This position is located in the Santo Domingo Country Office, Santo Domingo, Domincan Republic.
As a your typical work assignments may include: Plans and directs the activities of staff in the collection, evaluation, production and dissemination of drug law enforcement intelligence. Oversees and plans the operations of an intelligence program with worldwide implications. Assesses unforeseen developments, new phenomena, and difficulties encountered. Initiates, plans, and evaluates broad and comprehensive research and analysis programs, procedures, and policies.
Prepares and presents briefings to high-level federal, state, and local law enforcement representatives and to foreign dignitaries in regards to difficult, complex, and controversial drug trafficking issues. Performs the administrative and human resource management functions relative to the staff supervised. Establishes guidelines and performance expectations for staff members. May be required to testify during career as an Intelligence Research Specialist.
Assignment Information: Length of Tour: The initial tour of duty for this assignment is three (3) years. Employees are limited to a maximum of five years of service in an overseas assignment. Rest & Recuperation: 2% Post Differential: 15 % Danger Pay: 15% Relocation Incentive: Tier 4 Foreign HTF Relocation Incentive: This position is eligible for a relocation incentive.
To qualify for a relocation incentive for foreign HTF offices, an employee must sign a service agreement committing to a specified period of employment at the new duty station, measured in years, not to exceed four years. The incentive consists of annual payments of a specified percentage of the employee's rate of basic pay (as defined by 5 CFR § 575.202).
The specified percentage and the number of annual payments are determined on an office-by-office basis at the time the foreign office is designated as a HTF office. DEA pays the relocation incentive in an annual lump sum payment to the designated employee at the commencement of the "approved" DEA-174 period and once the employee has established a residence in the geographic region of the HTF office.
Refer to DEA's Hard-to-Fill Office Policy July 1, 2026, Payment of Relocation Incentive (2.c). Employees should contact the Foreign Administrative Support Section prior to completing the Relocation Incentive Service Agreement as additional instructions may apply for service beyond the initial three-year tour.
Educational Allowances: K-12 Housing: Government Leased Quarters (GLQ) Language Requirement: Spanish 600 Hours (20 Week) Must Achieve a limited working proficiency (Reading 2/ Speaking 2) Consumable Post: No Post (COLA): 0 Special Allowance: 0
Education requirements do not apply to this vacancy announcement.
Kimberly.M.Coleman@dea.gov · 571-776-0595
This position is with Drug Enforcement Administration, Department of Justice.
The posted pay range is $107446 – $139684/yr.
This position is eligible for telework.
This position requires a Top Secret security clearance.
Applications close on 2026-10-09.
This position is open under the 'Fed Internal Search' hiring path.
Source: USAJOBS.gov — U.S. Federal Government
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