PSYCHOLOGIST

Job ID

127289

Location

Maryland

Full/Part Time

Full-Time

Regular/Temporary

Regular

CONTACT INFORMATION

If you need technical assistance with your application, please contact our Service Desk at 1-855-363-4471.

For all other inquiries with your application, please submit a request to HROCRequestdodiis.mil.

WHO CAN This announcement is for external applicants (non-DIA permanent civilian employees) only. All external applicants, to include other agencies' current federal employees, DIA employees on a temporary/term appointment, DIA military and contractor personnel are eligible to apply if qualified for the position.

All Applicants must be U.S. citizens at the time of application. Applicants must meet the agency's conditions of employment, to include, but not limited to, satisfactory completion of an initial special background investigation and periodic reinvestigation, completion of any required medical examination, completion of any required personal interviews, favorable completion of any required initial or periodic polygraph examinations, completion of any required drug testing, satisfactory completion of a two-year Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System trial period, and completion of a civilian mobility agreement.

In accordance with section 9902(h) of title 5, United States Code, annuitants reemployed in the Department of Defense shall receive full annuity and salary upon appointment. They shall not be eligible for retirement contributions, participation in the Thrift Savings Plan, or a supplemental or redetermined annuity for the reemployment period. Discontinued service retirement annuitants (i.e., retired under section 8336(d)(1) or 8414(b)(1)(A) of title 5, United States Code) appointed to the Department of Defense may elect to be subject to retirement provisions of the new appointment as appropriate. (See DoD Instruction 1400.25, Volume 300, at .) If selected, based upon your reemployed annuitant status, you will be ineligible to compete for internal vacancies.

PROMOTION OPPORTUNITY

This position is a Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS) position in the Excepted Service under 10 U.S.C. 1601. Selectee(s) may be laterally reassigned, promoted, or asked to accept a voluntary change to the lower grade advertised in the vacancy announcement based on their current (or equivalent) grade and qualifications for the position.

CAREER FIELD DEFINITION

Officers in this Career Field provide services in the following four

Career Specialties:

Behavior Health and Research applies skills and knowledge in Applied Sciences, Research, and Advisory Services.

Equal Employment applies skills and knowledge in informal Complaints Counseling, Acceptance/ Dismissal of Formal Complaints, Case Management, EO/EEO Consulting, and Reasonable Accommodation.

Human Resources applies skills and knowledge in Civilian and Military Personnel in Talent Acquisition and Recruitment, HR Training and Development, Talent Management, Pay and Benefits Management, Employee Relations and Engagement, HR Legal and Regulatory Compliance, Strategic HR Planning, and HR Technology and Analytics.

Training and Education applies skills and knowledge in Instructional Design, Adult Learning Principles, Facilitation and Instruction Techniques, Learning Environments, Learning Technologies and Multimedia, Learning Analytics and Requirements Management.

CAREER SPECIALITY DEFINITION

Officers in this specialty provide an array of behavioral health or behavioral science support & services to individuals, work units, and/or the Agency at large. These services vary depending upon the focus of the work and involve professional psychological duties, such as applied services (e.g. counseling, psychoeducation, psychological evaluations, which rely on psychological test administration, scoring and interpretation, and/or psychological interviews), and research and advising duties. These services include, but are not limited to: administering psychological assessments (including scoring and interpretation of psychological tests) and conducting clinical interviews to determine suitability for employment, security clearance and fitness for duty; evaluating employee readiness for deployment, specialized training and overseas and/or special assignments; designing, developing, conducting and managing programs to insure and improve workforce resilience; conducting research; applying professional psychological research findings and expertise in support of the Agency in its mission.

POSITION SUMMARY

The incumbent serves as a senior Psychologist in the DIA community. The incumbent directs the planning, development, management, and evaluation of the program; provides advice and guidance to key officials on complex behavioral health, organizational psychology, and corporate culture issues, analyzes and assesses new legislation, regulations and policies to determine the impact on the programs; identifies the health education needs of the workforce; provides direct clinical services to the workforce, and represents the agency in inter-agency working groups.

