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CBP Officer (Border Security) Temporary Promotion NTE 3 Years
Customs and Border Protection · Posted 3 days ago
On-siteSeattle, WA$123K – $160KApply by May 22, 2026Customs And Border ProtectionENTJESFJESTJISTJOperations
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Organizational Location: This position is with the Department of Homeland Security, within U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations, Seattle Field Office, Border Security Division, located in Seattle, Washington.
What You'll Do
- →Joining the Customs and Border Protection Office of Field Operations will allow you to use your expertise to manage one or more national programs in order to help to detect and prevent terrorists and instruments of terror from entering/exiting the U.S.
- →Apply for this exciting opportunity to direct programs that strengthen the Department's ability to perform homeland security.
- →This position starts at a salary of $122,940.00 (GS-13, Step 1) to $159,824.00 (GS-13, Step 10).
- →In this position you will become a key member of a team of homeland security professionals responsible for managing and ensuring the performance of the full range of inspection, intelligence analysis, examination, and law enforcement activities relating to arrival and departure of persons, conveyances, and merchandise at Ports of Entry (POE).
- →Typical work assignments include: Planning, leading, designing, and coordinating enforcement efforts with other enforcement program offices.
- →Developing and deploying innovative strategies to prevent the illegal entry of terrorists and their associates into the United States.
- →Promoting and policing management accountability and operational integrity, for border security initiatives by ensuring policy compliance for respective areas.
- →Overseeing measures related to preventing the illegal entry of terrorists and their associates, anti-smuggling, anti-fraud, criminality, contraband, and other enforcement efforts.
- →Managing, coordinating, and ensuring the identification of, targets, controls and examination of passengers and cargo leaving the United States.
- →Conducting quarterly checks of operational practices affiliated with the responsibilities aligned under border security ensuring compliance measures in preparation for Self-Inspections, Management Insurance Division (MID), and Management Assurance Reviews (MAR).
- →To meet agency needs, this position will be filled on a temporary basis not-to-exceed (NTE) 3 year(s), with possible extensions for an additional two (2) years, in one (1) year increments.
- →You may be returned, at any time, to the position from which temporarily promoted, or to a different position of equivalent grade and pay, and that the return is not subject to the procedures found in 5 C.F.R. § 351, 432, 752, and 771.
- →If you are currently a permanent GS-13 you will be laterally reassigned into this position, and may be returned upon completion of the assignment or at any time it is determined that there is no longer an Agency need for this assignment, to the position held prior to this NTE assignment or to a similar permanent position.
- →Return to your original location will be prioritized, but is not guaranteed.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓For employees detailed or temporarily promoted for less than one year, the permanent duty location is considered the duty location of record for commuting area purposes.
- ✓Please see the Qualifications and Required Documents sections for more information if education is applicable to this position.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 146edf18-e7ed-498f-a5f4-49cce7c4af7e
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