Total 602 job vacancies in Silver Spring, Maryland

The incumbent is the Regional Correctional Programs Administrator for a region within the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). Under the general direction of the Deputy Regional Director, the incumbent is actively involved in long range and strategic planning. They evaluate programs that may be substantive for other regional staff. The incumbent serves to execute the mission of the regional office which is to provide supervision, direction and related managerial functions for the BOP. The incumbent is responsible for policy implementation, planning, directing and coordinating operations to provide services that meet unit/case management and correctional program requirements to accomplish the institutions' missions.

In this position, you will:

• Develops optical and electrical particle characterization methods and applies those methods to reference materials of interest to the biopharmaceutical community, and oversees operation of an X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) laboratory to provide surface characterization capabilities to researchers from multiple NIST divisions.
• Conducts reference material method development and operations of XPS laboratory with minimal management supervision.
• Scope of XPS tasks include development and maintenance of instrument capabilities, training of and guidance to users, monitoring instrument performance, initiating necessary corrective actions, promoting safe operations, and communicating instrument issues with users, thereby ensuring continued quality and availability of XPS instrument to NIST user group.
• Conducts research in particle characterization and XPS characterization of surfaces, leading to reference materials or contributions to papers that support industrial applications in these areas.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING DAY TO DAY

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

• Identifying specific statistical research areas that merit investigation, developing new hypotheses, and approaches for studies, and evaluating the feasibility of such endeavors.
• Initiating, formulating, planning, and executing analytic research projects and researching the quality of methodologies and measures pertaining to the assessment of the subject matter being studied.
• Conducting research and statistical studies or projects related to statistical computation in the preparation of mental health and substance use prevalence, surveillance, and/or treatment utilization research.
• Evaluating the data, drawing inferences and arriving at conclusions making use of text, graphs, charts, and tables to ensure its most effective presentation.
• Preparing comprehensive reports of study results to include discussion of substantive research objectives.

Major Duties include but are not limited to:

• Providing policing services in a variety of jurisdictional environments, where each type of jurisdiction (Exclusive, Concurrent, and Proprietorial) has different enforcement rules and requires Police Officers to understand the complexities and legally apply the correct set of laws, regulations, and processes.
• Provides services routinely at all segments of VA facilities located over large geographical areas, some of which may be in different states, counties, municipalities, or townships.
• Performs certain elements of the work away from Departmental properties when consistent with Federal law, regulation, VA policy, and operational guidance.
• Protects Veterans, volunteers, and others on Departmental property, U.S. officials, other individuals, and him or herself during any given situation against threats to personal safety when force becomes necessary to enforce laws and regulations.
• Protects Veterans, employees and visitors sensitive and protected medical information from unauthorized release or unauthorized use where prohibited by law and or policy as guided by the privacy officer, FOIA, HIPPA, etc.
• Carries firearms and other weapons, intervenes when necessary to deescalate situations, and determines when and how much force must be applied.
• Advises individuals of their (Miranda, Weingarten, Garrity, etc.) rights, and protects the constitutional and civil rights of persons.
• Conducts investigations, apprehensions, or detention of individuals suspected or convicted of offenses against the criminal laws of the US, protection, and transport of U.S. officials. Conducts investigations with a nexus to VA, prisoner transports, patient search and recovery, life-saving efforts, disaster response and recovery, asset protection during transit, training, and other matters.
• Identifies and preserves evidence, writes comprehensive incident reports, prepares case files, and testifies in court as it pertains to enforcing laws and regulations.
• Provides patrol in vehicles, on foot, and/or on a bicycle.
• Detects and intervenes in criminal activity; responds to calls for police assistance, irregularities, and unusual or suspicious circumstances.
• Investigates incidents and takes steps to mitigate further risk and resolve situations. Provides emergency response coordination as needed.
• Performs drug and contraband intervention techniques and provides training to those areas where contraband identification and knowledge is imperative for the staff.
• Serves as an interregnal part of the suicide prevention program and is often the first person seen by Veterans. Intervenes when possible, to deescalate active suicidal behavior and/or prevents suicides.
• Operates specialized vehicles and equipment in support of law enforcement and security operations.
• Executes arrest warrants issued by federal and local courts. Coordinates or transports arrested parties to holding facilities and courts as required.
• Functions as first line of defense during violent crimes in progress, terror attacks, potential threats etc.
• Preserves crime scenes, summons additional emergency response personnel, and coordinates, initiates or assists with partial or total evacuations.
• Initiates investigative stops on suspicious and potentially dangerous persons and suspicious vehicles independently.
• Uses the National Incident Management System and Incident Command System protocols to establish command and control, develop a course of action and contain, mitigate, and recover from an incident.

