Mission Support Specialist (Generalist)

Summary

Organizational Location: This position is with the Department of Homeland Security, within U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Border Patrol, Rio Grande Valley Sector, Mission Readiness Operations, Training, Recruitment & Resiliency Unit, located in Edinburg, TX. Additional selections may be made to include other organizational divisions and/or units within the duty location(s) listed above.

Duties

• This position uses your experience in various mission support duties that fulfill the goals and objectives of U.S. Border Patrol. Apply for this exciting opportunity to strengthen the Department's ability to protect the homeland. This position starts at a salary of $74,678.00 (GS-11, Step 1) to $116,362.00 (GS-12, Step 10). As a Mission Support Specialist (Generalist), you will carry out a wide variety of mission support, administrative management, and program planning activities. Typical duties of this assignment include: Implementing policies related to sector staffing and position management procedures and other matters affecting USBP administrative programs. Initiating timely and accurate personnel-related actions related to promotions, reassignments, transfers, retirements, awards, timecards, and leave. Managing inventories, fleet records, and records management and providing training in accordance with local and higher headquarters directives. Providing a consistently high level of professional customer service and liaison to supervisors, managers, and executives in USBP and outside agencies and organizations. GS Salary: Visit this link to view the locality pay tables by geographic area. If you do not see your geographic area listed, select the "Rest of United States" pay table. Some positions fall under a special pay rate depending on the series, grade level and location of the position. Please visit this link to view special pay rate charts.

Qualifications

Experience: You qualify for the GS-11 grade level if you possess 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level, performing duties such as: Creating and submitting personnel-related actions for promotions, reassignments, transfers, retirements, and awards in a timely matter. Developing and delivering project papers, status and staff reports, and correspondence to managers to foster understanding and acceptance of findings and recommendations. Managing and administering premium pays, overtime, and leave entitlements. Briefing staff on various budget issues and preparing narratives and data reports. Overseeing the local fleet card program by ordering cards, performing audits, extracting reports, reporting fraud, and processing override requests. Experience: You qualify for the GS-12 grade level if you possess 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level, performing duties such as: Performing tasks associated with creating requisitions and purchase orders to ensure budget approval. Calculating projections to ensure adequate funding has been allocated to cover all budgetary expenses. Serving as the local contract technical representative for services and acquisition contracts to include the development, coordination, and execution of pre-award and post-award contracts. Providing guidance on interpretation and implementation of new and revised legislation, policies, regulations and procedures. Developing and recommending solutions to a range of complex interrelated problems that result in overall improvement in services and processes. NOTE: Your resume must explicitly indicate how you meet this requirement, otherwise you will be found ineligible. Please see the "Required Documents" section below for additional resume requirements. Education Substitution: GS-11: A Ph.D. or an equivalent doctoral degree, three full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree or an LL.M. degree from an accredited college or university may substitute for experience required at this level. Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position. Check with your school to determine how many credit hours comprise two years of graduate education. If that information is not available, use 54 semester or 81 quarter hours. Combining Education and Experience: GS-11: To combine your education and experience, you must convert each to a percentage, and then add the percentages. The combined total of your percentage of education and experience must equal at least 100% to qualify. Only graduate education in excess of the amount required for the next lower grade level may be used to qualify applicants for positions at grade GS-11. If your education is currently described in quarter hours, convert the quarter hours into semester hours by multiplying the quarter hours by the fraction 2/3. To calculate your percentage of graduate education, divide the number of graduate semester hours by 18. To determine your percentage of qualifying experience, you must divide your total number of months of qualifying experience by the required number of months of experience. Add your percentages of education and experience. GS-12: There is no education substitution for this GS-level. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. You must: Meet all qualification requirements, including education if applicable to this position, subject to verification at any stage of th…

Education

Please see the Qualifications and Required Documents sections for more information if education is applicable to this position.