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INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH SPECIALIST
Office of Field Operations, National Targeting Center/ Passenger Division, NSTA Branch
Department of Homeland Security

Overview

NSEP Exclusive

Open & Closing Dates
03/17/2025 to 04/16/2025

Salary
$57,164 - $90,898

Pay Scale & Grade
GS7, GS9 per year

Work Schedule
Full-Time

Promotion Potential
GS13

Appointment Type
Permanent

Location

City
Washington, DC

State
DC Metro Area

Duties

Summary
The work carried out by this position engages in developing trends and patterns, analyzing and researching classified intelligence, conducting research in CBP databases and producing intelligence reports.
• Reviewing and analyzing CBP border encounters based on detailed understanding of terrorist travel trends and normal passenger flows;
• Representing the organization on the coordination of issues with law enforcement and Intelligence Community partners;
• Collecting and analyzing intelligence data from a variety of sources to develop trends, patterns, profiles, estimates and studies;
• Preparing preliminary and finished intelligence products and disseminating the products to the appropriate officials.

Requirements

Conditions of Employment
*Minimum: If you are using education to qualify for this position, Transcripts are required. Transcripts from a college or university recognized by the U.S. Department of Education are required if you are basing your qualifications on education. For a listing of accredited U.S. schools, please visit:
http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/.

For graduates of foreign universities, an evaluation of all coursework from an organization recognized as specializing in interpretation of credentials is required. For a list of accredited agencies for foreign education, please visit: http://www.naces.org/members.htm.

If you transferred academic credits from study abroad to an accredited U.S.-based institution
(and these credits appear on your transcript from the U.S.-based institution), then you may
submit just the transcripts from your U.S.-based institution.

Residency Requirement: There is a residency requirement for all applicants not currently employed by CBP. During the three years prior to applying for this position, you must have: physically resided in the United States or its protectorates or territories (excluding short trips abroad, such as vacations); worked for the U.S. Government as an employee overseas in a Federal or military capacity; and/or been a dependent of a U.S. Federal or military employee serving overseas. Exceptions may be granted to applicants if they can provide complete state-side coverage information required to make a suitability/security determination. Examples of state-side coverage information include: the state-side address of the company headquarters where the applicant's personnel file is located, the state-side address of the Professor in charge of the applicant's "Study Abroad" program, the church records for the applicant's overseas church missions, and/or the state-side addresses of anyone who worked or studied with the applicant while overseas. Applicants must provide this information when filing their application for employment.

Qualifications
GS-7: You qualify for the GS-07 grade level if you possess 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level, performing duties such as:
• Performing preliminary research, analysis, and evaluation of raw intelligence data based upon such factors as recency and authenticity of technical detail and coverage;
• Preparing organized presentations of studies which are necessarily brief due to the uncomplicated nature of the specific intelligence, portions of larger studies as assistants to other specialists, or summaries of larger studies;
• Reviewing requests for information coming from research specialists and making preliminary determinations of appropriate sources for acquiring such information;
• Making the preliminary determinations on the distribution of most intelligence reports.

Education Substitution GS-07: Successful completion of one year of full-time graduate education from an accredited college or university may substitute for the experience required at this level. This education must demonstrate the skills necessary to do the work. Check with your school to determine how many credit hours comprise a year of graduate education. If that information is not available, use 18 semester or 27 quarter hours.

OR

GS-07: Superior Academic Achievement (SAA) may also substitute for the experience required at this level. SAA is defined as a Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with a grade point average of 3.0 or higher on a 4.0 scale, having a class standing in the upper third of a graduating class or major subdivision, or membership in a national scholastic honor society. Please see www.cbp.gov for additional information.

