Job opening: Director, El Paso Intelligence Center
Salary: $141 022 - 212 100 per year
Relocation: YES
Published at: Sep 11 2023
Employment Type: Full-time
Serves as the Director of the El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC), El Paso, Texas, plans and directs the activities of assigned staff in the targeting, collection, analysis and dissemination of criminal intelligence and data on transnational organized crime impacting the United States. EPIC supports operational enforcement elements through real-time and direct responses to narcotic related inquiries from law enforcement officials from federal, state, local, and tribal agencies.
Duties
Provides expert guidance and assistance in planning, directing, and coordinating overall intelligence and mission support programs at EPIC, employing extensive specialized training, experience and knowledge of analytic tradecraft and overall DEA programmatic lines of effort.
Prepares plans for the collection effort of intelligence and data utilizing specialized programs and tools at EPIC directed against transnational organized crime impacting the United States with emphasis on Mexican cartel activity.
Evaluates and analyzes EPIC progress toward meeting stated objectives and identifies problem areas inhibiting effective accomplishment of goals. Recommends the expansion, curtailment, or changes in emphasis in intelligence programs and operational support activities to achieve strategic impact of DEA mission goals.
Ensures timely dissemination of intelligence and data to support federal, state, local and tribal field elements, which depend on real-time intelligence to conduct effective enforcement operations.
Reviews and evaluates feasibility and suitability of new or changed programs and projects from a technological and programmatic viewpoint. Determines the relative priority and technical emphasis to be placed on emerging programs, and, by working with stakeholders, develops initiatives for exploitation of data to support law enforcement intelligence and operations.
Requirements
- Must be a U.S. Citizen
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Background and/or Security Clearance
- Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service
- Drug testing designated position
- New appointees must successfully complete a 1-year probationary period
- This is a Senior Executive Service (SES) - Excepted Service Position. Please review Federal Hiring Paths for more information: https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/working-in-government/unique-hiring-paths/federal-employees/
- Please review the COVID-19 statement listed under the "Required Documents" section.
- Please review the Political Appointee Disclosure Requirement paragraph listed under the "Required Documents" section"
Qualifications
Qualifications include both general management skills and characteristics that are applicable to all SES positions and technical or program responsibilities specific to this position. Applicants must have substantive general experience which provides a good basic or general knowledge of the principles of organization, management, and administration; and substantive specialized (operating administrative or managerial) experience in a type of work or a combination of functions directly related to this position. Applicants must meet the qualification requirements by the closing date of this announcement. Eligibility for this position will be based upon a clear showing that the applicant has experience of the scope and quality sufficient to effectively carry out assignments of the position.
Applicants are required to submit a narrative statement for each of the five mandatory Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) and each of the Mandatory Technical Qualifications (MTQs). Do not enter "Refer to Resume" to explain your answer for either the ECQs or MTQs. Applications directing the reviewer to search within the application or to "See Resume" are considered incomplete and WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED. Failure to submit a narrative statement or address all of the ECQs and mandatory MTQs is also considered incomplete and WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.
EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS: To receive serious consideration, applicants for this position must demonstrate successful performance and creative leadership in prior managerial position(s). Applicants must submit a statement for each of the five ECQs listed below. Statements shall be limited to a maximum of TWO pages per ECQ. One page statements are acceptable.
LEADING CHANGE: Demonstrated ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside an organization, to meet organizational goals. Includes the ability to establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment.
LEADING PEOPLE: Demonstrated ability to lead people effectively toward the organization's vision, mission, and goals. Includes the ability to provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive conflict resolution.
RESULTS-DRIVEN LEADERSHIP: Demonstrated ability to successfully meet organizational goals and customer expectations. Includes the ability to make decisions that produce high-quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks.
BUSINESS ACUMEN: Demonstrated ability to strategically manage human, financial, and information resources.
BUILDING COALITIONS/COMMUNICATION: Demonstrated ability to build coalitions internally and with other Federal agencies, State and local governments, nonprofits and private sector organizations, foreign governments, and/or international organizations to achieve common goals.
MANDATORY TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS: Applicants must submit a statement for each of the MTQs listed below. Please give a complete and detailed answer for each mandatory qualification. Statements shall be limited to a maximum of ONE page per MTQ.
MTQ 1 - Demonstrated expertise and experience in leading and managing phases of data-driven intelligence and mission support programs to include planning, budgeting, evaluation and administrative management.
MTQ 2 - Demonstrated expertise and experience in leading and managing a diverse workforce of enforcement, intelligence, administrative, and technical professionals employing data-driven strategies to achieve mission goals. Ability to foster commitment, team spirit, pride, trust, and group identity.
MTQ 3 - Demonstrated experience in liaison with high level officials to include Congressional, international, Federal, state and tribal, and/or local organizations on issues related to transnational criminal organizations impacting the United States.
MTQ 4 - Demonstrated experience collaboratively working across organizational lines in implementing intelligence and law enforcement support programs.
Education
There is no educational requirement for this position.
Contacts
- Address Drug Enforcement Administration
Do Not Send Postal Mail
Springfield, VA 21310
US
- Name: Katrina Flowers
- Phone: 202-256-6120
- Email: [email protected]
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