Intelligence Operations Specialist

Department: Department of Commerce

Location(s): Silver Spring, Maryland

Salary Range: $117962.0 - $181216.0 Per Year

Job Summary: This position is located within the Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) with one vacancy located in Silver Spring, MD. This position is also announced under vacancy number CIO-24-12536595-DE, which is open to all US Citizens or Nationals. You must apply to both announcements if you want to be considered for both.

Major Duties:

• As an Intelligence Operations Specialist, you will perform the following duties: Serve as a Senior Intelligence Specialist for Internal Risk (Insider Threat) Mitigation. Promote optimal organizational performance and the strategic management of intelligence programs, including all-source information review, research, and reduction to identify mission-critical threats to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Review and analyze cyber intelligence, open source, and operational reports and information regarding significant cyber network events, attacks, intrusions, and activities that may impact NOAA and its customers, objectives, resources and/or capabilities. Establish, maintain, and collaborate with intelligence, law enforcement, and security contacts to coordinate interests and share information. Represent the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) and attend meetings as an advisor, to maintain situational awareness, and coordinate intelligence and insider threat related matters.

Qualifications: Qualification requirements in the vacancy announcements are based on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards Handbook, which contains federal qualification standards. This handbook is available on the Office of Personnel Management's website located at: https://www.opm.gov/policy EDUCATION: There is no positive education requirement for this position. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and responsibility to the next lower grade level in the Federal Service. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular competencies/knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. This experience need not have been in the federal government. 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. To qualify at the ZA-4 or GS-13 level: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: One full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the ZA-3 or GS-12 in the Federal service. Specialized experience MUST include all of the following: Researching and developing internal risk (insider threat) mitigation strategies to ensure the security of a program's resources or capabilities; Analyzing cyber intelligence, open source, or operational information regarding cyber network events, attacks, or intrusions to identify mission-critical threats; and Providing technical guidance and advisory services on matters involving internal and external threats and intelligence coordination.

How to Apply: --Applications (resume and application questions) for this vacancy must be received on-line via USAJOBS by 11:59pm Eastern Time (ET) (Washington, D.C. time) on the closing date of this announcement. If you fail to submit a complete online resume, you will not be considered for this position. Requests for extensions will not be granted. If applying online poses a hardship for you, you must speak to someone in the Servicing Human Resources Office listed on this announcement PRIOR TO THE CLOSING DATE for assistance. --Instructions for Applying Online for this Vacancy Announcement: 1) Click the blue "Apply Online" button. 2) If you are not a registered USAJOBS user, please create a new account and follow the instructions to complete your application process. If you are a registered user, login to access your existing USAJOBS profile. 3) As a registered user, select a stored resume and select one or more of your stored documents to attach to your application. 4) Check the "Certification" box and click the "Apply for this position now!" button located at the bottom of the screen. 5) Address the eligibility questions as well as the questionnaire containing questions and/or task statements that address the knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies for this vacancy. 6) Submit required documents using one of the available methods listed below. 7) If you experience technical difficulties during the online application process, please contact the USAJOBS helpdesk.

Application Deadline: 2024-09-12