Supervisory Pretrial Services Officer

Supervisory Pretrial Services Officer Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for DC Pretrial Services Agency Division of Defendant Engagement and System Support Summary The Division of Defendant Engagement and System Support (DESS) is recruiting for a Supervisory Pretrial Services Officer who independently supervises operional functions associed with the full range of PSA's defendant engagement services. If you enjoy working with criminal justice stakeholders and want to promote public safety, then PSA is the place for you! This is a secondary law enforcement position for eligible applicants (See the Requirement Section) Learn more about this agency Summary The Division of Defendant Engagement and System Support (DESS) is recruiting for a Supervisory Pretrial Services Officer who independently supervises operional functions associed with the full range of PSA's defendant engagement services. If you enjoy working with criminal justice stakeholders and want to promote public safety, then PSA is the place for you! This is a secondary law enforcement position for eligible applicants (See the Requirement Section) Learn more about this agency Overview Help Accepting applicions Open & closing des 05/18/2026 to 06/01/2026 Salary $121,785 - $158,322 per year Pay scale & grade GS 13 Locion Few vacancies in the following locion: Washington, DC Remote job No Telework eligible No Travel Required Not required Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Full-time Service Competitive Promotion potential 13 Job family (Series) 0101 Social Science Supervisory stus Yes Security clearance Other Drug test Yes Position sensitivity and risk Modere Risk (MR) Trust determinion process Suitability/Fitness Financial disclosure No Bargaining unit stus No Announcement number 26-35 (MP) Control number 869770400 This job is open to Help Federal employees - Competitive service Current federal employees whose agencies follow the U.S. Office of Personnel Management's hiring rules and pay scales. Veterans Veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces or a spouse, widow, widower or parent of a veteran, who may be eligible for derived preference Military spouses Military spouses of active duty service members or whose spouse is 100 percent disabled or died on active duty. Individuals with disabilities Individuals who are eligible under Schedule A. Clarificion from the agency Stus Candides (Merit Promotion and VEOA Eligibles) Duties Help As a Supervisory Pretrial Services Officer, you will: Supervise and provide leadership to unit staff responsible for the assessment, investigion, supervision, and monitoring of defendants throughout the pretrial process. Direct staff in conducting defendant interviews; ghering and verifying background informion; researching criminal justice histories; assessing risk to public safety and risk of failure to appear; and preparing recommendions to the court regarding release conditions, program eligibility, electronic monitoring, trement referrals, and other pretrial mters. Oversee staff in the development and implemention of supervision plans for defendants designed to promote court appearance, reduce risk to public safety, and ensure compliance with court-ordered conditions, including electronic monitoring, drug testing, reporting requirements, trement participion, and stay-away orders. Ensure staff continuously assess defendant behavior, respond appropriely to violions, and coordine interventions to support defendant stability and compliance within the community. Supervise staff responsible for preparing pretrial services reports, court reports, violion reports, and recommendions for submission to the court prior to judicial hearings. Ensure reports are accure, timely, and address relevant factors including pending charges, criminal history, probion or supervision stus, substance abuse concerns, community ties, flight risk, and public safety considerions. Testify in complex, unprecedented, or high-profile cases and explain PSA policies, procedures, and recommendions to judicial officers and stakeholders. Ensure quality control and compliance with agency policies by reviewing court reports, recommendions, electronic monitoring documention, trement referrals, case records, and other unit work products. Ensure staff provide support to judicial officers regarding release orders and supervision conditions and maintain accure documention within PSA automed systems. Monitor and evalue staff utilizion of PSA automed systems, electronic monitoring technologies, trement tracking systems, and reled dabases to ensure accure case management, timely updes, proper documention, and preparion of regular and special reports for the court, torneys, trement providers, law enforcement agencies, and other authorized stakeholders. Ensure staff properly apply confidentiality rules governing the maintenance, protection, and release of sensitive defendants, trement, and electronic monitoring informion. Supervise assigned staff by assigning work, establishing priorities, monitoring workload distribution, and evaluing employee performance. Administer leave policies and personnel programs in accordance with agency policies, affirmive action, and equal employment opportunity principles. Counsel employees on administrive and performance mters; interview and recommend candides for employment; identify staff training and professional development needs; and provide ongoing coaching, mentoring, and corrective guidance to improve staff performance, operional effectiveness, and service delivery. Collabore with the Unit Chief, agency leadership, partner agencies, law enforcement, trement providers, behavioral health organizions, and court stakeholders to ensure effective communicion, coordined case management, consistency in supervision practices, and efficient unit operions. Supports agency initiives involving electronic monitoring, trement compliance oversight, public safety stregies, and evidence-based supervision practices for high-risk defendants. Perform special projects and assignments involving operional reviews, quality assurance initiives, productivity assessments, policy implemention, and resolution of complex supervision or administrive issues. Analyze findings, prepare recommendions and report for management, and develop internal opering procedures, guidance, and training merials to support agency operions and improve program effectiveness. Requirements Help Conditions of employment

