NSA Job

[cegbule]

Hi,
Can someone please tell me what these acronyms mean NSA Application - BFM/CM/CS Positions, I was contacted today by a recruiter asking for my resume and unofficial transcript.

[burbuja0512]

When a recruiter contacts you, it usually means that they already know that you are a potential candidate and therefore are willing to have a conversation with you. I would be perfectly honest and say something like "Thanks so much for contacting me. To make sure that we're a good fit for each other, can you clarify the acronyms?" Let them know you just want to make sure you're on the same page.

If they don't reply back, it's only a sign that you got a mass email and not a "real" recruiter that actually had access to your resume through a job board. Legitimate recruiters like candiates that ask questions and show interest.

Sorry I can't help more, but asking seems to be the safest bet in my mind unless you can be 100% certain of what the acronyms are.

[davewill]

BFM - Bachelor of Finance (Financial Markets)
CM - Construction Management?
CS - Company Secretary?

I found BFM and CS linked with these two definitions. Does that help make sense? Obviously CS is most often Computer Science, but that doesn't make sense with BFM. Construction Management was the only CM degree I found. Why don't you just ask the recruiter? He'll know for sure.

[eriehiker]

I would have encrypted this message.

[cegbule]

BFM - Bachelor of Finance (Financial Markets)
CM - Construction Management?
CS - Company Secretary?

I found BFM and CS linked with these two definitions. Does that help make sense? Obviously CS is most often Computer Science, but that doesn't make sense with BFM. Construction Management was the only CM degree I found. Why don't you just ask the recruiter? He'll know for sure.

Thanks, I will definitely email them back asking about the acronyms. The email gave me a deadline to submit all my document on 30th

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When a recruiter contacts you, it usually means that they already know that you are a potential candidate and therefore are willing to have a conversation with you.    I would be perfectly honest and say something like "Thanks so much for contacting me.  To make sure that we're a good fit for each other, can you clarify the acronyms?"   Let them know you just want to make sure you're on the same page.

If they don't reply back, it's only a sign that you got a mass email and not a "real" recruiter that actually had access to your resume through a job board.  Legitimate recruiters like candiates that ask questions and show interest.

Sorry I can't help more, but asking seems to be the safest bet in my mind unless you can be 100% certain of what the acronyms are.

Yes, you are right I did apply for a National Security Agency position.

[cookderosa]

Ok, so of course I had to see if I could find it.

Here's EVERY job title available on NSA's career page- these guys love their letters:

(EDIT: apparently we have a 10,000 character limit!!?? Since when. Anyway, here's the first 1/3 of the list. - link takes you to the rest)

Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA):

Intelligence Analyst (Military Capabilities)
Analyze a nation's ability to mobilize and sustain its armed forces, destroy strategic and tactical targets, employ denial and deception, and achieve specified wartime objectives.

Intelligence Analyst (Scientific and Technical)
Evaluate basic and applied sciences and technologies with warfare potential and assess the characteristics, capabilities and limitations of foreign weapons systems.

Intelligence Analyst (Economics)
Examine economic factors that affect a nation's ability to support its armed forces, conduct military operations and project power and influence.

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA):

GEOINT Analyst (Imagery Intelligence)
Tasks and exploits imagery to analyze military force structure, capabilities, intentions, vulnerabilities of adversaries and potential adversaries, weapons proliferation, emerging technologies and treaty monitoring.

GEOINT Analyst (Geospatial Analysis)
Utilizes geographic information science and technology, spatial thinking, remote sensing, GIS, intelligence issues, and social and physical sciences to create information, characterize events, and discover relationships and trends.
GEOINT Analyst (Photogrammetric Image Science)

Applies advanced techniques to measure precise dimensions or relative size of objects on imagery. Creates customized methodologies and products to address geospatial intelligence problems.

National Security Agency (NSA):

Intelligence Analyst
Develops creative solutions to answer analytic questions and solve difficult problems. Conducts research, develops query strategies, and analyzes foreign target intelligence to produce reports and recommendations.

Intelligence Analyst (Geographic/Regional Specialization)
Uses geographic, regional and/or cultural expertise to produce analytic summaries and reports for key decision makers to safeguard personnel, information, facilities, systems operations and plans.

Cryptologic Cyber Planner
Applies in-depth knowledge of the joint planning process to develop detailed cryptologic Functional Support Plans (FSPs), Cryptologic Support Plans (CSPs), and Concept of Operations (CONOPs) that support the Cyber Operation requirements of the DoD, the U.S. government and its allies.

Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI):

All Source Analyst
Plans, directs or evaluates research of a major geographical area or a functional program with worldwide implications. Areas of expertise can include counterintelligence, counterproliferation, counterterrorism, cultural expertise, cyber, languages, scientific and technical intelligence.

Political, All Source Analyst
Plans, directs or evaluates research of a major geographical area or a functional program with worldwide implications. Areas of expertise can include counterintelligence, counterproliferation, counterterrorism, cultural expertise, cyber, languages, scientific and technical intelligence.

Science, Technology & Weapons; All Source Analyst
Plans, directs or evaluates research of a major geographical area or a functional program with worldwide implications. Areas of expertise can include counterintelligence, counterproliferation, counterterrorism, cultural expertise, cyber, languages, scientific and technical intelligence.

Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA):

Intelligence Collection (Collections Requirements)
Performs research and substantive review of all-source interagency collection and exploitation requirements.

Intelligence Collection (Senior Collection Expert)
Serves as a central source of military intelligence, developing a highly-trained workforce to collect, analyze, evaluate, interpret, produce and disseminate sensitive military intelligence.

Intelligence Collection (Assessments)
Assists in determining topics for assessment and development of the production schedule.

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA):

GEOINT Analyst (Source Strategies)
Develops comprehensive multi-INT, multi-source strategies. Creates tasking and dissemination requirements; adjudicates requirements; analyzes and investigates collection performance; assesses and reports on end-to-end GEOINT system performance data.

GEOINT Analyst (Foundation Strategies)
Manages tasking, collection, dissemination, and reporting-related functions. Supports all mapping, charting and geodesy global programs and products.

GEOINT Analyst (Persistent Operations)
Specializes in the real-time execution of tasking, collection, processing, exploitation and dissemination of persistent GEOINT resources and data. Emphasis is placed on time-dominant assessment and reporting, sensor allocation and responsive collection capabilities of persistent GEOINT sensors.

National Security Agency (NSA):

Access Analyst
Collects, processes and analyzes communications signals from foreign entities using analog and digital collection and processing equipment. Performs signals and protocol analysis on collected information, as well as first-line network analysis.

Access Manager
Participates in the development, planning and coordination of the deployment of collection systems, including identifying appropriate collection access points, collection methods and/or plans necessary to exploit target networks.

Access System Architect
Collaborates across agency to upgrade capability to access emerging and critical foreign entities of interest, correct collection gaps and improve efficiency of intelligence collection approaches.

Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA):

Foreign Language (Translation)
Translates materials from a foreign language to English and vice versa. Evaluates translations obtained from other sources for technical accuracy, grammar, word usage and idiomatic use.

Foreign Language (Interpreter/Translator)
Serves as an interpreter/translator for assigned office during calls, briefings, coordination conferences and meetings with foreign government officials.
Foreign Language (Liaison)

Serves as a liaison between assigned office and foreign government officials, and acts as the primary interpreter. Recognizes and averts potential political sensitivities between the two parties.

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA):

GEOINT Analysts (Scientific Linguistics)
Applies linguistics principles to problems encountered in the analysis and standardization of transliterated foreign geographic names. Collaborates with language experts to develop and implement consistent standardization policies. Researches country- and language-specific place-name issues and develops recommendations.

National Security Agency (NSA):

Language Analyst
Uses knowledge of foreign language and English to provide key decision makers with a complete and accurate picture of the context within which the decision is being made (i.e., provide an understanding of nuance, context, cultural overtones and dialect in which the communication occurred).

Foreign Language Advisor
Uses knowledge of foreign language and the agency's mission needs to provide guidance to decision makers and language analysts at all levels, including recommending training/development approaches, hiring and staffing priorities, and other assistive strategies that will help accomplish the mission.

Scientific Linguist
Applies linguistic knowledge (syntax, morphology, phonetics, phonology, semantics, discourse analysis, pragmatics, typology) and linguistic principles to address operational problems by designing, developing and/or evaluating tools used to enhance understanding of foreign languages or materials.

Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA):

Computer Science (Conformance)
Applies the most appropriate information systems guidelines to ensure conformance with agency standards and provides information that is easy to understand to customers.

Computer Science (Design and Development)
Performs a range of tasks relative to the design and development of advanced, highly complex systems that support intelligence analyst requirements.

