Open Positions at U.S. Embassy South Africa

Job Overview:

• Manages and supervises the Facilities Management section at the Consulate, overseeing all day-to-day maintenance, repair, and improvement of U.S. Government-owned and leased real property and equipment for Consulate General Durban, ensuring facilities meet Department of State and local standards and customer needs. Supervises two Locally Employed Staff (LE Staff) and plans and manages their workload.
• Serves as Post Safety Coordinator/Assistant Post Occupational Health and Safety Officer (POSHO) with responsibility for safety program at Post ensuring compliance with the Office of Overseas Building Operations (OBO) Office of Safety, Health, and Environmental Management (SHEM) requirements. Serves as Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) for gardening and custodial contracts and all facilities-related contractors.
• Serves as project coordinator for maintenance, repair and improvement projects., including preparing Statements of Work, performing technical review of proposals, and ensuring quality control of work. May directly perform maintenance and repair activities as needed. Serves as incidental driver for government-owned vehicles (GOVs) and occasional money holder.

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

Maintenance and Repair of Property – 40%

• Directs buildings, grounds, and related equipment maintenance and repairs accomplished by project contractors, gardeners, landlord representatives and in-house personnel. Performs or assists in maintenance and repair tasks as necessary. Programs and schedules preventive maintenance (PM) for USG-owned equipment, appliances, buildings, compounds, and residences. Provides resource materials, manuals, and technical specifications for various PM operations. Generates charts and reports to ensure clear communication of the status of U.S. facilities and equipment. Ensures GMMS database is updated regularly to account for costs and labor.

Coordinate Projects and Manage Contractors – 30%

• Serves as Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) for all facilities-related contractors including gardening, landscaping, generator, water supply, solar/battery electrical systems, and pest control vendors. Plans, schedules, and provides oversight of contractor’s work and coordinates all facilities-related projects for all government-owned and leased properties. Works closely with the General Services Office (GSO) to coordinate maintenance and repairs on leased property. Uses the Global Maintenance Management System (GMMS) to develop a long-term Facility Work Plan (FWP) for Facility projects. Responsible for developing FWP entries and budget requests. 
• The incumbent, when assigned to a project, will formulate all phases of planning for the performance and will write the specifications based on OBO criteria for the recommended work prior to solicitation.

Safety Coordination – 20%

• Schedules and performs required safety and health and fire inspections of all USG facilities, including offices, residences, annexes, and warehouses for conditions that pose an imminent threat to occupants and structure. Performs visual inspections of fire detection, alarm, and suppression systems when installed in buildings.
• Inspects high hazard areas (as delineated in 15 FAM 962(e) at least twice per year. Assists in conducting investigations under the direction of the POSHO. Develops and provides safety training in conjunction with SHEM and FIRE requirements for supervisors and employees in accordance with applicable requirements and ensures that employees are familiar with safety rules and procedures for performing their jobs in a safe manner.

Property Management – 10%

• Responsible for all USG-owned facilities management-related expendable and non-expendable property including tools, vehicles, safety equipment and PPE, expendable supplies, uniforms, and generator fuel. Selects and purchases tools and other equipment for the facilities section. Ensures appropriate stock of on-hand items and availably of materials on the local markets. Purchases equipment and supplies as necessary.

Qualifications and Evaluations

Requirements:

• All selected candidates must be able to obtain and hold a: security certificate
• All selected candidates will be subject to a background investigation and may be subject to a pre-employment medical exam.  
• Selected candidate must be able to begin working within a reasonable period of time, within 6 weeks of receipt of agency authorization and/or clearances/certifications or their candidacy may end.

Education Requirements:

• Completion of secondary school is required and completion of vocational training from an accredited institute, recognized as producing journeyman level technicians with specialization in electrical, plumbing, and general construction fields is required

Evaluations:

• You will be evaluated against the qualifications and requirements in this vacancy announcement. 
• You may be asked to complete a pre-employment language or skills test.
• You must complete the application form and provide the required documents.  Your application must address all the position qualifications and requirements including education, experience, language, and any knowledge/skills/abilities listed.

Qualifications:

Experience:

• A minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible experience in a building construction, residential management or facilities management position in which two of the years should be in project supervision and/or inspection of HVAC, plumbing, mechanical or electrical systems, landscape, carpentry and/or masonry is required.
• Minimum of six months overseeing the work of contractors over the entire course of the project.

Job Knowledge:

• Full working knowledge of all technical aspects, procedures, and practices appropriate to maintenance and repair of commercial and residential buildings.
• Standard practices, methods, tools, and equipment used in building maintenance, repair, and installation of building systems/equipment.
• Occupational hazard and standard precautions in the workplace.
• Building, electrical, fire, mechanical, and plumbing codes.
• Principles and practices of supervision, training, and performance evaluations.
• Knowledge of local building codes and practices of contractor management.

