US Department of Commerce Hiring for Intelligence Research Specialist at Washington, DC Full Time

Summary

This vacancy is for an Intelligence Research Specialist in the Office of Security, Office of the Secretary within the Department of Commerce. The incumbent will serve as an Intelligence Research Specialist in the Department’s Insider Risk Program Office, responsible for completing complex research and analysis of potential insider threats that informs decision makers on threats facing the Department and the economic security position of the United States.

Requirements

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-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/ 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. This position is being filled under the DOC Alternative Personnel System (CAPS). The system replaced the Federal GS pay plan structure. Under CAPS, positions are classified by career, pay plan, and pay band. Non-supervisory positions cap out at interval 3 of the band. The ZA-IV is equivalent to the GS-13/14 grade levels. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: To qualify at the ZA-IV, you must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower pay band ZA-III or GS-12 in the Federal service. Specialized experience is defined as: Supporting an organization’s insider threat program and/or insider threat operations; Assisting with developing policy, framework, or standard operating procedures (SOP’s) for a program; Evaluating, researching and/or providing analysis for insider threat operations; Establishing effective working relationships within and outside a department and/or/agency.

The Office of the Secretary is the general management arm of the department and provides the principal support to the Secretary in formulating policy and in providing advice to the President. It provides program leadership for the department’s functions and exercises general supervision over the operating units. It also directly carries out program functions as may be assigned by the Secretary and provides – as determined to be more economical or efficient – administrative and other support services for designated operating units. The Office of the Secretary consists of the Secretary, certain secretarial officers, designated staff immediately serving those officials and a number of offices which serve department-wide functions or perform program functions directly on behalf of the Secretary.