Bargaining Unit Stus and Chapter:

Not Covered, AFGE Local 1456 This position is designed as a secondary law enforcement position for purposes of law enforcement retirement provisions. Only candides who have least 3 years of current federal services in primary law enforcement officer positions OR current federal service in a secondary law enforcement position are eligible for law enforcement retirement coverage while occupying this position. Candides who do not have the required service under federal law enforcement retirement provisions expected to sign a stement acknowledging th he/she will not be covered by law enforcement retirement. This announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies Conditions of Employment 1. Must be a U.S. Citizen 2. Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service 3. Suitable for Federal employment, determined by a background investigion 4. May be required to successfully complete a probionary period, if not already completed 5. All applicants are subject to a comprehensive criminal background investigion, and required to submit to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment 6. All Federal employees are required to have Federal salary payments made by direct deposit to a financial institution of their choice 7. Stus applicants for promotion must have 52 weeks of service the next lower grade 8. Time-in-grade requirements must be met by the close of this announcement 9. Selected applicants required to complete an online onboarding process. Qualificions To qualify for this position, you must meet the basic professional requirements, and specialized experience requirement below.

Basic Professional Requirement:

This position requires a four-year degree in behavioral or social science or other reled disciplines approprie to the position; OR a combinion of educion and experience th provides you with knowledge of one or more of the behavioral or social sciences equivalent to a major in the field; OR four years of approprie experience th demonstre th you have knowledge of one or more of the behavioral or social sciences equivalent to a major in the field;

AND Specialized Experience:

To qualify the GS-13 level, you must possess one year of specialized experience th equipped you with the skills needed to perform the job duties. This experience must have been equivalent to least the GS-12 grade level. Specialized experience is defined as experience assessing, evaluing, monitoring the case management, trement and/or supervision of defendants or offenders in a criminal justice system.

I Supervisory Experience:

includes assigning work, providing technical oversight, developing performance plans, evaluing/appraising performance, tracting new talent, taking disciplinary measures, and faciliting professional development for a workforce.

NOTE :

Your resume must clearly show the specialized experience reled to this position. Failure to demonstre how you possess the experience requirements will result in an "Ineligible" ring. Educion There is no educion substitution this grade level. You MUST provide transcripts or other documention to support your educional claims.

Unless otherwise sted:

(1) official or unofficial transcripts are acceptable, or (2) you may submit a list with all of your courses, grades, semester, year, and credit for the course. All merials must be submitted by the closing de of the announcement.

PASS/FAIL COURSES

If more than 10 percent of your undergradue course work (credit hours) was taken on a pass/fail basis, your claim of superior academic achievement must be based upon class standing or membership in an honor society.

