Position Summary:
Resource Analysts strategically plan, develop, analyze, and prioritize internal program budgets in support of CIA and Intelligence Community mission objectives.
Key Responsibilities:
Resource Analysts tee up internal business decisions, develop and implement program analysis methodologies to better evaluate mission impact, formulate and justify CIA’s budget requests, assess key expenditure areas to identify efficiencies and adjust priorities, oversee operating year spending, and drive year-round strategic resource planning to inform decision making and convey mission impact.
CIA expects its officers to operate as a team and inclusively leverage expertise to accomplish mission. Therefore, Resource Analysts work closely not only within their assigned component but also with stakeholders and decision makers across CIA, the Intelligence Community, the White House, and Congress.
You will be introduced to the CIA through embedded assignments with mission managers to help you acclimate to the resource analyst profession, leveraging any professional expertise you developed prior to starting your CIA career. Together with the specialized training intended to build your CIA resource analysis tradecraft, these assignments will help forge a strong understanding of the mission impacts underpinning CIA’s tactical budget formulation and its more strategic, out-year resource planning. Successively more complex assignments in a variety of mission areas will build your acumen as a well-rounded intelligence officer and resource management professional.
Required Education & Experience:
- Strong critical thinking and analytic skills.
- Ability to explain complex technical program issues to non-technical customers, often on short notice.
- Ability to meet the minimum requirements for joining CIA, including U.S. citizenship and a background investigation.
- Strong initiative.
- You must successfully complete a thorough medical and psychological exam, a polygraph interview, and a comprehensive background investigation.
- You must be willing to move to the Washington, DC, area.
- At least a 3.0 GPA on a 4-point scale preferred, but exceptions may be made for extenuating circumstances.
- Excellent organizational and time management skills.
- You must be a U.S. citizen and at least 18 years of age (dual-national U.S. citizens are eligible).
- Attention to detail.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Excellent writing and presentation skills.
- Prior experience as a public sector budget, program, or resource analyst.
- Comfortable working both independently and on teams.
- You must apply online, while in the United States.