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You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement. The experience may have been gained in either the public, private sector or volunteer service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-time work is considered on a prorated basis. To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/day/year, and indicate number of hours worked per week on your résumé. For the GS-13, you must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes: Testifying as a latent print expert in jury trials; AND Processing physical evidence (i.e., paper, weapons, computers etc.) using comprehensive physical and chemical development techniques. AND Analyzing, comparing and evaluating latent print impressions and rendering a conclusion; AND Using digital photography as a capture medium for developed latent prints; AND Conducts methods development projects to improve latent fingerprint examination capabilities. For the GS-12, you must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes: Assisting with the preparation for latent print expert witness testimony; AND Processing physical evidence (e.g., documents, weapons, computers etc.) using comprehensive physical and chemical development techniques; AND Analyzing fingerprint cases and imperfect and partial latent fingerprints impressions that contain only the minimum number of points necessary to make an identification; AND Using digital photography as a capture medium for developed latent prints; AND Conducts methods development projects to improve latent fingerprint examination capabilities.
This position is located at Office of the Inspector General for Tax Admin,Office of Investigation. As a Fingerprint Specialist (Senior), you will be recognized as an expert in latent print examination who possesses outstanding knowledge, skill and ability in all phases of the work. He/she resolves the most complex, delicate and sensitive cases where the expert conclusion often rests entirely on latent impressions of limited quality. He/she serves the Special Agents, the National Office of Investigations and Technology, occasionally other components of the Service and other agencies, e.g., Inspector General Offices. The duty station location will be determined upon selection, to include current employees of the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration based on their current Core office location listed in this announcement. As a Fingerprint Specialist (Senior), you will: Perform all types of latent print examination and identification to ensure professional treatment of physical evidence and related problems; scope includes all types of friction ridge skin. Conduct comprehensive applied research projects to modify existing applications, develop new and more effective methodology for the examination of highly complex or unusual items of evidence, enhance the identification process and aid inspectors in the detection of fraud. Perform and complete latent print examinations using complex sequential chemical and physical development, visual, photographic and computer image enhancement techniques; carefully interprets and evaluates the results obtained to determine validity, scientific significance and evidentiary value to provide the maximum information with available evidence. Furnish depositions or affidavits; testify in evidentiary hearings, bench and jury trials and before other determiners of fact, e.g., Merit System Protection Board, in support of findings and expert opinion; anticipates and defends against vigorous challenges to testimony under cross examination. Testimony may involve detailed explanations, demonstrations and justifications of the underlying principles of identification, the use of novel or unusual techniques, e.g., computer image enhancement, or modified methodology in examination and the basis for the opinion.