CBP OFFICER (HEADQUARTERS PROGRAMS)

Customs and Border Protection

Sterling (VA)

On-site

USD 125,000 - 163,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Job summary

Customs and Border Protection in Sterling, VA seeks a CBP Officer HQ Programs professional to manage national programs ensuring the detection and prevention of threats entering or leaving the United States.

The role is a GS-13 with a salary range of $125,158 to $162,708 per year, and requires Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearance. Open under the Fed Transition path; duties include guidance on field activities and HQ determinations.

Qualifications

Security clearance required: Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI).
Location: Sterling, VA within CBP Office of Field Operations.
Fed Transition hiring path.

Responsibilities

Manage one or more national programs to help detect and prevent terrorists and instruments of terror from entering/exiting the U.S.
Provide guidance and oversight of field activities with full technical knowledge of CBP Officer authorities, enforcement procedures, and admissibility/inspection/export control framework.
Issue definitive headquarters determinations on admissibility, immigration/nationality, tariff classification, valuation, export-control applicability, and enforcement authorities; ensure consistent interpretation across ports of entry.

Job description

Hiring Agency: Customs and Border Protection
Department: Department of Homeland Security
Hiring Path: Fed Transition
Number of Openings: 1
Security Clearance: Sensitive Compartmented Information

Organizational Location: This position is with the Department of Homeland Security, within U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations, Admissibility and Passenger Programs, Fraudulent Document Analysis Unit, located in Sterling, VA.

Key Responsibilities

Joining the Customs and Border Protection Office of Field Operations will allow you to use your expertise to manage one or more national programs in order to help to detect and prevent terrorists and instruments of terror from entering/exiting the U.S. This position starts at a salary of $125,158.00 (GS-13, Step 1) to $162,708.00 (GS-13, Step 10).

Salary above includes Special Rate for Customs and Border Protection Officer positions in the Washington-Baltimore-Arlington, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA locality pay area. Major duties may include: Providing guidance and oversight of field activities which require full technical knowledge of CBP Officer authorities, enforcement procedures, and the admissibility, inspection, entry, and export control framework.

Determining areas needing additional emphasis, developing performance measures, evaluating results, making recommendations for program improvement, and managing all assigned resources. Serving as a subject-matter expert (SME) CBP Officer and principal headquarters liaison to other federal agencies and to DHS and CBP managers.

Issuing definitive headquarters determinations on admissibility, immigration and nationality requirements, tariff classification and valuation, export-control applicability, and enforcement authorities, ensuring consistent interpretation and application across all ports of entry and preclearance locations.

If going from a LEO Covered Position to a Secondary CBPO Special Retirement Covered (SRC) Position: Please be advised that when you enter on duty in this Secondary CBPO SRC position you will no longer be covered under the Special Retirement System for Law Enforcement Officers, but will only be covered under the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS).

For further information on the Secondary CBPO Enhanced Retirement Coverage, please see the Qualifications section If going from a Primary CBPO Special Retirement Covered (SRC) Position to a Secondary CBPO SRC Position and you have less than 3 years in a Primary CBPO SRC Position: Please be advised that when you enter on duty in this Secondary CBPO SRC position you will no longer be covered under the Special Retirement System for CBP Officers, but will only be covered under the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) or covered under your applicable non-special retirement system depending upon previous service.

For further information on the Secondary CBPO SRC, please see the Qualifications section.

Requirements & Education

Please see the Qualifications and Required Documents sections for more information if education is applicable to this position. Administrative Secondary CBP Officer (CBPO) Special Retirement Coverage (SRC) Requirement: This position meets the definition of secondary administrative CBPO SRC under the laws and regulations defined in 5 U.S.C. 8331 (31), Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) and General Provisions for CBPO defined in 5 U.S.C.

8401(36), Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS). The criterion is that knowledge, skill and ability in a position deemed to meet primary CBPO SRC is a mandatory prerequisite to satisfactorily perform the major duties and responsibilities of this job. The conditions for coverage of a secondary position are contained in 5 C.F.R. § 831.1604 for CSRS and 5 C.F.R. § 842.1003 for FERS. As defined in 5 C.F.R.

§ 831.1602 CSRS and 5 CFR 842.1002 FERS, to be eligible for this secondary administrative CBP) SRC position you must have permanently served in a primary CBPO SRC position, e.g. Customs Inspector, GS-1890; Immigration Inspector, GS-1816; Canine Enforcement Officer, GS-1801; or CBP Officer, GS-1895.

Which agency is hiring for this position?

This position is with Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security.

What is the salary for this position?

The posted pay range is $125158 - $162708/yr.

What security clearance is required?

This position requires a Sensitive Compartmented Information security clearance.

What is the application deadline?

Applications close on 2026-10-02.

Who is eligible to apply?

This position is open under the 'Fed Transition' hiring path.