Data Lifecycle Specialist

Data Lifecycle Specialists enable organizational data management to increase discoverability and facilitate dissemination, ensuring the review and release of information to the public.

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications

Interested candidates should be passionate about the ideals of our American republic, committed to upholding the rule of law and the U.S. Constitution, and committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government. Hiring decisions will not be based on race, sex, color, religion, or national origin.

• Strong written and oral communication skills, and excellent presentation skills, with the ability to communicate technical subjects to non-technical audiences
• Superior ability to think critically and logically analyze, synthesize, and judge information, as well as the ability to review and incorporate multiple sources of information in performing assignments
• Ability to work within an ambiguous, evolving digital environment independently and as a member of a collaborative team
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build and sustain professional networks across organizational boundaries
• Ability to meet the minimum requirements for joining CIA, including U.S. citizenship and a background investigation

Desired Qualifications

• Master's degree in one of the following field or related studies:
  • Archives or Records Management
  • Digitization Preservation
  • Business Administration
  • History
  • Information, Data, and/or Knowledge Management
  • International Affairs/Relations/Studies
  • Law
  • Library/Information Science
  • Museum Studies or Public History
  • Paralegal Studies
  • Philosophy
  • Public Administration
• At least two (2) years' experience in at least one of the following:
  • Information, Data, and/or Knowledge Management
  • Information science and/or librarianship
  • Management of complex projects

Responsibilities:

As a Data Lifecycle Specialist for CIA, you will focus on managing data and information, aimed at increasing discoverability, retrievability, and use; facilitating dissemination; ensuring the delivery of timely and relevant intelligence; and the review and release of information to the public. The work covers every aspect of the management lifecycles of information-both data and records. You will design search strategies, facilitate consumption and integration of data across a variety of data entities and digital systems, and provide guidance to users of information management systems on how to catalog, store, and maintain records and data, consistent with Federal Records Act and Executive order requirements. Data Lifecycle Specialists also review and analyze information to determine releasability, to include providing classification guidance to information owners and leveraging tools to review information for release. Work includes responsibility to:

• Interpret and apply statutes, orders, and regulations governing Federal and Agency information and data, and provide guidance to audiences or customers of varying levels of expertise
• Formulate search strategies, identify data sources, and retrieve and organize digital information
• Consult on digital data curation and archiving processes, procedures, and policies
• Define and implement data standards and processes to support data exchange, sharing, exploitation, modeling, management, and/or production
• Analyze data collections to catalog and manage in a way which enhances discoverability and retrievability for appropriate dissemination of digital and hardcopy information
• Conduct information review and release activities to include review of information leveraging a variety of tools and technologies in support of the Freedom of Information Act, Privacy Act, and other laws, regulations, and Executive orders
• Identify and ensure proper handling of information about individuals, to include Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and data protected by the Privacy Act

Some travel may be required.

Salary : $74,584