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INVESTIGATIVE ANALYST
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Department of Homeland Security

Overview

NSEP Exclusive

Open & Closing Dates
06/16/2025 to 07/01/2025

Salary
$61,111 - $99,314

Work Schedule
Full-Time

Promotion Potential
GS9

Appointment Type
Other

Location

City
Location Negotiable after Selection

State
DC Metro Area

Duties

Summary
HSI Intelligence's primary mission is to collect, produce, and share timely, comprehensive and accurate criminal intelligence analysis that enables criminal investigators to identify, prioritize, investigate, disrupt and dismantle terrorist, transnational and other criminal organizations that threaten or seek to exploit the customs and immigration laws of the United States. The incumbent is responsible for criminal analysis and intelligence work in support of one or more geographical and/or functional areas, such as multiple priority investigative programs for a Special Agent in Charge (SAC) field office, Headquarters, special project/assignment, and/or, one or more of HSI Intel identified Career Specialization Tracks.

Location statement:

While the location in this announcement is identified as "location negotiable after selection," you have the opportunity to identify two (2) geographic preferences in your application. Your preference locations are NOT guaranteed. The duty location extended at the final job offer will be based on the needs of the agency and availability of positions and funding. Upon final job offer you may be offered a duty location that is not within your geographic preference. You must be willing to accept any duty location that falls within the area of responsibility (AOR) of one of the Special Agent in Charge (SAC) offices listed in this vacancy announcement. For example, if offered SAC San Francisco, you may be offered a final duty location of any office that falls within that AOR such as the Bakersfield, CA or Fresno, CA. Selections may occur within the SAC Office Area of Responsibility (AOR) of the preferred duty station; at any duty location within an AOR based on operational and agency needs or later as additional vacancies become available.

Available locations are: Huntsville, AL, Williston, VT, and all SAC offices for Atlanta, GA, Arizona, Baltimore, MD, Buffalo, NY, Charlotte, NC, Chicago, IL, Dallas, TX, Denver, CO, Detroit, MI, El Paso, TX, Honolulu, HI, Houston, TX, Kansas City, MO, Las Vegas, NV, Los Angeles, CA Miami, FL, Nashville, TN, Newark, NJ, New England, New Orleans, LA, New York, NY, Philadelphia, PA, San Antonio, TX, San Diego, CA, San Juan, PR, San Francisco, CA, Seattle WA, St. Paul, MN, Tampa, FL, and Washington, D.C.

Responsibilities
This announcement will be used to fill GS-1805 Investigative Analyst (Criminal Analyst) positions within the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations, Office of Intelligence. As an Investigative Analyst, at the full performance level (GS-13), you will perform the following duties:

• Support law enforcement operations and contribute to strategies to protect the homeland from criminals;

• Analyze and report on criminals, criminal conspiracies, and criminal networks;

• Apply all-source research, collections, and analysis to advance complex criminal investigations by illuminating criminal networks;

• Collaborate with fellow criminal analysts, criminal investigators, and inter-agency partners to disrupt and dismantle criminal networks;

• Mentor lower-grade criminal analysts on critical research, collections, and analytical processes and procedures; and

• Teach and enhance the Framework for Criminal Analysis.

Requirements

Conditions of Employment
Training requirement:

You will be required to complete the Homeland Security Investigations Criminal Analyst Training (HSICAT), which is hosted by HSI Office of Intelligence. The course is designed for ICE Criminal Analysts (CAs), providing them with the basic skills necessary to be an effective and successful CA while supporting DHS and ICE missions. This agency specific CA training must be completed according to the standards of HSI Office of Intelligence. Failure to do so will be grounds for mandatory removal from position. Such failure will result in either reassignment to a different position, demotion, or separation by appropriate procedures.

Qualifications
Please limit your resume to 5 pages. If more than 5 pages are submitted, only the first 5 pages will be reviewed to determine your eligibility/qualifications.

IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE.

Do not copy and paste the duties, specialized experience, or occupational assessment questionnaire from this announcement into your resume as that will not be considered a demonstration of your qualifications for this position.

Experience: One (1) year of specialized experience at the GS-07 grade level or equivalent performing the following duties:

• Conducted analysis of crime (crime analysis/analytics), criminals, criminal conspiracies, or criminal networks in direct support of civilian law enforcement criminal investigator or police detectives, that directly led to a criminal arrest, indictment, or other investigative action.

