ANALYSIS (ACF) FEBRUARY 2025 VIRTUAL HIRING EVENT - SCIENCE, TECHNOLOLGY, ENGINEERING, & MATHEMATICS (STEM)

ALL APPLICANTS MUST BE U.S. CITIZENS AT THE TIME OF APPLICATION

This announcement will close at midnight (EST) on Sunday, October 27, 2024.  All applicants must apply online for this event in order to receive consideration.  If you need technical assistance with your application, please contact our support center at (202) 231-8000.

WHO CAN APPLY

This announcement is for external applicants (non DIA employees) only.  DIA employees on a temporary/term appointment, military, and contractor personnel are eligible to apply if qualified for the positions (please be sure to ONLY utilize an UNCLASSIFIED email address within your application).  Current DIA student interns need not apply. . This is a DIA Invitation-Only Hiring Event that will take place in February 2025 via a virtual platform. After applications are reviewed, selected applicants will be contacted via email in December 2024 to submit a writing sample for evaluation. If your writing evaluations meet required standards, only selected applicants will be contacted in January 2025 to schedule an interview. Specific details regarding dates of the event will be provided within the email invites.

NOTE: APPLICANTS, ALL APPLICABLE WORK EXPERIENCE MUST BE ENTERED INTO THE WORK
EXPERIENCE SECTION OF THE ONLINE APPLICATION FOR FURTHER CONSIDERATION.

All applicants must be U.S. citizens at the time of application.  Applicants must meet the agency’s conditions of employment, to include, but not limited to, satisfactory completion of an initial special background investigation and periodic reinvestigation, completion of any required medical examination and physical requirements, completion of any required personal interviews, favorable completion of any required initial or a periodic polygraph examinations, completion of any required drug test, satisfactory completion of a two-year Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System trial period, and completion of a civilian mobility agreement.

DIA does not guarantee any applicant the extension of an official offer of employment; however, DIA will be screening all employment applicants against its current and future manpower requirements.  Selected applicants will be considered for the Agency's Hiring Pool.  DIA is an Agency with worldwide positions.  Selected candidates must be willing to relocate in support of mission requirements.

CURRENT FEDERAL EMPLOYEES

This position is a Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS) position in the Excepted Service under 10 U.S.C. 1601.  Selectee(s) who are current Federal employees will be appointed to the new position at the grade in which they qualify for.  Those at a higher grade than the advertised position, will be asked to accept a voluntary change to the lower grade if selected.

All current and prior Federal employees must also submit a copy of their SF-50, Notification of Personnel Action that documents their appointment to or promotion to the highest grade held.  Consideration for future advancement opportunities will be through DIA’s established promotion processes, according to established timeframes, advancement criteria and compensation parameters.

POSITION SUMMARY

ANALYSIS CAREER FIELD

Officers in the Analysis Career Field serve at the heart of DIA’s global mission. Analysis Officers provide cutting-edge analysis from locations around the world on foreign military capabilities and defense issues in support of our nation’s warfighters, policymakers, and defense planners. Through written products, in-person briefings, or multimedia presentations, their work informs tactical decisions of policy, defense strategy, weapons development and acquisition, and military planning.

Analysis officers come from diverse backgrounds and can look forward to careers of rewarding training, advanced education opportunities, and challenging assignments with DIA and the Intelligence Community.

The below qualities are critical for success as an analyst at DIA:

• Professional Humility: The willingness to change assumptions and conclusions in the face of new evidence, to respect and account for differing perspectives and ideas, and to welcome candid feedback.

• Steadfast Integrity: The commitment to professionalism and honesty, accuracy and transparency, and excellence and mission.

• Intellectual Curiosity: The drive to seek out new experiences, knowledge, insights, and expertise.

• Critical Consideration: The determination to consult, weigh, and synthesize all available information and sources in developing insights, judgments, and assessments and identifying information gaps.

• Constructive Collaboration: The ability to contribute to a dynamic team environment and work through disagreements to reach new insights.

