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SUPERVISORY INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS SPECIALIST

Air National Guard Units

Department of the Air Force

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$106,437 - $138,370

per year

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Job Description

Summary

This job involves leading a team in an Air National Guard unit to oversee intelligence gathering, analysis, and operations support for air missions, ensuring readiness and coordination with broader military efforts.

It requires supervising divisions focused on data collection, targeting, and training to help plan and execute surveillance and reconnaissance activities.

A good fit would be someone with military experience in intelligence, strong leadership skills, and the ability to handle complex security and analytical tasks in a fast-paced environment.

Key Requirements

  • Membership in the South Carolina Air National Guard (or eligibility for immediate membership)
  • Military grade between 2nd Lt/O-1 and Maj/O-4
  • Ability to obtain a Secret or Top Secret security clearance within one year
  • General experience in administrative, professional, investigative, or technical work involving fact collection, evaluation, and clear report writing
  • Specialized experience in developing intelligence policies, organizing programs, and evaluating operational methods
  • Comprehensive knowledge of intelligence programs, including relations to national activities and interplay of global forces (geographical, political, military, economic, industrial)
  • Experience dealing effectively with others and presenting positions in intelligence contexts

Full Job Description

This is a National Guard Title 32 Excepted position for a SUPERVISORY INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS SPECIALIST, Position Description Number D1508000, and is part of the 169 OSS, South Carolina Air National Guard.

THIS IS A NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 32 EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITION OPEN TO THE FOLLOWING AREA OF CONSIDERATION (AOC): Area of Consideration: This position is open to Area 1 Only.

Area 1: Current permanent employees of the South Carolina Air National Guard.

(Note-Temporary and Indefinite employees do not meet permanent tenure requirements and will not qualify for this AOC) Area 2: Current members of the South Carolina Air National Guard.

Area 3: Any individual eligible for membership in the South Carolina Air National Guard.

Military Grades: 2d Lt/O-1, 1st Lt/O-2, Capt/ O-3, Maj/O-4 MILITARY REQUIREMENTS: This is an excepted service position that requires membership in a compatible military assignment in the employing state's National Guard.

Applicants who are not currently a member of the National Guard must be eligible for immediate membership.

If you are not sure you are eligible for military membership, please contact a National Guard recruiter prior to applying for this position.

For positions requiring a security clearance (Secret or Top Secret) the applicant must possess or be able to obtain a clearance within one year of appointment.

GENERAL EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS: Experience, education, or training which demonstrates administrative, professional, investigative, or technical work requiring the ability to deal effectively with others, to collect, evaluate and organize pertinent facts.

Experience preparing clear and concise written reports.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Experience, education or training developing and recommending policy, organizing and carrying out specific programs, evaluating and recommending changes in methods of intelligence operations.

Experience in administrative, investigative, or technical work which required the applicant to deal effectively with others.

Experience collecting, evaluating and organizing pertinent facts and to analyze and prepare clear and concise reports.

Must have a comprehensive knowledge of the operation of the entire intelligence program of the organization and its relation to the national intelligence activity; an understanding of the functions and operations of other intelligence organizations, even though unrelated to their own special fields; familiarity with related nonintelligence activities; broad knowledge of the influence of their specialized field upon foreign areas and peoples in order to adduce probable courses of development and action; knowledge of the interplay of geographical, political, military, economic, and industrial forces in various regions of the world; and the ability to present and argue for a position effectively.

Major Duties:

This position is located in the Intelligence Directorate at an Air National Guard Air Operations Group (AOG). The purposes of the position are:

to serve as the Group Director of Intelligence, monitoring and overseeing the intelligence collections, analysis, targeting, systems and readiness, and intelligence special security divisions, and combat readiness and training operations;

to direct development and sustainment of an in-place and deployable intelligence augmentation capability for force level battle management;

to prepare for, plan, and direct intelligence augmentation operational capabilities in support of an Air Operations Center (AOC) and those forces under the operational control of the Joint or Combined Force Air Component Commander (J/CFACC); and

to provide broad guidance and direction in ensuring effective management of a program to provide direct trained and certified augmentation forces at the force level in the planning, delivery, and post-delivery phases of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR)operations ranging from feasibility actions and preparation of the battlespace to the application of lethal force at the operational level of war.

[The intelligence augmentation operation must be capable of operating in a joint United States forces only unilateral environment, an existing formal combined operations alliance, or a tailored combined alliance environment.] This position requires military membership.

It is designated for National Guard officer incumbency only. The incumbent provides subordinate guidance and team leadership to NDS and DS employees.

Incumbent plans, organizes, manages, and performs duties necessary to accomplish intelligence operations functions in support of programs essential to state Air National Guard daily operations, training, and readiness missions.

Fosters an environment conducive to teaming among service providers and customers to meet state Air/Army National Guard requirements.

SUPERVISORY CONTROLS: Incumbent works under general policy and administrative direction of the commander, who outlines broad group objectives and provides general administrative direction.

Incumbent is expected to independently determine and implement the following for the directorate: - Assignment of projects and tasks and formulation of guidelines on expected results.

- Establishment of general priorities and suspense's. - Review and approval of work center projects. - Oversight of the development of intelligence personnel and fiscal budget requirements.

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Posted on USAJOBS: 2/12/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 2/13/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: SC-12887647-AF-26-35