Senior CI Instructor - Operations
for headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must not repeat job title. We need to include sections only when posting has real specific content.
Let's parse posting:
Description: DarkStar Intelligence is seeking a highly experienced Senior CI Instructor – Operations to support advanced operational training initiatives for Intelligence Community and Department of Defense personnel. This role is ideal for an experienced counterintelligence or HUMINT professional with deep operational expertise and a passion for developing the next generation of mission professionals. The selected candidate will support the design, development, and delivery of operational instruction, practical exercises, and mission-focused tradecraft training within classified environments. The ideal candidate possesses strong instructional capabilities, operational credibility, and the ability to engage and mentor students in both classroom and field exercise settings.
What You’ll Do: list bullet points.
Key Responsibilities: list bullet points.
Requirements: Required Skills list bullet points.
Education & Qualifications: Required Qualifications bullet points, Preferred Qualifications bullet points.
Salary Range: mention compensation based on experience etc. Not a specific number, but it's a statement. According to rules: we should include Pay section only if posting actually states them. It says "Compensation is based on experience, qualifications, certifications, clearance status, market data, contract requirements, and internal equity considerations." That's not a specific number but it's still compensation info. The rule says: never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. It does state compensation info, albeit vague. Should we include Pay section? It says "Compensation is based on experience..." That's still stating compensation. I'd include a Pay section with that sentence.
Schedule: Not mentioned. No schedule info. So omit Schedule.
Benefits: Not mentioned. Omit Benefits.
Skills: Could be derived from Required Skills? There's a "Required Skills" list. Could map to Skills section. But we already have Requirements and Qualifications. The instruction says use headings like Skills if there is content. We have Required Skills list; we could put that under Skills. But we also have Requirements heading. Might be redundant. Better to follow the headings given: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to decide which sections to include based on content.
We have About the role: description paragraph.
Responsibilities: we have "What You’ll Do" and "Key Responsibilities". Combine.
Requirements: we have "Required Skills" maybe also "Education & Qualifications" but that's qualifications. Could treat Requirements as skills/experience, Qualifications as education/clearance etc.
Skills: maybe we could extract from Required Skills? But we already used them under Requirements. Might be better to put Required Skills under Skills, and Requirements under Requirements (like experience years). However the posting lumps them together.
Let's map:
- About the role: first paragraph(s) before "What You’ll Do".
- Responsibilities: combine "What You’ll Do" and "Key Responsibilities" bullet points.
- Requirements: maybe include "Minimum 8+ years of operational intelligence, CI, or HUMINT experience", "Experience supporting DoD or Intelligence Community operational environments", "Prior instructor or training experience supporting intelligence operations", "Graduate of recognized IC or DoD operational training programs". Also maybe "Active TS/SCI Security Clearance required", "CI Polygraph preferred", "U.S. Citizenship required". Those are qualifications though.
- Qualifications: could include education/clearance etc. But we have both Required Qualifications and Preferred Qualifications.
- Skills: maybe include "Strong instructional presentation and facilitation skills", "Ability to mentor and develop intelligence professionals", "Experience conducting operational planning, execution, and mission support activities", "Strong communication, analytical, and organizational abilities", "Ability to operate effectively within fast-paced classified environments", "Proficiency in developing instructional materials and operational exercises". Those are skills.
Thus we can separate.
Pay: include the compensation sentence.
Schedule: none.
Benefits: none.
Now we need to output HTML fragment with headings and - for lists,
for prose.
We must not include boilerplate like EEO, ADA, Security Notice, etc. Remove those.
We must preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail.
We need to ensure we don't repeat job title as heading.
Let's extract content precisely.
About the role: The description paragraph(s) before "What You’ll Do". Let's copy:
"DarkStar Intelligence is seeking a highly experienced Senior CI Instructor – Operations to support advanced operational training initiatives for Intelligence Community and Department of Defense personnel. This role is ideal for an experienced counterintelligence or HUMINT professional with deep operational expertise and a passion for developing the next generation of mission professionals. The selected candidate will support the design, development, and delivery of operational instruction, practical exercises, and mission-focused tradecraft training within classified environments. The ideal candidate possesses strong instructional capabilities, operational credibility, and the ability to engage and mentor students in both classroom and field exercise settings."
