Investigative Specialist

Summary

This position is located in the Office of Counterintelligence, Domestic Operations Directorate, Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS/DO/CI). The Office of Counterintelligence works to detect, deter, and neutralize the efforts of foreign intelligence services targeting Department of State and foreign affairs community personnel, facilities, and missions worldwide. For more information about the Bureau, visit: DS

Duties

• Conducts counterintelligence (CI) vetting assessments to provide oversight in the screening, review, evaluation, and adjudication of security clearance cases involving foreign influence and foreign preference factors that pose potential CI risks.
• Establishes liaisons with counterparts in other Federal agencies in the intelligence and law enforcement communities.
• Prepares and conducts defensive CI briefings to DS Bureau and Department management and personnel as well as U.S. Intelligence Community (USIC) partners.
• Drafts written products, ensuring through quality control/assurance checks that division level CI assessments and recommendations conform with legal authorities, Department policy, and standard office procedures.
• Assesses threats, incidents, and incoming intelligence reports to develop defensible conclusions, findings, judgments and recommendations on critical CI matters.

Qualifications

Applicants must meet all the required qualification requirements described below by the closing date of this announcement. NOTE: Applicants must meet time-in-grade and time after competitive appointment requirements, by the closing date of this announcement. Time-In-Grade Requirements: Federal applicants must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade to satisfy time-in-grade restrictions, per 5CFR 300, Subpart F. Applicants must have 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 level in the Federal service which provided the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the duties of the position. Qualifying specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Experience conducting counterintelligence vetting assessments involving foreign influence (FI) and foreign preference (FP) concerns; Experience leveraging open-source intelligence (OSINT), criminal databases, and intelligence community reports to assess risks to national security; AND Experience preparing adjudicative opinions and recommendations for counterintelligence investigations. There is no substitute of education for specialized experience for the GS-13 position.

Education

Education requirements do not apply to this vacancy announcement.

How to apply

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