Intelligence Specialist (Operations Support)
What you'd do
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 USAINSCOM MISSION SUPPORT COMMAND FOIA/IRR, FORT MEADE, MD.
Major duties
Reviews straightforward FOIA/PA requests with clearly unclassified information and recommends release or denial with supervisor guidance. Completes declassification review checklists under direct supervision, relying on established criteria to support recommendations. Drafts basic acknowledgment and response letters to FOIA/PA requesters using pre-approved templates and supervisor review. Authors policy-level guidance documents, internal procedures, and training materials related to FOIA/PA processing and mandatory declassification review. Conducts thorough line-by-line reviews of multi-page, multi-classification level documents, accurately identifying all information subject to exemption or continued classification. Conducts comprehensive quality assurance reviews of complex, voluminous document sets, identifying subtle classification or privacy vulnerabilities that less experienced reviewers have missed.
What you need to qualify
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. Current Army Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS) Employee 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. Experience 1) Reviewing, analyzing, and made release or denial recommendations on FOIA/Privacy Act requests involving classified intelligence, counterintelligence, and sensitive compartmented information;2) conducting mandatory declassification reviews of sensitive intelligence records to determine whether continued classification was warranted;3) applying classification management standards and coordinating with originating agencies to resolve equity disputes and document final determinations; AND 4) effected coordination with Army commands, DOD components, and national-level agencies on complex FOIA/PA requests submitted by diverse requesters This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS/GG-11). 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.
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