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Our Agency’s hiring needs change to keep pace with the dynamic national security landscape.
The Stokes Undergraduate Scholarship Program is an internship and financial needs-based scholarship to help undergraduates acquire CIA mission-critical skills while completing their degree program.
- Internship
- Starting salary: $36,145 - $48,155
- At least 18 years of age by 15 September of this year
Open Source Targeters conduct enhanced or specialized research and analysis, using publicly available information leveraging advanced tools, datasets and methodologies to advance CIA’s mission.
- Full-Time
- $69,287 - $122,459*
- *Higher starting salary possible depending on experience level
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Foreign Language Bonus Eligible
Foreign Language Instructors provide CIA officers with the foreign language skills and cross-cultural savviness needed to live and work abroad. They also conduct regular language proficiency testing.
- Full time
- Starting salary: $78,686 - $122,459
- Bachelor’s degree
- Foreign language bonus eligible
Targeting Officers identify the people, relationships, and organizations with access to information needed to find opportunities to disrupt threats to U.S. interests.
- Full time
- Starting salary: $67,122 - $102,166*
- *Higher starting salary possible depending on experience level
- Bachelor's degree
- Foreign language bonus eligible
- Opportunities for foreign travel are possible
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