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State of Colorado All Threats Intelligence Analyst in Lakewood, Colorado
All Threats Intelligence Analyst
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All Threats Intelligence Analyst
Salary
$57,708.00 - $92,340.00 Annually
Location
Lakewood, CO
Job Type
Full Time
Job Number
RAA DHSEM 10770 092024
Department
Department of Public Safety
Division
Homeland Security and Emergency Management
Opening Date
10/02/2024
Closing Date
10/11/2024 5:00 PM Mountain
FLSA
Determined by Position
Type of Announcement
This position is open only to Colorado state residents.
Primary Physical Work Address
Lakewood, CO
FLSA Status
Exempt; position is not eligible for overtime compensation.
Department Contact Information
Leticia Tavarez leticia.tavarez@state.co.us 720-471-9883
Salary Note
Although the full salary range for this position is provided, appointments are typically made at or near the range minimum.
How To Apply
Please submit an online application for this position at https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/colorado. Reach out to the Department Contact to apply using a paper application, including any supplemental questions. Failure to submit a complete and timely application may result in the rejection of your application. Applicants are responsible for ensuring that application materials are received by the appropriate Human Resources office before the closing date and time listed.
Description
Benefits
Questions
Department Information
This position is open only to Colorado state residents.
This recruitment may be used to fill other similar positions within the Colorado Department of Public Safety in the next 12 months .
CDPS is an equal opportunity employer. See ourEEOD Utilization Report (2020) (https://drive.google.com/file/d/11XM6_piWxOnO7rfbG1EDPL2vHeCcVH36/view?usp=sharing)
Our Mission - Engaged employees working together to safeguard lives and to provide diverse public safety services to local communities.
Our Vision - Creating safer and more resilient communities across Colorado.
Our Core Values – Unity, Honor, Service
CDPS commits to cultivating an equitable, diverse, and inclusive work environment. We ensure that we recruit, retain, and promote engaged employees. Our approach to diversity is simple - it's about embracing everyone! We strive to build and nurture a culture where inclusiveness is a reflex, not an initiative. Our strength is our promise to be inclusive with intentional strategies to welcome and uplift our employees to thrive - while building a more equitable workplace.
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At CDPS we nurture an employee-centric centric culture driven by our commitment of creating a safer Colorado, an inclusive workplace where everyone can be their own authentic self. We model a culture of collaboration, support and growth to our employees. Our culture has public service focus, and we strive to provide innovative solutions and services to our fellow Coloradans!
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Careers with a purpose:
If you are passionate about public safety service, and are eager to dedicate your career to serving Coloradans, this is the organization you want to join!
We are committed to providing public safety services to our fellow Coloradans in their times of greater needs such as: safety on our roads, preparing and mitigating environmental disasters, disaster recovery, combating crime, school safety, and victim recovery.
You’ll have the opportunity to challenge yourself and acquire new capabilities to build a rewarding and fulfilling career while making a difference in our community!
When you join CDPS, you are joining a team of exceptional individuals and together you will be inspired, motivated and supported to become the best you can be.
Unmatched Benefits:
We highly value work life balance and offer excellent work-life programs, training and enriching professional development opportunities and a wide range of benefits.
Medical and dental options are available for permanent employees and their dependents. We also offer short and long-term disability coverage, and life insurance that includes legal resources and discounts.
State contribution into Health Savings Account when enrolled in HDHP.
Job protected medical leave under the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) (https://dhr.colorado.gov/state-employees/time-off-leave/family-medical-leave-act-fmla) and the State of Colorado Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program (FAMLI) (https://famli.colorado.gov/) .
Paid medical leave benefits provided by the State of Colorado.
Eligibility for hybrid or other flexible work arrangements based on the nature of the role.
We offer unmatched retirement benefits including mandatory PERA Defined Benefit Plan or PERA Defined Contribution Plan, plus optional 401K and 457 plans. For information on mandatory employee salary deferral (in lieu of contribution to Social Security), visit Colorado PERA (https://www.copera.org/member-contribution-rates) for details.
CDPS provides generous time off including 11 paid holidays annually and accrued annual and sick leave (https://dhr.colorado.gov/state-employees/time-off-leave) and four annual wellness days.
The Employee Assistance Program (C-SEAP) is available in every region of the state. It is our effort to support the well-being of employees and the workplace. EAPs provide short-term counseling, referrals and resources, as well as training and organizational development services.
Additional benefits offered include tuition reimbursement and reduced college tuition at CSU Global and DeVry University.
Credit Union of Colorado (https://www.cuofco.org/credit-union-colorado-membership-eligibility) membership eligibility.
