Beginning the Job Search

Job Openings/Opportunities:

1. Sexual Assault Response Coordinator 
2. Case Manager
3. Correctional Officer
4. Sector Enforcement Specialist

Qualifications, Skills, Experiences Required

1.  Sexual Assault Response Coordinator

• Bachelor's Degree in Social Work, Sociology, Psychology, Criminal Justice or related social or behavioral science with one year's experience working with adolescent/adult sexual assault victims OR
• Four year's experience working with adolescent/adult sexual assault victims
• Social services program management experience 
• Knowledge of family violence dynamics, sexual assault, local community resources, and federal and state laws pertaining to domestic violence, sexual assault and family law.  Knowledge of the military, Department of Defense and Family Advocacy Program
• Ability to develop program management plans and adhere to them.  Ability to assess program effectiveness.  Ability to maintain accurate statistical framework for program data collection and reports.
• Ability to understand, be sensitive to, and have empathy for victims.  Ability to develop trusting helping relationships and to work effectively with individuals and families from diverse racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
• Ability to intervene in crisis situations, using sound professional judgment, ethical practice, and common sense.
• Ability to work cooperatively with military and civilian medical, social service, law enforcement, and legal personnel on behalf of victims.
• Skilled in oral and written communications.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite.  Skilled in the use of office software applications to prepare management reports and use software to develop information; able to enter data in required management reports.
• Knowledge of local, state, and federal laws and military regulations pertaining to victims of sexual assault.  

 2.  Case Manager 

• Bachelor's Degree in Criminal Justice, Sociology, or related field.
• One year in caseload management of offenders in a correctional setting required OR an equivalent combination of education and related work experience required.
• Certified law enforcement officer experience OR correctional/detention experience preferred.

3.  Correctional Officer

• Age requirement:  a maximum entry age of 36.  If you are above the max entry age and have prior federal law enforcement coverage, you must submit an SF-50 at the time of interview.
• US Citizenship required.
• Successful completion of a full 4-yr course of study in any field leading to a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university.
• Nine semester hours or 14 quarter hours of graduate study, from an accredited school in Criminal Justice, Criminology, Social Science, or another field of study related to the position such as law OR
• One year specialized experience in the following areas:  correctional officer, detention officer, police officer, border patrol agent, state trooper, sheriff, park ranger, deputy sheriff supervising inmates in a jail, or mental health residential facility worker

4.  Sector Enforcement Specialist

• One year specialized experience that includes coordinating extensive law enforcement activities using a variety of communications equipment, retrieving, analyzing, and interpreting sensitive law enforcement data from a variety of sources in response to requests for information; and making critical decisions in conjunctions with searches of automated databases in stressful and emergency situations to assist law enforcement officials OR
• Completion of a master's or equivalent graduate degree or 2 full years of progressively higher graduate education leading to such a degree in an accredited college or university, or a L.L.B. degree may be substituted for experience at the GS-9 level.

Skills, Training, Accomplishments and Experiences:

My current position as a Program Technician in a Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office puts me in the perfect position to qualify as the first job in the listing, Sexual Assault Response Coordinator.  This would be the next stepping stone in my career progression, especially once I finish my bachelor's degree.   

I have already worked for over 5 years in this field.  I have been a Volunteer Victim Advocate working with victims of sexual assault.  I have done this with working with Department of Defense and in the civilian sector working with a non-profit organization.  I have had the 40 hour Air Force Victim Advocate training and the 40 hour Air Force Sexual Assault Response Coordinator course.  I have certificates for both of these training sessions.  

I have also spent over 17 years within the Department of Defense system as a Secretary for various organizations in several locations.  With this job, I bring the knowledge of the operations of an office and organization.  I am fluent in Microsoft Office Suite.  I understand the functions of an office budget.  I work well under stress to accomplish tasks.

I have applied for the Sexual Assault Response Coordinator position in the past (not this specific one), but did not qualify because I do not possess the experience at the next lower level.  One thing that I believe will help me for further announcements will be the completion of my bachelor's degree.  I believe I would qualify for this position outside of the Air Force Merit Promotion system.  I would need to apply as an external candidate.  Having almost 20 years Civil Service experience, I'm reluctant to leave the Department of Defense.  This current announcement is with a job service (contractor) that is not related to the military.  This means that I would have to leave Civil Service.  I'm not willing, at this time, to do that.