Total 26 Legal / Public / Security job vacancies in Bloomington, Illinois

• Protects the civil rights of all individuals on VA controlled property;
• Prevents, detect and investigate crimes;
• Patrols assigned areas on foot or by motor vehicle;
• Subdues persons causing disturbance or who threaten harm to themselves or others;
• Follows rules/procedures concerning search and seizure of evidence and contraband;
• Obtains search and arrest warrants;
• Arrests violators;
• Provides basic first aid and CPR prior to arrival of emergency medical personnel;
• Prepares report of activities and events that occurred during shift;
• Performs traffic control; and
• Assists citizens in emergency situations;
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING DAY TO DAY

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

• Planning, developing, and implementing public behavioral health programs in collaboration with local, state, other Federal and/or international governments and various public, nonprofit, and private and health related organizations.
• Reviewing congressional and legislative actions; assessing impact on public health program activities, initiatives, and policies; and initiating action accordingly.
• Conducting and/or assisting in the development and delivery of training courses (e.g., community planning, prevention and intervention, outreach strategies, data collection, etc.,); and assisting with special studies and/or demonstrations.

This position will be filled at the GG-07 grade level. Incumbent may be advanced non-competitively to the established target grade upon meeting developmental benchmarks, performance requirements, and other requirements, as applicable established for the career program or specifically for the incumbent.

-Assists with conducting Federal Personnel Background Investigations, many of which are sensitive or controversial, where allegations, hearsay information, or other vague or intangible information of an adverse nature exist.-Evaluates individual's trustworthiness for access to classified information, placement in a sensitive position, retention in the military services, or placement in Federal employment.-Assists with collecting and developing information from a variety of sources.-Prepares reports of investigation in accordance with DOD guidelines and instructions.

If selected for this position, you will serve as a Senior Legal Assistant (OA) for OCDETF for the United States Attorney's Office (USAO), Northern District of Illinois. Typical work assignments will include:

• Provides expert advice on complex organized crime and drug investigations and prosecutions.
• Serves as a legal assistance subject matter expert and provides training and guidance to other support staff.
• Maintains current knowledge of regulations, laws applicable to domestic and international drug trafficking and associated organized crime.
• Provides a variety of direct legal support to one or more AUSAs.
• Prepares a wide variety of legal documents, many of which are voluminous and complex in format.

As a PUBLIC HEALTH TECHNICIAN (Title 32), GS-0640-8, you will maintain Force Health Protection through planning, evaluating, and management principles related to epidemiological, operational, and occupational and public health programs. This includes occupational health, hearing conservation, reproductive health, bloodborne pathogens exposure control, communicable disease control, immunization, disease vector surveillance, disease/epidemiological surveillance, aircraft inspection, facility sanitation, food safety and vulnerability, health risk assessment, medical intelligence, and operational medicine.

Major Duties - This is NOT an all-inclusive list:

• Ensure statutory and regulatory compliance with applicable Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Air Force Occupational Safety and health (AFOSH) directives in the ANG area of assignment.
• Determine educational/training requirements for employees by analyzing existing compliance data.
• Ensure pre- and post-deployment medical screening, documentation and required post-deployment medical follow-up activity is accomplished as directed in current Air Force Instructions (AFIs) and Health Affairs policy.
• Analyze BEE Industrial Hygiene Survey data to determine exposed personnel, ensures completion of audiometric testing, reviews test results to detect threshold shifts and recommends appropriate follow-up actions.
• Interview and educate employees, consults the workplace supervisor and determines the need for employee work restrictions and counsels the employee on potential health hazards that may affect pregnancy and reproductive health at the workplace, at home, and during recreational activities.
• Formulate, implement, and execute methods and educational strategies for identification, control and/or elimination of vector-borne illness with regional health agencies.
• Analyze scientific and compliance data to determine the scope and frequency of required occupational health surveillance.
• Review, implement and execute current policy and guidance for routine and mandatory immunization requirements, including deployment-specific immunizations.
• Review existing on and off-base food and public facilities, contracted medical services, lodging, food vendors, and other related services.
• Utilize variety of technical instructions, technical manuals, medical facility regulations, regulatory requirements and established procedures from agencies such as the National Fire Protection Association, Health Affairs, Food and Drug Administration, and advisory committees of immunization practices.
• Set up surveys, provide education, track and develop training, research requirements and provide coordination to ensure programs are viable.

