Intelligence Specialist (operations)

Job Position

This position is in the Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS). Employees occupying DCIPS positions are in the Excepted Service and must adhere to U.S. Code, Title 10, as well as Department of Defense Instruction 1400.25. This position is located at the HQ Joint Special Operations Command, Fort Meade, MD.

Responsibilities:

• Recognized expert Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) exploitation analyst focused on collection results and fusing Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) with multi-discipline intelligence in direct support of the Command's mission and goals.
• Anticipates the need for balanced and qualified staff and recommends organizational structure and personnel requirements to ensure proper management and assigned mission.
• Provides insight into Special Operations Forces (SOF) Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs) at exercise, operational, and technology planning and review forums.
• Finds and implements ways to reduce barriers to production, promote team building, or improve workflows and information accesses.
• Applies specialized Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) expertise to perform highly complex and ambiguous assignments that normally require integration and synthesis of a number of related, unrelated disciplines and disparate concepts.
• Responsible for collaborating, managing and coordinating multi-discipline SIGINT fusion requirements for near real time SIGINT capabilities, specialized collection, exploitation and dissemination directly supporting command and subordinate units.

Qualifications:

Who May Apply:

Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities.

In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE:

To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe at least one year of experience which prepared you to do the work in this job. Specialized experience is defined as 1) Experience utilizing up-to-date National Security Agency (NSA) policies, directives and procedures to support operational decision making; AND 2) Experience with Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) analysis and policies in order to solve difficult and complex analytical problems; AND 3) Experience in collaboration, coordination and deconfliction within the Intelligence Community. Building and maintaining professional partnerships within the Intelligence Community.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GG/GS-13). Progressively responsible experience is that which has included intelligence-related research, analysis, collections and/or operations. This experience should have included intelligence analysis and/or production, intelligence collection and/or operations, counterintelligence, or threat support directly related to the position to be filled.