Homeland Security Program Analyst 2

Minimum Qualifications

Non-competitive: one year of permanent service as a Homeland Security Program Analyst 1; OR bachelor’s degree and three years of experience in intelligence analysis, homeland security, counter terrorism, emergency preparedness analysis and assessment, or investigations.

A master’s degree may substitute for one year of the experience.

You must meet the above minimum qualifications. Preferred additional qualifications include:

Experience In, Or Adjacent To

• Education (K-12 or tertiary), social services, and/or public health;
• Developing effective training materials and facilitating learning;
• Liaising with a wide-variety of community stakeholders including tertiary educational institutions, faith-based communities, and non-profit organizations.
  
  

Duties Description

The incumbent will report to the Office of Counter Terrorism's Domestic Terrorism Prevention Unit. Duties include but are not limited to:

• Develop, implement, evaluate, and analyze New York State’s targeted violence prevention and domestic terrorism prevention education and awareness initiatives with specific regard to colleges and universities in New York State.
• Serves as subject matter expert in targeted violence and domestic terrorism prevention.
• Facilitate learning and build targeted violence prevention capacities for tertiary education stakeholders.
• Supervise the day-to-day operations of employees responsible for the targeted violence prevention and domestic terrorism prevention education and awareness efforts focused on tertiary education throughout the State.
• Directly support the Assistant Director of the DHSES Office of Counter Terrorism as well as collaborate, cross-train, and align with other units within DHSES Office of Counter Terrorism.
• Update targeted violence and domestic terrorism prevention outreach and education material based on the latest research from relevant fields.
• Track, update, streamline, and maintain available resources on targeted violence and domestic terrorism prevention in a central location for tertiary education and community stakeholders.
• Present about the targeted violence prevention and domestic terrorism prevention programs at conferences and other meetings across the State.
• Provide targeted violence and domestic terrorism prevention outreach and education support to any appropriate requesting New York State entity including faith communities, non-profit organizations, law enforcement organizations, and educational institutions.
• Foster strong relationships with relevant executive leadership including tertiary education stakeholders, county and local governments, law enforcement, school boards and school district leadership, mental health providers, and non-profit organizations, among others, to ensure open lines of communications, gauge success, and maintain situational awareness related to the targeted violence prevention and domestic terrorism prevention efforts.
• Conduct analysis on identified topics or program areas to evaluate New York State’s targeted violence prevention and domestic terrorism prevention posture, and provide findings, both in written and presentation form, to executive staff and other audiences as requested.
• Plan, organize, and conduct analytical studies involving the development and implementation of major agency projects and initiatives. Develop gap and risk analyses, documenting current, expected, and required resources for management review/approval.
• Draft correspondence, policy, white papers, standards, bulletins, advisories, progress reports and study result on targeted topics. (Domestic Terrorism Prevention Unit)
• Plan, facilitate, and coordinate agency-sponsored conferences and meetings.
• Represent the agency at conferences, meetings and in program reviews as appropriate.
• Public speaking and training groups will be required.
• Assist in disaster response and recovery activities as required and assigned.
  
  

Additional Comments

We are looking for individuals with experience working in, or with, higher education institutions to support the first-in-nation state-wide Domestic Terrorism Prevention Unit (DTPU). The selected candidate will play an integral role in liaising with higher education institutions across New York State and rapidly developing behavioral threat assessment and management (TAM) teams at the local level. The candidate will also have the opportunity to gain, or sharpen, facilitation skills by becoming a Master Trainer in threat evaluation and reporting to provide training all across New York State’s higher education institutions. Come join our team!

Travel will be required. 30%

NOTE: Support of operations during times of emergency and disaster from State Emergency Operations Center (EOC), state field offices and/or local deployments may be required, which would result in a change and/or increase in working hours, locations and/or duties.

NOTE ON TELECOMMUTING: Employees are required to apply and obtain approval through management to telecommute according to the agency’s Telecommuting Program Guidelines.