• Ensures accuracy of information input in the Rapid Time Automated Personnel Identification System (RAPIDS) to issue the Common Access Card (CAC) for service members, DoD civilians and contractors
• Coordinates and maintains access control systems including ID Badge systems, CCTV, and Intrusion Detection System (IDS) as it pertains to physical security regulations.
• Responsible for issuance, documentation, and accountability for variety of security and access badges.
• Perform duties to protect personnel, facilities, and USACE assets against criminal or hostile activities, sabotage, unauthorized disclosure, espionage, natural disasters, and terrorism.
• Responsible for observing all applicable safety rules, regulations, and directives.
• Maintains the security office website and security manager in implementing security education and motivation programs.

• Ensures accuracy of information input in the Rapid Time Automated Personnel Identification System (RAPIDS) to issue the Common Access Card (CAC) for service members, DoD civilians and contractors.
• Coordinates and maintains access control systems including ID Badge systems, CCTV, and Intrusion Detection System (IDS) as it pertains to physical security regulations.
• Responsible for issuance, documentation, and accountability for variety of security and access badges.
• Perform duties to protect personnel, facilities, and USACE assets against criminal or hostile activities, sabotage, unauthorized disclosure, espionage, natural disasters, and terrorism.
• Responsible for observing all applicable safety rules, regulations, and directives.
• Maintains the security office website and security manager in implementing security education and motivation programs.

If selected for this position, typical work assignments will include:

• Serving as legal assistant responsible for supporting Assistant United States Attorneys (AUSAs) by providing a variety of legal assistance and office support services. Requiring knowledge of the processes, procedures, and practices of legal support activities in conjunction with a knowledge of clerical skills, and an ability to apply these skills to increase the effectiveness of the assigned AUSA.
• Using a variety of office software, providing automated litigation assistance to attorneys by preparing charts and other materials relating to trial preparation and presentations. Producing a variety of written documents utilizing a range of office automation software.
• Reviewing incoming material and, based on established policy and procedure, determining the need for assembly and preparation of a variety of legal documents, e.g., complaints, motions, orders, answers, pleadings, subpoenas, and libels.
• Obligating funds for litigation expenses and monitors for continued necessity. Reviewing bills and invoices and submits to budget office for payment. Maintaining calendar of assigned active cases.
• Tracking filing, hearing, and trial dates, and scheduling conferences and interviews. Developing and maintaining suspense system for ongoing cases and informs the AUSA of pending dates and deadlines.
• Contributing to reports summarizing the case status, including legal issues, factual issues, and case developments. Aiding in summarizing the factual situation, the basis of the complaint, legal Issues presented and relevant case law.
• Coding and indexing discovery documents using legal case management software. Conducting document searches, organizing documents, conducting first level document review, and coordinating document production.

If selected for this position, typical work assignments will include:

• Serving as legal assistant responsible for supporting Assistant United States Attorneys (AUSAs) by providing a variety of legal assistance and office support services. Requiring knowledge of the processes, procedures, and practices of legal support activities in conjunction with a knowledge of clerical skills, and an ability to apply these skills to increase the effectiveness of the assigned AUSA.
• Using a variety of office software, providing automated litigation assistance to attorneys by preparing charts and other materials relating to trial preparation and presentations. Producing a variety of written documents utilizing a range of office automation software.
• Reviewing incoming material and, based on established policy and procedure, determining the need for assembly and preparation of a variety of legal documents, e.g., complaints, motions, orders, answers, pleadings, subpoenas, and libels.
• Obligating funds for litigation expenses and monitors for continued necessity. Reviewing bills and invoices and submits to budget office for payment. Maintaining calendar of assigned active cases.
• Tracking filing, hearing, and trial dates, and scheduling conferences and interviews. Developing and maintaining suspense system for ongoing cases and informs the AUSA of pending dates and deadlines.
• Contributing to reports summarizing the case status, including legal issues, factual issues, and case developments. Aiding in summarizing the factual situation, the basis of the complaint, legal Issues presented and relevant case law.
• Coding and indexing discovery documents using legal case management software. Conducting document searches, organizing documents, conducting first level document review, and coordinating document production.

This position is located in the Public Buildings Service, Real Estate Division (RED). This division manages the acquisition of leased space – and the renovation of existing leased and federal space – to support customer agency real estate needs.

This position has job functions that must be executed within specific geographic locations. The official duty station is a federal facility, leased space, or an alternative worksite (typically the employee’s home) within the specified geographic area: Chicago, IL; Springfield, IL; Indianapolis, IN; Milwaukee, WI; Detroit, MI; Battle Creek, MI; Grand Rapids, MI; Cincinnati, OH; Cleveland, OH; Columbus, OH; Minneapolis, MN; St. Paul, MN and Fort Snelling, MN.  You will be expected to report to a specific GSA duty location at least one or more days a pay period depending upon the terms of the agency’s telework policy.

Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Serves as an expert in project management and serves as the primary point of contact in developing and maintaining Division project management policy, practice, and training regimens. This includes developing and maintaining policy and training documents by staying abreast of Public Buildings Service (PBS), Regional, and Division project management dynamics in both leased and federal space.
• Serves as a knowledge expert/resource to all Project Management Branches and Division staff overall as required on all aspects of project management, developing and providing guidance, one-to-one guidance if requested, formal and informal training or briefings or other information sharing in this program area.
• Identifies project management innovations, precedent-setting projects or new training (within and outside of the Federal Government) in the field that would help grow project management within the Great Lakes Region.
• Engages in helping to resolve questions of project management policy and practice, attending various project or program discussions to offer project management policy and practice guidance or evaluating proposed courses of action to keep projects in line with Public Buildings Services (PBS) and Division policy and practices. 
• Responsible for liaising with, organizing, leading, and facilitating the Division senior or Expert and Supervisory Project Managers as a Project Management Council, in parity and concert with the Lease Contracting Officer (LCO) Council in order to help ensure project management and lease procurement policy, practice and training are coordinated and harmonized to the maximum extent possible across the project delivery spectrum.

What will I do in this position if hired?

In this Civil Engineer position, typical assignments include:

• Reviewing design and construction plans, cost estimates and schedules in Hazard Mitigation Assistance grant applications; and
• Validating cost estimates and cost-effectiveness analyses; and
• Providing assistance to internal and external partners on FEMA's benefit cost analysis tool and methodology; and
• Serving as an engineering and cost-effectiveness technical expert for training development, policy review and working groups in support of Mitigation programs; and
• Conducting training and relaying technical information effectively to internal and external non-technical partners; and
• Providing program guidance and other technical assistance to states, tribes and communities on projects with complex engineering work.

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.

This announcement is for a position as a CORE (Cadre of On-Call Response/Recovery Employee). CORE employees are full-time employees hired to directly support the response and recovery efforts related to disasters. Employees are hired under the Robert T. Stafford Act and are excluded from the provisions of title 5, United States Code, governing jobs in the competitive service. They can be hired under a streamlined process instead of a competitive process. After three years of continuous service, Stafford Act employees may be granted competitive eligibility to apply for permanent full-time positions at FEMA.

This position will be hired into a temporary 4-year, excepted service appointment. Appointments may be renewed based on workload, funding, and supervisory approval.

FEMA is committed to ensuring that its workforce reflects the diversity of the nation. At FEMA, our workforce includes the many identities, races, ethnicities, backgrounds, abilities, ages, cultures, and beliefs of the people we serve. To learn about FEMA's ongoing diversity and inclusion efforts, reasonable accommodation process, and the FEMA Core Values, please visit www.fema.gov.

