Summary

This position is located in the DEA, Phoenix Division Office, Intelligence Group 2 (Phoenix/HIDTA) in Phoenix, Arizona

Duties

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As a your typical work assignments may include:

• Plans, organizes, and directs the assigned groups' activities. Ensures the work of the HIDTA group employees complies with legal and regulatory requirements and meets DEA customer needs. Research, interprets, analyzes, and applies proper guidelines, policies, and regulations.
• Analyzes, evaluates, and integrates data from multiple sources to access its relevance and determine the significance of developments in a broad field of research or operations for a High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area.
• Plans and directs intelligence collection, cataloging and storage program activities for an intelligence program with major geographical scope worldwide implications.
• Provide expert technical direction and advice regarding the scope of problems to be investigated in a broad field of intelligence research, date to be collected, intelligence database architecture, potential resources, required liaisons, objective sought, and security considerations to be observed.
• Develops and presents briefings, advice and provides assistance to the highest levels of management of government-wide intelligence operations for the promotion and implantation of intelligence program goals.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Background and/or Security Clearance
• Drug testing designated position.
• Polygraph required
• Mobility Agreement Required
• Successful completion of a one-year supervisory probationary period is required (unless already completed).
• May be required to testify in court during career as an Intelligence Research Specialist.

Qualifications

For more information on eligibility requirements see: DEA Employment Eligibility

Applicants applying for the GS-14 must meet the following requirements:

Have at least one full year of specialized experience that is at least equivalent to work performed at the GS-13 grade level. Specialized 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.

Qualifying experience must demonstrate the following: GS-14: Must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-13 Federal grade level performing such duties as providing direction and leadership to a multi-agency staff engaged in the collection, analysis, evaluation, production, and dissemination of drug law enforcement intelligence in support of drug law enforcement activities; ability to manage intelligence requirements and extensive expertise in developing intelligence collection plans and in support of strategic, operational and tactical requirements.

Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants must meet time-in-grade and time after competitive appointment requirements by the closing date of this announcement.

Education

Education requirements do not apply to this vacancy announcement.

Additional information

For reasonable accommodation at the Drug Enforcement Administration, please contact the Human Resources office listed in this announcement.

Current or Former Political Appointees: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If an applicant is currently, or has been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, applicants must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office listed in this announcement.

Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement. If eligible, applicants to this announcement may be referred to similar positions in any Division/Office listed in this announcement. Telework eligibility and security clearance requirements may vary for such similar positions.

Relocation Incentives may be considered and approved if the DEA has determined that the position is likely to be difficult to fill in the absence of an incentive and funding for such an incentive is available.

If eligible, telework agreements may be permitted with supervisory approval.

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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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