Program Analyst (Cyber)

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 Fort Meade, Maryland. 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.

Specialized experience would be demonstrated by Monitoring multiple classified and unclassified sources to identify new taskers and action items; Coordinating with external cyberspace partners to develop comprehensive solutions to shared challenges; Reporting on key analytical outcomes and strategic implications to all relevant departments Major Duties:

• Provides the point of capture and initial assessment of incoming official taskers that may require response by the Command (and often its external partners) as well as CoS-directed action items.
• Monitors multiple sources (classified and unclassified) to identify new taskers and action items.
• Conducts an initial assessment of required response, and briefs the supervisor and other cognizant executive team members as to proposed approach
• Which regularly requires the solicitation, deconfliction, and integration of inputs from various internal elements, and often requires coordination with external cyberspace partners throughout DoD, the IC and LE/CI communities, and USG
• In this same manner, as required by the nature of taskers and action items, facilitates the Command’s collaboration with external cyberspace partners,
• Including other DoD elements, the IC and LE/CI communities, and USG agencies, whose inputs are required to provide a complete assessment of issues and generate a complete response.
• Brings to contributors’ attention apparent anomalies and/or deficiencies, based on knowledge of precedents and analytical activity on related taskers
• Applies skill in data/information collection and analysis, as well as its formatting and presentation, to ensure presentation of inputs in appropriate forms (reports, displays, briefings)
• And that such presentations fully address the information needs of the originator and are consistent with the Command’s branding and quality standards.
• Assumes personal responsibility for integrating and validating data and analytical results obtained from contributors
• Applies a high degree of skill, not only in data collection and analysis, but also in its formatting and presentation to ensure resulting reports, displays and briefings
• Present information and analytical findings in ways that are relevant to the originators’ information needs.
• This includes applying nuanced understanding of the particular cyberspace program priorities of higher echelons and other program participants to assure findings are not only presented accurately
• As assigned, supports the executive team’s presentation of resulting white papers, reports, and briefings to the Commander and higher-echelon cyberspace program authorities by providing back-up analytical support
• Captures work products in forms that are retrievable from the knowledge base to support future efforts
• Use of lessons learned to make recommendations for refinement of processes, analytical methodologies, and/or project management strategies to improve efficiency and effectiveness with which tasker/action item responses are developed by the team.