That's the About the role.
Now Responsibilities: combine "What You’ll Do" bullet points and "Key Responsibilities" bullet points.
What You’ll Do list:
- Deliver advanced operational instruction supporting CI and HUMINT mission requirements
- Facilitate classroom instruction, practical exercises, simulations, and operational role-play scenarios
- Support development and refinement of course materials, lesson plans, and instructional content
- Evaluate student performance and provide operational feedback and mentorship
- Ensure training content remains aligned with current operational tradecraft, doctrine, and mission requirements
- Collaborate with government stakeholders, instructors, and operational SMEs to enhance training effectiveness
- Support classified training events and field exercises as required
- Maintain compliance with all security, operational, and instructional standards
Key Responsibilities list:
- Develop and deliver operationally relevant CI/HUMINT instruction
- Support curriculum modernization and training enhancement initiatives
- Conduct student evaluations and performance assessments
- Participate in scenario development and exercise execution
- Ensure instructional content reflects current intelligence community standards and operational practices
- Provide subject matter expertise during mission planning and training coordination activities
- Support training documentation, reporting, and after-action review processes
- Maintain operational security and compliance within classified environments
We can combine them, maybe deduplicate overlapping items. But we must preserve ALL substantive information; we can keep both lists combined, but might have duplicates. Safer to keep both as separate lists? But we only have one Responsibilities section; we could merge into a single list, but need to ensure we don't lose any info. Overlap: "Develop and deliver operationally relevant CI/HUMINT instruction" similar to "Deliver advanced operational instruction supporting CI and HUMINT mission requirements". Slightly different but similar. We could keep both; it's okay to have similar items.
We'll output a single
with all items from both lists.
Now Requirements: we need to decide what goes here. Let's define Requirements as the experience-based requirements: "Minimum 8+ years of operational intelligence, CI, or HUMINT experience", "Experience supporting DoD or Intelligence Community operational environments", "Prior instructor or training experience supporting intelligence operations", "Graduate of recognized IC or DoD operational training programs". Also maybe "Active TS/SCI Security Clearance required", "CI Polygraph preferred", "U.S. Citizenship required" could be qualifications.
But we also have Education & Qualifications section with Required Qualifications and Preferred Qualifications. Let's treat Qualifications as those.
Thus:
Requirements (Requirements
) list:
- Minimum 8+ years of operational intelligence, CI, or HUMINT experience
- Experience supporting DoD or Intelligence Community operational environments
- Prior instructor or training experience supporting intelligence operations
- Graduate of recognized IC or DoD operational training programs
Now Qualifications (Qualifications
) list: split Required and Preferred.
Required Qualifications:
- Active TS/SCI Security Clearance required
- CI Polygraph preferred (actually says preferred, but it's under Required Qualifications? The posting says "Active TS/SCI Security Clearance required CI Polygraph preferred U.S. Citizenship required". So we list them as required? It says CI Polygraph preferred, but still under Required Qualifications heading. We'll include as is.
- U.S. Citizenship required
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience supporting DIA, INSCOM, SOCOM, or other IC organizations
- Operational deployment experience
- Curriculum development experience
- Experience supporting field exercises and scenario-based operational training
- Advanced operational tradecraft certifications or instructor certifications
Now Skills (Skills
) list: from Required Skills bullet points:
- Extensive operational experience within Counterintelligence, HUMINT, or related intelligence disciplines
- Strong instructional presentation and facilitation skills
- Ability to mentor and develop intelligence professionals in classroom and operational settings
- Experience conducting operational planning, execution, and mission support activities
- Strong communication, analytical, and organizational abilities
- Ability to operate effectively within fast-paced classified environments
- Proficiency in developing instructional materials and operational exercises
Now Pay (Pay
) paragraph: "Compensation is based on experience, qualifications, certifications, clearance status, market data, contract requirements, and internal equity considerations."
Now we must not include Schedule or Benefits.
Now ensure we don't include any boilerplate like EEO etc.
Now output HTML fragment.
We need to wrap each section: About the role
...
etc.
Make sure to not include extra whitespace? It's fine.
Let's craft.
Check for any repeated content: Ensure we didn't miss any substantive info.
From description we used all.
From What You’ll Do we used all.
