Criminal Investigator

Criminal Investigator

The Criminal Investigator conducts complex, high-risk investigations to protect wildlife resources and enforce Federal conservation laws. The role involves leading multiagency efforts, using advanced investigative technologies, and addressing sophisticated criminal activity affecting domestic and international wildlife trade. At the full performance level major duties include:

• Conducts investigations that may involve largescale undercover operations to infiltrate criminal networks, the development and use of confidential informants, and the collection and analysis of intelligence from multiple sources.
• Leads, organizes, and serves on multifunction teams to carry out extremely complex investigations and address significant conservation issues involving violations of Federal wildlife laws and related statutes.
• Performs a wide range of law enforcement activities on the most complex and sensitive cases, including executing raids, interviewing witnesses, interrogating suspects, making arrests, developing evidence for prosecution, testifying in court and before grand juries, and preparing detailed investigative reports.
• Creates and maintains strong working relationships with high level enforcement partners, including State law enforcement chiefs, U.S. Attorney personnel, Federal enforcement agents and supervisors, and local police chiefs and sheriffs.
• Builds partnerships with foreign, Federal, State, and local enforcement authorities, media representatives, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), and private industry to obtain, exchange, and secure critical information and testimony.

Physical Demands: The work requires frequent walking, stooping, bending, climbing, and extended periods of stationary surveillance. Duties may involve lifting moderately heavy items such as boxes or cargo containers. Work Environment: Work is performed in both office and outdoor settings with regular exposure to adverse weather, dust, noise, and similar moderate risks and discomforts. Surveillance duties may involve the use of aircraft, boats, and motorized vehicles. The incumbent is responsible for minimizing risk to self and others during assignments.

Duty Station Locations: This position requires on-site presence. The selected applicant will be expected to report to one of the following Agency's offices, with the specific workstation to be determined by the Agency upon selection. A total of twenty-four (24) candidates may be selected - one (1) for each of the following locations:

• Albuquerque, NM
• Amherst, NY
• Anchorage, AK
• Atlanta, GA
• Billings, MT
• Bismarck, ND
• Brownsville, TX
• El Paso, TX
• Fremont, NE
• Hardeeville, SC
• Honolulu, HI
• Lander, WY
• Laredo, TX
• Madison, WI
• Memphis, TN
• Miami, FL
• Minneapolis, MN
• Pinetop, AZ
• Richmond, VA
• Sacramento, CA
• San Diego, CA
• Seattle, WA
• St. Peters, MO
• Sterling, VA

Salaries will be set based on the geographic locality pay for the assigned duty station.

Questions related to duty station placement should be addressed during the interview process. Promotion Potential: Promotion is at the supervisor's discretion and depends on satisfactory performance, the availability of higher-level work, and funding. The selectee may be promoted without further competition once all regulatory, qualification, and performance requirements are met. Selection at a lower grade does not guarantee promotion to the full performance level.