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BORDER PATROL AGENT (HEADQUARTERS PROGRAMS)
Customs and Border Protection · Posted today
On-site Selfridge ANG Base, MI $109K – $142K Apply by Jul 10, 2026 Border Patrol Enforcement Series ESTPISTJ Operations
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Organizational Location: This position is with the Department of Homeland Security, within U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Border Patrol Headquarters, Law Enforcement Operations Directorate, Intelligence Division in the following locations: Selfridge AFB, MI Sterling, VA Summit Point, WV. Salary: Salary listed reflects the rest of U.S. scale and, if applicable, will be adjusted to meet the locality pay or cost of living expenses of the duty location upon selection.
What You'll Do
- →Additional selections may be made beyond the total number of vacancies specified using this vacancy announcement.
- →Further selections may also be made for additional organizational divisions and/or units within the duty location(s) listed above.
- →This position will allow you to use your expertise to prevent illegal entry of aliens into the United States by land, water, or air; enforce criminal provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Laws; and seek out and apprehend smugglers or aliens who are in the United States illegally.
- →Apply for this exciting opportunity to strengthen the Department's ability to protect the homeland.
- →This position starts at a salary of $109,383.00 (GS-13, Step 1) to $142,199.00 (GS-13, Step 10).
- →As a Border Patrol Agent (HQ Programs) you will serve as a secondary law enforcement officer (under 5 U.S.C. 8331 (6C) and 8412 (d) and be responsible for: Performing in a collaborative law enforcement intelligence centric environment, while maintaining the ability and skills to lead in autonomous projects, to include extensive report writing and advanced targeting.
- →Conducting and develop in-depth intelligence research, analysis, and reporting across all classification levels using advanced databases and intelligence systems, to include publicly available information.
- →Leading both short and long-term complex intelligence projects on topics that include, but not limited to, terrorism, illicit migration, human trafficking, drug smuggling, and money laundering, Creating and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders and facilitate the horizontal and vertical intelligence sharing and integration between multiple U.S.
- →Border Patrol (USBP) entities and other domestic and bi-national law
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓You may be returned, at any time, to the position from which temporarily promoted, to the last permanent official station and position held prior to this NTE assignment, and the return is not subject to the procedures found in 5 C.F.R. §§ 351, 432, 752, and 771.
- ✓If you are currently at the grade level of the position announced, this action will result in a reassignment, and you may be returned at any time to a same or similar position held prior to this NTE assignment.
- ✓If you currently hold a grade level higher than the grade being announced, this action will result in a change to lower grade, and you may be returned at any time to the position held prior to this temporary assignment.
- ✓A return to the previous duty location will be coordinated by losing and gaining sectors upon completion of the NTE assignment.
- ✓See the USBP Rotation Process Internal Operating Procedures (IOP) by visiting here (this is only viewable from a CBP computer).
- ✓The USBP Rotation Program IOP dictates the terms of rotating out of the NTE assignment once the assignment has concluded.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 23c175fc-5341-4ba4-8049-d96d666f0009
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