Mission Support Specialist (generalist)

Job Posting

Summary Organizational Location: This position is with the Department of Homeland Security, within U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Training and Development, Border Patrol Canine Academy located in El Paso, TX.

Responsibilities: The applicant will perform under close supervision, a variety of administrative, research, analytical duties, special assignments and completing training all related to the mission, both of which are aimed in preparing the applicant to gain the knowledge and skills necessary to perform their duties. This position starts at a salary of $73,939.00 (GS-11, Step 1) to $115,213.00 (GS-12, Step 10) with promotion potential to $115,213.00 (GS-12 Step 10). GS Salary: Visit this link to view the locality pay tables by geographic area.

Major duties include:

• Providing comprehensive mission support and management advisory and technical services on substantive organizational functions and work practices.
• Managing the fleet program to include overseeing the ordering, receiving, inventorying, transferring, and excessing fleet vehicles.
• Serving as the local contract technical representative for services or acquisition contracts to include the development, coordination and execution of pre-award and post-award contracts.
• Generating and maintaining various reports, updating/providing updated information for the Agency's internal Table Organization (TO) tracker, monitoring tickler reports and staffing table.
• Assisting with developing and recommending solutions to a range of logistic operations and technical issues to evaluate and improve services and processes, responsible for implementing new related policies and procedures.

Requirements:

Conditions of Employment:

• You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this position.
• Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered with Selective Service.
• Primary U.S. residency for at least three of the last five years (additional details below).
• All pre-employment processes will be conducted in English.
• You may be required to pass a background investigation.
• CBP follows the DHS Drug-Free Workplace Plan for drug testing procedures.
• As an employee of CBP, you will be joining a workforce that is dedicated to accomplishing our mission while maintaining the trust of our Nation by strictly adhering to all government ethics standards.
• Your conduct will be subject to the ethics rules applicable to all Executive Branch employees, and to CBP employees specifically, as well as the criminal conflict of interest statutes.
• Once you enter on duty, these rules include obtaining approval for outside employment or business activity, to ensure such employment or business activity is not prohibited and does not interfere or conflict with performance of your official duties.
• DHS uses E-Verify, an internet-based system, to confirm the eligibility of all newly hired employees to work in the United States.

Bargaining Unit: This is a bargaining unit covered position, represented under the National Treasury Employees Unions - NTEU.

Qualifications:

Specialized 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:

• Monitoring and advising on a variety of administrative problems or situations (i.e. budget, personnel, travel, space, logistics).
• Organizing incoming and outgoing correspondence and ensuring proper handling of administrative material.
• Assisting with the management of property and vehicle inventory to include ordering, receiving, inventorying, transferring, and excessing property.
• Gathering information and data from automated systems to prepare briefing materials for management and senior leadership.

Specialized 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:

• Managing property and vehicle inventory, to include handling lost, stolen, destroyed, or missing property.
• Assisting in performing budget obligations and ensuring allocations, commitments, and expenditures are properly projected.
• Utilizing automated systems to track, monitor and gather information to support human capital and timekeeping activities.
• Developing and preparing reports and/or briefings to senior leadership and management officials.

NOTE: Your resume must explicitly indicate how you meet this requirement, otherwise you will be found ineligible.

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.
• GS-12: There is no education substitution at the GS-12 grade level for this occupation.

Combining Experience and Education: 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% in order to qualify.

You must:

• Meet all qualification requirements, including education if applicable to this position, subject to verification at any stage of the application process;
• Meet all applicable Time in Grade requirements (current federal employees must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade or equivalent grade band in the federal service) by 11/20/2025.

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees.

If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office.

Background Investigation: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is a federal law enforcement agency that requires all applicants to undergo a thorough background investigation prior to employment in order to promote the agency's core values of vigilance, service to country, and integrity.

Residency: There is a residency requirement for all applicants not currently employed by CBP. Individuals are required to have physically resided in the United States or its protectorates (as declared under international law) for at least three of the last five years.

Probationary Period: All employees new to the federal government must serve a one year probationary period during the first year of his/her initial permanent federal appointment to determine fitness for continued employment.

Agency Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP) Eligibles: If you have never worked for the federal government, you are not CTAP eligible.