Computer Science (Systems Architecture)
Assists in the overall planning, development and implementation of DIA's systems architectures.

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA):

Web Engineer
Translates NGA products, information and data into Web content for dissemination. Designs and develops software and services to tie applications together into workable systems; builds/maintains databases and information stores.

IT Operations Specialist
Ensures delivery of recorded cable messages within established parameters and applicable security requirements. Performs all message system operations, responds to message switch system alarms and alerts, and resolves message flow problems.

IT Specialist (Applications Software)
Analyzes customer and system requirements; evaluates alternative approaches; designs and develops solutions; and leads the testing and integration of new and modified solutions.


https://www.intelligencecareers.gov/iccareers.html

[cegbule]

Ok, so of course I had to see if I could find it.

Here's EVERY job title available on NSA's career page- these guys love their letters:

(EDIT:  apparently we have a 10,000 character limit!!??  Since when.  Anyway, here's the first 1/3 of the list. - link takes you to the rest)

Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA):

Intelligence Analyst (Military Capabilities)
Analyze a nation's ability to mobilize and sustain its armed forces, destroy strategic and tactical targets, employ denial and deception, and achieve specified wartime objectives.

Intelligence Analyst (Scientific and Technical)
Evaluate basic and applied sciences and technologies with warfare potential and assess the characteristics, capabilities and limitations of foreign weapons systems.

Intelligence Analyst (Economics)
Examine economic factors that affect a nation's ability to support its armed forces, conduct military operations and project power and influence.

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA):

GEOINT Analyst (Imagery Intelligence)
Tasks and exploits imagery to analyze military force structure, capabilities, intentions, vulnerabilities of adversaries and potential adversaries, weapons proliferation, emerging technologies and treaty monitoring.

GEOINT Analyst (Geospatial Analysis)
Utilizes geographic information science and technology, spatial thinking, remote sensing, GIS, intelligence issues, and social and physical sciences to create information, characterize events, and discover relationships and trends.
GEOINT Analyst (Photogrammetric Image Science)

Applies advanced techniques to measure precise dimensions or relative size of objects on imagery. Creates customized methodologies and products to address geospatial intelligence problems.

National Security Agency (NSA):

Intelligence Analyst
Develops creative solutions to answer analytic questions and solve difficult problems. Conducts research, develops query strategies, and analyzes foreign target intelligence to produce reports and recommendations.

Intelligence Analyst (Geographic/Regional Specialization)
Uses geographic, regional and/or cultural expertise to produce analytic summaries and reports for key decision makers to safeguard personnel, information, facilities, systems operations and plans.

Cryptologic Cyber Planner
Applies in-depth knowledge of the joint planning process to develop detailed cryptologic Functional Support Plans (FSPs), Cryptologic Support Plans (CSPs), and Concept of Operations (CONOPs) that support the Cyber Operation requirements of the DoD, the U.S. government and its allies.

Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI):

All Source Analyst
Plans, directs or evaluates research of a major geographical area or a functional program with worldwide implications. Areas of expertise can include counterintelligence, counterproliferation, counterterrorism, cultural expertise, cyber, languages, scientific and technical intelligence.

Political, All Source Analyst
Plans, directs or evaluates research of a major geographical area or a functional program with worldwide implications. Areas of expertise can include counterintelligence, counterproliferation, counterterrorism, cultural expertise, cyber, languages, scientific and technical intelligence.

Science, Technology & Weapons; All Source Analyst
Plans, directs or evaluates research of a major geographical area or a functional program with worldwide implications. Areas of expertise can include counterintelligence, counterproliferation, counterterrorism, cultural expertise, cyber, languages, scientific and technical intelligence.

Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA):

Intelligence Collection (Collections Requirements)
Performs research and substantive review of all-source interagency collection and exploitation requirements.

Intelligence Collection (Senior Collection Expert)
Serves as a central source of military intelligence, developing a highly-trained workforce to collect, analyze, evaluate, interpret, produce and disseminate sensitive military intelligence.

Intelligence Collection (Assessments)
Assists in determining topics for assessment and development of the production schedule.

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA):

GEOINT Analyst (Source Strategies)
Develops comprehensive multi-INT, multi-source strategies. Creates tasking and dissemination requirements; adjudicates requirements; analyzes and investigates collection performance; assesses and reports on end-to-end GEOINT system performance data.

GEOINT Analyst (Foundation Strategies)
Manages tasking, collection, dissemination, and reporting-related functions. Supports all mapping, charting and geodesy global programs and products.

