Intelligence Research Specialist

Development Finance Corporation • Washington, DC

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About The Position

This position is in the Strategic Information Division (SID), Office of the Chief Policy Officer (OCPO) of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC). The Intelligence Research Specialist provides DFC management consulting services for intelligence research operations and other functional areas as determined by senior leadership. The role conducts all-source research and analysis using classified and unclassified information, evaluates intelligence reporting, identifies intelligence gaps, develops analytic judgments, prepares written intelligence products, and briefs senior leaders and other stakeholders. It also supports counterintelligence risk mitigation, threat warning, and decision-making. The specialist applies analytic tradecraft and structured techniques to ensure rigorous, objective, and transparent analysis, clearly distinguishing judgments from facts, assumptions, gaps, and inferences, and communicating confidence levels and information needs. The position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI security clearance and requires foreign travel to developing countries. Duties are suitable for telework, with episodic or emergency telework potentially available with supervisor approval and eligibility. The position allows a flexible work schedule.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizen or National.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI security clearance.
• One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in Federal service, including experience serving as a multi-source intelligence analyst conducting complex technical research, analysis, interpretation, assessment, and production of information from one or more intelligence sources in support of customer requirements.
• Experience using advanced analytical principles, concepts, and methods to produce detailed analyses of complex information or situations attained from multiple sources.
• Experience working with national intelligence communities and knowledge of their structure, organizations, missions and functions, interrelationships, and operations.
• Current or former qualifying Federal career or career-conditional employees may be subject to a one-year time-in-grade requirement at the next lower grade; status candidates must meet the time-in-grade requirement of 52 weeks at the next lower grade level.
• Submit a resume and supporting documents.
• Suitable for Federal employment as determined by a background investigation.
• Males born after December 31, 1959, must be registered for Selective Service or exempt.
• Must file a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OGE Form 450) within 30 days of starting.
• Must be able to travel to developing countries.
• May be required to complete a probationary period.

Responsibilities

• Conduct all-source research and analysis using classified and unclassified information.
• Evaluate intelligence reporting, identify intelligence gaps, and develop analytic judgments.
• Prepare written intelligence products.
• Brief senior leaders, operational personnel, security officials, law enforcement partners, and inter-agency stakeholders.
• Support counterintelligence risk mitigation, threat warning, and decision-making.
• Apply analytic tradecraft and structured analytic techniques, including source evaluation, confidence statements, assumptions checking, alternative hypotheses, chronology development, pattern analysis, and gap identification.
• Distinguish intelligence judgments from known facts, assumptions, reporting gaps, and analytic inferences.
• Communicate confidence levels and identify collection or information gaps requiring additional reporting, coordination, or research.
• Provide DFC management consulting services for intelligence research operations and other functional fields as determined by senior leadership.

Benefits

• Federal employee benefits package for the employee and family; specific benefits depend on position type.
• Recruitment and relocation incentives may be authorized.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed