Police Officer

In this position you will work as a member of the Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center (MWEOC), Emergency Services Division, Police Branch. MWEOC is located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, approximately 60 miles west of Washington, DC. The ideal candidate will have experience maintaining law and order, protecting life, property, infrastructure and civil rights of individuals, and national security information and programs from acts of sabotage, terrorism, theft or fire, etc.

All MWEOC staff have emergency assignments and are considered deployed in place. Exercises and activations are planned and unplanned, and may require long hours, nights, weekends and holidays. All MWEOC employees are: (1) required to use a government-issued electronic device (to include cellular phones); (2) subject to recall during emergency situations; and (3) required to perform work in locations both above and below ground. What will I do in this position if hired? In this position, you will serve as a Police Officer responsible for maintaining law and order and security and to protect life, property, and the civil rights of individuals; protecting government property and sensitive assets and information from acts of sabotage, espionage, terrorism, trespass, theft, fire, and accidental and/or willful damage and destruction that may affect the national interest. Typical assignments include: Enforcing a wide variety of federal, state, and local laws in compliance with rules, regulations, and procedures while carrying a firearm and/or weapon. Taking statements, conducting investigations of offenses that have been committed against the property and/or persons and making arrests without a warrant for any offense or for any felony. Patrolling facility grounds, structures, and surrounding roadways to prevent and detect theft, damage, or unauthorized entry; monitoring perimeter and internal detections systems. Receiving and acting on calls concerning reports of breaches of the peace, complaints, emergencies, accidents, acts of violence and theft of federal or personal property. Preparing reports, making recommendations, and prepares cases for prosecution; performing crime scene searches, collecting, preserving, identifying, photographing scenes to render detailed reports. What else do I need to know? At FEMA, our mission is to help people before, during and after disasters, and every employee at FEMA has a role in emergency management. Every FEMA employee has regular and recurring emergency management responsibilities, though not every position requires routine deployment to disaster sites. All positions are subject to recall around the clock for emergency management operations, which may require irregular work hours, work at locations other than the official duty station, and may include duties other than those specified in the employee's official position description. Travel requirements in support of emergency operations may be extensive in nature (weeks to months), with little advance notice, and may require employees to relocate to emergency sites with physically austere and operationally challenging conditions.

To ensure the accomplishment of our mission, DHS requires every employee to be reliable and trustworthy. To meet those standards, all selected applicants must undergo, successfully pass, and maintain a background investigation for a Top Secret clearance as a condition of placement into this position. This may include a credit check after initial job qualifications are determined, a review of financial issues, such as delinquency in the payment of debts, child support and/or tax obligations, as well as certain criminal offenses and illegal use or possession of drugs (please visit: Mythbuster on Federal Hiring Policies for additional information). For more information on background investigations for Federal jobs please visit What are background checks and security clearances. 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. Please ensure you meet the qualification requirements described below. Key Requirements: You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this position. You must successfully pass a background investigation. Selective Service registration required. Current federal employees must meet time-in-grade requirements. You must be able to obtain and maintain a Government credit card. You must be able to deploy with little or no advance notice to anywhere in the United States and its territories for an extended period of time. Please review the Additional Information section for additional key requirements.

No Educational Substitution: There is no educational substitution for this position, and you must meet the qualifications listed in the "qualifications" section of this announcement.