To learn more about State of Colorado Benefits, please visitState of Colorado Benefits (https://dhr.colorado.gov/state-employees/state-of-colorado-employee-benefits)
Description of Job
DIVISION OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
This position is located within the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (DHSEM). The Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (DHSEM) is a dynamic and diverse team that is committed to developing, administering and coordinating comprehensive and integrated statewide emergency management and homeland security programs. The Division’s work ensures the safety and security of Colorado and its infrastructure through unity of effort with local, tribal, state, federal, private, and nongovernmental partners.
Our Mission:To lead and support Colorado's effort to prevent, protect, mitigate, respond to and recover from all-hazards events.
Our Vision:A prepared, safe and resilient Colorado!
Our Core Values:Service, Teamwork, Respect, Integrity, Vision and Excellence.
Our Guiding Principles:Results-Focused, Innovative, Service-Oriented and Employee-Centric.
Our mission is accomplished through a comprehensive and coordinated program of mitigating hazards, preparing for emergencies, preventing terrorist attacks and other criminal activity, coordinating resources for response to a disaster and supporting subsequent recovery efforts. The division also serves as the conduit for state and federal funding to prepare for and recover from all hazard events. The division accomplishes its mission through the following offices:
Director's Office
Office of Emergency Management
Office of Grants Management (Formerly Office of Preparedness)
Office of Security and Prevention (CIAC)
Office of Public Safety Communications (OPSC).
ABOUT THE WORK UNIT
The Watch Center component operates 24/7 and supports CDPS leadership as well as other partners with overall situational awareness and real time information collection, dissemination and analysis during a critical incident affecting Colorado and is the main point of intake and notification of incidents, and emerging threats for the Department, and petitions for Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPO). The goal is to maintain situational awareness of any event or incident—either natural or man-made—that may require a state response or be of interest to state-level leadership. Assigned analysts also provide tactical support for local partners upon request.
Safe2Tell Colorado is a school safety prevention program administered by the Colorado Attorney General's Office. Safe2Tell tips are received from across Colorado and sometimes the nation. Tips are received via phone, web, or mobile app and are anonymous. Anonymity of the tipster is protected by statute. The tips are disseminated to schools and law enforcement by CDPS DHSEM Analysts. Safe2Tell operations are 24/7.
All Threats Intelligence Unit: is responsible for the receipt, review, analysis and dissemination of threat and hazard related information and intelligence. The unit produces reports for law enforcement and non-law enforcement personnel for the purpose of information sharing on criminal acts, acts of terrorism or terrorism threats.
The Colorado Preventing Targeted Violence (CO-PTV) Program is a multidisciplinary public health informed approach to targeted violence prevention that works to equip communities with the tools to prevent targeted violence through awareness and education, building trusted partnership, and providing continued support to assist in local prevention efforts.
The infrastructure protection and cyber-security programs promote greater resiliency of government, non-government, and private-sector facilities, systems, assets, and employees through an array of prevention, protection, mitigation, response and recovery strategies designed to deter, delay, detect and defend against human threats and technological hazards, while reducing the impact of natural hazards. The programs also provide a range of technical assistance to enhance their security posture and preparedness against all-hazards. Through the development and maintaining of public-private partnerships and ongoing support of state government agencies, the programs aims to expand information sharing opportunities, enhance data collection and threat reporting to produce actionable intelligence, provide training and awareness, and adopt a layered, defense-in-depth strategy to assure the resiliency of Colorado communities and Colorado state government infrastructure. Under the CIAC’s Infrastructure Protection program, The Whole of State initiative for critical infrastructure allows the State of Colorado to actively maintain an inventory of critical infrastructure nodes and facilities in the state, and maintain a database of this inventory that is utilized by numerous emergency management officials during significant emergency events. Cybersecurity analysts support Colorado’s Whole of State cybersecurity effort to make Colorado the most resilient state against cyber-attacks across several areas of focus. Specifically, the Cyber Team works to identify and investigate emergency threats and vulnerabilities to the SLTT, critical infrastructure and private sector communities; provides timely, accurate, and actionable information; supports the sharing of best practices within and between sectors with regards to enhancing cyber protections; and offers technical assistance and coordination support specific to cyber assessment support, incident response support, and cyber program maturity growth.
