Position: Special Agent: Education/Teaching Background
About: Use your education and teaching background to become an FBI Special Agent! FBI Special Agents apply their professional expertise and unique skill sets to their work every day. Special Agents come from professional backgrounds, including education. Your methodical and analytical ability to simplify complex material and present it with clear explanations is highly valued at the FBI. Your education experience, whether K-12 or higher, can easily translate to a Special Agent career, where you’ll enhance your team by identifying threats and building relationships with communities and individuals. You can expect continued specialized training once onboard and opportunities to work on some of the Bureau’s most complex cases. The scope and scale of our investigations provide unique challenges unlike anything you could work on in the private sector. Your ultimate mission: to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution of the United States.
Requirements: Candidates must; Adhere to strict standards of conduct; Undergo a rigorous background investigation, credit checks and a polygraph in order to obtain a Top Secret Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) Clearance; Pass all physical fitness requirements; must be physically fit to complete training at the FBI Academy at Quantico, VA, and maintain a high level of fitness throughout your career; Pass a medical exam, which includes, but is not limited to, meeting visual and hearing standards; Successfully complete approximately 18 weeks of employment as a Special Agent trainee, while housed at the FBI Academy at Quantico; Upon graduation from the FBI Academy, be available to transfer to one of the FBI’s 56 Field Offices, including San Juan, Puerto Rico or remote resident agencies (satellite offices) to meet the needs of the FBI. Special Agents rarely return to their processing office. Applicants should ensure that their families are prepared for and support this move; Throughout your career, be available for temporary duty assignments anywhere in the world, on either a temporary or a long-term basis; Work a minimum of a 50-hour workweek, which may include irregular hours, and be on-call 24/7, including holidays and weekends; Be willing and able to participate in arrests, execute search warrants, raids, and similar assignments
Benefits: Health insurance, Dental insurance, 401(k), Paid time off, Vision insurance, Professional development assistance, Flexible schedule, Life insurance
