Counter Intelligence Analyst Senior

Conducts all-source analysis across the functions of CI by using information and intelligence from multiple sources to identify trends gaps and leads assesses interprets forecasts and provides warning of foreign intelligence servicesintent and capability to target U.S. interests

Responsibilities:

• Collaborates with community analysts and coordinates CI analytical products for quality-of-analysis evaluation and peer review in accordance with Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC) processes
• Identifies monitors and assesses foreign intelligence efforts attempting to collect sensitive national security information on U.S. persons activities and interests including threats posed by emerging technologies to U.S. operations and interests
• Applies knowledge and understanding of foreign intelligence capabilities activities and tactics techniques and procedures (TTPs) for in-depth analytic research and production of all-source CI studies
• Helps to inform from an analytical perspective the development of CI concepts procedures plans and strategies across the functions of CI
• Adheres to Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) all-source analytic tradecraft standards
• Produces tactical and operational level analytical products to support requests for information (RFis) across the functions of CI
• Ensures colleagues team Senior Intelligence Analyst (SIA) and leadership are well informed on the status and disposition of relevant CI products
• Informs the development of briefings for foreign visitors and/or traveling to countries with an elevated CI threat
  
  

Qualifications:

• MANDATORY TOP SECRET SCI SECURITY CLEARANCE
• Demonstrates working knowledge of the concepts involved in the specific functions outlined in the specified labor category description.
• Knowledgeable of and demonstrates ability to apply IC and DoD classification guidelines and procedures.
• Demonstrates ability to work semi-independently with oversight and direction.
• Demonstrates ability to use logic when evaluating and synthesizing multiple sources of information.
• Demonstrates understanding of interpreting analysis to include but not limited to its meaning importance and implications.
• Demonstrates ability to defend analytic judgements with sound logical conclusions and adapt analytic judgments when presented with new information evolving conditions or unexpected developments.
• Demonstrates ability to produce timely logical and concise analytic reports documents assessments studies and briefing materials in formats including Microsoft Office tools (e.g. Excel Word PowerPoint etc.) electronic / soft copy matrices and / or web-enabled formats.
• Demonstrates ability to communicate complex issues clearly in a concise and organized manner both verbally and non-verbally; with strong grammar skills.
• Demonstrates ability to develop structured research including but not limited to obtaining evaluating organizing and maintaining information within security and data protocols.
• Demonstrates ability to recognize nuances and resolve contradictions and inconsistencies in information.
• Demonstrates working knowledge using complex analytic methodologies such as structured analytic techniques or alternative approaches to examine biases assumptions and theories to eliminate uncertainty strengthen analytic arguments and mitigate surprise. Structured analytic techniques include but not limited to Analysis of Compet -Impact / Low-Impact Analysis Red Team Analysis and Alternative Futures Analysis.
• Demonstrates understanding of intelligence collection capabilities and limitations to include but not limited to technical sensors / platforms and human intelligence sources related to the labor category.
• Demonstrates understanding of evaluating collected intelligence reporting engaging with collection managers and developing collection requirements.
• Demonstrates comprehensive mission knowledge and skills that affirms completion of all developmental training and experiences for the labor category.
• Demonstrates ability to communicate understanding from information that may be incomplete indirect highly complex seemingly unrelated and / or technically advanced.
• Demonstrates ability to structure analysis based on trends in reporting and a range of analytic perspectives from other analysts organizations and intelligence disciplines.
• Demonstrates ability to work independently with minimal oversight and direction.
• Demonstrates ability to collaborate and work with other IC members on information sharing driving collection and addressing analytic disputes and conflict resolution.
• Demonstrates ability to develop concise insightful and comprehensive products for defense intelligence.
• Demonstrates ability to lead teams in researching multifaceted or critical problems.
• Provides guidance in selecting designing and applying analytic methodologies. Uses argument evaluation and validated analytic methodologies to challenge differing perspectives.
• Demonstrates in-depth knowledge and understanding of the labor category activities required to meet mission requirements.
• Demonstrates mastery of qualitative and quantitative analytic methodologies and pursue developments in academia or other fields that affect tradecraft methodology.
• Demonstrates ability to define comprehensive new or unique research approaches that enable rigorous assessments to address and contribute to high-level tasks.
• Demonstrates in-depth analysis of analytic operations and knowledge management issues across organizational and intra-IC boundaries and clearly articulates key findings.
• Demonstrates ability to work independently and with minimal oversight.
• Demonstrates ability to review analytic products for cogent arguments tradecraft standards and adequate support for conclusions; routinely tests analytic rigor of analytic products.

Required experience: Graduate of an in-residence Fundamentals of Intelligence Analysis course or military Service equivalent. Experience maintaining databases and repositories as well as in-depth familiarity with PowerPoint Excel Word and PDF.

Highly desired background/experience:

Support to CI risk assessments supply chain risk assessments CI support to Research Development and Acquisition (RDA) or analytical support to one or more of the following CI functions: collection functional services investigations and operations.

Experience supporting at least two of the four missions of CI:

1) countering espionage international terrorism and the CI insider threat;

2) support to force protection;

3) support to the defense critical infrastructure program

4) support to research development and acquisition

Desired Experience: Minimum 12 years of experience related to the specific labor category with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.

Desired Education: Masters degree in an area related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education; and an additional 5 years of related senior experience for a total of 17 years as a substitute to the Masters degree.

This position is contingent upon contract award and/or final funding approval. All offers of employment are tentative and will only be finalized upon official notification of contract win by the client.

Expected Salary Range: $140000 $150000 annually.