POSITION DUTIES

• This position is located in College Park, MD and is with the Directorate for Mission Services/Office of Human Resources (MS/OHR). This position is responsible for performing the following duties:
• The primary duties are to lead the agency's assessment program while providing ancillary support to a spouse training program. This dual role requires strong leadership, interpersonal skills, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic, high-stakes environment. The incumbent could also be asked to perform the duties below.
• Directs the planning, development, management, and evaluation of a comprehensive workplace counseling and referral program for the entire workforce. Provides professional advice and guidance to key officials on complex psychology and work life issues that significant impact the agency. Serves on committees and panels, when required. Facilitates the development and implementation of policy and procedures.

Provides overall guidance on the preparation of statements of work, specification and contractor qualifications; and advises on contract negotiations, reviews proposed methodology, and monitors strategies for compliance with specifications and the analysis of results for reliability. Manages complex staff assignments that derived from new legislation, regulations, policies and procedures in the area of psychology. Analyzes and assesses the impact of the new changes on the programs, and makes recommendations to key officials.

Identifies health education needs of the workforce and prioritizes and coordinates delivery of a variety of training to be offered by the program. Monitors the training of the instructors. Directs the evaluation, revision and development of the metric databases and ensures analysis, trends, and forecasts are summarized and presented to management. Represents DIA in functional or multi-disciplinary or working forums on psychology throughout the Intelligence Community, conducting liaison with national-level, executive branch organizations.

Delivers evidenced-based behavioral health therapies, proficient in solution-focused counseling, provides guidance for employees navigating community services, proficient in developing and delivering evidenced based behavioral health training, develops and implements programs promoting individual and organizational resilience.

Performs other duties as assigned.

ASSESSMENT FACTORS

1. Actively, both internally and externally, promotes DIA's core values of teamwork, integrity, excellence, service, diversity, critical thinking, collaboration and information sharing through one's own behaviors and expectations for others.

2. Serves as a leader by developing and mentoring others within and outside the work unit.

3. Applies innovative approaches to obtain feedback to enhance skills and facilitate improvement in processes, products and services, while considering emerging organizational issues.

4. Proactively supports and champions team or group output to external stakeholders.

5. Develops and enhances collaborative partnerships with Agency leadership to drive efforts to identify or create strategies to address needs, challenges, or to advance corporate goals.

Basic Requirements

Degree:

major or equivalent in psychology for all specializations except clinical psychology and counseling psychology. These two specializations have additional educational requirements, as stated below:

• Clinical psychology: For positions at grades GS-11 and above, satisfactory completion of all the requirements for the doctoral degree (Ph.D. or equivalent) directly related to full professional work in clinical psychology is required.

• Counseling psychology: For positions at grades GS-9 and above, satisfactory completion of 2 full academic years of graduate study directly related to professional work in counseling psychology, or satisfactory completion in an accredited educational institution of all the requirements for a master's degree directly related to counseling psychology is required.

APPLICATIONS RECEIVED

Applications must be received by

MIDNIGHT

(Eastern Time) on the closing date of the announcement. All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement.

Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

WHO CAN Limit your resume to no more than two ( 2 ) pages. If more than two pages are submitted, only the first two pages will be reviewed to determine your eligibility and qualifications.

The following four narrative questions provide an opportunity for you to highlight your dedication to public service for the hiring manager and agency leadership (or designee(s)). While your responses are not required and will not be scored, we encourage you to thoughtfully address each question. Please provide a response of 200 words or less to each question. You will be asked to certify that you are using your own words and did not use a consultant or artificial intelligence (AI) such as a large language model (LLM) like ChatGPT or Copilot. (Please attach in application)

1. How has your commitment to the Constitution and the founding principles of the United States inspired you to pursue this role within the Federal government? Provide a concrete example from professional, academic, or personal experience.

2. In this role, how would you use your skills and experience to improve government efficiency and effectiveness? Provide specific examples where you improved processes, reduced costs, or improved outcomes.

3. How would you help advance the President's Executive Orders and policy priorities in this role? Identify one or two relevant Executive Orders or policy initiatives that are significant to you, and explain how you would help implement them if hired.

