Summary Corrections professionals who foster a humane and secure environment and ensure public safety by preparing individuals for successful reentry into our communities. Duties Serves as a Senior Correctional Program Specialist in the Sex Offender Certification Review Branch, Correctional Programs Division, Central Office, Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). Provides oversight responsibility to other program specialists in the department. Serves under the direction of the Administrator of the Sex Offender Certification Review Branch (SOCRB). Functions as the Branch's expert regarding the Walsh Act's Classification and Management Assignments (CMA). Responsible for addressing and resolving issues regarding these CMAs for the BOP and its staff. Qualifications To be considered for the position, you must meet the following qualification requirements: Education: There is no substitution of education for specialized experience for this position. Experience: You must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the next lower grade level. Specialized experience is directly related experience that included substantial involvement with a correctional program and provided a thorough knowledge of correctional techniques, or experience in meeting and dealing with people that demonstrated the ability to work effectively with inmates and associates in a correctional environment. Experience must have also demonstrated the ability to perform supervisory or administrative duties successfully. This includes: (1) understanding the problems of custody, treatment, training, and release of inmates of penal or correctional institutions; (2) a thorough and comprehensive knowledge of an institution's internal policies, programs, regulations, and procedures; and (3) training subordinates, coordinating and directing activities and functions, evaluating performance of operations and the effectiveness of programs, and maintaining high standards or work objectives. This experience must have been gained in an administrative position, or in other positions that included the successful direction, or assistance in the direction of, an entire correctional program or a major phase of such a program. Some examples of this qualifying experience are: Be proficient with Sentry, BOP WARE, and/or extracting information from a variety of sources (e.g. NCIC, PSR, psychological evaluations, court documents) to assess risk level of offenders. Experience working with a multidisciplinary team such as unit team psychology services, correctional services, or correctional programs. Experience monitoring, tracking, reviewing, auditing, and/or oversight of workflow and data bases. Knowledge of sex offenders assessment and/or civil commitment of sex offenders, and/or history of working in a correctional treatment program for sexual offenders. If applicable, credit will be given for paid and unpaid experience. To receive proper credit, you must show the actual time (such as the number of hours worked per week) spent in activities. **Your eligibility for consideration will be based on your responses to the questions in the application.**