About the 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 on historic Fort Liberty in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Fort Liberty is the home of the national premiere Special Operations and Airborne Forces.

Duties

Serves as a Command Senior Intelligence Analyst and Embassy Liaison Officer (LNO) responsible for detailed intelligence analysis of regional or transnational threats. Responsible for solving difficult and complex analytical problems through intelligence research, analysis, evaluation, and coordination. Perform liaison duties within a regional area of responsibility of as many as 45 nation states or for tracking transnational threats to US national security interests. Responsible for maintaining a key understanding of the inner workings of the Intelligence Community (IC) in order to serve as a subject matter expert on interagency coordination and planning. Influences matters of coordination, Special Operations Forces (SOF) plans, policy, and strategy as they relate to the synchronization of interagency efforts and plans. Assesses, collects, assembles, validates, and evaluates complex and conflicting input from the interagency community and multi-discipline reporting to develop authoritative assessments, briefings, and analytic papers.

Requirements

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret security clearance based on a Tier 5/Single Scope Background Investigation with eligibility for Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI).
• Must successfully pass urinalysis screening for illegal drug use prior to appointment and periodically thereafter, in accordance with Change 3 to AR 600-85, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Program.
• May require consent to undergo and successfully complete counter-intelligence scope polygraph with No Deception Indicated (NDI).
• Requires extensive temporary duty (TDY) travel on very short notice, to locations within the continental United States (CONUS) and outside the continental United States (OCONUS), up to 30% of the time.
• Subject to short notice recall. Must reside within normal commuting distance of the assigned duty station (50 miles).
• Duties may be performed under austere and potentially hazardous conditions during exercise and deployment operations. May be required to deploy into areas in which hostile action may occur.
• May be required to complete specific training, physical examination, and immunization requirements as appropriate for outside the continental United States (OCONUS) deployments.
• May be required to remain on duty or report for duty during severe weather or other installation closings.
• May be required to apply for Staff Like Access (SLA) certification.
• This position is designated as Key IAW Section 1580 of Title 10, United States Code (U.S.C.). This position cannot be vacated during national emergency or mobilization without seriously impairing the capability of their organization.**
• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Two year trial period may be required.

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. 10-Point Other Veterans’ Rating30 Percent or More Disabled Veterans5-Point Veterans' PreferenceCurrent Army Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS) EmployeeCurrent Department of Army Civilian EmployeesCurrent Department of Defense (DOD) Civilian Employee (non-Army)Current DoD Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS) Employee (non-Army)Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS) Interchange AgreementDisabled Veteran w/ a Service-Connected Disability, More than 10%, Less than 30%Non-Department of Defense (DoD) TransferPrior Federal Service EmployeePriority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician EligiblePriority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability RetirementPriority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference EligibleUnited States Citizen Applying to a DCIPS Position Army DCIPS positions apply Veteran's Preference to preference eligible candidates as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 U.S.C., in accordance with the procedures provided in DoD Instruction 1400.25, Volume 2005, DCIPS Employment and Placement. 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. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant 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 experience Specialized experience is defined as: 1) Experience conducting detailed research and evaluation of information to provide operational and strategic analysis on dynamic regional and/or transnational threats. AND 2) experience with the application of multiple intelligence disciplines, such as: HUMINT, SIGINT, IMINT, OSINT and/or MASINT during operational planning. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GG/GS-12). You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas: PartneringStrategic ThinkingTechnical CompetenceTechnical Credibility 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. This experience should demonstrate: Knowledge of intelligence processes, cycle and organizations; Knowledge of and/or ability to use research tools such as library holdings, photographs, statistics, graphics and maps; Knowledge of the systems, procedures and methods of analyzing, compiling, reporting and disseminating intelligence data; and/or Knowledge of organization(s) for and methods of collecting and analyzing intelligence data.

Education

Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted.

Contacts

• Address ST-IC-W4GKAA HQ JOINT SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND DO NOT MAIL Fort Huachuca, AZ 85613 US
• Name: Army Applicant Help Desk