Agency-wide Requirements
All applicants must be:
- U.S. citizens (dual U.S. citizens also eligible)
- At least 18 years of age
- Willing to move to the Washington, DC area
- Able to complete security and medical evaluations
- Registered for the Selective Service
About the Job
As a Data Lifecycle Specialist for CIA, you will focus on managing data and information, aimed at increasing discoverability, retrievability, and use; facilitating dissemination; ensuring the delivery of timely and relevant intelligence; and the review and release of information to the public. The work covers every aspect of the management lifecycles of information—both data and records. You will design search strategies, facilitate consumption and integration of data across a variety of data entities and digital systems, and provide guidance to users of information management systems on how to catalog, store, and maintain records and data, consistent with Federal Records Act and Executive order requirements. Data Lifecycle Specialists also review and analyze information to determine releasability, to include providing classification guidance to information owners and leveraging tools to review information for release. Work includes responsibility to:
As a Data Lifecycle Specialist for CIA, you will focus on managing data and information, aimed at increasing discoverability, retrievability, and use; facilitating dissemination; ensuring the delivery of timely and relevant intelligence; and the review and release of information to the public. The work covers every aspect of the management lifecycles of information—both data and records. You will design search strategies, facilitate consumption and integration of data across a variety of data entities and digital systems, and provide guidance to users of information management systems on how to catalog, store, and maintain records and data, consistent with Federal Records Act and Executive order requirements. Data Lifecycle Specialists also review and analyze information to determine releasability, to include providing classification guidance to information owners and leveraging tools to review information for release. Work includes responsibility to:
- Interpret and apply statutes, orders, and regulations governing Federal and Agency information and data, and provide guidance to audiences or customers of varying levels of expertise
- Formulate search strategies, identify data sources, and retrieve and organize digital information
- Consult on digital data curation and archiving processes, procedures, and policies
- Define and implement data standards and processes to support data exchange, sharing, exploitation, modeling, management, and/or production
- Analyze data collections to catalog and manage in a way which enhances discoverability and retrievability for appropriate dissemination of digital and hardcopy information
- Conduct information review and release activities to include review of information leveraging a variety of tools and technologies in support of the Freedom of Information Act, Privacy Act, and other laws, regulations, and Executive orders
- Identify and ensure proper handling of information about individuals, to include Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and data protected by the Privacy Act
Some travel may be required.
Who You’ll Work With
At the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), we recognize our Nation’s strength comes from the diversity of its people. People from a broad range of backgrounds and viewpoints work at CIA, and our diverse teams are the reason we can keep our country safe.
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What You’ll Get
Our benefits support every aspect of a working professional’s life, including health and wellness, time off, family, finances, and continuing education. Our programs include highly sought-after government health benefits, flexible schedules, sick leave, and childcare. In some cases, we also offer sign-on incentives and cover moving expenses if you relocate.
As a CIA employee, you’ll also get the satisfaction of knowing your work is part of something bigger than yourself. Our work is driven by one mission: to keep our Nation safe. Every day is an opportunity to enhance U.S. national security.
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Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in one of the following fields or related studies:
- Archives/Digitization Management
- Business Administration
- Information/Data/Knowledge Management
- International Affairs/Relations/Studies
- Library/Information Science
- Paralegal Studies
- Pre-Law
- Philosophy
- Public Administration
- At least a 3.0 GPA on a 4-point scale is preferred, but exceptions are made for extenuating circumstances
- Strong written and oral communication skills, and excellent presentation skills, with the ability to communicate technical subjects to non-technical audiences
- Superior ability to think critically and logically analyze, synthesize, and judge information, as well as the ability to review and incorporate multiple sources of information in performing assignments
- Ability to work within an ambiguous, evolving digital environment independently and as a member of a collaborative team
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build and sustain professional networks across organizational boundaries
- Ability to meet the minimum requirements for joining CIA, including U.S. citizenship and a background investigation
Desired Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in one of the following field or related studies:
- Archives or Records Management
- Digitization Preservation
- Business Administration
- History
- Information, Data, and/or Knowledge Management
- International Affairs/Relations/Studies
- Law
- Library/Information Science
- Museum Studies or Public History
- Paralegal Studies
- Philosophy
- Public Administration
- At least two (2) years’ experience in at least one of the following:
- Information, Data, and/or Knowledge Management
- Information science and/or librarianship
- Management of complex projects