INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS SPECIALIST

Department of Defense • San Diego, CA

352d • $117,776 - $153,113

About The Position

DCSA's Counterintelligence (CI) Directorate is seeking highly motivated CI professional to serve as a CI Analyst to identify, assess threats to DCSA, the trusted workforce, and cleared industry. In this role you will serve as an SME responsible for providing analytical products involving all-source intelligence analysis on Foreign Intelligence Entities (FIE) posing threats to US national security and integrating intelligence data to generate coherent analysis and reports.

Requirements

• Must be a US citizen.
• Selective Service Requirement: Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• This is a Drug Testing designated position.
• Position is a (DCIPS) position in the Excepted Service under U.S.C. 1601.
• Work Schedule: Full Time.
• Overtime: Occasionally.
• Tour of Duty: Flexible.
• If selected, must obtain and maintain appropriate security clearance.

Nice To Haves

• Experience analyzing defense intelligence topics, including infrastructure, cyber, or human terrain.
• Experience with the National Industrial Security Program and the DoD Personnel Security Program.
• Ability to identify, review, and interpret new data sources.

Responsibilities

• Provide analytic expertise to identify, assess, and disrupt threats to cleared industry, cleared personnel, DOD, and DCSA.
• Serve as the technical consultant in the field of all-source counterintelligence (CI) analysis, focusing on foreign intelligence entities and threats to critical technology.
• Review and interpret threat data from all information sources, including the DoD and Intelligence Community.
• Research, process, synthesize, exploit, integrate, evaluate, analyze, and interpret available information and data.
• Identify new trends or patterns based on processed information and produce finished intelligence assessments and briefs.
• Evaluate all-source raw reporting, open-source information, and cleared industry reporting to assess foreign intelligence threats.
• Provide CI analytic insight related to critical technology and training.
• Research, screen, collect, evaluate, and disseminate finished assessments and briefings.
• Provide Threat Information for the development of new industrial security or investigative methods.
• Determine the handling of sensitive, controversial issues.
• Evaluate relevance and reliability of classified and unclassified information.
• Provide CI insight related to U.S. Government agencies and organizations.
• Train and educate Industrial Security Specialists and Investigators on foreign intelligence threats.
• Alert DCSA intelligence customers to indications of targeting for intelligence activities.
• Support CI integration throughout the agency by educating DCSA employees on CI issues.
• Conduct courses to provide information and guidance on CI issues.
• Maintain liaison with the Intelligence and Law Enforcement Communities.
• Identify intelligence gaps and work with DCSA CI Operations Division to drive collection.
• Produce reports of potential counter-terrorist threats to industry or force protection.
• Assist in administrative inquiries into potential CI issues involving defense contractors.
• Develop strategies to stimulate knowledge exchange and enhance process improvement.
• Facilitate and leverage benchmark knowledge practices.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package as a federal employee.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Industry: National Security and International Affairs
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees