Telecommunications Specialist

**Duties**:
As a Telecommunications Specialist (Surveillance), your typical work assignments may include:

- Coverting surveillance, tracking, and interception to assist Special Agents, personnel internal or external to the agency, and across the DEA world-wide with investigative operations by integrating the use of electronic communications equipment.
- System designing, engineering, optimization, and modifications for large and diverse inventory of highly specialized state-of-the-art electronics, video, photographic, fixed, and mobile tracking, analog, and digital telecommunications used in surveillance and information gathering activities to support criminal investigations and prosecutions.
- Providing consultative/planning, advising, continuously evaluating advancements in technology and equipment making recommendations to the Office of Investigative Technology (ST) which may result in adoption/modification of the Investigative.
- Participating in designing, dismantling, and fabrication of covert and concealed equipment, installation, repairs, retrieval, maintenance, troubleshooting, and providing training/technical support on the use of the equipment.
- Analyzing networks including radio frequency-based (e.g., cellular, radio, Wi-Fi) and Internet protocol-based to determine the best technological approach (i.e. electronic surveillance, communication, and interception) to use in support of an investigative operations.

**Requirements**:
**Conditions of Employment**:

- U.S. Citizenship is required.
- Selectee may be required to serve a probationary period.
- This position is entitled to Administratively Uncontrollable Overtime (AUO).
- Employee is required to become certified Investigative Technology Specialist (Surveillance), GS-0391-13 within 12-18 months of assignment.
- Applicant must possess and maintain a valid motor vehicle operator's license while employed in the position.

**Qualifications**:
**The Telecommunications Series, 0391, has an Individual Occupational Requirement (IOR), which must be met for this position in addition to the minimum qualification requirement.**

Basic Requirement Education: Undergraduate and Graduate Education: Major study - 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
- Specialized Experience: Experience in evaluating, analyzing, developing, managing, or improving communications systems, procedures, and requirements that demonstrated knowledge of current developments and trends in communications concepts and technology.
- AND- Specialized 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). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience._

Additional information on the position qualification requirements are located in the Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) Qualifications Standards Handbook.

**Education**:
If you are claiming education as any part of your qualifications for this position, you must submit an official transcript, unofficial transcript, or a list including courses, grades earned, completion dates, and quarter and semester hours earned.

**Additional information**:
For reasonable accommodation at the Drug Enforcement Administration, please contact the Human Resources office listed in this announcement.

**Current or Former Political Appointees**: 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.

**Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement. **If eligible, applicants to this announcement may be referred to similar positions in any Division/Office listed in this announcement. Telework eligibility and security clearance requirements may vary for such similar positions.

Recruitment and/or Relocation Incentives may be considered and approved under conditions specified provided the agency has determined that the position is likely to be difficult to fill in the absence of an incentive and funding for such an incentive is available.
- Benefits

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