• Researching, compiling, and summarizing information and data, and drafting reports of analysis under the guidance and instruction of a higher-grade Investigative Analyst (Criminal Analyst) or equivalent;

• Learning to research and draft graphics, charts, tables, matrices, maps, infographics and other illustrative devices;

• Developing and applying knowledge of a broad variety of instructional materials, guides, and manuals to support collection and analysis of criminal intelligence information; and

• Developing proficiency with law enforcement indices and/or Internet-based open source, deep web, social media, and darknet sources of publicly available information.

OR

Education: A master's or equivalent graduate degree, two full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree, a L.L.B/J.D., if related. Graduate level education must have been from an accredited college or university and must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work.

OR

Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of successfully completed post-high school education and experience. This will be calculated using your resume and unofficial transcripts or a list of courses/course hours submitted with your application. One year of full-time graduate education is considered to be the number of credit hours that the school attended has determined to represent 1 year of full-time study. If that information cannot be obtained from the school, 18 semester hours satisfies the 1 year of full-time study requirement.

Qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement. Qualification claims will be subject to verification.

National Service Experience (i.e., volunteer experience): Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Current or Former Political Appointees: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office.

The Department of Homeland Security encourages persons with disabilities to apply, to include persons with intellectual, severe physical or psychiatric disabilities, as defined by 5 CFR 213.3102(u), and/or Disabled Veterans with a compensable service-connected disability of 30 percent or more as defined by 5 CFR 315.707. Veterans, Peace Corps, VISTA volunteers, and persons with disabilities possess a wealth of unique talents, experiences, and competencies that can be invaluable to the DHS mission. If you are a member of one of these groups, you may not have to compete with the public for federal jobs. To determine your eligibility for non-competitive appointment and to understand the required documentation, click on the links above or contact the Servicing Human Resources Office listed at the bottom of this announcement.

Security Clearance

Required
Top Secret
Must be able to obtain a Top Secret or Secret clearance, dependent on the location.

Required Application Materials

Resume, Academic Transcripts, DD-214 (veterans or active duty military only), SF-50 (current or former federal employees only), NSEP Letter of Certification

Application Instructions

Your application is due by 11:59 PM Eastern Time on the application close date indicated above. Failure to follow the application instructions may result in rejection of your application.

Cover letters should be tailored to the position and generically addressed to the division mentioned above.

Resume and Supporting Materials

You will need to submit your application through the vacancy posting on the NSEPnet Job Board. Please upload each of the required documents in the appropriate location. Files should be in Word, Excel, PDF, Text or Html formats only. When naming each file, please follow the following naming convention:

Document Type_Last Name, First Name

For example, the applicant John Smith would submit a resume named “Resume_Smith, John”.

To access the NSEPnet Job Board, you will need to login to https://www.nsepnet.org. The link to NSEPnet Job Board is at the top of the page under the “Job Search” tab. Please select the position you are interested in, read over the application instructions carefully, and upload all required documents.

If you cannot login or do not remember your login credentials, please use the Forgot Username tool at https://nsepnet.org/ForgotUsername.aspx or the Forgot Password tool at https://nsepnet.org/ForgotPassword.aspx.

SF-50 and DD-214

If you are a current or former federal employee, you will need to include your SF-50 (or similar document proving federal employment) in your application. If you are a veteran or active duty member of the U.S. military, you will need to include a DD-214 in your application.

Letter of Certification

You will need to request a Letter of Certification for this exclusive position. To request a Letter of Certification from the NSEPnet home page, hover over the blue “Request a Letter” option at the top of the page and click on “Certification Letter” from the drop-down options. Requests for Letters of Certification are generally processed within 1-2 business days.

HIRING AUTHORITY

The Department of Homeland Security will utilize the Schedule A (r) and/or NDAA’13 hiring authorities afforded to all NSEP award recipients with outstanding service requirements to make appointments to this position in the excepted service. NSEP award recipients who have already completed their service requirement to NSEP in full are not eligible to apply.

Additional Notes

This opportunity is only open to NSEP award recipients who have not yet fulfilled their service requirement to NSEP in full. If you have completed work which may fulfill part or all of your service under the terms of your Service Agreement with NSEP, please submit a Service Agreement Report (SAR) requesting service credit for that work as soon as possible. Feel free to reach out to the NSEP Service Team at nsep@nsep.gov if you have any questions or concerns.

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