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 management consulting services to DFC for intelligence research operations and other functional areas identified by senior leadership. The role conducts all-source intelligence research and analysis, produces written intelligence products, briefs stakeholders, and supports counterintelligence risk mitigation, threat warning, and decision-making. The position is suitable for telework, with episodic or emergency telework potentially allowed with supervisor approval and subject to eligibility. It allows a flexible work schedule and requires foreign travel to developing countries. The selectee must be able to obtain and maintain a top-secret/SCI security clearance and file a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OGE Form 450) within 30 days of starting. Selection may require a one-year probationary period.

Requirements

• U.S. citizen or national.
• Males born after December 31, 1959, must be registered for Selective Service or exempt.
• Submit a resume and supporting documents.
• Must be suitable for Federal employment, as determined by a background investigation.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a top-secret/SCI security clearance.
• Must be able to travel to developing countries for foreign travel.
• At the GS-13 level, one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in Federal service.
• Specialized experience must include 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.
• Specialized experience must include using advanced analytical principles, concepts, and methods to produce detailed analyses of complex information or situations from multiple sources.
• Specialized experience must include working with national intelligence communities and knowledge of their structure, organizations, missions/functions, interrelationships, and operations.
• Education cannot substitute for specialized experience at this grade level.
• Within 30 days of the start date, file a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OGE Form 450).

Responsibilities

• Conduct all-source research and analysis using classified and unclassified information.
• Evaluate intelligence reporting, identify intelligence gaps, develop analytic judgments, and 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.
• Ensure analytic rigor, objectivity, and transparency.
• Clearly 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 determined by senior leadership.

Benefits

• Federal employees and their families have access to a comprehensive benefits package; specific benefits depend on position type and should be confirmed with the hiring agency.
• Recruitment and relocation incentives may be authorized.

What This Job Offers

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