.

This Supervisory Federal Air Marshal (SFAM) position is located in the Atlanta 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 Atlanta 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 position is 100% remote and the US location is negotiable after selection. Work sites outside of the U.S. are prohibited. Your salary will be based upon the locality pay of your work site after selection.

To view the salary range including locality pay for your particular location, please visit this link to the 2024 OPM Salary Tables.

Applications received as a result of job fairs, recruitment events, and emergency hiring mechanisms in support of this hiring initiative will also be accepted during open and closing date of this announcement.

IT Specialists (INFOSEC) are a mission critical occupation for HRSA. These positions are responsible for the analysis of system and/or security requirements, the development and implementation of mission critical applications for the agency's Information Technology operations.

As an IT Specialist - Info Sec - Information Systems Security Officer (ISSO), you will serve as a technical authority/subject matter expert for HRSA on matters involving the vulnerabilities and threats to HHS' information technology systems.

Your major duties and responsibilities will include:

• Developing/updating system security plans, risk assessments, disaster recovery, and contingency plans, incident response and additional system development life-cycle security documentation.
• Overseeing the security posture for one or more system(s) throughout the entire lifecycle; providing continuous monitoring through scheduled audits, controls testing, and audit reviews, and escalates issues as needed.
• Facilitating remediation/mitigation of weaknesses tracked on the Plan of Action and Milestones to reduce risk and address weaknesses to the system.
• Providing Continuous Monitoring support/guidance by reviewing security documentation, logs, scans and ensuring system backups are performed.
• Conducting security impact assessments when system changes or additions occur to the system, evaluate compliance with IT security requirements, compare them with expected results, and make recommendations.

As an Equal Opportunity Investigator, at the full performance level, you will perform the following duties:

• Utilizes a variety of investigative techniques such as interviews or fact-finding conferences, and a variety of instruments such as requests for information, position statements, exchange of letters or memoranda, interrogatories, and affidavits to investigate alleged violations of Federal equal employment opportunity laws;
• Requests documentary evidence and interview witnesses and responsible management officials (RMOs) to obtain their testimony about the claims;
• Prepares affidavits tailored to the appropriate model of proof for review and signature by these witnesses and RMOs; AND
• Uses evidence obtained during the investigation to write and organize the Report of Investigation (ROI), as well as to prepare an investigative summary which summarizes the ROI.

• As a Senior Civil Engineer (Structural) within the PD-MCX, you will Plan, schedule, organize, direct, coordinate, and perform complex structural designs and technical studies to include:
• Conventional Facility Design; Computerized Analysis and Design; Surface and Shallow Buried Hardened Facilities; Deep Underground Facilities; Statistical Design Methods; and developing protective design criteria.
• Direct nuclear and conventional weapons effects and threat analysis (airblast, airblast and direct-induced ground shock, cratering phenomena, ejects, debris and dust, radiation, and firestorm, and projectile penetration)
• Direct, coordinate, and review structural design work and technical studies contracted to Architect-Engineer (A-E) firms and research organizations.
• Brief the highest levels of Army staff elements on PD-MCX programs that have Army-wide application for the purposes of coordination and facilitation of program execution.
• Define the scope-of-work to be performed based on engineering knowledge, judgment, and sponsor requirements.

At the full performance level (GS-14) the major duties of this position include but are not limited to the following:

1. Supervise and manage a comprehensive audit program to ensure compliance with the statutory requirements of SMCRA.
2. Develope and provide objectives and techniques necessary to carry out the mission of the audit function, exercising technical and administrative direction.
3. Management of a program that works on a broad range of auditing, analytical, and investigative techniques to ensure compliance with the statutory requirements of the SMCRA.
4. Develop and implement standards for measuring the efficiency and effectiveness of field audit operations.