Total 39 Legal / Public / Security job vacancies in US-IA-Iowa (Remote Employees)

As an Equal Opportunity Investigator, at the full performance level, you will perform the following duties:

• Utilizes a variety of investigative techniques such as interviews or fact-finding conferences, and a variety of instruments such as requests for information, position statements, exchange of letters or memoranda, interrogatories, and affidavits to investigate alleged violations of Federal equal employment opportunity laws;
• Requests documentary evidence and interview witnesses and responsible management officials (RMOs) to obtain their testimony about the claims;
• Prepares affidavits tailored to the appropriate model of proof for review and signature by these witnesses and RMOs; AND
• Uses evidence obtained during the investigation to write and organize the Report of Investigation (ROI), as well as to prepare an investigative summary which summarizes the ROI.

• As a Senior Civil Engineer (Structural) within the PD-MCX, you will Plan, schedule, organize, direct, coordinate, and perform complex structural designs and technical studies to include:
• Conventional Facility Design; Computerized Analysis and Design; Surface and Shallow Buried Hardened Facilities; Deep Underground Facilities; Statistical Design Methods; and developing protective design criteria.
• Direct nuclear and conventional weapons effects and threat analysis (airblast, airblast and direct-induced ground shock, cratering phenomena, ejects, debris and dust, radiation, and firestorm, and projectile penetration)
• Direct, coordinate, and review structural design work and technical studies contracted to Architect-Engineer (A-E) firms and research organizations.
• Brief the highest levels of Army staff elements on PD-MCX programs that have Army-wide application for the purposes of coordination and facilitation of program execution.
• Define the scope-of-work to be performed based on engineering knowledge, judgment, and sponsor requirements.

At the full performance level (GS-14) the major duties of this position include but are not limited to the following:

1. Supervise and manage a comprehensive audit program to ensure compliance with the statutory requirements of SMCRA.
2. Develope and provide objectives and techniques necessary to carry out the mission of the audit function, exercising technical and administrative direction.
3. Management of a program that works on a broad range of auditing, analytical, and investigative techniques to ensure compliance with the statutory requirements of the SMCRA.
4. Develop and implement standards for measuring the efficiency and effectiveness of field audit operations.

Your Career

The Solutions Consultant is the evolution of the traditional Sales Engineering role, aligning how we best serve our customers in understanding their environment, providing solution guidance and ensuring value realization in their investment with Palo Alto Networks.  As a Solutions Consultant you provide technical leadership and expertise and guidance in your customer’s security transformation journey. 

You will play a key role in defining technical solutions that secure a customer’s key business imperatives and ensuring value realization of their investment with Palo Alto Networks.  You evangelize our industry leadership in on-prem, cloud, and security operations services that establish PANW as your customer’s cybersecurity partner of choice.

Your Impact

• Curiosity is core to the Solutions Consultant role, and you see complex problems as opportunities to learn and deliver innovative solutions! You define your impact by:
• Meeting and exceeding sales quotas by building and implementing strategic, technical account plans that target cross-platform solutions.
• Your ability to position, demonstrate and create high level designs across the entire PANW portfolio based on customer business needs
• Conducting discovery to understand and articulate the key technical, operational, and commercial imperatives of your prospects and customers
• Working closely with Professional Services, Customer Success and Specialist teams to ensure overall customer implementation and adoption of solutions.
• Demonstrating strong communication skills and the ability to influence through effective presentations and customer-specific demos, technical engagements, and workshops
• Leading successful technical validation efforts based on best practices to ensure technical win in assigned opportunities.
• Orchestrating supporting resources (Specialists, Channel Resources, Customer Support) to ensure a one-team approach that demonstrates a cohesive strategy
• Promoting end-to-end solutions that include PANW and/or partner professional services to ensure customers realize business value sooner
• Understanding the competitive landscape and effectively differentiating our leadership 
• Continuously investing in yourself to develop technical and professional skills that drive your ever-increasing contributions to success of our customers while actively participating within the Solutions Consultant community and at industry events
• (OT) - Identifying technical stakeholders and cultivating relationships with key personas to build and drive a security architecture transformation roadmap

• Serves as a Project Manager for highly complex projects working with an interdisciplinary team from development through delivery.
• Prepares, maintains and ensures the accuracy of acquisition plans and strategies, milestone charts and schedules to include legal documentation, realty transactions and key business documents.
• Provide expert guidance to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, policy, developing best practices, providing training and ensuring stakeholders are informed throughout all phases.
• Plans and contracts for major acquisitions involving varying issues and concerns in sensitive or unpredictable situations, ensuring the terms and conditions are acceptable within private industry and comply with federal laws, regulations and statutes.
• Acquire real property and/or manage federally owned, leased or delegated space utilizing complex real estate work.

• Performs pre-award and post-award functions involving highly specialized procurements of significant importance to the agency. Requirements typically involve systems or programs such as those involving research, development and production of extensive, specialized equipment or systems; state-of-the-art Information technology products, equipment and/or services impacting customers throughout the nation and/or world; or similarly complex commodities and/or services integral to national defense or security.
• Performs procurement planning. Identifies those large-scale systems, components, equipment, and services to be acquired by contract. Develops procurement objectives and strategies in terms of competition and price range and constructs the contractual vehicle including use of pricing arrangements, subcontracting policy, set-aside policies and similar considerations. Prepares and maintains current acquisition plans, appropriate milestone charts, and related schedules.
• Serves as an advisor to program officials in procurement planning meetings, identifying the procurement objectives and methodologies to be used and assists in the preparation of statements of work and acquisition plans. Prepares determinations and findings and solicitation documents. Performs detailed analyses of all elements of cost in contractor proposals and makes competitive range determinations. Conducts pre-proposal conferences with prospective contractors to arrive at a clear understanding of what is required under the proposed contract. Obtains appropriate data from business and technical officials. Issues necessary modifications to clarify questions concerning such topics as specification changes, language ambiguities or clarification of contract clauses. As required by the lack of meaningful cost and price information, incumbent explores new or innovative contracting approaches to arrive at an equitable contractual arrangement.
• Plans a comprehensive negotiation strategy, coordinates strategy with others technical experts involved and leads negotiations which are conducted with contractors to develop the contract prices and terms. Awards the contract. Performs contract administration, including incremental funding, preparation of rate and cost adjustments, redirection of effort, coordination of time extensions, incorporation of change orders, issuance of stop work orders, issuance of cure notices or show cause letters, monitoring of Government property reporting, approval of progress payments, final payment and contract close out. Terminates contracts for the convenience of the Government or default by the contractor.

The Office of Acquisition Information Technology Services provides transformational system development, incremental system development, operational and management services for Federal Acquisition Services (FAS) business applications. The organization advises FAS leadership and program areas on IT tools that support and enhance FAS’s business operations. IDQ is organizationally aligned to the FAS business areas to most effectively deliver the IT services, systems, and functions they need. Additionally, IDQ provides cloud integration technology functions as a shared service for all of GSA IT.

As an IT Program Manager you will develop, implement, and/or oversee multi-year IT initiatives of such magnitude they must be
carried out through multiple related projects.

You will be responsible for the following duties:

• Managing long term IT projects which include: identifying customer needs and requirements; analyzing systems requirements and environments. 
• Providing recommendations and advice to stakeholders and senior management officials on IT solutions critical to organizational functions.
• Ensuring compliance with laws, regulations, policies, standards, and procedures. 
• Ensuring appropriate product-related training and documentation are developed and made available to customers. 
• Leading customer support system improvements.

As a Public Health Advisor you will:

• Lead the development of nationwide program operations and initiatives for assigned operating public health programs.
• Formulate national program and project goals, objectives, operating policies, strategic program plans, guidelines, standards, and priorities.
• Develop and implement strategies and plans for meeting national program objectives.
• Identify and evaluate information, data requirements, and resources to establish priorities and to maintain capacity to respond to internal and external demands.
• Serve as senior level evaluator and conduct complex evaluation studies on operating public health programs.
• Perform analysis and prepare intricate, substantive study reports to cover, at a minimum, study approach and methodologies, findings, and recommendations.
• Perform analysis of collected data and findings and interpret complex legislative, regulatory, and/or policy guidance for use in managing nationwide public health programs.

