Telecommunications Specialist

Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service which includes: (1) Installing, configuring and troubleshooting hardware and software systems. (2) Troubleshooting and restoring network/telecommunication services for emergency management communication. (3) Entering information collected into an automated trouble ticket system, such as remedy tickets.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-09).

OR Education: Ph.D or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree with a major study in electrical or electronic engineering, mathematics, physics, public utilities, statistics, computer science, telecommunications management, information systems management, business administration, industrial management, or other fields related to the position to be filled.

OR Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) beyond the second year (total graduate semester hours minus 36) by 18. Add the two percentages.

Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-09).

Serve as the point of contact for Directorate of Emergency Services responsible for interfacing the automated system (desktop, workstations, laptops, and servers) with various interrelated acquisition, and office automation systems.,Develop operating specifications for telecommunications equipment and services to transmit and receive data between computers, and between computers and terminal stations.,Works with users to test and evaluate a variety of software packages.,Ensure work is compatible with other systems and meets requirements.,Serves as a liaison between organizations, both fixed and visiting, in fulfilling requirements for current, special events or future military exercises as well as normal day-to-day operations,Provides new customer orientation training on system operation as needed and provides guidance on integration between talk groups and procedures on obtaining authority to share resources.,Maintains, updates, assigns, and controls all radio identifications to include, block identifications, radio identification numbers, talk group identification, and encryption secure codes used on the system.,Serves as a System Manager/Frequency Manager for the Directorate of Emergency Services performing the research, planning, direction, and administration of the Land Mobile Radio Project and frequency management