Intelligence Research Specialist

Summary This position is located in the Strategic Information Division (SID), Office of the Chief Policy Officer (OCPO) of the U.S. International Development Corporation (DFC). As an Intelligence Research Specialist you will be responsible for providing DFC management consultant services for the intelligence research operations and other functional fields determined by senior leadership. Duties As an Intelligence Research Specialist, you will: Serve as a member of the DFC counterintelligence team. DFC's counterintelligence (CI) program, which works to deter, detect, and neutralize the threats posed by foreign intelligence entities to DFC personnel. The CI program routinely prepares classified threat assessments and provides classified briefings to staff engaged in foreign/international activity (such as foreign travel or meeting with foreign officials). Coordinate with the DFC Cyber Security Office to ensure that the office is made aware of various cyber intelligence threat streams to enable the office to design appropriate cyber alerting, detection, and protection measures for DFC systems and information. Coordinates with other DFC offices as appropriate to provide CI intelligence information to ensure protection of DFC personnel and resources. Collaborate with other Federal agencies, such as the FBI, on possible leveraging of these established CI programs. Provide intelligence support to DFC's Know-Your-Customer (KYC) office and lead the noncommercial vetting process by evaluating and analyzing financial/intelligence information and synthesizing all relevant reporting into a finished product supporting strategic objectives. Develop relationships within the broad threat finance intelligence and law enforcement communities to expand knowledge base and to gain access to information. Serve as a member of DFC's Insider Threat Program hub, participating in day-to-day operations and will be responsible for establishing a process to gather, integrate, and centrally analyze, and respond to counterintelligence relevant information indicative of a potential insider threat. Please Note: This is not a Bargaining unit position. Qualifications Status candidates must meet time-in-grade requirements (52 weeks at the next lower grade level). Applicants must meet all eligibility and qualification requirements no later than the closing date of this announcement. TIME-IN-GRADE: Current career or career-conditional employees of the Federal government, or former career or career-conditional employees, who have a break in service of less than one year, are required to meet the time-in-grade restriction of one year of Federal experience at the next lower grade, with few exceptions outlined in 5 CFR 300.603(b). You may qualify at the GS-13 level, if you fulfill the following qualification requirements: A. One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service that demonstrates your experience in all of the following: Experience performing intelligence research planning, operations, collection, target analysis, and other intelligence collection/analysis related activities; and Experience developing and presenting intelligence analysis, reports and briefings. Note: Education is not substitutional at this grade level. 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. This position is being advertised concurrently with vacancy announcement 26-SID-DE-13050828-BN using Delegated Examining (DE) procedures. If interested, refer to that announcement to determine if you meet DE requirements and can apply to that announcement. NOTE: You must apply separately to each announcement in order to be considered under both. This announcement may be used to fill similar positions, if additional vacancies occur. Education This job does not have an education qualification requirement.