ABOUT THE POSITION
This position serves as an Intelligence Analyst in the Colorado Information Analysis Center. This position is assigned to the All Threats Intelligence Unit and provides investigative support to CDPS policy makers as well as local, state and federal partners. The position accesses and analyzes information gathered from databases and shared by local, state, Tribal, federal and private sector partners to develop finished intelligence reports that are provided to Federal, State, and Local Public Safety entities. The position creates intelligence products that address a broad spectrum of issues in a clear, concise and logical manner. This analyst position is to establish good working relationships with partners to support this information sharing and analysis process. Thus, the position is expected to attend and participate in relevant meetings to provide technical assistance, situation awareness/information sharing and foster partnerships. This may include giving intelligence briefings, trainings and presentations and attending meetings. This information may be law enforcement sensitive or classified and may be in multiple forms. The Intelligence Analyst be required to have critical thinking capabilities and is responsible for determining the appropriate level and area of notification for situational awareness. The position will also make recommendations regarding the dissemination of intelligence information. This analyst position is to comply with State and Federal laws, regulations, executive orders and directives promulgated by the State of Colorado and the US Department of Homeland Security to achieve the goals and objectives of this state fusion center. They may assist in the training of new Intelligence Analysts and Interns as it relates to platforms utilized on a regular basis and will provide input to leadership in policy and procedure manual updates.
Duties include (but are not limited to):
Intelligence Analysis
Implements and performs the tasks of the CIAC intelligence analyst for gathering and analyzing data, developing intelligence products and disseminating information or products to appropriate partners, as assigned. The assignments will pertain to the CIAC Standard Information Needs (SIN), focused on violent crimes/violent gangs, organized crime, Division of Homeland Security and or Office of Prevention and Security priorities (including emergency response activities related to a natural or man-made disaster), and special reports. The tasks of this position may involve collaboration with other analysts or investigators, and with external partnering agencies. These tasks will include long-term analytical or investigative projects as a component of the job assignment. Utilizes personal knowledge and skills to determine the best approach for gathering, analyzing and developing products to disseminate internally or to partners. This includes determining the variables to track for each assigned case or project and creating databases that support the analytical process to develop conclusions and hypotheses on the potential impact of an unfolding event or project findings. Provides immediate synopsis and analysis to CIAC staff and internal and external partners regarding unfolding events. Provides immediate assessments to support the Department of Public Safety partners for unfolding events. Determines possible threat trends impacting Colorado and identifies potential topics for analytic production. This position is required to access classified and unclassified databases to enter data, review existing information and support criminal investigations. This position is required to gather criminal case information from partner agencies and will occasionally travel to partner agency jurisdictions. This position may be assigned to assist task force’s or special investigations upon request
Outreach
Attends and participates in meetings, trainings and exercises, and discussions related to unfolding events, performing within the scope of the analyst’s role or approved designated function for the activity. Participates in meetings with CIAC partners for the purpose of collaborative products, intelligence support, and information exchange related to the center’s priorities and tasks. The priorities and tasks involve the CIAC’s SINs, CIKR protection, threat assessments or reviews, and support to a partner agency for criminal or intelligence analysis. Specifically, prioritize the exchange of information specific to violent crimes, violent gangs (street, prison, outlaw motorcycle), organized crime, and pattern crimes (ex: bank robbery). This analyst establishes contacts and relationships with internal and external partners.
Other Duties as Assigned (After Hours/Event and Incident Support)
Performs the tasks assigned by CIAC Leadership. This function includes the ability to handle developing critical incidents, receiving tips and leads related to credible threats and/or terrorism by phone, email, or website submission, and providing information to partner agencies efficiently and without delay. Ensures the Production Spreadsheet and HSIN Intelligence Portal have been updated appropriately. Provides mobile analytics (off-site analytical assistance) to requesting agencies for any pro-longed case investigation/case support or active incident (not including special event support).
Minimum Qualifications, Substitutions, Conditions of Employment & Appeal Rights
To be considered for this position, you must meet the following criteria for consideration.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS (EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE)
Experience:
Six (6) years of relevant experience in an occupation related to the work assigned
to this position with activities that include analyzing, developing intelligence reports and screening protocols.
OR
Education and Experience:
A combination of related education and/or relevant experience in an occupation
related to the work assigned with activities that include analyzing, developing intelligence reports and screening protocols equal to six (6) years.
REQUIRED COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS
Must possess a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
Demonstrated strong critical thinking skills.
Ability to make independent decisions within a broad procedural framework.
Ability to multi-task and meet short-term deadlines.
Strong organizational and follow up skills.
Self-sufficient, highly motivated with desire to learn new skills.
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced work environment with consistency and reliability
Availability nights and weekends, holidays and has a rotating supervisory on-call schedule.
Understanding of the intelligence cycle
Preferred qualifications (not required)
Statistical and/or report writing experience.
E xperience writing intelligence products.
Previous experience working in violent crimes/gangs or organized crime
Previous Task Force experience
Experience Briefing to leadership and/or large groups
CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
Requires successful completion of an extensive background investigation including reference checks, a polygraph examination, and fingerprint based criminal background check.
This position is required to obtain, hold, and maintain a U.S. Department of Homeland Security ‘Secret’ clearance upon hire.