From Key Responsibilities we used all.
From Required Skills we used all.
From Education & Qualifications we split.
Now check if any other info: "Physical & Work Environment Requirements" includes description about secure government facilities, sitting/standing, presenting, field exercises, occasional CONUS travel. That's substantive; we missed it. Should we include it? It's not under any of the headings list but we could put under maybe Responsibilities? But it's about work environment. There's no heading for Work Environment in the allowed list. However we could include it under Responsibilities? Not appropriate. The instruction says: use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It says "e.g." meaning examples, not exhaustive? It says use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we should only use those headings. If there is content that doesn't fit, we could maybe incorporate into existing sections (like Responsibilities or About the role). The physical work environment could be placed under Responsibilities? Not really. Could be under About the role as additional detail. Let's add a sentence to About the role paragraph: "This position is performed primarily within secure government facilities and may require extended periods of sitting, standing, presenting instruction, or supporting field exercises. Occasional CONUS travel may be required in support of training missions." That is from Physical & Work Environment Requirements. We'll incorporate that into About the role.
Now also there is "ADA Accommodations Statement", "Equal Employment Opportunity Statement", "Security Notice". Those are boilerplate to remove.
Now ensure we didn't miss any other substantive content: The posting also mentions "This role is ideal for an experienced counterintelligence or HUMINT professional...". Already in About.
Now check for any duplicated lines: we have removed.
Now output.
Let's construct HTML.
We'll have:
About the role
DarkStar Intelligence is seeking a highly experienced Senior CI Instructor – Operations to support advanced operational training initiatives for Intelligence Community and Department of Defense personnel. This role is ideal for an experienced counterintelligence or HUMINT professional with deep operational expertise and a passion for developing the next generation of mission professionals. The selected candidate will support the design, development, and delivery of operational instruction,
- for lists,
for prose. We must not include boilerplate like EEO, ADA, Security Notice, etc. Remove those. We must preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. We need to ensure we don't repeat job title as heading. Let's extract content precisely. About the role: The description paragraph(s) before "What You’ll Do". Let's copy: "DarkStar Intelligence is seeking a highly experienced Senior CI Instructor – Operations to support advanced operational training initiatives for Intelligence Community and Department of Defense personnel. This role is ideal for an experienced counterintelligence or HUMINT professional with deep operational expertise and a passion for developing the next generation of mission professionals. The selected candidate will support the design, development, and delivery of operational instruction, practical exercises, and mission-focused tradecraft training within classified environments. The ideal candidate possesses strong instructional capabilities, operational credibility, and the ability to engage and mentor students in both classroom and field exercise settings." That's the About the role. Now Responsibilities: combine "What You’ll Do" bullet points and "Key Responsibilities" bullet points. What You’ll Do list: - Deliver advanced operational instruction supporting CI and HUMINT mission requirements - Facilitate classroom instruction, practical exercises, simulations, and operational role-play scenarios - Support development and refinement of course materials, lesson plans, and instructional content - Evaluate student performance and provide operational feedback and mentorship - Ensure training content remains aligned with current operational tradecraft, doctrine, and mission requirements - Collaborate with government stakeholders, instructors, and operational SMEs to enhance training effectiveness - Support classified training events and field exercises as required - Maintain compliance with all security, operational, and instructional standards Key Responsibilities list: - Develop and deliver operationally relevant CI/HUMINT instruction - Support curriculum modernization and training enhancement initiatives - Conduct student evaluations and performance assessments - Participate in scenario development and exercise execution - Ensure instructional content reflects current intelligence community standards and operational practices - Provide subject matter expertise during mission planning and training coordination activities - Support training documentation, reporting, and after-action review processes - Maintain operational security and compliance within classified environments We can combine them, maybe deduplicate overlapping items. But we must preserve ALL substantive information; we can keep both lists combined, but might have duplicates. Safer to keep both as separate lists? But we only have one Responsibilities section; we could merge into a single list, but need to ensure we don't lose any info. Overlap: "Develop and deliver operationally relevant CI/HUMINT instruction" similar to "Deliver advanced operational instruction supporting CI and HUMINT mission requirements". Slightly different but similar. We could keep both; it's okay to have similar items. We'll output a single
- with all items from both lists.
