INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH SPECIALIST

You may qualify at the GS-13 level, if you fulfill the following qualification requirements: 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 serving as a multi-source intelligence analyst engaging in the complex technical research, analysis, interpretation, assessment, and production of information obtained and processed from one or more intelligence sources in support of customer requirements; and Experience using advanced analytical principles, concepts, and methods to produce detailed analyses of complex information/situations attained from multiple sources; and Experience working with national intelligence communities and knowing their structure, organizations, and mission/functions, inter-relationships and operations.

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 27-SID-ST-13099059-CH using Merit Promotion (MP) procedures. If interested, refer to that announcement to determine if you meet MP 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.

As an Intelligence Research Specialist, you will: Conduct all-source research and analysis using classified and unclassified information; evaluate intelligence reporting; identify intelligence gaps; develop analytic judgments; prepare written intelligence products; brief senior leaders, operational personnel, security officials, law enforcement partners, and inter-agency stakeholders; and support counterintelligence risk mitigation, threat warning, and decision-making; Apply analytic trade craft, structured analytic techniques, source evaluation, confidence statements, assumptions checking, alternative hypotheses, chronology development, pattern analysis, and gap identification to ensure analytic rigor, objectivity, and transparency; Ensure intelligence judgments are clearly distinguished from known facts, assumptions, reporting gaps, and analytic inferences; Communicate confidence levels and identify collection or information gaps requiring additional reporting, coordination, or research. Please Note: This is not a Bargaining unit position.