Intelligence Operations Specialist - Colorado Springs, United States - Department Of Homeland Security

Description

Summary

Securing Travel, Protecting People - At the Transportation Security Administration, you will serve in a high-stakes environment to safeguard the American way of life. In cities across the country, you would secure airports, seaports, railroads, highways, and/or public transit systems, thus protecting America's transportation infrastructure and ensuring freedom of movement for people and commerce.

Duties

This Intelligence Operations Specialist position is located Operations Support (OS), Intelligence and Analysis (I&A), Transportation Analysis Division (TAD), Transportation Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Duties include but are not limited to:

• Serves as a 24/7/365 Watch Officer, providing, all source intelligence support, reporting, and guidance to a diverse group of government and contract personnel.
• Works with fellow Watch Officers to ensure proper handling of priority intelligence requirements, knowledge and understanding of known or suspected terrorist travel, operating domain situational awareness, and ability to collaborate and communicate across multiple sites and locations. Ensures proper handling of watch list nominations, and proper notification and reporting of applicant matches against vetted populations.
• Generalized knowledge of Watch operations to include technical knowledge of intelligence (collection, analysis, and evaluation). Ability to plan and accomplish operational goals and assignments, develop plans and techniques to improve operations, policies and programs.
• This position serves as Watch Officer and performs classified/unclassified duties related to executing the operational mission. This includes conducting complex analysis and devising procedural and technical improvements to increase efficiency and decrease risk to transportation security. Performs complex analysis of policies and guidance related to Watch operations. Ability to identify and make recommendations as they relate to operational issues and ability to document best practices for process improvements.
• Under limited direction, understands, explains, and directs others to execute Intelligence Indications & Warnings Watch's standard operating procedures to perform complex preliminary analysis, administrative reporting, database checks, and other tasks as assigned in support of the agency's Transportation Threat Analysis mission.
• Conducts, or directs others to conduct, intelligence and an organization's database checks in support of Agency's incident response and performs preliminary research and analysis to enhance understanding of potential indications of threats to transportation and to confirm or validate threat allegations when possible. Established policies/procedures provide guidance for most assignments but allow considerable discretion to select the most appropriate approach or to recommend new approaches.
• Drafts overnight intelligence summaries at the unclassified, secret, and top-secret levels in response to standing Organization's intelligence requirements by compiling all-source intelligence and relevant operational and incident reporting and provides quality control of other's work as needed. Work is reviewed periodically, typically at major milestones and at completion, for technical compliance and alignment with the requirements of the project or other work activity.

The major duties described above reflect the full performance level of this position. Typically, the lower pay band (G Band) performs the same duties but will receive more guidance and training; and/or projects/work assignments may be less complex.

Emergency Essential Position: This position is designated as an Emergency Essential (EE) position. This designation requires the employee to remain in a duty status if an emergency arises.