• Moderate to arduous physical exertion and/or duties of a hazardous nature, good near and distant vision, ability to distinguish basic colors, and ability to hear the conversational voice.
• Strenuous, physical exertion -running, frequent climbing of multiple flights of stairs, and carrying items weighing over 50 pounds. Stamina, physical agility, dexterity, and the strength to pursue, apprehend or detain persons who are often uncooperative, assaultive, and/or armed.
• Positions involving Federal motor vehicle operation carry the additional medical requirements specified in 5 CFR 930..

In this position, you will perform the following duties:

• Financial Oversight: Manage and oversee the accounting and treasury, ensuring compliance with federal financial regulations and standards.
• Financial Reporting: Create, support, and review financial reports, ensuring accurate and compliant financial records.
• Audit Coordination: Coordinate and oversee financial audits, ensuring compliance with applicable standards and regulations for specific areas of
  responsibility. Collaborate with NIST audit liaisons. Champions/supports/develops internal controls.
• Staff Supervision: Supervise accounting and financial staff, providing training and support to ensure high performance and adherence to policies.
• Data Analysis: Analyze financial data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities, providing insights for decision-making.
• Financial System Upgrades: Support financial system upgrades with business process analysis/modernization/implementation.
• Ensures financial management and accounting services are provided in accordance with established guidelines, such as Accounts Receivables, Property, plant, and equipment (PP&E), Treasury Reconciliations, and Financial Systems Management.

• Operates one or more types of heavy equipment to excavate, backfill, grade, or level earth to rough specifications on such projects as breaking new ground for trails, roads, airfields, or other construction sites.
• Troubleshoots hard-to-locate problems, identifies defects and causes of mechanical problems to determine type and extent of necessary repairs to a variety of heavy mobile vehicles and equipment.
• Utilizes safety practices and procedures following established safety rules and regulations to maintain a safe and clean work environment.
• Drives one or more types of light trucks, such as pickup trucks, panel trucks, and flatbed trucks to transport supplies, materials, and equipment.
• Loads, unloads, separates, stacks, and carries materials, supplies, and packages weighing from 80 to 100 pounds (36 to 45 kilograms) or more.

• You will serve as the activities Administrative Specialist (N1) as a direct report to the Executive Officer.
• You will serve as the subject matter expert for administrative policy and procedural guidance to senior leadership.
• You will advise Activity Commander of inconsistencies and recommended actions in consonance with applicable directives.
• You will access and utilize a variety of Navy-wide databases and websites in the performance of duties.
• You will review products prepared by other government agencies or other elements of your assigned activity for technical accuracy and logical treatment and interpretation of information.

• Perform basic account maintenance procedures to ensure files, logs, and reports are complete.
• Ensure adequate stock and operating supplies are maintained.
• Operate computer systems to input or correct data, and produce documents, reports, shelf labels and signs.
• Verify receipts against invoices.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING DAY TO DAY

As a Supervisory Health Scientist Administrator, GS-0601-15, you will use your knowledge and experience to optimize business results and customer experience by:

1. Supervising a professional staff who oversees research and evidence reviews.
2. Overseeing the development of a scientific portfolio.
3. Serving as a Contracting Officer Representative (COR) to manage research projects related to evidence-based medicine and evidence synthesis.

