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Who We Are
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.
Posted: May 04, 2007 06:42 PM
Last Updated: Oct 17, 2008 01:00 PM
Last Reviewed: Oct 17, 2008 01:00 PM