INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS SPECIALIST (COUNTERINTELLIGENCE AGENT)

Summary

DCSA'S Eastern Region is seeking a qualified CI professional to serve as a Counterintelligence Agent. In this role you will serve as an SME responsible for providing CI functional services, oversight, and support to the cleared Defense Industrial Base (DIB). This is a great opportunity for those with a broad experience in CI collection, reporting, FIE tradecraft, and operations.

This job is open to:

The public: U.S. Citizens, Nationals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S.

Special authorities

Individuals eligible under a special authority not listed in another hiring path.

Clarification from the agency

This announcement is open to: All U.S Citizens; PPP Retained Grade Preference (RGP) eligibles, and Military Reserve and National Guard Technician eligibles may also apply.

Duties

As an Intelligence Operations Specialist (Counterintelligence Agent) you will be responsible for the following duties:

-Serves as a subject matter expert responsible for providing CI functional services, oversight, and support to the cleared Defense Industrial Base; and for conducting CI collections directed against Foreign Intelligence Entity (FIE) targeting cleared industry.-Collect, evaluate, analyze (field-level), and disseminate CI threat information regarding suspicious activities and other actionable information concerning cleared contractor facilities.-Serves as a technical consultant related to CI and counter-proliferation issues involving facilities where critical program information (CPI) resides and also facilities supporting DoD Research, Development, and Acquisition (RDA) prog

rams.-Conducts CI threat awareness training to educate DCSA and cleared contractor personnel on the threats posed by FIEs; makes recommendations of appropriate CI countermeasures necessary to counter FIE collection efforts.-Establishes and maintains highly collaborative relationships with the DoD components, USG LE and IC counterparts, and with cleared contractors.-Represents DCSA CI in daily internal and external meetings pertaining to CI-related discussions to identify and resolve threats to cleared industry.

Qualifications

The experience described in your resume will be evaluated and screened from the Office of Personnel Management's (OPMs) basic qualifications requirements. See: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0100/intelligence-series-0132/i.e. for professional positions or positions with a basic education requirement: http://main.opm.gov/policy-dataoversight/ classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0100/foreign-affairs series- 0130/; i.e. for positions with no IOR: http://main.opm.gov/policy-dataoversight/ classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0300/management and -program-analysis-series-0343/) for OPM qualification standards, competencies and specialized experience needed to perform the duties of the position as described in the MAJOR DUTIES and QUALIFICATIONS sections of this announcement by 12/01/2025

Applicant must have directly applicable experience that demonstrates the possession of the knowledge, skills, abilities and competencies necessary for immediate success in the position. Qualifying experience may have been acquired in any public or private sector job, but will clearly demonstrate past experience in the application of the particular competencies/knowledge, skills and abilities necessary to successfully perform the duties of the position.

You must have specialized experience sufficient to demonstrate that you have acquired all the competencies necessary to perform at a level equivalent in difficulty, responsibility, and complexity to the next lower grade GS/GG-12 in the Federal service and are prepared to take on greater responsibility. Generally, this would include one year or more of such specialized experience.

Specialized experience for this position

• includes:
• Conducting CI collection activities in cleared industry and produces and disseminates relevant reports meeting collection requirements;
• Providing subject matter expertise to planning efforts with internal and external CI partners to provide input for the development and refinement of the CI operations objectives, priorities, strategies, plans and programs;
• Coordinating with intelligence and CI defense partners to obtain relevant essential information; and
• Establishing and maintaining relationships, both internal and external; and Experience with the National Industrial Security Program and the DoD Personnel Security Program process sufficient to correlate counterintelligence issues emerging within cleared

industry.

• Specifically you will be evaluated on the following competencies:
• Processing and Exploitation Capabilities
• Teamwork
• Legal, Government, Jurisprudence
• Collection

Operations

Re-employed Annuitant: This position does not meet criteria for re-employed annuitant. The DoD criteria for hiring Re-employed Annuitants can be found at: https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/140025/1400.25-V300.pdf

Applicants selected from this announcement may be required to serve a two-year trial period.

If selected, Federal employees currently serving in the competitive service must acknowledge that they will voluntarily leave the competitive service by accepting an offer of employment for a DCIPS excepted service positions.

If selected, non-DCIPS candidates must acknowledge in writing that the position they have been selected for is in the excepted service and covered by DCIPS.

All Defense Intelligence positions under the Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS) are in the excepted service by specific statue, 10 U.S.C. 1601. This position is in the excepted service and does not confer competitive status.