On-Call is incident specific. High profile critical incident, criminal/terrorism cases or command post assignments necessitate duties that may occur outside normal business hours.
Must be a resident of Colorado.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
Hybrid schedule
Mon - Fri (5-8 hour days) 3 days in office, 2 days remote
APPEAL RIGHTS
If you receive notice that you have been eliminated from consideration for the position, you may protest the action by filing an appeal with the State Personnel Board/State Personnel Director within 10 days from the date you receive notice of the elimination. Also, if you wish to challenge the selection and comparative analysis process, you may file an appeal with the State Personnel Board/State Personnel Director within 10 days from the receipt of notice or knowledge of the action you are challenging. Refer to Chapters 4 and 8 of the State Personnel Board Rules and Personnel Director's Administrative Procedures, 4 CCR 801, for more information about the appeals process. The State Personnel Board Rules and Personnel Director's Administrative Procedures are available at www.colorado.gov/spb . A standard appeal form is available at: www.colorado.gov/spb . If you appeal, your appeal must be submitted in writing on the official appeal form, signed by you or your representative, and received at the following address within 10 days of your receipt of notice or knowledge of the action: Colorado State Personnel Board/State Personnel Director, Attn: Appeals Processing, 1525 Sherman Street, 4th Floor, Denver, CO 80203. Fax: 303-866-5038. Phone: 303-866-3300. The ten-day deadline and these appeal procedures also apply to all charges of discrimination.
Supplemental Information
ADA ACCOMMODATIONS ASSISTANCE AND QUESTIONS
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a federal civil rights law that protects people with physical and mental disabilities and allows them the opportunity for employment with or without a reasonable accommodation. Please direct questions and requests for reasonable accommodations tocdps_hr@state.co.us
NOTIFICATIONS
All correspondence regarding your status in the selection/examination process will be via email. Include your current working email address on your application and check your email frequently as you could receive time sensitive correspondence regarding this position. We highly recommend that you set up your email to accept messages from " state.co.us " and " info@governmentjobs.com " addresses. It is your responsibility to ensure that your email will accept these notices and/or review your junk mail and spam filtered email.
EQUITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
The State of Colorado believes that equity, diversity, and inclusion drive our success, and we encourage candidates from all identities, backgrounds, and abilities to apply. The State of Colorado is an equal opportunity employer committed to building inclusive, innovative work environments with employees who reflect our communities and enthusiastically serve them. Therefore, in all aspects of the employment process, we provide employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, medical condition related to pregnancy, creed, ancestry, national origin, marital status, genetic information, or military status (with preference given to military veterans), or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law.
Colorado Department of Public Safety is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, our agency will assist individuals who have a disability with any reasonable accommodation requests related to employment, including completing the application process, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, participating in the employee selection process, and/or to perform essential job functions where the requested accommodation does not impose an undue hardship. If you have a disability and require reasonable accommodation to ensure you have a positive experience applying or interviewing for this position, please direct your inquiries to our
PLEASE READ CAREFULLY - RECRUITMENT TIMELINE INFORMATION
Applications are considered complete and accurate at the time of submission. Therefore, additional informationmay notbe solicited or accepted after your application has been received.
Closing Date: All applications that are received by the closing of this announcement will be reviewed against the Minimum Qualifications in this announcement. Candidates who meet the minimum qualifications may proceed to the next step. Colorado Revised Statutes require that state employees are hired and promoted based on merit and fitness through a comparative analysis process.
Supplemental Question: Effective responses to Supplemental Questions will directly relate to your professional experience, career accomplishments, and views about organizational values and approaches, and how they relate specifically to this position and requirements as you understand them. Answers generated by AI-tools will typically be unresponsive. Each answer (1-4) should be no longer than one page.
Military Veterans:If you are a military veteran you must submit a copy of your DD-214, Member 4 Copy, and VA disability letter if available/applicable at the time of application so we can determine if you are eligible for veteran's preference points. Military personnel who are stationed outside of Colorado may be eligible for this position by submitting the completed DD-2058 "State of Legal Residence" form.
Application Tips: For an overview of State of Colorado application process and application tips, please view this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUwZiY6G24U&feature=emb_logo) .
Resumes, Cover Letters,or other documents submitted: Will Notbe reviewed, assessed, or used in the initial stages of the comparative analysis (transcripts submitted to verify that the applicant meets either the education requirement or minimum qualification substitution are exempt from this).
Comparative Analysis: Will include a structured application review by a panel of SMEs.
The State of Colorado offers permanent employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, life and disability insurance, as well as a comprehensive leave program. Please click the following link for detailed information: www.colorado.gov/pacific/dhr/benefits
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