TSA Offices Hiring Residents
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TSA Offices Hiring Residents | How To Apply | Position Descriptions
You may be surprised to learn that TSA does more than airport security. Our components range from law enforcement to information technology, engineering research to threat assessments, and much more.
The headquarters organizations listed below are currently hiring Career Residents. Read about the type of work each organization does and the positions they are looking to fill.
Office of Acquisition
The Office of Acquisition provides mission-focused acquisition and contract services to support TSA. The Office of Acquisition primarily functions as the business advisor and consultant for the planning, award and management of TSA's acquisition program. The Office of Acquisition partners with program offices to provide TSA with critical services and technology through contracts and other business agreements. The Office of Acquisition builds sound business judgment into mission solutions, and ensures the wise stewardship of taxpayer dollars while securing public trust.
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Office of Chief Counsel
The Office of Chief Counsel is responsible for delivery of legal services to all TSA mission areas, components, and staff, covering all substantive legal areas applicable to the Agency, including comprehensive services in legal and policy development, assistance in implementation of TSA authority, responsibility and advice, representation and advocacy, to decision making. The Office of the Chief Counsel is comprised of attorneys and staff at the TSA headquarters and field locations.
Major responsibilities of the Office of Chief Counsel include:
- Serves as Chief Legal Advisor to the Deputy Assistant Secretary/Administrator, TSA;
- Serves as Deputy Ethics Officer for TSA;
- Ensures that TSA activities fully comply with all legal requirements and coordinates with other DHS legal components on all legal matters affecting the DHS mission;
- Assists in negotiating and drafting international agreements for technical assistance and cooperation;
- Ensures that the TSA's efforts to secure the Nation's transportation systems are consistent with the civil rights and liberties of all citizens;
- Reviews proposed legislation and drafts TSA regulations;
- Represents TSA in all administrative proceedings and coordinates with the Department of Justice in civil and criminal proceedings;
- Adjudicates civil penalties and represents TSA in civil penalty actions against regulated entities and individuals who violate security requirements; and
- Provides legal support to TSA Emergency Operations and crisis management; outlines, defines and interprets regulatory and statutory authorities belonging to the Administrator, TSA as they related to the 6 transportation modes for which TSA has security responsibilities.
Major projects or issues that involve the Office of Chief Counsel includes:
- Development of regulations for Secure Flight, rail security, large aircraft and air cargo;
- Completion of Memorandum of Understanding with MSPB regarding whistleblower rights for Transportation Security Officers (TSOs);
- Legal guidance for Security Evolution Initiative including new technology and passenger identification issues; and
- Legal guidance for the Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response program.
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Office of Finance and Administration
Under the direction of the Assistant Administrator for Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer (OFA/CFO), the Office is responsible for financial, budgetary, and administrative activities that support the program responsibilities of the TSA. The Office of the OFA/CFO:
- Serves as the principal advisor to the Assistant Secretary and other TSA and DHS officials on matters relating to TSA's financial resources;
- Oversees the financial integrity, formulation, execution, and analysis of TSA's annual budget;
- Serves as the principal liaison to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the congressional appropriations committees on all matters related to TSA's budget;
- Maintains an integrated agency-wide financial accounting system; Coordinates implementation of the President's Management Agenda (PMA); and
- Develops and implements, through the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO), a broad range of administrative services policies and functions in support of TSA's mission.
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Office of Human Capital
The Office of Human Capital (OHC) provides human capital strategies and services to build, develop, and sustain a high-performing, diverse TSA workforce to protect the nation's transportation systems. OHC develops and manages best practice, result-oriented programs that ensure TSA's human capital strategy and services support TSA's mission, goals and objectives as well as achieving alignment with DHS human capital goals. In order to accomplish these alignments, OHC is divided into eleven divisions including: Policy, Management Services & Consultation, Hiring & Personnel, Deputy Chief Learning Office, Employee Relations, Executive Resources, Collaborative Strategy, Peer Review, Analysis & Metrics, Business Management, and Information Systems. All of these divisions work together to effectively manage and execute human capital functions.
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Office of Law Enforcement/Federal Air Marshal Service
The mission of the TSA Office of Law Enforcement/ Federal Air Marshal Service (OLE/FAMS) is to promote public confidence in the security of our nation's transportation domain. To achieve this mission, OLE-FAMS deploys Federal Air Marshals on U.S. aircraft world-wide; conducts protection, response, detection, and assessment activities in airports and other transportation systems; maintains TSA's state of preparedness and coordinates incident management; trains and manages all armed pilots; and coordinates all TSA canine assets.
