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Defense Intelligence Agency
Department of Defense
Location
Washington, District of Columbia
Salary
$121,785 - $143,913
per year
Type
Full-Time
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This role involves creating and managing visual materials like graphics, photos, and diagrams to communicate complex information effectively within the Defense Intelligence Agency.
It requires collaborating with teams, leading projects, and using creative skills to support national security missions.
Ideal candidates are artistic professionals with experience in visual design and a passion for teamwork in a high-stakes government environment.
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. ASSESSMENT FACTORS 1.
Collaborates across career field and agency to share experience and assist subordinates and peers to achieve mission proficiency. 2.
Manages a wide-range of complex assignments and non-routine situations and exercises independent judgment to identify and take appropriate courses of action. 3.
Initiates and develops relationships with potential customers, proactively providing them with information about services and products. 4.
Leads teams and assists members with complex tasks and situations and assists leadership in assessing and resolving advanced technical issues. 5.
Identifies available resources and constraints that impact the effectiveness of work assignments, and develops plans that effectively utilize resources and overcome obstacles Education Undergraduate and Graduate Education: Major study -- commercial art, fine arts, art history, industrial design, architecture, drafting, interior design, photography, visual communication, or other fields related to the position.
Some positions may also require subject-matter knowledge of medicine, science, or technical equipment.
Advanced training in a vocational school, technical institute, or art institute above the high school level in one of the fields listed above is creditable as general experience on a month-for-month basis.
OR Experience General Experience (for GG-5 positions): Experience that demonstrated the skills and creativity needed to use the tools or equipment associated with the work.
Because talent and creative ability are vital to successful work performance, samples of work or other suitable evidence of technical competence may be required.
Unpaid experience that is pertinent should be credited based upon its relevance to the work of the particular position to be filled.
To be qualifying, the work must have involved visual communication of information or the application of the principles of artistic design.
Specialized Experience (for positions above GG-5): Experience in the actual type of work for which application is made.
Unpaid experience is creditable, provided the work done was of a quality level and demonstrated the ability required for the position.
This includes planning the preparation and use of photographs, illustrations, drawings, and other art work, charts, diagrams, dioramas, maps, slides, overlays, and other kinds of visual material for use in communicating information through visual means.
Major Duties:
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