Law Enforcement & Security Services Labor Category Descriptions

1. PROGRAM MANAGER

Functional Responsibility: Manages complex, mission-critical, strategic and advanced technology-based programs for law enforcement, homeland defense, emergency preparedness and security clients. Serves as focal point for the contract and client regarding programs direction, task scheduling and budget control. Directs internal and subcontractor team(s) and performs overall strategic management, planning, contract level performance metrics and production of overall contract/task order support operations. Effectively manages funds, personnel, production standards, and resources and ensures quality and timely delivery of all contractual items.

Education / Experience Qualifications: Advanced Degree and 12 years of relevant experience

2. PROJECT MANAGER

Functional Responsibility: Develops and implements projects for law enforcement, homeland defense, emergency preparedness and security clients and serves as a single point of contact for managing all tasks / subtasks. Guides projects from the original concept through final implementation. Defines project scope and objectives including developing detailed work plans, day-to-day management direction, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, status reports, and project tracking and analysis. Conducts project meetings and ensures quality standards. Provides advanced technical and strategic guidance to multiple project teams and oversees project deliverables.

Education / Experience Qualifications: Advanced Degree and 10 years of relevant experience

3. TASK MANAGER

Functional Responsibility: Oversees and leads assigned tasks for law enforcement, homeland defense, emergency preparedness and security clients. Ensures successful task order completion within the scheduled timeframe consistent with the established scope of work to include technology based and financial solutions. Directs technical teams and facilitates the integration of sub tasks to ensure the optimal use of assigned resources and subcontractors. Organizes, directs, and coordinates the planning and implementation of all activities associated with law enforcement type tasks.

Typical Education / Experience Qualifications: B.A. or B.S. Degree and 7 years of relevant experience

4. ANALYST LEVEL 1–4

Functional Responsibility: Applies management analysis processes, statistical methods, and advanced technical and analytical research techniques to develop security solutions and strategies based on client requirements with a law enforcement, professional security, or emergency preparedness services-based scope. Analyzes operational activities to obtain a quantitative basis for decision making and resource allocation. Generates functional area strategies for enhanced operations in a cross-functional area mode throughout the organization. Employs process improvements and reengineering methodologies and principles for modernization of systems and projects. Creates project plans to achieve performance-based objectives, enhancing implementation, systems and service. Provides integral support in research and development, organizational and vulnerability assessments, intelligence and threat analysis, mission requirements determination, policy and procedures development, concept definition design, testing, integration verification and validation, documentation, implementation, and operations and maintenance. Works closely with stakeholders to determine requirements and ensure compliancy with exceptions.

Education / Experience Qualifications:
Analyst Level 1: A.A. or A.S. Degree and 2 years of relevant experience
Analyst Level 2: B.A. or B.S. Degree and 2 years of relevant experience
Analyst Level 3: B.A. or B.S. Degree and 5 years of relevant experience
Analyst Level 4: B.A. or B.S. Degree and 7 years of relevant experience

5. ENGINEER LEVEL 1–4

Functional Responsibility: Performs complex engineering analysis and implementation tasks in a law enforcement, professional security or emergency preparedness environment. Tasks are broad in nature and include the design, development, layout, and testing of security related devices or systems. Plans and performs engineering research, studies, and analysis that may include technology planning; biometrics, organizational and vulnerability assessments, intelligence and threat analysis; determination of capabilities; standards development; resource planning; enterprise architecture development and integration; concept development and requirements analysis; systems design; test and evaluation; systems operation; control of systems and components; integrated logistics support; modeling and simulation; configuration management; systems and mission engineering; systems acquisition; and life-cycle management.

Education / Experience Qualifications:
Engineer Level 1:  B.S. Degree and 1 year of relevant experience
Engineer Level 2:  B.S. Degree and 3 years of relevant experience
Engineer Level 3:  B.S. Degree and 5 years of relevant experience
Engineer Level 4:  B.S. Degree and 7 years of relevant experience

6. INFORMATION ASSURANCE SPECIALIST LEVEL 1–4

Functional Responsibility: Designs, develops, and recommends integrated security system solutions for law enforcement, homeland defense, emergency preparedness and security clients. Provides technical engineering services for the support of integrated security systems and solutions. Interfaces with the client in the strategic design process to translate security and business requirements into technical designs. Configures and validates secure systems; tests security products and systems to detect security weakness. Conducts regular audits to ensure that systems are being operated securely, and computer security policies and procedures are being implemented as defined in security plans. Prepares materials and responds to request for computer security education/awareness programs. Duties include analysis of mission requirements, secure architecture design, organizational and vulnerability assessments, intelligence and threat analysis; system security/network analysis, Performs duties on tasks that require expertise in firewall implementation/configuration, physical security analysis of facilities, emergency preparedness, security assessment/risk analysis, security design of local area networks and wide area networks, security analysis of network operating systems and applications, continuity of operations, planning, and disaster recovery.

Education / Experience Qualifications
Information Assurance Specialist Level 1:  B.A. or B.S. Degree and 1 year of relevant experience
Information Assurance Specialist Level 2:  B.A. or B.S. Degree and 3 years of relevant experience
Information Assurance Specialist Level 3:  B.A. or B.S. Degree and 5 years of relevant experience
Information Assurance Specialist Level 4:  B.A. or B.S. Degree and 7 years of relevant experience

7. SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT LEVEL 1–4

Functional Responsibility: Utilizes functional and/or subject matter area expertise gained through direct industry experience to assess the organizational, operational, and functional baseline for law enforcement, homeland defense, emergency preparedness, and security clients. Works with senior government officials and executives to provide industry vision and strategic direction with regard to their enterprise. May serve as an experts to assist agencies in determining and engage a wide range of stakeholders, including local, state, and federal agencies. Guides the determination of systems, mission engineering, and business process inadequacies and deficiencies that affect the functional area’s ability to support/meet organizational threats. Participates in strategy sessions, strategic assessments, and design reviews to validate enterprise approach and associated work products. Provides expert consulting and advisory expertise in the areas of organizational and vulnerability assessments, intelligence and threat analysis, and resolution of highly complex project and problems. Recognized for strong expertise and recognition in determining industry issues and trends.

Education / Experience Qualifications:
Subject Matter Expert Level 1:   B.A. or B.S. Degree and 8 years of relevant experience
Subject Matter Expert Level 2:  Advanced Degree and 10 years of relevant experience
Subject Matter Expert Level 3:  Advanced Degree and 12 years of relevant experience
Subject Matter Expert Level 4:  Advanced Degree and 15 years of relevant experience

8. TRAINING OUTREACH SPECIALIST LEVEL 1–4

Functional Responsibility: Develops and delivers training, outreach and facilitation programs in support of complex solutions and systems for law enforcement, homeland defense, emergency preparedness and security clients. Works with clients to establish overall curriculum development, learning objectives and training platforms and channels. Evaluates the effectiveness of existing training programs and exercises that are designed to simulate potential national security threats and natural disasters. Designs and develops interactive courseware for client training using multiple technologies. Ensures integrity of task analysis, training requirements, training hierarchies, instruction materials, and evaluation plans. Interacts with stakeholders and subject matter experts to ensure technical accuracy of instructional content. As necessary, provides specialized technical assistance to implement training architectures and compliance with industry/government standards such as the Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM). Training/Outreach areas may include Wargaming, Modeling and Operation of Simulation Centers, Instructional System Design (ISD), and e-Learning/Computer-Based Training (CBT).

Typical Education / Experience Qualifications:
Training/Outreach Specialist Level 1:  B.A. or B.S. Degree and 1 years of relevant experience
Training/Outreach Specialist Level 2:  B.A. or B.S. Degree and 3 years of relevant experience
Training/Outreach Specialist Level 3:  B.A. or B.S. Degree and 5 years of relevant experience
Training/Outreach Specialist Level 4:  B.A. or B.S. Degree and 8 years of relevant experience

9. ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT

Functional Responsibility: Provides administrative, clerical, and support services to technical, professional and management level staff for project tasks. Work includes program management support activities, project budget preparation and control, technical writing and editing, documentation and graphics support, events planning and facilitation.

Typical Education / Experience Qualifications: High School Diploma and 3 years of relevant experience.

EXPERIENCE AND DEGREE SUBSTITUTION

The above describes the functional responsibilities and education and requirements for each labor category.  These requirements are a guide to the types of experience and educational backgrounds of typical personnel in each labor category.

Education and experience may be substituted for each other.  Each year of relevant experience may be substituted for one year of education and vice versa.  In addition, certifications, professional licenses, and vocational technical training may be substituted for experience and education.

Degree/Experience Equivalency*

* Successful completion of higher education which has not yet resulted in a degree may be counted as 1 year of experience for each year of college completed.