Employment
Closing Date: Open
Intelligence
Coordination Specialist
Salary: $24,000.00
This is a vacant position assigned to the
This position will support the BLOC / GC HIDTA enforcement
and intelligence efforts within the southeast
Applicants may be required to travel to the BLOC / GC HIDTA Watch Center at their own expense for an interview.
Position Summary:
This position is an advanced trainee Intelligence Coordination Specialist (ICS) assigned to the BLOC / GC HIDTA Watch Center. Intelligence Coordination Specialists employ specialized experience; training in enforcement data analysis; and a comprehensive knowledge of data available in national / international computerized enforcement information systems. This knowledge is applied when providing real-time tactical and operational assistance in support of ground, sea and air operations that are not limited to state or federal agencies or national boundaries.
The ICS will monitor real-time intelligence and existing computerized data pertaining to officer safety, suspected money laundering and narcotics violators, to provide the necessary information to ICE / HIDTA officers and authorized BLOC officers.
Major Duties and Responsibilities:
Receives classroom and on-the-job training on ICE
enforcement activities and the retrieval, analysis and potential uses for
enforcement data available through such local, state, regional, national and
international automated enforcement information systems such as TECS, LESC,
HIBIS, NCIC, NLETS, SAFETNet and local databases.
Performs other developmental assignments of similar
difficulty including details to enforcement and intelligence elements;
identifying areas where available information is not being fully utilized; and
participating with service personnel in network analysis projects.
Performs a variety of tasks, selected by the
supervisor or senior specialist, designed to enhance the employee’s overall
development. Such assignments may
include details to enforcement and intelligence elements; examining data files
to identify needed additions, deletions, corrections or other information
changes; conducting less complicated data searches and analyses for senior ICE
Enforcement Specialists; participating with service personnel in network
analysis projects and reviewing and updating operational instructions to
reflect changing mission support requirements.
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or
university.
Associate
Arts degree from an accredited community college with 2 years experience in
related field.
4
years full-time law enforcement or equivalent work experience may be
substituted for college degree.
Must
be able to obtain sensitive law enforcement security clearance.
Ability
to communicate effectively in written and verbal form.
Knowledge
of the objectives, overall design and operating principles of Federal, state
and local enforcement information systems sufficient to perform analysis and
fact-finding functions and carry-out developmental assignments.
Assignments
are made with general instructions as to what is to be done, time frames and
priorities. Specifications or plans are
provided. Where aspects of the work are
new or unusual, precedents or appropriate sources of information are
specified. The employee carries out the
projects independently but is expected to obtain advice from the supervisor or
a senior specialist on unanticipated problems.
Senior specialists monitor work in progress; review data developed for
agents and evaluate the employee’s work in terms of accuracy, timeliness and
compliance with standards.
Guidelines
include texts, published standard procedures, equipment manuals, precedents and
specifications. The employee uses
judgment in selecting among authorized methods and techniques. Senior specialists are consulted where
guidelines are inadequate or significant deviations are required.
Assignments
consist of various tasks involving different methods and procedures. The primary emphasis is on developing and
relating enforcement data. Established
techniques can usually be used. The
employee works from narrative requests that indicate enforcement objectives and
general nature of data required, thereby limiting the discernment of systems
interrelationships and use of analytical techniques.
The
work involves analyzing various conventional factors and conditions associated
with enforcement operations and the enforcement data available through Federal,
state and local enforcement information systems. Enforcement data provided by the employee is
used within and outside of ICE, both locally and nationally, and by other
enforcement agencies.
Contacts
are primarily with fellow Watch Center employees and with field agents of ICE,
DEA, USCG, DOD, FAA, FBI, ATF, IRS, HIDTA and other Federal, state, local law
enforcement agencies and other intelligence components in telephone contact
with the Watch Center.
Contacts
are primarily to determine information requirements and provide field agents
with needed enforcement data. The
employee occasionally represents the Watch Center at meetings and participates
in discussions of query procedures and the nature and extent of available
enforcement data.
The
work is sedentary and no special physical demands are required.
Work
is performed in a typical office environment.
Position
requires shift work, which covers 24 hour-a-day, 7 days-a-week rotating
schedules.
How to Apply:
Forward resumes via one of the following:
Fax: (228) 214-7097
Email: bloc@gchidta.org
Resumes should specifically address the items in this announcement.
Selections will be made without regard to race, gender or national origin.