Intelligence Specialist (Operations Support).

About the Position

This position is in the Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS). Employees occupying DCIPS positions are in the Excepted Service and must adhere to U.S. Code, Title 10, as well as Department of Defense Instruction 1400.25. This position is located at the USAINSCOM MISSION SUPPORT COMMAND FOIA/IRR, FORT MEADE, MD.

Responsibilities

• Reviews straightforward FOIA/PA requests with clearly unclassified information and recommends release or denial with supervisor guidance.
• Completes declassification review checklists under direct supervision, relying on established criteria to support recommendations.
• Drafts basic acknowledgment and response letters to FOIA/PA requesters using pre-approved templates and supervisor review.
• Authors policy-level guidance documents, internal procedures, and training materials related to FOIA/PA processing and mandatory declassification review.
• Conducts thorough line-by-line reviews of multi-page, multi-classification level documents, accurately identifying all information subject to exemption or continued classification.
• Conducts comprehensive quality assurance reviews of complex, voluminous document sets, identifying subtle classification or privacy vulnerabilities that less experienced reviewers have missed.

Qualifications

• To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe at least one year of experience which prepared you to do the work in this job. Experience includes:
• Reviewing, analyzing, and made release or denial recommendations on FOIA/Privacy Act requests involving classified intelligence, counterintelligence, and sensitive compartmented information;
• conducting mandatory declassification reviews of sensitive intelligence records to determine whether continued classification was warranted;
• applying classification management standards and coordinating with originating agencies to resolve equity disputes and document final determinations;
• and effecting coordination with Army commands, DOD components, and national-level agencies on complex FOIA/PA requests submitted by diverse requesters.

Additional Information

• This position requires a 2 year trial period during which the agency evaluates your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
• You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship.
• The documents you are required to submit vary based on the authority you are using to apply (i.e., applying as a veteran, applying as a current permanent Federal employee, applying as a reinstatement, etc).