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Office of Security Operations
The Office of Security Operations (OSO) is the operational arm of the TSA and employs the largest TSA workforce. OSO is responsible for airport checkpoint and baggage screening operations as well as other special programs designed to secure all assigned transportation modes. It is a field-centric, intelligence-driven organization that empowers decision-makers at every level of the organization. Its Transportation Security Officers, Security Inspectors, Behavior Detection Officers, Bomb Appraisal Officers are the public face of TSA, and they protect the traveling public from threats to the nation's transportation infrastructure. OSO has identified the following mission priorities for 2009: achieve excellence in security results; professionalize the OSO workforce; re-invigorate the field support structure; institutionalize cross flow of support concept and structure; and develop a sustainable OSO workplace model.
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Office of Information Technology
The Office of Information Technology (OIT) provides centralized management, leadership, outreach and security of TSA's information technology (IT) needs. OIT is committed to using best practices, streamlining business processes, improving performance and striving for excellence in support of TSA's mission. TSA's IT mission is to ensure the security and productivity of TSA and its employees through information technology. TSA's IT vision is to provide secure information anytime and anywhere.
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Office of the Special Counselor
The Office of the Special Counselor is dedicated to delivering quality information to TSA's internal and external stakeholders, and ensures that employees and the traveling public are treated in a fair and lawful manner, consistent with federal laws and regulations governing privacy, information sharing, redress, civil rights and civil liberties.
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Office of Inspection
The TSA's Office of Inspection (OI) ensures the security and integrity of the agency's operations and administration through proactive compliance inspections; efficiency and effectiveness reviews; impartial and comprehensive special investigations; and a rigorous and robust covert testing program. The OI ensures the integrity and effectiveness of TSA's employees and programs. The Office has criminal investigators, transportation security specialists, analysts, and support personnel located in TSA headquarters, five field offices, and 14 airport locations.
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Operational Process and Technology
Operational Process and Technology (OPT) is responsible for administering the acquisition lifecycle of security screening equipment and systems in order to protect the transportation system from criminal violence and terrorist threats. Providing vital support from requirements definition to disposal and replacement, OPT conducts operational test and evaluation, procurement, deployment and installation, maintenance and activities that provide TSA and the traveling public with total security solutions. Improving the equipment deployment process and actively performing lifecycle support will minimize the TSA's cost of technology ownership and operation. OPT management of next-generation screening technologies will result in improved screening capabilities and increased throughput at checkpoints across the nation.
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Transportation Sector Network Management
The Office of the Transportation Sector Network Management (TSNM) is dedicated to leading the unified national effort to protect and secure our nation's intermodal transportation systems. TSNM ensures the safe movement of passengers and promotes the free flow of commerce by building a resilient, robust, and sustainable network with our public and private sector partners. To support this mission, TSNM provides services and functions through a Business Management Office (BMO) and nine General Managers, who are responsible for the security of their assigned transportation mode (e.g., highway, freight rail, pipeline, mass transit, port and intermodal, general aviation, commercial aviation (airports and airlines), air cargo, and transportation sector network integration (TSNI)). TSNM engages stakeholders to develop effective, operational security across aviation and surface modes of transportation. TSNM's focus is to identify high risk areas by mode, develop security standards, assess operator vulnerabilities, develop plans to close vulnerabilities, and use metrics to drive risk reduction in a measurable way. TSNM develops operationally effective risk-reducing policies and actions (e.g. regulations, security directives, guidance, agreements, improvement plans); directs Transportation Security Grant Policies for transit, rail, highway, motorcoach, and/or Amtrak; coordinates security plans; and conducts regulatory economic evaluations.
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Transportation Threat Assessment and Credentialing
The Transportation Threat Assessment and Credentialing organization serves as the lead for all security threat assessments and credentialing initiatives for transportation industry workers, individuals seeking access to critical infrastructure, and domestic passengers. In support of its mission, TTAC:
- Offers enrollment and credentialing services that provide physical or virtual credentials used by an individual to gain unescorted access to special, sterile and/or secure areas after successfully completing a security threat assessment;
- Performs daily checks of more than 8.5 million individuals against the consolidated federal watch list;
- Engages a wide range of transportation stakeholders requiring security credentials to address current and emerging threats to the transportation industry; and
- Performs end-to-end program management for aviation, maritime, and surface programs with core capabilities in enrollment services, vetting operations, adjudication and credential management.
TTAC also operates Secure Flight, a passenger pre-screening system under development for domestic and international aviation passengers that will ensure that known or suspected terrorists do not board commercial flights. TTAC is currently standardizing operational capabilities and costs as the Department of Homeland Security's service provider for individual threat assessments.
Currently Hiring:
- Contact us at: NewHorizons.CRP@tsa.dhs.gov
