Summary

About the Position: This position is in the Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS). Employees occupying DCIPS positions are in the Excepted Service and must adhere to U.S. Code, Title 10, as well as Department of Defense Instruction 1400.25. This position is located at the JOINT INTELLIGENCE BRIGADE (JIB), INTELLIGENCE DIVISION, FORT BRAGG, NC.

Duties

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• Serves as a Senior Imagery Analyst, responsible for supervising command and subordinate units requirements for digital imagery collection, exploitation, dissemination, soft copy and hardcopy photographic products, exploitation, and dissemination.
• Develops command policies for imagery and full motion video products, annotation requirements, scales of mosaics, three dimensional models, numbers and types of hard copy photographic prints.
• Technically and administratively supervises, plans and coordinates the work of subordinates assigned to the section. Determines priorities, assigns, reviews, and accepts or rejects work.
• Supervises requirements, determines administrative needs and takes action to ensure these are met.
• Coordinate with senior level officials at various national, theater, service specific, tactical, and other organizations/units to ensure command collection and production requirements are processed and satisfied in a timely manner.
• Coordinate and monitor imagery/imagery derived products to ensure optimum accuracy, timeliness, and effectiveness.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• In accordance with Change 3 to AR 600-85, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Program, individual must successfully pass a urinalysis screening for illegal drug use prior to appointment and periodically thereafter.
• This is an emergency essential position that ensures the success of combat operations or supports essential combat systems after a mobilization, evacuation
  order, or other military crisis. (See the Additional Information section below.)
• Travel may be required (CONUS/OCONUS) 30% or less of the time.
• Employee must be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance based on a single-scope background investigation (SSBI) with eligibility for sensitive
  compartmented information (SCI) and selected Special Access Programs.
• In accordance with Change 3 to AR 600-85, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Program, incumbent must successfully pass a urinalysis screening for illegal
  drug use prior to appointment and periodically thereafter.
• Subject to short notice recall. Must reside within normal commuting distance of Fort Bragg (50 miles).
• Must be willing to undergo and successfully complete counter-intelligence scope polygraph examination with No Deception Indicated (NDI).
• Subject to application for Staff-Like-Access (SLA) in order to perform temporary duty with Other Government Agencies.

Qualifications

Who May Apply:

Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities.

• 10-Point Other Veterans' Rating
• 30 Percent or More Disabled Veterans
• 5-Point Veterans' Preference
• Current Army Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS) Employee
• Current Department of Army Civilian Employees
• Current Department of Defense (DOD) Civilian Employee (non-Army)
• Current DoD Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS) Employee (non-Army)
• Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS) Interchange Agreement
• Disabled Veteran w/ a Service-Connected Disability, More than 10%, Less than 30%
• Non-Department of Defense (DoD) Transfer
• Prior Federal Service Employee
• Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible
• Priority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability Retirement
• Priority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference Eligible
• United States Citizen Applying to a DCIPS Position

Army DCIPS positions apply Veteran's Preference to preference eligible candidates as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 U.S.C., in accordance with the procedures provided in DoD Instruction 1400.25, Volume 2005, DCIPS Employment and Placement.

In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below. 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. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience.

To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe at least one year of experience which prepared you to do the work in this job. Specialized experience is defined as:

1. Experience serving as an expert advisor on imagery and full motion video exploitation responsible for managing tactical analysis, coordinating with national collection managers, and/or developing command policies for intelligence products. AND

2. Experience supervising the technical and administrative areas of teams within complex operational environments by optimizing workforce staffing and workflows. AND

3. Experience coordinating and monitoring imagery derived products to ensure optimum accuracy, timeliness, and effectiveness.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GG/GS-12).

Progressively responsible experience is that which has included intelligence-related research, analysis, collections and /or operations. This experience should have included intelligence analysis and/or production, intelligence collection and/or operations, counterintelligence, or threat support directly related to the position to be filled. This experience should demonstrate: Knowledge of intelligence processes, cycle and organizations; Knowledge of and/or ability to use research tools such as library holdings, photographs, statistics, graphics and maps; Knowledge of the systems, procedures and methods of analyzing, compiling, reporting and disseminating intelligence data; and/or Knowledge of organization(s) for and methods of collecting and analyzing intelligence data.

You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas:

• Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT)
• Administration and Management
• Collection Operations

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Additional information

• This is an emergency essential position that ensures the success of combat operations or supports essential combat systems after a mobilization, evacuation order, or other military crisis. Incumbent may be required to deploy, on very short notice, to potentially high-threat, hostile OCONUS environments and to undergo specific training and immunization requirements as appropriate for OCONUS deployments. Employee must pass a medical examination and receive required immunizations for the overseas/deployed location. Incumbent may be required to perform duties under austere and potentially hazardous conditions during exercise and real-world crisis deployments. Position also requires travel, CONUS and OCONUS, as well as frequently extended duty with long hours under high pressure and generally
  high-risk job responsibilities.
• This position requires a 2 year trial period during which the agency evaluates your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest. In making this determination, the agency may consider your performance and conduct; agency needs and interests; whether your continued employment supports organizational or Government goals; and whether it promotes the efficiency of the Federal service. Continued employment requires written certification that it advances the public interest.
• Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration.
• You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship.
• Direct Deposit of Pay is required.
• Selection is subject to restrictions resulting from Department of Defense referral system for displaced employees.
• If you have retired from federal service and you are interested in employment as a reemployed annuitant, see the information in the Reemployed Annuitant information sheet.
• This is a(n) Intelligence Career Field 35 position.
• Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement.
• Payment of Permanent Change of Station (PCS) costs is not authorized, based on a determination that a PCS move is not in the Government interest.
• Recruitment, Retention, and/or Relocation incentives may be authorized if it is determined to be in the best interest of the Government.

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