Security Guard (Instructor)

Duties

• Serves as a Senior Instructor providing platform and practical instruction to Department of the Army Security Guards.
• Designs, develops, implements, and evaluates security guard skills and abilities, including ACP/ECP procedures, firearms instruction, deadly force, and weapons proficiency.
• Prepares lesson plans, testing materials, exercise scenarios, and conducts written and practical evaluations.
• Manages new-hire onboarding, including certification tracking and coordination with DES for enrollment into the 64-hour security guard academy.
• Coordinates, facilitates, and conducts refresher, specialized, and annual sustainment training, including the mandatory 80-hour program.
• Maintains audit-ready training records, weapons qualification data, and tracking of guard certifications to ensure regulatory compliance and force readiness.
• Ensures accountability, inventory control, and maintenance of all unassigned guard force equipment, tactical gear, and training resources.
• Serves as part of the installation's security response capability during emergencies, active shooter events, heightened FPCONs, and disaster scenarios.
• Controls, prepares, issues, verifies, and destroys identification badges, passes, and access credentials for visitors, contractors, VIPs, and other personnel.
• Exercises crowd control, traffic regulation, first-aid response, and support to law enforcement during accidents, demonstrations, or incidents.

Requirements

Conditions of employment

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Top Secret Clearance (Tier 5)
• Mission Essential Position
• Lautenberg Amendment
• One Year probationary period.
• Shift Work
• Defense Information Systems (DISS) Certification
• Individual Reliability Program Requirement
• Security Guard Training
• CPR Certification
• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
• Aerosol/Baton Training
• Physical Fitness (PAT)
• Physical Fitness (PAT)
• Electronic equipment and sensors
• Chemical Protective Mask
• Security Response

Qualifications

Who May Apply: US Citizens

In order to qualify, you must meet the 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 .

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: One year of specialized experience that includes:1)Managing a security guard training program. 2)Conducting security guard training in areas such as Oleoresin Capsicum (OC) spray, Armament System and Procedures (ASP), CPR, firearms, etc., in support of the security guard mission.3)Performing Range Safety Officer duties.4)Certifying security guards on protection and access control procedures.
This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-07).
Some position allows education as a substitution for experience, this position is based on experience alone.

Additional information

• Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration.
• You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship.
• This position requires a 1 year probationary period during which the agency evaluates your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest. In making this determination, the agency may consider your performance and conduct; agency needs and interests; whether your continued employment supports organizational or Government goals; and whether it promotes the efficiency of the Federal service. Continued employment requires written certification that it advances the public interest.
• Direct Deposit of Pay is required.
• Selection is subject to restrictions resulting from Department of Defense referral system for displaced employees.
• If you have retired from federal service and you are interested in employment as a reemployed annuitant, see the information in the information sheet.
• This is a(n) 15Career Program position aligned under the Career Management Directorate.
• Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement.
• Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement.
• When you perform a Civilian Permanent Change of Station (PCS) with the government, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) considers the majority of your entitlements to be taxable. Visit for more information.
• Permanent Change of Station (PCS) allowances may be authorized, subject to the provisions of the Joint Travel Regulations and an agency determination that a PCS move is in the Government Interest.

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