• Clear Communication: The ability to articulate complicated concepts and ideas both concisely and comprehensively.

DIA is seeking entry-level STEM candidates with expertise in a variety of mission areas, including:

• Defense-related topics such as military capabilities and strategy; terrorism; weapons systems and proliferation; illicit trafficking; energy; telecommunications and logistics infrastructure; underground facilities; defense economics/industry; emerging and disruptive technologies; and supply chain risk management.

• Combatant command functional areas of responsibility (e.g., space, special operations, strategic, transportation, cyberspace).


• Geographic or regional knowledge (e.g., military, social, political, or cultural expertise).

• Structured methodological approaches to organize data and model probabilities, natural language processing techniques, or statistics tools.

• STEM fields such as physics, mathematics, applied statistics, computer science, data science, chemistry, biology, toxicology, and engineering disciplines including electrical, mechanical, nuclear, aerospace, chemical, computer, general, or modeling and simulation.

STEM officers in the Analysis Career Field include scientists, engineers, and advanced-all source methods specialists involved in researching information from multiple sources from which they gain insights to convey intelligence assessments in a manner most appropriate for intelligence consumers. Officers scientifically and technologically assess advanced weapons and capabilities; and analyze emerging and disruptive technologies with military applications. Practitioners in this Career Field also lead the adaptation of artificial intelligence, data science, and other advanced analytic methodologies to ensure the Defense Intelligence All-Source Analysis

Enterprise (DIAAE) produces and delivers quality products and services to defense intelligence consumers.

For this event, the ACF is especially interested in candidates with the following skills and/or backgrounds: China, Russia, space/counterspace, data science, computer science, nuclear, electrical, and aerospace engineering backgrounds. Such candidates are highly encouraged to apply. DIA’s Analysis Career Field is also seeking candidates with STEM degrees and related experience to specialize in advancing all-source analytic methods and producing scientific and technical intelligence.

Current Positions include –

- Aerospace Engineer (0861)*
- Chemist (1320)*
- Computer Scientist (1550)*
- Data Scientist (1560)*
- Electronics Engineer (0855)*
- General Engineer (0801)*
- Mechanical Engineer (0830)*
- Nuclear Engineer (0840)*
- Physical Scientist (1301)*
- Physicist (1310)*

NOTE: If you do not meet the STEM requirements/occupational series or would like to be considered for a general All-Source analysis position, applicants are encouraged to apply to the ACF Entry-Level vacancy announcement – VA 125068.

While the ACF has officers at all of the locations listed in the “Location” section of this vacancy announcement, STEM positions are primarily located in Huntsville, AL; Charlottesville, VA; Reston, VA; Washington, DC; and Frederick, MD. We are especially interested in candidates who are willing to work at locations outside of the immediate National Capital Region.

Please fill out the two “Desired location” fields in this application. If you are willing to relocate to any of the locations listed in the “Location” section of this vacancy announcement, please select “All Other Locations” for one of your choices. There is also space to leave a brief comment in support of your desired locations. If you do not see a location listed in the “Location” section of this vacancy announcement—even if it is an option to select as a desired location—we do not have positions there. Please do not select it.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS

The positions/occupational series listed above identified with an asterisk must meet a positive education requirement as identified by the Office of Personnel Management. General information can be found on the Office of Personnel Management’s website at www.OPM.gov.

APPLICATIONS RECEIVED

UNCLASSIFIED applications must be received by MIDNIGHT (Eastern Standard Time) on the closing date of the announcement.  DO NOT SUBMIT CLASSIFIED INFORMATION WITHIN YOUR ONLINE APPLICATION. 

All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement.

For full vacancy announcement details and to apply, please visit DIAjobs.dia.mil and search for Job Title ANALYSIS (ACF) FEBRUARY 2025 VIRTUAL HIRING EVENT - SCIENCE, TECHNOLOLGY, ENGINEERING, & MATHEMATICS (STEM) - 125069