Counter Intelligence Analyst - Senior

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
• 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
• Knows 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
• 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 affirm 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
• 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 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: countering espionage, international terrorism, and the CI insider threat; support to force protection; support to the defense critical infrastructure program support to research, development, and acquisition

Desired Education

• Master's 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
• Additional 5 years of related senior experience, for a total of 17 years, as a substitute to the Master's degree