Summary
This position is part of the Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, Department of Energy. As a Intelligence Research Specialist, you will provide overall management, direction, and execution of the Department's Counterintelligence Inspections Program.
Duties
This is an Excepted Service position. This appointment will not confer Competitive Service career-conditional or career tenure status. This means that if you are selected, you would have to compete with other applicants in open competition to meet requirements for another Federal position, unless you meet the requirements for reinstatement. Applicants who voluntarily convert from the competitive service, Senior Executive Service, or other pay systems to a non-time limited appointment under this excepted service authority are not afforded "fallback rights" to the pay system previously assigned prior to conversion. As a GS-15, Intelligence Research Specialist, you will: Direct and execute the nationwide Counterintelligence Inspection Program by establishing operational strategies, methodologies, schedules, and resource allocations to assess departmental risk and program effectiveness. Lead and integrate cross-functional teams of subject matter experts across disciplines-including investigations, analysis, human intelligence (HUMINT), cyber counterintelligence, and technology protection-to evaluate field and headquarters operations. Identify operational and intelligence vulnerabilities across laboratory, plant, and site environments, recommending corrective actions to mitigate foreign intelligence threats. Validate final inspection and intelligence products to ensure evidential sufficiency, analytic integrity, sourcing accuracy, and adherence to departmental and Intelligence Community standards before dissemination. Advise and brief senior leadership and external stakeholders (including executive leadership, site directors, the Intelligence Community, and Congress) to justify complex, sensitive, or controversial findings and defend corrective actions. Evaluate corrective action plans and recurring findings across the enterprise to determine risk mitigation effectiveness and drive updates to nationwide counterintelligence policies, standards, and program priorities.
Education
There are no specific education requirements or substitution of education for experience for this position.
How you will be evaluated
You will be evaluated based on how well you meet the qualifications listed in this vacancy announcement, as demonstrated in your application and your responses to all assessments required for this position. Overstating your qualifications and/or experience in your application or cheating on the assessment may result in removal from consideration. Responses to assessments must be prepared solely by the applicant. The use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, CoPilot) to draft, edit, or generate responses is strictly prohibited and may result in removal from consideration. The Department of Energy, Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence uses an application tracking system to evaluate the responses you provide in the applicant assessment questionnaire to determine if you meet the minimum qualifications necessary for this position. Then, the HR Office and/or Subject Matter Expert (SME) will conduct a quality review of your application and supporting documentation to determine if your qualifications meet the criteria for referral to the selecting official. This position is in the excepted service and is being filled in accordance with 50 U.S.C. 3024(v). All candidates that meet all of the minimum requirements of this position as stated in the qualifications section of this vacancy announcement will be referred to the selecting official. You must meet all qualifications and eligibility requirements by the closing date (10/19/2026) of this announcement. To preview the Assessment Questionnaire, clickhttps://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/13081353.