Supervisory Air Marshal in Charge (SAC)

Summary

The Law Enforcement Operations Division is responsible for managing all aspects of LE/FAMS field operations, including budget allocations, personnel staffing levels, policy compliance, and training needs assessment decisions. Each field office is managed by a Supervisory Air Marshal in Charge (SAC) who provides overall supervision for Federal Air Marshals deployed on domestic and international flights and serving in ground-based assignments.

Duties

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This is a secondary law enforcement position. Under the authority of the Aviation and Transportation Security Act (ATSA) (PL 107-71, November 19, 2001), the incumbent functions as a Federal Law Enforcement Officer and performs the duties and responsibilities assigned to FAMs.

The position serves as the Supervisory Air Marshal in Charge (SAC) of the Transportation Security Operations Center within the Federal Air Marshal Service Operations Planning and Coordination Division Duties include but are not limited to:

Duties include:

• Directs and oversees the TSOC's operational watch activities, ensuring timely monitoring, coordination, documentation, and escalation of transportation security matters.
• Exercises full supervisory and personnel management authority over subordinate managers, Federal Air Marshals, and program-support staff. Establishes priorities, assigns and balances workloads, monitors progress, and evaluates work quality and timeliness. Develops position descriptions; identifies staffing needs; participates in workforce planning; and interviews and selects applicants. Establishes performance standards, evaluates employees, and provides coaching, training, and development. Resolves employee concerns, takes or recommends corrective action, approves leave, and implements management controls supporting efficient operations.
• Manages daily TSOC operations and directs subordinate managers coordinating transportation-security and law-enforcement activities. Develops, implements, and evaluates strategies, priorities, and goals supporting FAMS, TSA, and DHS objectives. Serves on the Division leadership team and advises senior officials on operational, security, and mission-support programs. Interprets policy to address incidents, threats, trends, and evolving requirements. During significant events, collaborates with executive leadership and partner organizations to develop, communicate, and implement appropriate mitigation and response measures.
• Leads strategic planning for assigned programs and organizational elements. Establishes measurable objectives; analyzes performance trends; identifies risks, gaps, and resource needs; and directs corrective actions to strengthen program effectiveness. Oversees development and use of data analytics and performance metrics, ensuring data relevance, reliability, and compliance with DHS and TSA requirements. Reviews program results and recommends or determines resource priorities, operational adjustments, accountability measures, and reporting that accurately reflects outcomes and emerging transportation-security requirements.
• Validates, determines, and reports on risk-based planning processes, operational models, and security-program activities across transportation sectors. Reviews and approves operational approaches that maintain effectiveness and appropriate unpredictability in commercial aviation, air cargo, general aviation, mass transit, maritime, freight rail, highway, and pipeline environments. Assesses threats, vulnerabilities, trends, resources, and mission requirements; ensures compliance with applicable authorities and LE/FAMS procedures; coordinates timely misconduct reviews; and partners with TSA Investigations on serious misconduct or criminal matters.
• Establishes and sustains effective relationships with Federal, State, local, tribal, territorial, and private-sector law-enforcement and transportation-security partners. Represents FAMS in meetings, working groups, briefings, and other forums addressing security, law-enforcement, and mission-support matters. Facilitates lawful information sharing and coordinated planning within the field office's area of responsibility. Develops partnerships that strengthen coordinated security responses. Prepares and delivers clear, concise briefings, reports, correspondence, decision papers, and recommendations to support senior leadership decisions.
• When required, independently performs Federal Air Marshal duties, including worldwide deployment on passenger flights of U.S. air carriers, including flights determined to present elevated security risks. Performs duties in support of the prevention and deterrence of criminal or terrorist violence and aircraft piracy consistent with national-security requirements. Exercises law-enforcement authority in accordance with applicable statutes, regulations, policies, and procedures. Makes warrantless arrests when authorized; seeks and executes warrants for arrest or seizure of evidence when supported by probable cause and appropriate legal authority; and identifies and interviews witnesses and suspects. Applies knowledge of investigative methods, rules of evidence, legal authorities, and interagency jurisdictions in carrying out assigned law-enforcement responsibilities.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

1. You must possess U.S. Citizenship or be a U.S. National.
2. You must have reached the minimum age (18) at the time of application.
3. You must complete a favorable Background Investigation (BI).
4. Selective Service registration is required.
5. You must be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret Clearance.
6. You must pass Drug screening, subject to random drug tests.
7. You must have prior experience in a primary law enforcement position.
8. Must sign mobility agreement upon selection.
9. This position requires Financial Disclosure.