Experience GS-09: You qualify for the GS-09 grade level if you possess 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level, performing duties such as:
• Analyzing, assimilating, and evaluating all available intelligence information relating to their assigned area of responsibility;
• Preparing (1) finished studies of factual data, which may be complete in themselves, or (2) assigning portions or contributing to larger studies, statistical compilations, or intelligence publications. Characteristically the finished intelligence which they produce does not require projection of data or estimates of probability;
• Filling requests for intelligence information levied on their own organization by other intelligence organizations;
• Carrying out liaison functions with other intelligence organizations with respect to individual problems which are not expected to offer complications;
• Preparing collection instructions, guides, and manuals for use by collection activities and organizations, and participate in the review and evaluation of the collection process

Education Substitution GS-09: A Master's degree, two full years of graduate education, a J.D. or an LL.B. degree from an accredited college or university may substitute for experience required at this level. This education must demonstrate the skills necessary to do the work. Check with your school to determine how many credit hours comprise two years of graduate education. If that information is not available, use 36 semester or 54 quarter hours.

Security Clearance

Required
Top Secret/SCI
Following a Conditional Offer of Employment (COE), selectee must undergo a background investigation and Selectee must be able to obtain and maintain a TOP SECRET (TS)/SCI security clearance.

Required Application Materials

Resume, Cover Letter, Academic Transcripts, DD-214 (veterans or active duty military only), SF-50 (current or former federal employees only), NSEP Letter of Certification, Writing Sample,

Application Instructions

Your application is due by 11:59 PM Eastern Time on the application close date indicated above. Failure to follow the application instructions may result in rejection of your application.

Cover letters should be tailored to the position and generically addressed to the division mentioned above.

Writing sample (Research or narrative papers from a job or class)

Resume and Supporting Materials

You will need to submit your application through the vacancy posting on the NSEPnet Job Board. Please upload each of the required documents in the appropriate location. Files should be in Word, Excel, PDF, Text or Html formats only. When naming each file, please follow the following naming convention:

Document Type_Last Name, First Name

For example, the applicant John Smith would submit a resume named “Resume_Smith, John”.

To access the NSEPnet Job Board, you will need to login to https://www.nsepnet.org. The link to NSEPnet Job Board is at the top of the page under the “Job Search” tab. Please select the position you are interested in, read over the application instructions carefully, and upload all required documents.
If you cannot log in or do not remember your login credentials, please use the Forgot Username tool at https://nsepnet.org/ForgotUsername.aspx or the Forgot Password tool at https://nsepnet.org/ForgotPassword.aspx.

SF-50 and DD-214
If you are a current or former federal employee, you will need to include your SF-50 (or similar document proving federal employment) in your application. If you are a veteran or active duty member of the U.S. military, you will need to include a DD-214 in your application.

Letter of Certification
You will need to request a Letter of Certification for this exclusive position or select the “Auto-Generate Letter of Certification” when uploading your application documents.

HIRING AUTHORITY
The CBP Hiring Center will utilize the Schedule A (r) and/or NDAA’13 hiring authorities afforded to all NSEP award recipients with active service requirements to make appointments to this position in the excepted service. You may be Non-competitively converted from excepted service to competitive service with career-conditional status after 2 years of substantially continuous service.

Additional Notes

TRAINING: This position has a training requirement. Selectee(s) are required to attend and successfully complete paid mandatory training. Courses currently include (but are not limited to) the Intelligence Foundations Course, Systems Exploitation Training, and the CBP Intelligence Support to Operations Course. The location will be determined at the time of training. You may be required to successfully complete the training requirement as a condition of employment. Failure to successfully complete the required course(s) of training in accordance with CBP standards and policies will result in placement into either a former or different position, demotion, or separation as determined by management and appropriate procedures.

Additional Information:
This opportunity is only open to NSEP award recipients who have not yet fulfilled their service requirement to NSEP in full. If you have completed work which may fulfill part or all of your service under the terms of your Service Agreement with NSEP, please submit a Service Agreement Report (SAR) requesting service credit for that work as soon as possible. Feel free to reach out to the NSEP Service Team at nsep@nsep.gov if you have any questions or concerns.

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