Collection Manager SME

Purpose and Impact: This position is contingent upon award of contract, business needs, and funding availability. We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Collection Manager at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, VA to support full-spectrum Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) operations in support of U.S. and coalition air and joint forces.

Essential Responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate, and manage multi-discipline ISR collection activities aligned with strategic, operational, and tactical requirements.
• Translate customer priority intelligence requirements and information gaps into validated collection requirements and actionable tasking.
• Collaborate across the Intelligence Community (IC) to identify intelligence gaps, priorities, and mission requirements.
• Evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of multi-INT collection against validated requirements.
• Work collaboratively to deliver actionable recommendations to enhance mission performance.

Work Environment, Physical Demands, and Mental Demands

The position supports sensitive operations and demands strict adherence to IC and Air Force analytic tradecraft standards, information security requirements, and professional ethics.

Minimum Requirements (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities)

• Candidates must meet all basic-level DOD 8140 Cyber Workforce Framework (DCWF) requirements (Code 311).
• Graduate of a DoD or Intelligence Community in-residence Collection Management course.
• Demonstrated expert-level experience in ISR collection planning and execution, multi-INT collection coordination and integration, and intelligence requirements development and validation.
• Strong proficiency in statistical and analytical tools such as R, Matlab, SAS, SPSS, S-PLUS (or equivalent).
• Strong verbal communication skills for briefings and collaborative discussions.

Additional Requirements

• Willingness to comply with all DoD, Air Force, and IC security and conduct standards.
• Ability to complete and maintain required training throughout contract performance.

Security Clearance Required

• TS/SCI eligibility with a favorable Tier 5 (T5) investigation.

Minimum Education

• Master’s degree or a Bachelor’s degree with at least five years of related expert-level experience for a total of 20 years, as a substitute to the master’s degree.

Minimum Years of Experience

• 15 years of collection management or related experience with at least part of the required experience must be within the past two (2) years.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous Air Force DCGS Collection Management experience.
• Previous experience supporting Joint, Air Force or Combatant Command ISR Operations.
• Familiarity with Air Force and Joint targeting doctrine and target development and Battle Damage Assessment processes.
• Experience briefing senior leaders or operational staff.

Other Responsibilities

• Safety - Amentum enforces a safety culture whereby all employees have the responsibility for continuously developing and maintaining a safe work environment.
• Quality - Quality is the foundation for the management of our business and the keystone to our goal of customer satisfaction. It is our policy to consistently provide services that meet customer expectations. Accordingly, each employee must conform to the Amentum Quality Policy and carry out job activities in compliance with applicable Amentum Quality System documents and customer contracts.
• Procedure Compliance - Each employee must read, understand and implement the general and specific operational, safety, quality and environmental requirements of all plans, procedures and policies pertaining to his/her job.

Note: This may include pre-hire screening for marijuana, as well as other federally controlled substances due to Amentum’s role as a federal contractor and trusted partner to the US Government.

Employment is contingent upon successful completion of the drug screening process. Please note that this may include pre-hire screening for marijuana, as well as other federally controlled substances due to Amentum’s role as a federal contractor and trusted partner to the US Government.

Other Responsibilities:

• Safety - Amentum enforces a safety culture whereby all employees have the responsibility for continuously developing and maintaining a safe work environment.
• Quality - Quality is the foundation for the management of our business and the keystone to our goal of customer satisfaction. It is our policy to consistently provide services that meet customer expectations. Accordingly, each employee must conform to the Amentum Quality Policy and carry out job activities in compliance with applicable Amentum Quality System documents and customer contracts.
• Procedure Compliance - Each employee must read, understand and implement the general and specific operational, safety, quality and environmental requirements of all plans, procedures and policies pertaining to his/her job.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.