Now Requirements: we need to decide what goes here. Let's define Requirements as the experience-based requirements: "Minimum 8+ years of operational intelligence, CI, or HUMINT experience", "Experience supporting DoD or Intelligence Community operational environments", "Prior instructor or training experience supporting intelligence operations", "Graduate of recognized IC or DoD operational training programs". Also maybe "Active TS/SCI Security Clearance required", "CI Polygraph preferred", "U.S. Citizenship required" could be qualifications.
But we also have Education & Qualifications section with Required Qualifications and Preferred Qualifications. Let's treat Qualifications as those.
Thus:
Requirements (
Requirements
) list: - Minimum 8+ years of operational intelligence, CI, or HUMINT experience - Experience supporting DoD or Intelligence Community operational environments - Prior instructor or training experience supporting intelligence operations - Graduate of recognized IC or DoD operational training programs Now Qualifications (Qualifications
) list: split Required and Preferred. Required Qualifications: - Active TS/SCI Security Clearance required - CI Polygraph preferred (actually says preferred, but it's under Required Qualifications? The posting says "Active TS/SCI Security Clearance required CI Polygraph preferred U.S. Citizenship required". So we list them as required? It says CI Polygraph preferred, but still under Required Qualifications heading. We'll include as is. - U.S. Citizenship required Preferred Qualifications: - Experience supporting DIA, INSCOM, SOCOM, or other IC organizations - Operational deployment experience - Curriculum development experience - Experience supporting field exercises and scenario-based operational training - Advanced operational tradecraft certifications or instructor certifications Now Skills (Skills
) list: from Required Skills bullet points: - Extensive operational experience within Counterintelligence, HUMINT, or related intelligence disciplines - Strong instructional presentation and facilitation skills - Ability to mentor and develop intelligence professionals in classroom and operational settings - Experience conducting operational planning, execution, and mission support activities - Strong communication, analytical, and organizational abilities - Ability to operate effectively within fast-paced classified environments - Proficiency in developing instructional materials and operational exercises Now Pay (Pay
) paragraph: "Compensation is based on experience, qualifications, certifications, clearance status, market data, contract requirements, and internal equity considerations." Now we must not include Schedule or Benefits. Now ensure we don't include any boilerplate like EEO etc. Now output HTML fragment. We need to wrap each section:About the role
...
etc. Make sure to not include extra whitespace? It's fine. Let's craft. Check for any repeated content: Ensure we didn't miss any substantive info. From description we used all. From What You’ll Do we used all. From Key Responsibilities we used all. From Required Skills we used all. From Education & Qualifications we split. Now check if any other info: "Physical & Work Environment Requirements" includes description about secure government facilities, sitting/standing, presenting, field exercises, occasional CONUS travel. That's substantive; we missed it. Should we include it? It's not under any of the headings list but we could put under maybe Responsibilities? But it's about work environment. There's no heading for Work Environment in the allowed list. However we could include it under Responsibilities? Not appropriate. The instruction says: use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It says "e.g." meaning examples, not exhaustive? It says usefor section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we should only use those headings. If there is content that doesn't fit, we could maybe incorporate into existing sections (like Responsibilities or About the role). The physical work environment could be placed under Responsibilities? Not really. Could be under About the role as additional detail. Let's add a sentence to About the role paragraph: "This position is performed primarily within secure government facilities and may require extended periods of sitting, standing, presenting instruction, or supporting field exercises. Occasional CONUS travel may be required in support of training missions." That is from Physical & Work Environment Requirements. We'll incorporate that into About the role. Now also there is "ADA Accommodations Statement", "Equal Employment Opportunity Statement", "Security Notice". Those are boilerplate to remove. Now ensure we didn't miss any other substantive content: The posting also mentions "This role is ideal for an experienced counterintelligence or HUMINT professional...". Already in About. Now check for any duplicated lines: we have removed. Now output. Let's construct HTML. We'll have:
About the role
DarkStar Intelligence is seeking a highly experienced Senior CI Instructor – Operations to support advanced operational training initiatives for Intelligence Community and Department of Defense personnel. This role is ideal for an experienced counterintelligence or HUMINT professional with deep operational expertise and a passion for developing the next generation of mission professionals. The selected candidate will support the design, development, and delivery of operational instruction,