CBP Officer - Customs and Border Protection

NOTE: Your resume must explicitly indicate how you meet this requirement, otherwise you will be found ineligible. Please see the "Required Documents" section below for additional resume requirements. Experience: You qualify for the GS-09 grade level if you possess 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level, performing duties such as: Utilizing observational techniques and monitors traveler behavior to assess risk for possible involvement in terrorism, criminal activity, or other violations. Conducting a wide range of record checks using a variety of law enforcement databases and systems and employs tactical intelligence to identify high-risk travelers. Conducting visual and physical inspection of cargo, baggage, conveyances, packing materials, using a wide array of non-intrusive technology. Experience: You qualify for the GS-11 grade level if you possess 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level, performing duties such as: Performing inspections and enforcement of persons, merchandise, and conveyances at ports of entry in the United States to not only ensure the legal entry of persons, merchandise, and conveyances, but also to prevent terrorists and instruments of terror from entering the United States. Interpreting and applying laws, rules, and regulations and applies behavioral and cultural analysis and decision making skills to perform the risk assessment required to release travelers and shipments and to identify those requiring further scrutiny. Identifying known or potential terrorists and instruments of terror, criminals, smuggling tactics, techniques, and procedures used by transnational criminal organizations, and other threats to U.S. borders and national security. Determining whether traveler (citizen or non-citizen), cargo, or conveyance may be immediately admitted/released or must be referred for secondary inspection. Experience: You qualify for the GS-12 grade level if you possess 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level, performing duties such as: Gathering and analyzing information from all available sources such as intelligence reports, open-source information, and law enforcement databases. Interacting with carriers, other agencies, and foreign entities to exchange information and provide guidance on admissibility and compliance. Determining whether traveler (citizen or non-citizen), cargo, or conveyance may be immediately admitted/released or must be referred for secondary inspection. Conducting visual and physical inspection of cargo, baggage, conveyances, and packing materials, using a wide array of non-intrusive technology. Providing advice and relevant guidance on work methods, practices, and Agency policy and procedures. Education Substitution: GS-09: Successful completion of a Master's or equivalent graduate degree or 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree in any field, or a L.L.B. or J.D. from an accredited college or university may substitute for experience required at this level. This education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work. Check with your school to determine how many credit hours comprise two years of graduate education. If that information is not available, use 36 semester or 54 quarter hours. You are required to submit proof of your claim. GS-11: Successful completion of Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.M. from an accredited college or university may substitute for the experience required at this level. This education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work. Check with your school to determine how many credits comprise three years of graduate education. If that information is not available, use 54 semester or 81 quarter hours. You are required to submit proof of your claim. There is no education substitution at the GS-12 grade level for this occupation. Combining Education and Experience: Combinations of successfully completed post-high school education and experience may be used to meet total qualification requirements for the grade levels specified in the table, and may be computed by first determining the applicant's total qualifying experience as a percentage of the experience required for the grade level; then determining the applicant's education as a percentage of the education required for the grade level; and then adding the two percentages. The total percentages must equal at least 100 percent to qualify an applicant for that grade level. Only graduate education in excess of the amount required for the next lower grade level may be used to qualify applicants for positions at grades GS-9 and GS-11. More information on this qualification standard is located here. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, inclu