CYBER STRATEGIC ANALYST

Full Job Description

About the Position: This position is a DOD Cyber Excepted Service (CES) personnel system position in the Excepted Service under 10 USC 1599f.

Employees occupying CES 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 Fort Meade, MD. CYBER EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITIONS ARE NOT SUBJECT TO THE TWO-PAGE RESUME LIMIT.

YOUR FULL RESUME WILL NEED TO BE UPLOADED TO YOUR USAJOBS PROFILE USING THE DOCUMENT TYPE "OTHER DOCUMENTS".

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job.

You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected.

See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities.

Army CES positions apply Veteran's Preference to preference eligible candidates, as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 U.S.C., in accordance with the procedures provided in DoD Instruction 1400.25, Volume 3005, "CES Employment and Placement".

If you are a veteran claiming veterans' preference, as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 U.S.C., you must submit documents verifying your eligibility with your application package.

In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social).

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.

Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe one year specialized experience that demonstrates the possession of knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies necessary for immediate success in the position.

Such experience is typically in or directly related to the work of the position to be filled.

One year of specialized experience would be demonstrated by: 1) Evaluating the requirements of cybersecurity strategies for alignment with the organizational goals in order to make recommendations to senior leadership; AND 2) Analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of courses of actions to find the most effective option; AND 3) Synthesizing information in to comprehensive oral and written formats to present to senior leadership.

Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify.

For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted. Major Duties:

• Confers regularly with the CNMF CDR and DCDR, both General officers, other senior leaders andmembers of the Command's executive team to discuss the state of the DOD cyberspace mission.
• Refines broad-based strategic and operational objectives and priorities, based on current and rapidly-evolving world events and direction from higher echelons.
• Based on these analyses and own comprehensive knowledge of the mission, defines and presents for review/endorsement comprehensive strategic operational initiatives and objectives to be employed by the CNMF.
• Communicates cyberspace operations program objectives and priorities, and advocate for the active support of the diverse community of partners whose cooperation is essential
• These initiatives and objectives will change over time, but establishment and maintenance of a baseline of strategic operational initiatives and objectives is essential to establish broad parameters and priorities for resource planning/allocation.
• In concert with other CNMF staff elements and functional competencies, leads and/or facilitates national-level meetings, discussions and negotiations to identify, deconflict and coordinate strategic and operational cyberspace operations requirements.
• Represents the CNMF as an actively participating member of Command and inter-agency working groups, tasked to study and provide comments and recommendations on issues of broad interest to the cyberspace mission community.
• Maintains and extends working relationships with professional peers throughout the cyberspace mission community to solicit, obtain and, as authorized, exchange information on strategic and operational trends.
• Facilitates action on particularly operationally-urgent and short-fused briefing development efforts.
• Supports competency managers efforts to build the SME teams required to address analyses, identify analytical strategies and methodologies, and disseminate tasking and coordinate activities within and outside the Command.