The Data Analyst will support program effectiveness and data-driven initiatives for the Office of Learning, Education, and Development Strategy (LEADS) within Office of the Chief Human Capital Officer(OCHCO). This position serves as a data analyst within the Training, Evaluation, and Assessment Metrics division for LEADS where they will help build on existing data processes to develop more efficient ways of capturing, storing, manipulating, and analyzing data related to DHS learning and development initiatives. The ideal candidate would be able to use innovative problem solving and critical thinking to eliminate routine work, reduce data entry errors, and refine data processes.

As an HR Academy detailee, you will work across multiple programs providing training and career support to the DHS human capital community. You will manage the DHS Career Mapping System and reactivate its web resources with a new contractor or internally. You will co-create and produce monthly webcasts on leadership, professional skills, and HR content. You will help plan and execute an annual virtual training and development Symposium event. You will join the team's biweekly delivery of DHS Ethos training to new employees. You will creatively identify new and innovative ways to serve the human capital community, and you will look for ways to improve existing programs. You will support other HR Academy programs as needed.

• Serves as nationally recognized expert on high performance sustainable buildings, energy/water/waste conservation, greenhouse gas emissions, and climate adaptation and risk. Provides high level technical expertise to PBS personnel regarding special, unique and/or other Federal mandates associated with energy/water/storm water/waste management, and sustainability performance in real estate operations and related design and construction project activities. Provides authoritative advice and guidance and consultant support to senior GSA officials on designs, construction requirements, projects and/or building system operations.
• Establishes and implements high performance sustainable buildings, greenhouse gas emissions, and climate adaptation, risk, and resilience policies, directives and guidelines for use across all organizational lines within PBS. Develops standards, training, and facilitates work to establish sustainability practices for all types of GSA facilities and activities. Assures that program goals, objectives, policies, activities and initiatives are executed in coordination with other Federal agencies, requirements, laws, Executive Orders and regulations.
• Provides independent analyses and evaluations of the effectiveness and efficiency of climate and sustainability operations in meeting the GSA’s objectives and goals. Creates policy and guidance an makes recommendations for changes, improvements, or modifications of program plans to meet changing situations and needs.
• Supervises and manages a staff in the performance of sustainability, climate and related work. Assigns work to subordinates based on priorities, selective consideration of the difficulty and requirements of assignments and the capabilities of employees. Develops performance standards and evaluates work performance of subordinates.

• Serves as nationally recognized expert on high performance sustainable buildings, energy/water/waste conservation, greenhouse gas emissions, and climate adaptation and risk. Provides high level technical expertise to PBS personnel regarding special, unique and/or other Federal mandates associated with energy/water/storm water/waste management, and sustainability performance in real estate operations and related design and construction project activities. Provides authoritative advice and guidance and consultant support to senior GSA officials on designs, construction requirements, projects and/or building system operations.
• Establishes and implements high performance sustainable buildings, greenhouse gas emissions, and climate adaptation, risk, and resilience policies, directives and guidelines for use across all organizational lines within PBS. Develops standards, training, and facilitates work to establish sustainability practices for all types of GSA facilities and activities. Assures that program goals, objectives, policies, activities and initiatives are executed in coordination with other Federal agencies, requirements, laws, Executive Orders and regulations.
• Provides independent analyses and evaluations of the effectiveness and efficiency of climate and sustainability operations in meeting the GSA’s objectives and goals. Creates policy and guidance and makes recommendations for changes, improvements, or modifications of program plans to meet changing situations and needs.
• Supervises and manages a staff in the performance of sustainability, climate and related work. Assigns work to subordinates based on priorities, selective consideration of the difficulty and requirements of assignments, and the capabilities of employees. Develops performance standards and evaluates work performance of subordinates.