Conditions of Employment

• Employees may be subject to 24-hour on call duty in the event of an emergency. This service may require irregular working hours, work at locations other than the official duty station, and may include duties other than those specified in the position description. Selectee must be able to relocate to emergency sites with little advance notice and function under intense physical and mental stress.
• This position requires the selectee to carry a firearm and maintain firearms proficiency as part of conducting law enforcement activities. In addition, selectee must be proficient in the use of hand weapons and be knowledgeable in unarmed combat. Failure to maintain firearm proficiency may result in either assignment to another position, demotion, or separation by appropriate procedures.
• Must meet qualifying medical and physical fitness standards.
• Incumbent is expected to successfully complete all agency-required training

You must meet the qualification requirements for this position no later than the closing date of the vacancy announcement.

If you fail to meet the conditions of employment or any other pre-employment requirements, such as missing any of the scheduled appointments, the hiring agency may rescind their tentative offer of employment.

Applying to this announcement certifies that you give permission for TSA to share your application with others in DHS for similar positions.

Any offers of employment made pursuant to this announcement will be consistent with all applicable authorities, including Presidential Memoranda, Executive Orders, interpretive U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) guidance, and Office of Management and Budget plans and policies concerning hiring. These authorities are subject to change.

Qualifications

To qualify for the SV-K Pay Band (equivalent to GS-15), you must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the SV-J Pay Band or GS-14 in the Federal service or equivalent experience in state or local government or the private sector. Specialized experience is defined as experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of this position. Specialized experience is defined as:

• Demonstrated experience leading, developing, implementing, and administering comprehensive law enforcement and security management programs in a large geographically dispersed organization.
• Demonstrated experience collaboratively working across organizational lines in implementing law enforcement and security management programs.

Credit for experience is given based on a 40-hour workweek. Part-time experience is credited on a part-time ratio, i.e., working 20 hours per week for two months equals one month of experience. No additional credit is given for overtime.

LAUTENBERG AMENDMENT: This position requires the incumbent to carry a firearm. Any person who has been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence cannot lawfully possess a firearm or ammunition (Title 18, U.S.C., Section 922(g)(9)). A 'misdemeanor crime of domestic violence' is generally defined under the statue as any offense involving the use or attempted use of physical force, or the threatened use of a deadly weapon, committed by the defined in the statute, excludes any person whose conviction has been expunged, set aside, or pardoned, or any person whose civil rights have been restored unless the pardon, expungement or restoration of civil rights expressly prohibited the possession of firearms or ammunition.

FIREARMS CERTIFICATION: This position requires the incumbent to carry a firearm. You must pass a certification at an interval required by the hiring/employing law enforcement component within TSA. Failure to do so will result in the revocation of firearm authorization and any other appropriate administrative action, up to and including removal.

National Service Experience (i.e., volunteer experience): 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.

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.

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.

Please see the REQUIRED DOCUMENTS section of this Job Opportunity Announcement for specific instructions.

Education

For positions requiring positive education requirements, or if you are using education to meet all or part of the qualification requirements, you MUST submit a copy of your transcripts or an itemized list of college courses from an accredited college or university, which includes equivalent information from the transcript (course title, semester/quarter hours, and grade/degree earned) in your resume. The information must be provided with the application by the closing date of the announcement. If selected, the applicant must supply a transcript or certification of degree.

Additional information

Eligibility to apply for other Federal positions: TSA is an Excepted Service agency exempt from most of Title 5 United States Code, including regulations which apply to displaced Federal employees (CTAP/ICTAP) of other agencies, and employment with TSA does not confer "Competitive Status" that generally results from selection and service in Competitive Service agencies. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has established an Interchange Agreement, which allows most permanent TSA employees to apply and be considered for vacancies in Competitive Service agencies. Information from OPM on this or other Interchange Agreements is available at: www.opm.gov/

Salary range includes locality pay of 33.94% (TSA limits LEAP for pay & retirement purposes only to the extent that the sum of basic & premium pay for the pay period doesn't exceed the greater of the biweekly rate payable for GS-15, Step 10 (including any applicable locality) or the rate payable for level V of the Executive Schedule)