Space MASINT Outreach and Integration Specialist

Summary

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Duties

The United States Space Force (USSF) National Space Intelligence Center (NSIC) 4th Intelligence Analysis Squadron at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio is searching for a Space MASINT Outreach and Integration Specialist, NSIC/4 IAS/INZ(GG-0132-13). This position is covered by the Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel Systems (DCIPS). For additional information about DCIPS, click here: https://dcips.defense.gov/ Description: The 4th Intelligence Analysis Squadron at NSIC is seeking a collaborative Space MASINT Outreach and Integration Specialist to drive strategic connections between the Space MASINT Flight and its expanding customer base. In this role, you will spearhead external engagements by delivering tailored briefings, showcasing the flight's cutting-edge capabilities, and align stakeholders to critical technical tools for their mission needs. You will direct, coordinate, track, and manage allied, contractor, and commercial programs to further Space MASINT tradecraft and capabilities. Operating with significant autonomy, your day-to-day focus will center on strategic customer engagement, briefing preparation, and capability advocacy. By serving as an active bridge between internal technical specialists and customer communities, you will communicate data format needs and data distribution pathways during the new sensor development requirements process, supporting NSIC's Space MASINT enterprise architecture and driving the growth of the flight's capabilities across the space intelligence community. The ideal candidate will hold a bachelor's degree in a relevant field from an accredited institution or an equivalent level of professional experience, with a strong background in technical coordination, executive briefing, and intelligence integration. Candidates should possess at least five to seven years of experience within the intelligence community with demonstrated expertise in the space domain or MASINT disciplines, and a advanced grasp of space surveillance concepts, sensor capabilities (radar, optical, infrared), and data integration. The successful candidate must be a confident communicator with experience developing and delivering technical briefings to diverse audiences, including operational customers, external mission partners, and leadership. Key to this role is the ability to translate complex Space MASINT concepts into actionable strategic narratives, build constructive and lasting relationships with customer organizations, and advocate for flight capabilities across the broader defense enterprise. Key Skills and Abilities: 1. Knowledge of the full range of intelligence research, processing, and exploitation methods, techniques, and practices using multi-source intelligence information to capture and report intelligence information in a usable form that directly or indirectly affects national security; interprets policy and commits resources impacting intelligence capabilities. 2. Knowledge of advanced USAF and national ISR processing and exploitation, PED capabilities, systems, and multi-source intelligence production policies to process and exploit complex information/situations attained from multiple sources. 3. Knowledge of the national intelligence community, Joint, DoD structure, organizations, mission/functions, inter relationships, and operations. 4. Skill in conducting unbiased complex research, identifying appropriate available systems/data sources, and producing processing and exploitation requirement assessments that answer specific tasks to link and leverage agency capabilities in support of consumers, customers, and clients. 5. Skill in communicating effectively with others both orally and in writing, in working out solutions to problems or questions related to the work, writing clear and concise intelligence products, and delivering written and/or verbal presentations to senior level audiences for decision-making purposes. 6. Ability to maintain control of classified material, quickly assimilate disparate data, render knowledgeable and accurate assessments of the implication of such data, and make decisions, estimates, and recommendations under conditions of urgency and pressure based on mature judgment and experience and present and/or defend a position effectively.

Qualifications and evaluation

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs): Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies as related to the series and grade of the position being filled. Final qualifications determinations will be assessed based on OPM's General Schedule Qualifications Standards found here: Interviews: You will be contacted by e-mail and/or telephone if your application is identified as qualifying for a position being filled. An interview may be conducted. If interviewed, you will be asked to address the same knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies used to initially qualify your application for the position.

How to apply

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Required documents

Resume: You must submit a resume that may NOT exceed two pages, and the font size should not be smaller than 10 pts. You will not be considered for this vacancy if your resume exceeds two pages or is illegible/unreadable. Do NOT include photographs, inappropriate material, inappropriate content, nor personal information such as age, gender, religion, social security number, etc., on your resume. If the resume you submit contains such information you will not be considered for this vacancy. Your resume must provide: Personal information - your full name, email and mailing addresses, phone number Education information - the name of the school and the dates you attended Work experience - paid and unpaid work with the following information: Job title Detailed duties and accomplishments Employer's name and address Supervisor's name and phone number Starting and ending dates (If actual dates are not known, provide your best-estimated timeframes.) Hours per week Salary, if applicable Other qualifications - skills, certifications/licenses, honors, awards, special accomplishments, and job-related training courses College Transcripts (if applicable): Please see the Education section of this announcement for detailed information about transcripts.

Additional information

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