Skills And Abilities:

• A trades certificate is required with relevant experience in facilities maintenance. Must be able to read and interpret OSHA, labor manuals, building and floor plans and blueprints, equipment manuals, schematics and other technical written materials. Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook.
• Must have strong interpersonal skills to deal professionally and effectively with contractors, landlords, occupants, and counterparts at both Embassy Pretoria and the OBO Bureau in Washington. Must have good numerical skills. Accurate keyboard/typing skills, speed is not required.
• Must have had a valid driver’s license for a minimum of five (5) year.
• Must have ability to lift up to 50 lbs.

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Duties

• The Administrative and Program Support Rover position provides administrative, data analysis/report, program/project coordination, or management support to post. In addition to administrative and program support, this position provides cleared escort responsibilities.
• This position addresses short-term assignments as needed by post including staffing gaps, ad-hoc projects, and/or short-term workload increases.
• The work schedule for this position is intermittent/irregular (a when actually employed) basis. Post MGT supervises the Rover position, but the incumbent will receive work guidance from supervisor in currently assigned area. 

Qualifications and Evaluations

Requirements:

• All selected candidates must be able to obtain and hold a TOP SECRET security clearance. 
• All selected candidates will be subject to a background investigation. Selected candidate must be able to begin working within a reasonable period of time (12 weeks) upon receipt of agency authorization and/or clearances/certifications or their candidacy may end. 

Education Requirements:

• Completion of two years post-secondary education is required.

Evaluations:

• You will be evaluated against the qualifications and requirements in this vacancy announcement. 
• You may be asked to complete a pre-employment language or skills test.
• You must complete the application form and provide the required documents. Your application must address all the position qualifications and requirements including education, experience, language, and any knowledge/skills/abilities listed.  If you fail to submit a complete application, then your application may be disqualified for this position.

Qualifications:

Experience:

• Three years of office administration and management experience is required.

Language: 

• ENGLISH Fluent; speaking/reading/writing, may include the ability to translate.

Job Knowledge:

• Knowledge of office management and core tools such as the core Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint) and computer literacy (keyboarding, internet searches), in order to perform assignment and do basic troubleshooting on information technology issues. 

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Duties

• The Criminal Fraud Investigator (CFI) is embedded in the Consular Section and works under the direct supervision of the Overseas Criminal Investigator (OCI).  
• The incumbent conducts sensitive, routine, and complex criminal investigations of counterfeit/forged travel documents, human trafficking, and smuggling, U.S. fugitive extraditions, identity theft, bribery, extortion, conspiracy, misrepresentation, malfeasance, and terrorist travel.  To facilitate these investigations, the incumbent builds relationships with contacts of all levels throughout the region to include but not limited to relationships with the respective police forces, immigration agencies, airport security, and prosecutors’ offices, etc. 
• The incumbent is also responsible for working level liaison with U.S. law enforcement agencies and U.S. attorney’s offices throughout the United States and its territories.
•  Incumbent may also manage non-RSO Locally Engaged Staff (LE Staff) when they are involved in supporting criminal investigations within the DSS purview as well as fulfilling interagency requests for investigative support that perpetuate national security interests.  Incumbent can also work under the direction of the Senior Regional Security Officer (RSO) with concurrence from the OCI.  
• The CFI is managed by the OCI who is supported by the Overseas Criminal Investigations Division (DS/INV/OCI) in Washington DC.

Qualifications and Evaluations

Requirements:

EXPERIENCE:  

• A minimum of five (5) years working in a professional capacity in a related criminal or investigative field within the local government or experience working in conjunction with the U.S. or government in the field(s) of criminal justice, security, or administrative investigations, or court processes with emphasis on technical, analytical or procedural investigations and/or applied operations with a concept of needs focused on identification, interception, interruption, or denial of criminal activities is required.

JOB KNOWLEDGE: 

•  A good working knowledge of documentary sources of information and familiarity with pertinent local laws such as invasion of privacy, marriage, divorce, etc. is necessary.  Knowledge about criminal activities and modus operandi of criminal organizations within the AOR.
•  The work requires a comprehensive command of local criminal law, judicial proceedings, analytical and legal research, as well as the ability to produce reports of investigations based on investigative efforts. 
• The incumbent must be able to rapidly coordinate large scale, high profile investigations for both host nation and U.S. law enforcement and maintain a cadre of key contacts with a like interest in program goals.  Basic knowledge of U.S. travel document concerns, objective ideas in respect to the overall fraud trends, methods, and strategies in visa and passport fraud. 

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Law, Law Enforcement, Security, International Relations, Politics, or Criminal Justice and Forensics is required.

SKILLS AND ABILITIES: 

• Critical and independent thinker; self-starter, strong interpersonal skills, and the ability to work as a team toward a common goal. Strong computer skills, (word processing, spreadsheet management, presentations software) are required. Incumbent will use analytical computer software such as i2 link analysis, or open source internet investigative tools to secure digital evidence and should be able to manipulate data exports from DOS databases for analytical review/import.
• Must have skills to speak in public and do public presentations on a regular basis.
• The incumbent must be able to write detailed and accurate reports in English that require little to no correction. A valid driver's license valid for the last five (5) years.