Privacy Officer

at  US Immigration and Customs Enforcement

QUALIFICATIONS

Please limit your resume to 5 pages. If more than 5 pages are submitted, only the first 5 pages will be reviewed to determine your eligibility/qualifications.

IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE.

Do not copy and paste the duties, specialized experience, or occupational assessment questionnaire from this announcement into your resume as that will not be considered a demonstration of your qualifications for this position.

You qualify for the GS-15 grade level if you possess one (1) year of specialized experience at the GS-14 grade level or equivalent performing duties such as:

• Conducting Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) on systems, programs, processes and technology tools;
• Leading the management of privacy incidents;
• Briefing senior leadership on critical privacy issues and priorities and proposed resolutions;
• Coordinating with mission-driven program and offices on privacy sensitive matters.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS MUST BE MET BY THE CLOSING DATE OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. QUALIFICATION CLAIMS WILL BE SUBJECT TO VERIFICATION.

National Service Experience (i.e., volunteer experience): Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
Current or Former Political Appointees: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office.
The Department of Homeland Security encourages persons with disabilities to apply, to include persons with intellectual, severe physical or psychiatric disabilities, as defined by 5 CFR 213.3102(u), and/or Disabled Veterans with a compensable service-connected disability of 30 percent or more as defined by 5 CFR 315.707. Veterans, Peace Corps, VISTA volunteers, and persons with disabilities possess a wealth of unique talents, experiences, and competencies that can be invaluable to the DHS mission. If you are a member of one of these groups, you may not have to compete with the public for federal jobs. To determine your eligibility for non-competitive appointment and to understand the required documentation, click on the links above or contact the Servicing Human Resources Office listed at the bottom of this announcement.

EDUCATION

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

DUTIES

IGP’s Privacy Unit oversees and ensures compliance with domestic and international information privacy requirements and obligations as an enabler to ICE’s complex and varied criminal investigative and immigration enforcement missions. In addition to enforcing the nation’s immigration laws, ICE is charged with investigating a broad range of criminal activities including human trafficking, narcotics smuggling, child pornography/exploitation, and illegal arms exports. The ICE Privacy Officer oversees all aspects of the agency’s privacy portfolio and directly supervises a team of senior and junior Privacy Analysts. The position involves close coordination with senior agency leadership, ICE attorneys, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Privacy leadership, and DHS component Privacy Officers. As a Privacy Officer, you will perform the following duties:

• Oversee all aspects of the privacy compliance process (Privacy Threshold Analyses, Privacy Impact Assessments, and System of Records Notices) and ensure that all of ICE’s IT assets comply with the Privacy Act of 1974 and E-Government Act of 2002.
• Lead agency-wide strategic privacy initiatives, coordinating across all stakeholder offices and driving progress on deliverables in accordance with established timelines.
• Review work submitted by Privacy staff and provide guidance and constructive feedback.
• Oversee the ICE privacy incident portfolio, guiding remediation efforts, as needed.
• Lead analysis on privacy risks related to privacy sensitive technologies, including but not limited to facial recognition, social media, location data, surveillance technologies, body-worn cameras, biometric modalities (e.g., fingerprints, iris scans, DNA), and artificial intelligence, and recommend strategies to mitigate identified risks.
• Coordinate with the ICE Office of the Chief Information Officer to ensure that ICE’s major IT systems meet Federal Information Security Modernization Act requirements.
• Brief IGP and/or ICE/DHS Privacy leadership on key initiatives within the Privacy Unit and develop project plans for how corresponding deliverables will be completed.
• Advise ICE stakeholders regarding whether disclosure of personally identifiable information (PII) is permissible under applicable law, regulation, and/or policy.
• Provide privacy training to the ICE workforce on privacy issues specific to their mission spaces.
• Serve as the final line of review for PII disclosures made by ICE’s public-facing offices (Office of Public Affairs, Office of Congressional Relations, Office of Partnership and Engagement).
• Prepare talking points on key ICE Privacy initiatives that may result in inquiries from the media, Congress, and/or the privacy advocacy community.
• Respond to requests from auditing and oversight bodies such as Congress, DHS Office of the Inspector General and the Government Accountability Office.
• Spearhead all efforts on agency privacy policy and update policies in response to new legislation, regulations, and Executive Orders.
• Review ICE procurement and acquisition requests to ensure that all privacy-sensitive contracts contain appropriate provisions to protect ICE information.

You qualify for the GS-15 grade level if you possess one (1) year of specialized experience at the GS-14 grade level or equivalent performing duties such as:

• Conducting Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) on systems, programs, processes and technology tools;
• Leading the management of privacy incidents;
• Briefing senior leadership on critical privacy issues and priorities and proposed resolutions;
• Coordinating with mission-driven program and offices on privacy sensitive matters