IT SPECIALIST (INFOSEC) (STEM)

Description:

We are committed to:

• Teamwork: Partnering at all levels and across organizational boundaries for mission accomplishment.
• Integrity: Adherence to the highest legal and ethical principles in our responsibilities.
• Excellence: Unrivaled defense intelligence expertise.
• Service: Putting the welfare of the Nation and commitment to our mission before oneself.

Requirements:

ASSESSMENT FACTORS

1. Accepts responsibility for outcomes for team, group, and self.
2. Independently anticipates, sets and meets priorities, and achieves results that support Agency objectives and strategies with no active supervision.
3. Actively, both internally and externally, promotes DIA’s core values of teamwork, integrity, excellence, service, diversity, critical thinking, collaboration and information sharing through one’s own behaviors and expectations for others.
4. Establishes priorities and oversees the coordination of work across assigned projects or programs to achieve timely and positive outcomes.
5. Interprets and applies Intelligence Community (IC), Department of Defense (DoD), and commercially established Information Assurance guidance, directives, processes and standards to meet organizational goals and objectives.

HIGHLY DESIRED SKILLS


1. Takes initiative to anticipate issues, resolves conflict among multiple priorities, and implements effective solutions to prevent problems that might impact timelines and deliverables.
2. Demonstrates polished oral and written communication skills to compose, tailor, and deliver original presentations and papers on abstract and exceptionally complex questions or issues in a way that allows a varied audience to understand the intended message and objectives.
3. Demonstrates an in-depth understanding of the IC and uses this knowledge constructively in establishing goals and priorities and accomplishing work.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS

All Applicants must meet the following minimum qualification requirements in order to be considered for this position:

Requirements may be met either through Education and/or Experience and/or a combination of both.

Education:

All academic degrees and coursework must be from accredited or pre-accredited institutions. The coursework must be either undergraduate or graduate and must include a minimum of 24 semester hours in one, or a combination of the following: computer science, engineering, information science, information systems management, mathematics, operations research, statistics, or technology management.

Level/Education:

GG-07 : One (1) full year of graduate level education; or Bachelor’s degree with superior academic achievement

GG-09: Master’s degree or equivalent graduate degree; OR two (2) full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a master’s degree or equivalent graduate degree

GG-11 and above: Ph.D or equivalent doctoral degree; OR three (3) full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree

Experience

• Must be IT-related (paid or unpaid);
• May have involved the completion of specific and intensive training (for example, IT certification);
• Should have equipped the applicant with the particular competencies/knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position and should have been gained in the same or related field as the work of the position being filled;
• Should have been gained in the IT field or through the performance of work where the primary concern was IT;
• Should consist of at least one year at a level equivalent to the next lower GG level;

And

• Must have demonstrated each of the following four competencies:

1. Attention to detail: thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail;
2. Customer Service: works with clients and customers to assess their needs, provide information or assistance, resolve their problems, or satisfy their expectations, knows about available products and services and is committed to providing quality products and services;
3. Oral Communication: effectively expresses information, takes into account the audience and nature of the information, makes clear and convincing oral presentations, listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues and responds appropriately;
4. Problem Solving: identifies problems, determines accuracy and relevance of information, uses sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives and makes appropriate recommendations.
and

Specialized Experience

Specialized experience is experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular competencies/knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position and is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled.