• Job Description

  Req#: 766142400
  The Counterintelligence Operations Division, Threat Directorate, DCSA is seeking a qualified CI Cyber professional to serve as a Cyber Counterintelligence Special Agent (CISA). In this role you will serve as a SME responsible for providing Cyber-focused CI functional services, oversight, and support to the cleared Defense Industrial Base. This is a great opportunity for those with a broad experience in Cyber collections, reporting, foreign intelligence entities tradecraft, and operations.
  
  Duties
  
  
  MANDATORY REQUIREMENTS: Incumbent must be a CI credentialed agent or successfully complete the DoD CI Agent Course (DCAC) offered by the Joint CI Training Academy (JCITA) and be certified to carry CI Special Agent credentials within 18 months of onboarding in accordance with DoD 5240.02 and DoD 5240.06. This time period may be extended due to class availability. Failure to obtain DCAC certification may result in mandatory reassignment to a position that does not require credentials.
  
  
  Requirements
  
  
  • Must be a US citizen
  • Selective Service Requirement: Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service. For more information http://www.sss.gov
  • Resume and supporting documents received by 11:59PM EST will be considered
  • 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
  • PCS (Permanent Change of Station): Not Authorized
  • Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Exempt
  • Financial Disclosure: Not Required
  • Telework Eligibility: This position is telework eligible, but is not a full time telework position. The incumbent will be required to report to the office on a routine basis.
  • If selected, the incumbent must obtain and maintain appropriate security clearance as indicated in job announcement.
  • This position is covered under the DoD Information Assurance Workforce Improvement act. The incumbent must obtain Information Assurance Technology (IAT) Level II certification within 24 months of appointment and maintain such certification.
  • The incumbent will be required to sign a continued service agreement agreeing to stay with the agency for 12 months upon completion of the DCAC training, if attendance is required.
  
  
  Qualifications
  
  
  The experience described in your resume will be evaluated and screened from the Office of Personnel Management's (OPMs) basic qualifications requirements. See: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0100/intelligence-series-0132/ for OPM qualification standards, competencies and specialized experience needed to perform the duties of the position as described in the MAJOR DUTIES and QUALIFICATIONS sections of this announcement by 12/26/2023
  
  Applicant must have directly applicable experience that demonstrates the possession of the knowledge, skills, abilities and competencies necessary for immediate success in the position. Qualifying experience may have been acquired in any public or private sector job, but will clearly demonstrate past experience in the application of the particular competencies/knowledge, skills and abilities necessary to successfully perform the duties of the position.
  
  You must have specialized experience sufficient to demonstrate that you have acquired all the competencies necessary to perform at a level equivalent in difficulty, responsibility, and complexity to the next lower grade (GG/GS-12) in the Federal service and are prepared to take on greater responsibility.
  Generally, this would include one year or more of such specialized experience. Specialized experience for this position includes:
  • Conducting CI/Cyber collection activities in cleared industry and producing and disseminating relevant reports meeting collection requirements;
  • Providing subject matter expertise to planning efforts with internal and external Cyber operations to fuse computer network attack analyses to support criminal and CI investigations and operations; Identifying potential points of strength and vulnerability within a network;
  • Preparing intelligence information reports meeting National and DoD CI collection requirements;
  • Coordinating with intelligence and Cyber defense partners to obtain relevant essential information;
  • Establishing and maintaining relationships, both internal and external.
  Specifically you will be evaluated on the following competencies:
  1. Accountability - Holds self and others accountable for measurable high-quality, timely, and cost-effective results. Determines objectives, sets priorities, and delegates work. Accepts responsibility for mistakes. Complies with established control systems and rules.
  2. Decision Making - Makes sound, well-informed, and objective decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions; commits to action, even in uncertain situations, to accomplish organizational goals; causes change.
  3. Partnering - Develops networks and builds alliances; collaborates across boundaries to build strategic relationships and achieve common goals.
  4. Planning and Evaluating - Organizes work, sets priorities, and determines resource requirements; determines short- or long-term goals and strategies to achieve them; coordinates with other organizations or parts of the organization to accomplish goals; monitors progress and evaluates outcomes.
  5. Technical Competence - Uses knowledge that is acquired through formal training or extensive on-the-job experience to perform one's job; works with, understands, and evaluates technical information related to the job; advises others on technical issues.

• About the company

  The United States Department of Defense is an executive branch department of the federal government charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government directly related to national security and the United States Armed Forces. The DOD is the largest employer in the world, with over 1.3 million active-duty service members as of 2020. More employees include over 826,000 National Guard and reservists from the armed forces, and over 732,000 civilians bringing the total to over 2.8 million employees. Headquartered at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C., the DoD's stated mission is to provide "the military forces needed to deter war and ensure our nation's security".

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