Intelligence Specialist

Department of the Air Force Headquarters•Fort Bliss, TX

About The Position

The Intelligence Specialist serves as a HUMINT Operations Manager (HOM), managing and conducting the full spectrum of human intelligence (HUMINT) operations, including collection, collection management, and HUMINT Desk Officer (HDO) duties. The role focuses on HUMINT collection efforts, creating collection platforms and operating directives, and monitoring and supporting complex overt or clandestine operations. The position conducts detailed HUMINT research, collection, and management within its area of responsibility; coordinates and deconflicts operational activities; and maintains awareness of validated HUMINT collection requirements and priorities. It identifies intelligence gaps and initiates interagency collection actions, participates in HUMINT operations supporting contingency and crisis plans, and serves as a HUMINT Collection Manager and Desk Officer. The employee applies Joint HUMINT Doctrine, prepares and reviews intelligence information reports, and publishes completed reports to Intelligence Community databases. The role also supports mission planning by contributing HUMINT content to briefings and written intelligence products about current and future threats, drawing on the common intelligence picture to support operational planning and situational awareness for JTF-N, DOW, law enforcement agencies, and interagency partners. This is a GG-13, full-performance-level DCIPS position. It is designated Special Sensitive, Key, Mission Essential, and a Test Designated Position. A Top Secret/SCI clearance is required and must be maintained. Situational telework may be available; the position is not eligible for routine telework. The employee may be required to work outside normal duty hours, respond on short or no notice, work shifts or emergency overtime, and travel on temporary duty.

Requirements

U.S. citizenship.
Specialized experience demonstrating the knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies necessary to perform the position's duties; experience may come from military service, the private sector, or another government agency.
Comprehensive knowledge of the HUMINT career field, including collection, doctrine, programs of record, and best practices.
Thorough understanding of the Intelligence Cycle, including planning, collection, processing, production, dissemination, and evaluation.
Expertise in HUMINT collection systems, tools, and databases, and in the operational cycle and requirements formulation processes within the DoW, Intelligence Community, and national-level entities.
In-depth knowledge of joint HUMINT operations, current Intelligence Community issues, and the policies and missions of U.S. federal law enforcement agencies, including DOJ and DHS.
Knowledge of the national Intelligence Community, Joint Command missions, and major transnational threat issues.
Knowledge of intelligence analysis principles and methods, including link analysis, tools analysis, matrix analysis, traffic pattern and trend analysis, document exploitation, and database manipulation.
Knowledge of HUMINT collection systems, tools, databases, programs of record, business processes, and requirements formulation, validation, and review processes within the Services, DoW, and national arenas.
Skill in commercial software applications and Intelligence Community databases used to process HUMINT operational documentation and reporting.
Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing.
Obtain and maintain a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information clearance; access to SCI and Top Secret Special Access Programs is required, and a nondisclosure agreement must be signed.
Submit to random Counterintelligence Polygraph screening; failure to submit results in debriefing from SAPs and removal from the position.
Refrain from illegal drug use and submit to urinalysis testing if required; acknowledge the position's designation as a Test Designated Position.
Accept Key Position requirements, including removal from and ineligibility for membership in the Ready Reserve while assigned to the position.
Report for duty during base closures or delayed reporting and remain on duty during phased or early release as a Mission Essential employee.
Maintain current certifications.
Be available for work or on-call duty outside normal hours, including evenings, weekends, or holidays; short- or no-notice recall, shift work, and emergency overtime may be required.
Travel away from the normal duty station on military or commercial aircraft for temporary duty as required.
Meet applicable probationary or DCIPS trial-period requirements.

Responsibilities

Conduct systematic and detailed HUMINT research, collection, and management in the area of responsibility.
Coordinate and deconflict operational activities with appropriate organizations, while maintaining currency on validated HUMINT collection requirements and priorities for the command, USNORTHCOM, and the Intelligence Community.
Identify intelligence gaps and initiate interagency actions to collect HUMINT information addressing those gaps.
Participate in HUMINT operations, including operations arising from contingency or crisis action plans and other operational support requirements.
Serve as a HUMINT Collection Manager and Desk Officer, applying knowledge of Joint HUMINT Doctrine.
Author intelligence information reports as necessary; review draft reports, recommend edits, and publish completed reports to Intelligence Community databases.
Support mission planning by providing HUMINT portions of briefings and written intelligence products on current and future threats.
Use the common intelligence picture to support operational planning and situational awareness for JTF-N, DOW, law enforcement agencies, and interagency partners.
Maintain current certifications and comply with security, counterintelligence screening, drug-testing, and mission-essential position requirements.

Benefits

A federal employee benefits package is available to the employee and family, with eligibility depending on appointment type and work schedule.
Disabled veteran leave may be available to qualifying veterans.
Foreign-area benefits such as Living Quarters Allowance or government quarters, Post Allowance, and Home Leave may be available to eligible selectees, subject to approval.
PCS, recruitment, or relocation incentives may be authorized, if applicable.

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