This position is located in the DEA, Bangkok, Thailand Country Office. This position primary purpose is to function as a telecommunications hardware advisor to the Special Agent in Charge, Assistant Special Agent in Charge or Country Attache' and provides technical expertise to DEA personnel in the operation and use of the worldwide DEA Teleprocessing Systems (OATS), Office Automation (OA) System, and Secure Mail System (SMS). As an Investigative Technology Specialist your typical work assignments may include: Conducts sight surveys of DEA facilities and recommends telecommunications equipment needs associated with a DEA foreign region/office. Develop layouts, drawings, equipment inventory and operating cost statistics for each facility utilizing telecommunications equipment. Evaluates, modifies, develops, establishes, installs, and maintains telecommunications systems software/hardware packages using new and advanced communications equipment and techniques. Develops and maintains procedures and software for the reliability and integrity of the computer system data. Provides technical advice to senior management concerning telecommunications problems and questions, and in developing alternatives and options to meet requirements in a variety of physical and environmental circumstances. ASSIGNMENT INFORMATION: Length of Tour: Employees are limited to a maximum of five years of service in an overseas assignment. The initial tour of duty for this assignment is 3 (three) years. After the initial tour of duty has been completed, extensions may be granted in one-year increments up to the five-year maximum. Employees who wish to remain on an overseas assignment in excess of the five-year maximum must request a tour extension or renewal before the end of their current assignment. Employees who are approved to extend their overseas assignment beyond the five-year maximum will forfeit the right to return to an office of preference. They will be placed in an appropriate position at a DEA domestic office where a vacancy exists. At the conclusion of an overseas tour, DEA will attempt to return employees to their home location. If such a placement is not possible, employees' office of preference lists will be considered. However, employees are reminded that assignments are determined based on the needs of DEA. Bangkok, Thailand Country Office Post (Hardship) Differential* 10% Post (Cost of Living) Allowance* 10% Danger Pay Allowance: 0% Home Leave: Allowed after the initial 24 months incident to tour renewal. Housing Allowances: Housing paid for by U.S. Government, Bangkok is a furnished post. Foreign Language: None Rest & Recuperation: 2 Relocation Incentive: No Educational Allowances**: Yes, see below *Post (cost of living) allowance, post (hardship) differential, and danger pay allowance (if applicable to the advertised post) are subject to change. Detailed post (cost of living) allowance information can be found here. Detailed post (hardship) differential information can be found here. Detailed danger pay allowance information can be found here and here. Overseas Transition Preparation: Please contact DEA Family Liaison Officers Kieran Mandato (kieran.g.mandato@dea.gov) or N'Dorah Z. Walker (ndorah.z.walker@dea.gov) for Post Reports that detail living conditions for employees and their families at post. Click here for a Prospective Post Priorities Worksheet that can help you consider what is important to you and your family in the foreign PCS decision-making process. For more information regarding the foreign PCS process, please see the PCS Foreign Assignment Relocation Handbook and the Foreign Orientation Handbook.

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