This Supervisory Federal Air Marshal (SFAM) position is located in the Chicago Field Office, Field Operations Division, Law Enforcement/Federal Air Marshal Service (LE/FAMS), Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Additional duties include but are not limited to:

• Directs the work of subordinate FAMs and performs supervisory duties including assigning tasks, setting priorities, monitoring and evaluating performance, coaching, and developing employee capabilities, approving leave, and taking and recommending corrective/disciplinary action.
• Establishes and maintains liaison with other federal, state and local law enforcement at all levels, including those from private industry.
• Articulates the LE/FAMS goals and objectives to local, state and federal law enforcement partners, as well as a myriad of transportation security stakeholders.

This Supervisory Federal Air Marshal (SFAM) position is located in the Chicago Field Office, Field Operations Division, Law Enforcement/Federal Air Marshal Service (LE/FAMS), Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Additional duties include but are not limited to:

• Directs the work of subordinate FAMs and performs supervisory duties including assigning tasks, setting priorities, monitoring and evaluating performance, coaching, and developing employee capabilities, approving leave, and taking and recommending corrective/disciplinary action.
• Establishes and maintains liaison with other federal, state and local law enforcement at all levels, including those from private industry.
• Articulates the LE/FAMS goals and objectives to local, state and federal law enforcement partners, as well as a myriad of transportation security stakeholders.

This Program Assistant position is located in the Chicago Field Office, Field Operations Division, Law Enforcement/Federal Air Marshal Service (LE/FAMS), Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS). If selected for this position, you will serve as a Program Assistant and Point of Contact (POC) responsible for providing overall operational support on general administrative and program issues regarding policies, procedures, and requirements governing office operations. Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Provides general support to the Administrative Unit.
• Performs data entry where appropriate with a high level of accuracy, and little or no supervision. Initiating personnel actions for employee awards, promotions, reassignments, demotions, etc.
• Maintains a purchase card for supplies, materials, professional development classes, etc. Assisting with the budget by running reports from financial system and updating a record keeping workbook.
• Processes time and attendance for the field office by entering leave and payroll data into the time and attendance database.
• Serves as a custodian for the field office government vehicles; tracks information, log-in books, and vehicle maintenance; tracks/managing government fleet credit card.
• Serves as Workers Compensation Coordinator (WCC); uploads and maintains claim records, etc. with the Department of Labor/Office of Workers Compensation.
• Serves as the travel regulations and policies POC; verifies and certifies all travel authorizations and vouchers in the government travel system, ensures that all travelers get reimbursed; and handles all travel arrangements for the Supervisory Air Marshal in Charge (SAC).
• Maintains files, records, schedules and calendars for assigned squads within the field office such as Employee Performance Files (EPFs), administrative files, and physical/stress exams, recording TSA Online Learning Center training courses, etc.
• Updates specific squad rosters, and other FAM contact information.

This Program Assistant position is located in the Chicago Field Office, Field Operations Division, Law Enforcement/Federal Air Marshal Service (LE/FAMS), Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS). If selected for this position, you will serve as a Program Assistant and Point of Contact (POC) responsible for providing overall operational support on general administrative and program issues regarding policies, procedures, and requirements governing office operations. Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Provides general support to the Administrative Unit.
• Performs data entry where appropriate with a high level of accuracy, and little or no supervision. Initiating personnel actions for employee awards, promotions, reassignments, demotions, etc.
• Maintains a purchase card for supplies, materials, professional development classes, etc. Assisting with the budget by running reports from financial system and updating a record keeping workbook.
• Processes time and attendance for the field office by entering leave and payroll data into the time and attendance database.
• Serves as a custodian for the field office government vehicles; tracks information, log-in books, and vehicle maintenance; tracks/managing government fleet credit card.
• Serves as Workers Compensation Coordinator (WCC); uploads and maintains claim records, etc. with the Department of Labor/Office of Workers Compensation.
• Serves as the travel regulations and policies POC; verifies and certifies all travel authorizations and vouchers in the government travel system, ensures that all travelers get reimbursed; and handles all travel arrangements for the Supervisory Air Marshal in Charge (SAC).
• Maintains files, records, schedules and calendars for assigned squads within the field office such as Employee Performance Files (EPFs), administrative files, and physical/stress exams, recording TSA Online Learning Center training courses, etc.
• Updates specific squad rosters, and other FAM contact information.