FOREIGN EDUCATION

If you are using educion completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualificion requirements, you must show th the educion credentials have been evalued by a prive organizion th specializes in interpretion of foreign educion programs and such educion has been deemed equivalent to th gained in an accredited U.S. educion program; or full credit has been given for the courses a U.S. accredited college or university. For further informion, : https://www.ed.gov/laws-and-policy/higher-educion-laws-and-policy/college-accredition Additional informion 1. If you are an eligible Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP) applicant as defined by 5 CFR § 330.702, you may apply for special selection over other applicants for this position. The Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP) provides eligible displaced Federal competitive service employees with selection priority over other candides for competitive service vacancies. Click The Employee's Guide to Career Transition for more informion on ICTAP eligibility. 2. If you are a current career or career-conditional Federal employee or former Federal employee who has reinstement eligibility , you must submit a copy of your lest SF-50 "Notificion of Personnel Action" and/or a copy of the SF-50 th reflects career or career-conditional tenure, or you will not be considered under the merit promotion process. Also, you should submit your most recent performance appraisal. 3. Veterans' Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 : Veterans who are preference eligible or who have been separed from the armed forces under honorable conditions after 3 years or more of continuous active duty service may apply. If you are applying under this provision, please submit a copy of your DD-214 (unedited long version). 4. You can apply for a non-competitive appointment if you meet the basic eligibility requirements and you are eligible for special appointment such as those authorized for the severely disabled; certain Vietnam era and disabled veterans; returned volunteers from the Peace Corps or AmeriCorps Vista , etc. Please indice the type of special appointment you are seeking, if any, on your applicion and follow all other instructions for applying shown in this announcement. 5. All qualificion requirements must be met by the closing de of this announcement . Additional informion on the qualificion requirements is outlined in the OPM Qualificions Standards Handbook of General Schedule Positions. It is available for your review in our office, in other Federal agency personnel offices, and on OPM's web site OPM Qualificion Standards . 6. In accordance with Executive Order 14170 and the Merit Hiring Plan guidance issued by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, applicants for this position are invited to respond to four essay questions. These questions are designed to provide you with an opportunity to share your commitment to upholding the rule of law and the United Stes Constitution, as well as your dedicion to public service. While your responses are not required and will not be scored, we encourage you to thoughtfully address each question. Please provide a response of 200 words or less to each question. You asked to certify th you are using your own words and did not use a consultant or artificial intelligence (AI) such as a large language model (LLM) like ChGPT or Copilot. Click here to review the questions https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12962830 . Expand Hide additional informion Candides should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passione about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United Stes Constitution. Benefits Help A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits . Review our benefits Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. How you evalued You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above. Your ring based on your responses to the job specific informion provided in your resume. Your resume must clearly show how you possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities listed below. Failure to demonstre how you possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities will result in a ring of "Qualified" by the ring panel. 1. Knowledge of assessment, supervision, or case management of individuals in the criminal justice system. 2. Ability to coach and lead staff. 3. Skill in written and verbal communicion with individuals in a criminal justice environment. Once the applicion process is completed, your applicion reviewed to ensure you meet the job requirements. You evalued on the extent and quality of your experience, educion and training, job- reled awards and supervisory appraisal of performance. If you meet the basic qualificion requirements, your resume forwarded to a panel for ring. Cegory Ring used to evalue applicants using the following cegories to further determine which applicants referred to the selecting official for final considerion.

Best Qualified :

Applicants possessing a background th demonstres a superior level on all evaluion criteria.

Well Qualified :

Applicants possessing a background th demonstres a sisfactory level on evaluion criteria.

Qualified :

Applicants possessing the specialized experience described above. Benefits Help A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits . Review our benefits Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. Required documents Required Documents Help To apply for this position, you must provide a complete Applicion Package which includes: 1. Your Resume listing hours worked per week, salary, des of employment and duties performed. Only resumes up to a total of 2 pages accepted. Applicants with resumes exceeding 2 pages removed from considerion. Resumes must be legible so they can be reviewed for eligibility, minimum qualificions and other position requirements listed in the job announcement. 2.

Other supporting documents:

College transcript(s), if qualifying based on educion. Transcripts must include the school's name, student name, degree and de awarded, if applicable. (

Note:

If you are selected for the position, official transcript(s) required prior to your first day) May be required to sisfy the basic professional requirement. Most recent SF-50 or Notificion of Personnel Action showing you are/were in the competitive service and the highest grade or promotion potential held (if applying as a stus candide with current or former Federal Service). If former law enforcement in retirement plan M, MF, or MR, please tach the SF-50. (Award Notificion of Personnel Actions are not acceptable) DD-214 (member 4 copy) showing honorable discharge, SF-15 Form and VA letter, or certificion of expected discharge or release from active duty for considerion under Veteran hiring authorities Non-competitive appointment authority documention, if applicable Employees applying with an interchange agreement must provide proof of their permanent appointment Selected applicants required to complete an online onboarding process. Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program Documention, must include the following: SF-50 th documents the RIF separion action, position, grade level, and duty locion; and Most recent performance appraisal Certificion of Expected Separion or Reduction-In-Force Separion Notice or Notice of Proposed Removal may also be submitted

ICTAP Applicants :

To be considered under the Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP), applicants must submit all required documention the time of applicion and must be determined to be well-qualified for the position.

Required documention includes:

Proof of ICTAP eligibility (displacement) which must include one of the following: an SF-50 documenting a Reduction in Force (RIF) action, certificion of expected separion, Reduction in Force (RIF) separion notice, ora notice of proposed removal for declining a directed reassignment or transfer of function outside the local commuting area; and An SF-50 (Notificion of Personnel Action) documenting your current or most recent position, grade level and duty locion; and Your most recent performance appraisal, reflecting a ring of least Fully Successful (or equivalent). Only applicants who meet both ICTAP eligibility requirements and the well-qualified standard considered for selection priority. Failure to submit all required documents may result in a determinion th you are not eligible for ICTAP considerion. Only send documention as requested/required by this announcement and th directly supports your qualificions for this position. If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply Help To apply for this position, you must complete the online applicion and submit the documention specified in the Required Documents section below. The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on the closing de (06/01/2026) to receive considerion. To begin, click Apply Online to access an online applicion. Follow the prompts to select your USAJOBS resume and/or other supporting documents. You will need to be logged into your USAJOBS account or you may need to cree a new account. You taken to an online applicion. Complete the online applicion, verify the required documention, and submit the applicion. You will receive an email notificion when your applicion has been received for the announcement. To verify the stus of your applicion, log into your USAJOBS account, https://my.usajobs.gov/Account/Login , select the Applicion Stus link and then select the More Informion link for this position. The Applicion Stus page will display the stus of your applicion, the documention received and processed, and your responses submitted to the online applicion. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process. If you are unable to apply online, you must request an alternive applicion which is available from the Human Resources Office. Please contact the Shelly Monroe 202-740-8543 or Shelly.

Monroe@psa.gov to obtain instructions on how to submit an alternive applicion. Only resumes up to a total of 2 pages accepted. Applicants with resumes exceeding 2 pages removed from considerion. Resumes must be legible so they can be reviewed for eligibility, minimum qualificions and other position requirements listed in the job announcement. Agency contact informion Shelly Monroe Phone 202-740-8543 Shelly.

Monroe@psa.gov Address Division of Defendant Engagement and System Support 633 Indiana Ave., NW Washington, DC 20004 US Next steps Once the on-line applicion and supporting documents are received, you will receive an acknowledgement email th your submission was successful. After a review of your complete applicion is made, you notified of your ring and/or referral to the hiring official. If further evaluion or interviews are required you contacted. Fair and transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request Required Documents Help To apply for this position, you must provide a complete Applicion Package which includes: 1. Your Resume listing hours worked per week, salary, des of employment and duties performed. Only resumes up to a total of 2 pages accepted. Applicants with resumes exceeding 2 pages removed from considerion. Resumes must be legible so they can be reviewed for eligibility, minimum qualificions and other position requirements listed in the job announcement. 2.