4. How has a strong work ethic contributed to your professional, academic or personal achievements? Provide one or two specific examples, and explain how those qualities would enable you to serve effectively in this position.

EVALUATION

DIA will evaluate your online application to ensure it demonstrates the knowledge, skills, abilities, work experience, and any mandatory education, certification, and/or license requirements, to successfully perform the duties of the advertised position. Failure to respond to the position-related assessment factors or to provide clear examples of claimed experience levels will preclude further consideration of your application.

Applicants must have directly applicable experience that demonstrates the possession of the knowledge, skills, abilities and competencies necessary for immediate success in the position. Qualifying experience may have been acquired in any public or private sector job, but will clearly demonstrate past experience in the application of the particular competencies/knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to successfully perform the duties of the position at the advertised grade. Such experience is typically in or directly related to the work of the position to be filled.

HIGHLY DESIRED ASSESSMENT FACTOR RESPONSES

Although not required, applicants are highly encouraged to submit responses to the highly desired assessment factors. DIA uses these factors to help identify and differentiate the best qualified applicants for the position.

For each of the preceding highly desired assessment factors (optional) select "Yes" or "No" from the drop-down menu as your response. Ensure your affirmative responses are supported in the appropriate section of your application.

VETERANS' PREFERENCE

DIA applies Veterans' Preference to preference eligible candidates as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 USC, in accordance with the procedures provided in DoD Instruction 1400.25, Volume 2005, "DCIPS Employment and Placement." If you are a veteran claiming veterans' preference, as defined by section 2108 of Title 5 U.S.C., you must provide acceptable documentation of your preference or appointment eligibility.

Acceptable documentation may be:

A copy of your DD-214, "Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty," which shows dates of service and discharge under honorable conditions;

A "certification" that is a written document from the armed forces that certifies the service member is expected to be discharged or released from active duty service in the armed forces under honorable conditions not later than 120 days after the date the certification is signed; OR

A Standard Form (SF-15 (PDF file)) ()), Application for 10-point Veterans' Preference.

If you are claiming 10 point preference, you will need to submit an (SF-15 (PDF file)) ()).

You may obtain a letter from the Department of Veterans Affairs reflecting your level of disability for preference eligibility by visiting a VA Regional Office, contacting a VA call center or online ().

FOREIGN AREA TOURS OF DUTY ELIGIBILITY

The availability and quality of medical and child care in foreign locations often differs from resources available in the United States. When considering a position overseas, applicants are highly encouraged to research medical care and child care resources available at the foreign location to ensure services are available and adequate to support the needs of themselves and their dependents. DIA employees applying for a position in a foreign area must be eligible for assignment to or within the foreign area as noted in DIAI 1404.008, Foreign Area Tours of Duty. With some exceptions, employees assigned to a foreign OCONUS location will be granted a 5-year overseas tour which will consist of an initial tour (generally 36 months) and an overseas tour extension up to 5 years OCONUS. Employees currently assigned to a foreign area are ineligible for consideration if selection will cause them to exceed the time limitation for foreign area service OR, conversely, the employee will not satisfactorily complete their period of obligated service and prescribed tour of duty (Initial/Renewal Agreement Travel). More than one permanent change of station move within a 12 month period is not considered to be in the interest of the government for the purposes of relocation at Government expense.

DUTY AT OTHER LOCATIONS

May be required to perform duty at other operating locations.

DEPLOYMENT/MOBILITY STATEMENT

All DIA employees are subject to world-wide deployment to crisis situations and are subject to geographic relocation in accordance with agency guidelines.

SHIFT WORK

Availability for shift work, extended hours, and travel may be required for this position.

RELOCATION COSTS

Relocation expenses in connection with a permanent change of station may be authorized in accordance with the Joint Travel Regulations and at agency discretion.

DIA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

DIA employees and applicants for employment are protected by federal laws, from discrimination. Employees and applicants are also protected against retaliation. Consistent with federal laws, acts of retaliation against an employee who engages in a protected activity, whistle blowing, or the exercise of any appeal or grievance right provided by law, will not be tolerated.

REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION

DIA provides reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities, as appropriate. Please contact our Human Resources Operations Center (HROC) at 202-231-4762 or

DSN 428-4762

if you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process.

DIRECT DEPOSIT

All DIA employees must participate in the DoD Direct Deposit/Electronic Fund Transfer

of Pay (DD/EFT) Program, with net pay deposited directly into the employee's account of choice at his/hers designated financial institution.

NATIONAL SECURITY EDUCATION PROGRAM SERVICE REQUIREMENTS

(NSEP)

Positions within the agency generally satisfy NSEP service requirements for David L. Boren scholars and fellows. Contact the National Security Board for further details on service requirements ().

CURRENT FEDERAL EMPLOYEES

Current Federal employees (Non-DIA) must also submit a copy of the SF-50, notification of personnel action, that documents their appointment to or promotion to the highest grade held.

OTHER INFORMATION

This announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies during the next six months.

DoDI 1402.01, "Employment of Retired Members of the Armed Forces," dated September 9, 2007 restricts the appointment of retired military service members within 180 days of their retirement. All applicants selected from this announcement must be ready to report for duty within 30 days of receiving DIA's final employment offer, or the Agency may rescind its offer.

Selectee could be eligible for noncompetitive conversion to a permanent appointment at a later date, in the same grade for which they are hired, if they have completed at least two years of continuous service with at least a "successful" overall evaluation of record.

SUPERVISORY

Every supervisor in the executive branch has a heightened personal responsibility for advancing government ethics. It is imperative that supervisors serve as models of ethical behavior for subordinates. Supervisors have a responsibility to help ensure that subordinates are aware of their ethical obligations under the Standards of Conduct and that subordinates know how to contact agency ethics officials. Supervisors are also responsible for working with agency ethics officials to help resolve conflicts of interest and enforce government ethics laws and regulations, including those requiring certain employees to file financial disclosure reports. In addition, supervisors are responsible, when requested, for assisting agency ethics officials in evaluating potential conflicts of interest and identifying positions subject to financial disclosure requirements. All attorneys in DIA Office of the General Counsel are designated agency ethics officials. If you have any questions about these requirements, or any government ethics issue, you should contact DIA Office of the General Counsel at DIAOGCEthicsProgrammdodiis.mil.

You are also required to review the 14 General Principles of Ethical Conduct. These principles can be found at:

/web/ogc.nsf/resources/14+general+principles+card

NON SUPERVISORY

DIA is committed to maintaining an ethical culture and upholding the high standards for ethical government conduct. As a DIA Employee, you will be subject to the Standards of Ethical Conduct for Employees of the Executive Branch as well as the criminal conflict of interest statutes. As a new Government employee, or as a new employee to this Agency, you will be required to receive initial ethics orientation within 3 months of appointment. If you have any questions about these requirements, or any government ethics issue, you should contact DIA Office of the General Counsel at DIAOGCEthicsProgrammdodiis.mil.

THE EXCEPTIONAL FAMILY MEMBER PROGRAM

Applicants with family members who have special needs, as defined by DoD Instruction 1315.19, "The Exceptional Family Member Program (EFMP)", are encouraged to review Sections 5.2 and 5.3 for information on the requirements of this instruction related applicants for employment with DIA. The availability of medical care and specialized educational requirements for family members with special needs will be determined during the Permanent Change of Station (PCS) medical screening process.

SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS

DIA only accepts Form DD-214, SF-50, Curriculum Vitae, Transcripts or others as requested in the Job Opening description details. Do not include any PII (personally identifiable information) in your attachment.

Please note the following when adding your attachments to your applicant profile:

Attachments must be less than 5 MB in size and one of the following file types: doc, docx, gif, jpeg, jpg, pdf and txt.

Limit your resume to no more than two ( 2 ) pages. If more than two pages are submitted, only the first two pages will be reviewed to determine your eligibility and qualifications.

Once an attachment is added to a profile, it cannot be viewed or edited by the applicant. The applicant can go to the My Activities page of their profile to see a record of documents previously submitted.