• Write and edit programs (R, SAS, SQL, or Python) to query relational database, organize and analyze data from IMPACII or other relational database.
• Share programming code (R, SAS, SQL or Python), document steps of analysis and collaborate with team to ensure transparent and reproducible results.
• Investigate and provide collaborative feedback to team and leadership in understanding and editing programs (R, SAS, SQL or Python) for data anomalies, data integrity, nuances and other unexpected patterns in the data.
• Apply statistical techniques, models and tests to gain insight into the data and inform direction of subsequent analysis and explanation of significance of differences observed in the data.
• Write narrative explanations and interpretations of data findings, results and create summaries of the data as part of larger comprehensive analysis.
• Utilize scientific research methodologies and approaches to develop testable hypotheses to answer questions pertaining to scientific portfolio analyses for program staff and leadership.

• Serves as expert planner, providing advice and assistance to JTF-ARES in the design, planning and assessment of cyberspace concepts, objectives, and formulation of support plans, including Special Technical Operations.
• Analyzes complex operational, tactical situational awareness processes and cyber systems in order to support mission activities.
• Serves as a command/organization representative in discussions, meetings, committees, or special projects and presents briefings and prepares recommendations and reports.

• Employee serves as passport and visa specialist with responsibility in directing the work operations be carried out in the Air Mobility Command (AMC) Passport and Visa Office.
• Serves as the primary source of information for individuals, commanders, and other personnel regarding passport and visa application policies, procedures, and requirements.
• Provides guidance's from the Foreign Clearance Guide and applicable travel regulations concerning entry and exit requirements.
• Serves as the Passports and Visa specialist for AMC and associated Air Force Reserve and National Guard units and civilian personnel in support of operational readiness and Special Air Missions.

• Apply knowledge of R and D in the areas of the specified domain.
• Responsible for the development of advances in the state-of-the-art and creation of new or substantially improved end items in the form of equipment, systems, materials, processes, procedures, and techniques.
• Conduct development using VHDL, Verilog, and/or Matlab System Generator and apply development experience to maintain existing source code for Xilinx based FPGA projects.
• Apply software development skills using the Linux OS environment and leverage Linux repositories and source code to further product development.
• Experience with building a C project from source with make, as well as using Linux command line utilities is a plus.
• Apply existing SDR frameworks such as GNU Radio, USRP/UHD, RTL-SDR, and Epic SDR development kits to the developing products in the branch.
• Apply Electrical Engineering concepts for commercial communication systems and/or radar signal processing, and be able to manipulate digital RF data with DSP algorithms and codec processing.
• Apply sound engineering practice to accurately document software (requirements, flow diagrams, readme, users guide, etc.) and manage software bugs, features, epochs, sprints and releases using tools (e.g., JIRA) as required.
• Work independently on assignments involving a combination of complex feature of the domain and plans and carries out assignments for complete projects that entail a variety of complicating and interacting factors.
• Carry out assignments that have relationships with other engineering specializations and in consideration of the complete development cycle.
• Identify the scope and extent of the investigation, analysis, and design, and defines the specific engineering requirements and design criteria.
• Responsible for planning, organizing, directing, and coordinating development programs that require diverse creative and support efforts contributed by others such as laboratories or contractors.

• You will develop and define battery system interface requirements for weapon systems.
• You will evaluate design proposals received in response to formal competition as well as unsolicited, for battery systems.
• You will be responsible for battery systems detail specifications pertaining to assigned battery system areas and their interface.

• Maintains an online inventory of supplies and is fully responsible for determining minimum stock levels.
• Reviews requisitions and revises quantities ordered based on the number of items on hand, and orders substitutions when items are not available.
• Receives, verifies, and signs shipping documents for all merchandise acquired and is responsible for verifying the quantity and condition of merchandise ordered against purchase documents.
• Investigates and reconciles discrepancies relating to actions such as receipt control, stock control, and inventory adjustments.