Intelligence Operations Specialist (Senior Departmental Requirements Officer)

Clarification from the agency

All U.S. Citizens

As a Intelligence Operations Specialist (Senior Departmental Requirements Officer), GS-0132-14, your typical work assignments may include:

• Assists Collection Requirements Managers and their applicable customers and
  stakeholders - DHS I&A analysts, DHS IE Analysts, Component intelligence officers, I&A field intelligence officers, and State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial (SL Tn partners - in creating and/or refining geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) collection requirements
  and strategies to satisfy intelligence gaps.
• Prepares reports - including briefings, memoranda, white papers, or other material to prepare division or organizational leadership engagements, as requested - addressing multiple factors impacting GEOINT collection.
• Organizes and leads forums to gather GEOINT and Homeland Security stakeholders across the Department and IC to facilitate coordination and communication of latest developments.
• Identifies trends or developments in collection performance, and works with DRO teammates, DHS IE Collection Requirements Managers, and/or GEOINT interagency stakeholders to propose new technical or procedural improvements.
• Leads training and engagement to ensure team's familiarity with and functional understanding of legal and administrative requirements necessary for the adjudication of imagery requirements and associated PED.

All DHS-HQ announcements have a 5 business day open period due to the number of applications received. This announcement will be open for 5 business days OR until the first 100 applications have been received, whichever happens first.

View common definitions of terms found in this announcement: Common Definitions.

Conditions of employment

• You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this position.
• Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered for Selective Service.
• You must successfully pass a background investigation.
• You must submit to a pre-employment drug test. This is a Testing Designated Position (TDP) and is subject to random testing.
• You may be required to serve a two-year trial period.
• Acceptance of an excepted service appointment from applicants in the competitive service will require a written statement of understanding when voluntarily leaving the competitive service.
• Applying to this announcement certifies that you give permission for DHS to share your application with others in DHS for similar positions.
• You will be subject to a pre-employment polygraph examination and random polygraph examinations may be conducted after entry on duty.

Qualifications

Specialized Experience
You must possess the specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level in federal service (GS-13) or public or private sector equivalent. For this position, specialized experience is defined as providing leadership updates and course of action recommendations while handling complex short suspense taskings. Additionally, the incumbent will be responsible for advising decision-makers on methods and procedures for improving GEOINT collection management effectiveness, identifying areas for improvement, and potential conflicts arising from implementing new policies and procedures. Specialized Experience is also defined as:

• Expert technical knowledge of GEOINT collection management systems, processes, procedures, capabilities, and methods.
• Extensive experience prioritizing GEOINT collection efforts in support of stakeholder mission needs.
• Experience in serving as the interlocutor between GEOINT collection requirements processes and accompanying Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (PED) processes and partners to ensure timely satisfaction of customer needs.
• Experience with representing organizational equities in the development and fielding of new tools and systems, including advocacy, testing, evaluation, and integration into current requirements, strategies, and operations.
• Experience in customer outreach, coordination, and communication to improve collection efficiency and satisfaction of customer needs.
• Experience in attending GEOINT working groups, committees, subcommittees, task forces, collection management boards, or other forums as required to shape support to operations.
• Ability to obtain cooperation and support to resolve policy and programmatic issues among stakeholders within and outside the Department, including other Federal organizations, SLTT government officials, external groups, and key government and Private Sector individuals.
• Preparing and editing correspondence and executive-level documents for substantive accuracy, responsiveness, acceptable tone, grammar, style, procedural requirements, and compliance with policies.
• Identifying issues or areas of concern that could impede timely and quality responses to tasks.
• Skill in managing collaborative efforts including identifying goals, achieving consensus, and documenting issues.
• Strong ability to understand and communicate complex intelligence issues to formulate and present briefings to senior personnel.
• Knowledge of Department of Homeland Security component missions, functions, and authorities.

NOTE: Your resume must explicitly indicate how you meet this requirement, otherwise you will be found ineligible. Substitution of education in lieu of specialized experience may not be used for this grade level.

All qualifications and eligibility requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement.

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). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Current or Former Political Appointees: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office.

This position is designated as Emergency Essential. Emergency Essential personnel must be able to serve during a continuity of operation event without regard to declarations of liberal leave or government closures due to weather, protests, and acts of terrorism or lack of funding. Failure to report for or remain in this position may result in disciplinary or adverse action in accordance with applicable laws, rules, and regulations (5 U.S.C. 7501-7533 and 5 CFR Part 752, as applicable).

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

We will review your resume and supporting documentation to ensure you meet the basic qualification requirements. If you meet the minimum qualifications, your experience, education and training will be rated using a job questionnaire that is based on the following competencies or knowledge, skills and abilities needed to perform this job: Customer Service, Planning and Evaluating, Technical Credibility, and Writing

If you meet the minimum qualifications, you will be placed in one of the following categories:

Best-Qualified: Applicants possessing experience that substantially exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position and demonstrate high proficiency in all of the critical competencies, including all Selective Placement Factors (SPF), and appropriate Quality Ranking Factors (QRF) as determined by the job analysis.

Well-Qualified: Applicants possessing experience that exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position and demonstrates acceptable proficiency in all of the critical competencies, including all SPF's and appropriate QRFs as determined by the job analysis.

Qualified: Applicants possessing experience that meets the minimum qualifications of the position and demonstrate basic proficiency in most of the critical competencies, including all SPFs and appropriate QRFs as determined by the job analysis.

If you are amongst the best qualified, you may be referred to the hiring manager for consideration and may be called for an interview. To preview the job questionnaire and application, click https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12983049

Interviews are required for this position. Failure to complete the interview may result in removal from further consideration.

If, after reviewing your resume and/or supporting documentation, a determination is made that you have overstated your qualifications and/or experience, you may be removed from consideration or your score may be lowered.

Consideration may be given to performance appraisals and incentive awards as an indicator of quality of prior experience.

1. Your resume NOTE: Limit your resume to no more than two pages. The USAJOBS database will not allow an applicant to submit an application that includes a resume over two pages. For what to include in the resume, click on the link: USAJOBS Help Center
2. Your responses to the job questionnaire. https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12983049
3. Are you a current or former political Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee? Submit a copy of your applicable SF-50, along with a statement that provides the following information regarding your most recent political appointment:
   • Position title,
   • Type of appointment (Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES, or Presidential Appointee),
   • Agency, and
   • Beginning and ending dates of appointment.
4. You may be asked to provide a copy of your recent performance appraisal and/or incentive awards.
5. Are you an IC CAE Scholar? Information on the IC CAE program can be found at https://www.dni.gov/index.php/iccae To verify you are a IC CAE Scholar, you must submit a copy of your transcript that shows you are current student at an active or legacy IC CAE institution, or an individual who has graduated from such an institution, who has successfully completed at least one course in IC CAE study areas, such as Intelligence, National Security, Critical Technologies, STEM, languages, or other areas of study as determined by the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) to meet Intelligence Community needs.

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