Officers on the Support to Mission team represent a highly varied group with significant occupational versatility and diversity. In response to the Agency’s wide ranging needs, we recruit and retain people with skills in nearly three-quarters of the Agency’s occupational families, ranging from Medical Services and Logistics, to Security, Facilities, IT, Finance, Education, and General Support. There are more than 50 different career disciplines represented in the support services arena that contribute to the success of all our intelligence colleagues. 

We recruit both employees with very targeted skills, such as doctors or finance officers, as well as generalists with an array of wide-ranging talents. Regardless, our officers are constantly challenged to learn, to adapt, and to contribute to a wide variety of situations. They are offered many opportunities to increase their skills and expand their knowledge base. Support personnel add creativity to their expertise and energy to get the job done. Serving at home and abroad, our corps of dedicated professionals plays a vital role in the national security of our country every day.

A brief description of  the occupational groups that make up the Support to Mission team are outlined below. To apply for a specific position, visit the CIA Careers page.

Selected Occupational Groups on the Support to Mission team:

Security officers protect Agency personnel, facilities, information and operations. Security officers are focused on protecting our workforce, while managing risk and supporting the mission and operations of the Agency, both domestically and overseas.

Medical professionals assist and administer to CIA employees, conducting required medical and psychological exams to ensure that the Agency maintains healthy employees, both mentally and physically. These officers plan, develop, implement and direct the CIA's medical programs on a worldwide basis. In addition, they further protect employees from environmental hazards. 

Logistics officers manage the day-to-day logistical support and the overall logistic processes in support of our customers' mission objectives; procurements/acquisitions, managing construction projects, coordinating the expeditious movement of people and equipment and providing complete on-site logistics support. 

Facilities support officers work in partnership with our customers to create and maintain safe, secure, functional work environments.

Financial and acquisitions officers handle the full range of financial services, administrative support, and resource management for the Agency. They work, for example, establishing Agency contracts, and with employee compensation, budgets, and auditing activities.

Human Resources and training officers are responsible for finding, hiring and training employees who can meet the demands of the mission. They work alongside their Agency colleagues, assisting employees along their chosen career paths. They work to ensure the workforce is provided with the full range of employee compensation and benefits. On a daily basis, Human Resources officers strive always to enhance employee work life, to ensure fairness and support the needs of our employees and their families. Human Resources officers are also involved in developing strategic plans and goals for the workforce at large.

Information Technology officers develop and maintain an extensive, complex computer network that supports a range of general and specialized applications for the entire Agency population. IT professionals include engineers, network designers, applications developers, program managers, customer service personnel, information management officers, specialists in software and in communications.

Mission Support administrators provide support to a variety of tasks and requirements for general office, administrative, and/or program support. They serve to integrate support to their customers across the various support disciplines. Typical daily duties may include answering telephones, preparing and tracking office correspondence, creating/organizing/using databases, interacting with customers and working on correspondence.

General Support officers contribute to the mission by providing an understanding of the entire spectrum of support capabilities, consolidating and facilitating services to their colleagues and mission partners. They provide a single portal to the world of support for their customers.