GEOINT Analyst (Persistent Operations)
Specializes in the real-time execution of tasking, collection, processing, exploitation and dissemination of persistent GEOINT resources and data. Emphasis is placed on time-dominant assessment and reporting, sensor allocation and responsive collection capabilities of persistent GEOINT sensors.

National Security Agency (NSA):

Access Analyst
Collects, processes and analyzes communications signals from foreign entities using analog and digital collection and processing equipment. Performs signals and protocol analysis on collected information, as well as first-line network analysis.

Access Manager
Participates in the development, planning and coordination of the deployment of collection systems, including identifying appropriate collection access points, collection methods and/or plans necessary to exploit target networks.

Access System Architect
Collaborates across agency to upgrade capability to access emerging and critical foreign entities of interest, correct collection gaps and improve efficiency of intelligence collection approaches.

Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA):

Foreign Language (Translation)
Translates materials from a foreign language to English and vice versa. Evaluates translations obtained from other sources for technical accuracy, grammar, word usage and idiomatic use.

Foreign Language (Interpreter/Translator)
Serves as an interpreter/translator for assigned office during calls, briefings, coordination conferences and meetings with foreign government officials.
Foreign Language (Liaison)

Serves as a liaison between assigned office and foreign government officials, and acts as the primary interpreter. Recognizes and averts potential political sensitivities between the two parties.

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA):

GEOINT Analysts (Scientific Linguistics)
Applies linguistics principles to problems encountered in the analysis and standardization of transliterated foreign geographic names. Collaborates with language experts to develop and implement consistent standardization policies. Researches country- and language-specific place-name issues and develops recommendations.

National Security Agency (NSA):

Language Analyst
Uses knowledge of foreign language and English to provide key decision makers with a complete and accurate picture of the context within which the decision is being made (i.e., provide an understanding of nuance, context, cultural overtones and dialect in which the communication occurred).

Foreign Language Advisor
Uses knowledge of foreign language and the agency's mission needs to provide guidance to decision makers and language analysts at all levels, including recommending training/development approaches, hiring and staffing priorities, and other assistive strategies that will help accomplish the mission.

Scientific Linguist
Applies linguistic knowledge (syntax, morphology, phonetics, phonology, semantics, discourse analysis, pragmatics, typology) and linguistic principles to address operational problems by designing, developing and/or evaluating tools used to enhance understanding of foreign languages or materials.

Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA):

Computer Science (Conformance)
Applies the most appropriate information systems guidelines to ensure conformance with agency standards and provides information that is easy to understand to customers.

Computer Science (Design and Development)
Performs a range of tasks relative to the design and development of advanced, highly complex systems that support intelligence analyst requirements.

Computer Science (Systems Architecture)
Assists in the overall planning, development and implementation of DIA's systems architectures.

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA):

Web Engineer
Translates NGA products, information and data into Web content for dissemination. Designs and develops software and services to tie applications together into workable systems; builds/maintains databases and information stores.

IT Operations Specialist
Ensures delivery of recorded cable messages within established parameters and applicable security requirements. Performs all message system operations, responds to message switch system alarms and alerts, and resolves message flow problems.

IT Specialist (Applications Software)
Analyzes customer and system requirements; evaluates alternative approaches; designs and develops solutions; and leads the testing and integration of new and modified solutions.


https://www.intelligencecareers.gov/iccareers.html

Yes, that's a lot of acronyms. Thanks for the information, after looking for it all over the internet still no clue, I have decided to ask the recruiter for the information directly.

[cookderosa]

https://www.intelligencecareers.gov/iccareers.html

Yes, that's a lot of acronyms. Thanks for the information, after looking for it all over the internet still no clue, I have decided to ask the recruiter for the information directly.

Of course, you have our attention. Post when you find out.

[cegbule]

https://www.intelligencecareers.gov/iccareers.html

Yes, that's a lot of acronyms. Thanks for the information, after looking for it all over the internet still no clue, I have decided to ask the recruiter for the information directly.

Of course, you have our attention.  Post when you find out.

Yes, the CS stands for contract specialist, CM- Contract manager, BFM- Business Finance Manager.

[davewill]

Yes, the CS stands for contract specialist, CM- Contract manager, BFM- Business Finance Manager.

Of course! HOW COULD we have missed that!

So, the $64 question is are you applying for it, or was the recruiter way off?