Lead Counter Intelligence Investigative Specialist

Summary

The position is located in the Threat Management Directorate, Investigations and Intelligence Division Counterintelligence (CI) Branch. The CI Branch manages and performs a wide range of CI duties and activities.

Duties

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Incumbent typical work assignments may include the following:

Lead & Coordinate Technical Teams: Serve as the Team Lead for the Technical Surveillance Team in the CI Branch. Utilize coaching, facilitating, and planning techniques to assign tasks, distribute workloads, monitor progress, approve leave, and identify training needs for team members.

Program Management (TSCM): Serve as the Agency Program Manager for the Technical Surveillance Countermeasures (TSCM) Program, taking responsibility for the physical and technical protection of sensitive and classified information across the Pentagon Reservation and NCR facilities.

Manage Digital Forensics Support: Coordinate technical investigations involving cyber technologies, computer networks, and digital media. Ensure legally and forensically sound extraction, analysis, and preservation of digital evidence from computers, cell phones, and network devices.

Implement Technical Countermeasures: Research, evaluate, and recommend physical security systems, intrusion detection systems, locks/barriers, and TEMPEST equipment to minimize systemic vulnerabilities against hostile intelligence and terrorist activities.

Policy & Executive Advising: Provide technical authority and direction to senior agency leadership, OSD, and external law enforcement partners regarding technical intelligence and investigative processes. Lead the development of technical security policies, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and warning bulletins.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

• U.S. Citizenship is required
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service (see https://www.sss.gov/Home/Registration).
• May be required to successfully complete a probationary/trial period.
• Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
• Required to participate in the direct deposit program.
• This position is designated as Drug Testing Required and requires the employee to pass screening for illegal drug use prior to appointment and subsequent periodic drug screening thereafter.
• This position is subject to the DoD Priority Placement Program.
• This position requires obtain and maintain a Top Secret Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) security clearance.
• This position is designated as a MISSION ESSENTIAL EMPLOYEE. Employees may be required to report for, or remain at, work in dismissal or closure situation causing disruptions of government operations unless specifically excused by their supervisor.
• This position may require travel away from your normal duty station (CONUS/OCONUS) up to 30% of your duty time.
• This position requires to obtain and maintain TSCM certification through the Interagency Training Center within the first 2 (two) years of being assigned to this position.
• This position requires to obtain and maintain DoDD 8570 compliance.

Qualifications

You may qualify at the GS-14 level, if you fulfill the following qualification requirement:

One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 grade level in the Federal service that demonstrates your ability to apply principles, concepts, methodologies, and techniques in the investigation of criminal intelligence:

1. Team Leadership & Work Coordination: Experience leading, coaching, and coordinating the daily activities of an investigative or technical security team, including distributing workloads, planning operations, and identifying staff training needs.
2. TSCM Program Management: Experience managing or directing a Technical Surveillance Countermeasures (TSCM) program, including planning operations, safeguarding highly classified/sensitive facilities, and advising senior executives on risk mitigation.
3. Technical & Electronic Surveillance Operations: Experience planning and executing electronic surveillance phases for major criminal or counterintelligence investigations, including conducting pre-operational site surveys and managing technical resources.
4. Technical Security & Countermeasures Implementation: Experience evaluating and recommending physical and technical security countermeasures, such as intrusion detection systems, TEMPEST equipment, and secure storage containers, to counter espionage and terrorist threats.

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). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

All qualifications and education requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement and clearly documented in your resume.Your resume may not exceed two (2) pages. For qualifications determinations, it is recommended that applicants include their months and hours worked per week for each employment listed on their resume. If a determination is not able to be made about the duration of your creditable experience for qualification requirements, you will be removed from consideration.

Read more about what should I include in my federal resume at https://help.usajobs.gov/faq/application/documents/resume/what-to-include

ACTIVE DUTY SERVICE MEMBERS: Federal agencies treat active duty service member as veterans, disabled veterans, and preference eligible, when they submit, as part of their application package, a "certification" of active service in lieu of a DD-214, indicating the service member is otherwise eligible and will be discharged or released within 120 days from the date of submission.. A "certification" letter should be on letterhead of the appropriate military branch of the service and contain (1) the military service dates including the expected discharge or release date; and (2) the character of service. This "certification" must include your rank, dates of active duty service, type of discharge and character of service (i.e. honorable), and date any terminal leave will begin. It must be signed by, or by direction of, the adjutant, personnel officer, or commander of your unit or higher headquarters. Active duty members that fail to provide a valid "certification" of service with their initial application will be found "not eligible". Members may be appointed before the effective date of their military retirement/separation if they are on terminal leave.

Current or Former Political Appointees: Agencies must seek prior approval from OPM before they can appoint a current or recent political appointee to a competitive or non-political excepted service position at any level. If you are currently or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, or Non-career SES employee in the executive branch, you MUST disclose that to the Human Resources Office.

Time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement and clearly documented in your resume.

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Additional information

Highly desired candidates possess: Completion of Interagency Training Center's TSCM Fundamentals Course and JCITA Defense CI Agent Credentialing Course to be a CI credentialed TSCM practitioner.

Probationary Periods: As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest. In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider:

- your performance and conduct;

- the needs and interests of the agency;

- whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and

- whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.

Upon completion of your probationary period your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.

Reasonable Accommodation (RA) Requests: If you believe you have a disability (i.e., physical or mental), covered by the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended that would interfere with completing an online application, you may request an alternative application. Please send an email to the following address for information on how to obtain an alternative application: [redacted]

Reasonable Accommodation (RA) Requests: If you believe you have a disability (i.e., physical or mental), covered by the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended that would interfere with completing the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, you will be granted the opportunity to request a RA in your online application. Requests for RA for the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments and appropriate supporting documentation for RA must be received prior to starting the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments. Decisions on requests for RA are made on a case-by-case basis. If you meet the minimum qualifications of the position, after notification of the adjudication of your request, you will receive an email invitation to complete the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, based on your adjudication decision. You must complete all assessments within 48 hours of receiving the URL to access the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments if you received the link after the close of the announcement. To determine if you need a RA, please review the Procedures for Requesting a Reasonable Accommodation for Online Assessments.

Reemployed Annuitants: Applicants in receipt of an annuity based on civilian employment in the Federal Service are subject to the DoD Policy on The Employment of Annuitants (DODI 1400.25, volume 300). http://www.esd.whs.mil/DD/DoD-Issuances/140025/

Nepotism: Under the provisions of 5 USC 3110, an individual may not be appointed into a position if the position is under the supervisory chain of command of a relative.

Additional vacancies may be filled by this announcement.

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Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

Benefits

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