Other supporting documents:

College transcript(s), if qualifying based on educion. Transcripts must include the school's name, student name, degree and de awarded, if applicable. (

Note:

If you are selected for the position, official transcript(s) required prior to your first day) May be required to sisfy the basic professional requirement. Most recent SF-50 or Notificion of Personnel Action showing you are/were in the competitive service and the highest grade or promotion potential held (if applying as a stus candide with current or former Federal Service). If former law enforcement in retirement plan M, MF, or MR, please tach the SF-50. (Award Notificion of Personnel Actions are not acceptable) DD-214 (member 4 copy) showing honorable discharge, SF-15 Form and VA letter, or certificion of expected discharge or release from active duty for considerion under Veteran hiring authorities Non-competitive appointment authority documention, if applicable Employees applying with an interchange agreement must provide proof of their permanent appointment Selected applicants required to complete an online onboarding process. Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program Documention, must include the following: SF-50 th documents the RIF separion action, position, grade level, and duty locion; and Most recent performance appraisal Certificion of Expected Separion or Reduction-In-Force Separion Notice or Notice of Proposed Removal may also be submitted

ICTAP Applicants :

To be considered under the Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP), applicants must submit all required documention the time of applicion and must be determined to be well-qualified for the position.

Required documention includes:

Proof of ICTAP eligibility (displacement) which must include one of the following: an SF-50 documenting a Reduction in Force (RIF) action, certificion of expected separion, Reduction in Force (RIF) separion notice, ora notice of proposed removal for declining a directed reassignment or transfer of function outside the local commuting area; and An SF-50 (Notificion of Personnel Action) documenting your current or most recent position, grade level and duty locion; and Your most recent performance appraisal, reflecting a ring of least Fully Successful (or equivalent). Only applicants who meet both ICTAP eligibility requirements and the well-qualified standard considered for selection priority. Failure to submit all required documents may result in a determinion th you are not eligible for ICTAP considerion. Only send documention as requested/required by this announcement and th directly supports your qualificions for this position. If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply Help To apply for this position, you must complete the online applicion and submit the documention specified in the Required Documents section below. The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on the closing de (06/01/2026) to receive considerion. To begin, click Apply Online to access an online applicion. Follow the prompts to select your USAJOBS resume and/or other supporting documents. You will need to be logged into your USAJOBS account or you may need to cree a new account. You taken to an online applicion. Complete the online applicion, verify the required documention, and submit the applicion. You will receive an email notificion when your applicion has been received for the announcement. To verify the stus of your applicion, log into your USAJOBS account, https://my.usajobs.gov/Account/Login , select the Applicion Stus link and then select the More Informion link for this position. The Applicion Stus page will display the stus of your applicion, the documention received and processed, and your responses submitted to the online applicion. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process. If you are unable to apply online, you must request an alternive applicion which is available from the Human Resources Office. Please contact the Shelly Monroe 202-740-8543 or Shelly.

Monroe@psa.gov to obtain instructions on how to submit an alternive applicion. Only resumes up to a total of 2 pages accepted. Applicants with resumes exceeding 2 pages removed from considerion. Resumes must be legible so they can be reviewed for eligibility, minimum qualificions and other position requirements listed in the job announcement. Expand Hide how to apply Agency contact informion Shelly Monroe Phone 202-740-8543 Shelly.

Monroe@psa.gov Address Division of Defendant Engagement and System Support 633 Indiana Ave., NW Washington, DC 20004 US Next steps Once the on-line applicion and supporting documents are received, you will receive an acknowledgement email th your submission was successful. After a review of your complete applicion is made, you notified of your ring and/or referral to the hiring official. If further evaluion or interviews are required you contacted. Expand Hide next steps Fair and transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request Overview Help Accepting applicions Open & closing des 05/18/2026 to 06/01/2026 Salary $121,785 - $158,322 per year Pay scale & grade GS 13 Locion Few vacancies in the following locion: Washington, DC Remote job No Telework eligible No Travel Required Not required Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Full-time Service Competitive Promotion potential 13 Job family (Series) Supervisory stus Yes Security clearance Drug test Yes Position sensitivity and risk Trust determinion process Financial disclosure Bargaining unit stus Announcement number 26-35 (MP) Control number 869770400