Position Summary:
In this position you will be providing advice and consultation to programs that involve and support the mission of DHS. This position starts at a salary of $122,711.00 (GS-14, Step 01) to $159,523.00 (GS-14, Step 10) with promotion potential to $159,523 (GS-14, Step 10). Apply for this exciting opportunity to serve as a program manager and expert in the areas of inspection, intelligence, analysis, examination and law enforcement activities relating to the importation or exportation of agricultural and commercial commodities, and conveyances, as well as passenger-related agricultural issues.
Key Responsibilities:
- Interacting with carriers, other agencies and foreign entities to exchange information and providing guidance on admissibility and compliance.
- Directing the determination of levels of risk for possible violations of laws and threats to national security, economic and agricultural interest. Disseminates information for targeting high-risk shipments, conveyances for examination, and passenger and flight risk analysis.
- Gathering and analyzing information from all available sources including USDA and conducting a wide range of record checks using a variety of databases, systems, and tactical intelligence to identify associated risks.
- Interpreting and implementing of all agriculture programs and policies relating to Titles 7 and 9 and any other matter as required by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) which may impact CBP operations.
- Planning, organizing, coordinating, controlling, and evaluating agricultural quarantine inspection program activities.
- Planning, organizing and directing team or task force efforts across organizational lines, including the ability to monitor progress to ensure that realistic objectives and milestones are established, to clearly assign responsibilities, and to accomplish mission requirements in a timely manner.
- Serving as a technical consultant and providing expert guidance on the interpretative techniques and regulatory requirements pertaining to the processing of all agriculture-related passenger baggage, merchandise, commodities, cargo and all types of conveyances.
- Making recommendations for program improvement and manages all resources as corporate assets.
- Providing guidance on the use of databases to place lookouts and holds on targeted shipments, carriers, flights, passenger baggage, and conveyances.
Required Education & Experience:
- Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered with Selective Service
- You must have successfully completed a full 4-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor’s or higher degree that included a major field of study in biological sciences (including botany, entomology, and plant pathology), agriculture, natural resource management, chemistry, or related disciplines (e.g., ecology). If you have not completed the above described education, you must have completed at least 24 semester hours in biological sciences, agriculture, natural resource management, chemistry or a related discipline at an accredited college or university plus appropriate experience or additional education. Examples of qualifying experience may include working in such areas as pest management, environmental monitoring, farm management, agricultural commodity importation and/or exportation, or other related experience in pest/pathogen detection, regulation, eradication, and control.
- You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this position
- CBP follows the DHS Drug-Free Workplace Plan for drug testing procedures
- Primary U.S. residency for at least three of the last five years (additional details below)
- You may be required to pass a background investigation
- Meet all qualification requirements, including education if applicable to this position, subject to verification at any stage of the application process;
- You must have taken the Agriculture Specialist Promotional Assessment and have a passing Total Score