Lead Dispatcher; Public Safety

Duties

Duties
Major

Duties Include:

• Leads day to day operations in the Interagency Communications Center, which provides logistical support for non-emergency communications and complex all-risk emergency incidents including search and rescue, structural fire, wildland fire, and aviation/vessel tracking and uses knowledge to focus on law enforcement and emergency medical dispatch.
• Oversees full on-site (query and input) to National Criminal Information Network (NCIC), National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (NLETS), and Nevada Criminal Justice Information Systems (NCJIS), and Arizona Criminal Justice Information Systems (ACJIS).
• As a certified APCO (Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials) or equivalent Communications Training Officer instructs all dispatch staff personnel for Public Safety Dispatcher certification and serve as a subject matter expert during training course development.
• Assists in creating and developing the training program for dispatchers and identifies development and training needs of employees to provide career development opportunities. Training includes utilizing the Incident Management Analysis and Reporting System (IMARS) and Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) to process records requests.
• Implements and revises plans, guidelines, and procedures used in the daily operation of an emergency communications center and assists in establishing and accomplishing program priorities for the dispatch operation.
• Provides technical leadership in telecommunications support, database management, and investigative analysis functions.

• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Appointment subject to background investigation and favorable adjudication.
• Meet Selective Service Registration Act requirement for males
• Selectee will be required to participate in the Direct Deposit Electronics Funds Transfer Program.
• Any individual who is currently holding, or has held within the previous 52 weeks, a General Schedule position under non-temporary appointment in the competitive or excepted service, must meet time-in-grade requirements (must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade or equivalent in the Federal service); with few exceptions as outlined in 5 CFR 300.603(b). Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal civilian employees applying for reinstatement who have had a break in service of less than one year, as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointments.
  
  Time-in-grade does not apply to new excepted service appointments and must be met by the closing date of this announcement.
• You will be required to submit to a drug test and receive a negative drug test result prior to appointment. In addition, this position is subject to random testing for illegal drug use.
• You may be required to operate a government (or private) motor vehicle as part of your official duties. Prior to your first official motor vehicle operation, and again every year thereafter (or more frequently if management determines such need exists), you will be required to sign an affidavit certifying to your possession of a valid State issued driver's license that is current and has not been revoked, suspended, canceled, or otherwise disqualified in any way to prohibit your operation of a motor vehicle.
  
  You will also submit a photocopy of your valid State issued driver's license prior to your first official motor vehicle operation, and again every year, or more frequently if management determines such need exists. Lastly, you may be required to submit (within a State sealed envelope or submitted directly by the State authorities), and at your own expense, all certified driving records from all States that discloses all valid driver's licenses, whether current or past, possessed by you.
  
  Please indicate in your application whether you possess a valid State driver's license.
• You may be required to work on-call, evenings, weekends, holidays, overtime and shift work.

• You may be required to travel overnight away from home up to 2 nights…