Counterintelligence Analyst - Senior

This position requires an active TS/Sensitive Compartmental Information (SCI) clearance and U.S. citizenship.

About the Role

Cherokee Insights is seeking a Counterintelligence Analyst to provide senior-level analytic expertise to identify, assess, and disrupt threats to cleared industry, cleared personnel, DOD, and the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA). The CI Analyst will facilitate USG responses to adversary action by sharing threat indicators and enabling responsive measures from other agencies and services, and enable the development and operationalization of enterprise security risk management methodology across Government and industry stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Conduct analytical research that establishes/refutes Foreign Intelligence Entity (FIE) threat to U.S. technologies, information, and supply chains impacting cleared industry, cleared personnel, DOD, and DCSA.
• Conduct CI analysis to identify and assess FIE threats to DCSA, the trusted workforce, and sensitive information and technology resident within cleared industry.
• Research, synthesize, exploit, evaluate, and analyze all-source reporting on FIE targeting USG critical technologies, programs, information, and supply chains.
• Develop analytical products that effectively articulate FIE threat to U.S. technologies, information, and supply chains impacting cleared industry, cleared personnel, DOD, and DCSA.
• Produce analytic products within established timelines, adjusting product development to provide useful analysis to the customer in a timely manner.
• Disseminate intelligence information to customers and stakeholders that enable responsive measures from DCSA and other agencies and services.
• Establish collaborative networks with key personnel to enhance or inform analytical production, improve integration, and advance DCSA’s CI mission.
• Routinely communicate with customers, review customer feedback, and make production adjustments to improve existing processes and/or product lines benefitting CI’s mission.
• Remain aware of events related to customer (DCSA CI and Insider Threat Directorate, Industrial Security, and other relevant USG agencies) activities and schedules, and of intelligence requirements and priorities.
• Establish collaborative networks with key DCSA, DoD, IC, and LE personnel that significantly enhance or inform CI analytic production or advance CI and Insider Threat Directorate’s support to the Facility Clearance Level mission.
• Initiate, engage, and sustain relationships with mission area partners to advocate for Threat Integration Branch (TIB) mission and products, while providing meaningful contributions to the implementation and development of Foreign Ownership Control and Influence (FOCI)/FIE mitigation and security measures.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Active Top Secret / SCI level security clearance.
• Minimum 12 years of experience related to the CI Analyst role, with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.
• Master’s degree preferred.
• Graduate of in-residence Fundamentals of Intelligence Analysis course or Military Service equivalent.
• Produce IC-coordinated all-source intelligence analytic products on foreign intelligence entities' capabilities, intentions, willingness, and opportunities to threaten U.S. DoD personnel, resources, activities, and interests worldwide.
• Demonstrate analytic integrity, rigor, and tradecraft standards by adhering to applicable IC Directives and DoD Instructions, and relevant organizational guidelines.
• Provide analytic support to senior officials, collectors, and operators throughout the DoD, IC, and law enforcement agencies/organizations and for DCSA’s CI programs, functions, and mission activities.
• Conduct all-source finished intelligence research, analysis, and writing in support of regional requirements.
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of the labor category activities required to meet mission requirements.
• Comprehensive mission knowledge and skills that affirm completion of all developmental training and experiences for the labor category.
• Ability to communicate understanding from information that may be incomplete, indirect, highly complex, seemingly unrelated, and/or technically advanced.
• Structure analytic questions based on trends in reporting and a range of analytic perspectives from other analysts, organizations, and intelligence disciplines.
• Work independently with minimal oversight and direction.
• Produce timely, logical, and concise analytic reports, documents, assessments, studies, and briefing materials in formats including Microsoft Office tools (e.g., Excel, Word, PowerPoint), electronic/soft copy matrices, and/or web-enabled formats.
• Collaborate and work with other IC members on information sharing, driving collection, and addressing analytic disputes and conflict resolution.
• Demonstrate ability to develop concise, insightful, and comprehensive products for defense intelligence.
• Guide teams in researching multifaceted or critical problems.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office.
• Must pass pre-employment qualifications of Cherokee Federal.

Pay

Estimated starting salary range: $110,000–$120,000. Pay commensurate with experience.

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401K
• Other possible benefits as provided

Benefits are subject to change with or without notice.