Discovery & Collection Specialist

Essential Duties

• Collect, research, evaluate, and compile publicly available information (PAI) by established customer policies and procedures, including current storage policies, OPSEC protocols, and Intelligence Oversight (IO) Governance
• Produce and disseminate Customer Open-Source reports and alerts by established SOPs
• Populate activities in the assigned performance management system (Currently JIRA)
• Support timely responses to intelligence priorities, requests for information (RFIs), and other customer and mission needs
• Tasks Include: Regional/Target Monitoring, Language support, Geolocating Data discovery and transfer, Address coding, Contribute to preparing data releases and analytical, observational, and technical reports and publications, Assess open-source media veracity utilizing splice detectors, hex editors, GAN detectors, etc.
• Maintain proper file management following division standards
• Request and maintain access to security domain systems (SBU, SecNet, COE)
• Request, maintain access to, and utilize IC Open-Source databases/portals (Tier 0)
• Contribute to Open-Source Tradecraft knowledge management
• Support presentations of activities, discoveries, conclusions, and tradecrafts to leadership, partners, and customers
• Conduct persona maintenance activities (surfing, seasoning, posting) in accordance with the service constraints paragraph on sensitive operations
• Support Senior Management with outreach and marketing efforts

Required Skills and Experience

• Must possess an Active TS/SCI Clearance
• 1-3 years of experience conducting Open-Source collection or Open-Source Analysis
• Experience with web browsing tools and advanced searching techniques
• Coursework or one year of experience building/using PowerPoint slides, Excel spreadsheets, Email, and One Note Notebooks
• Basic knowledge of how to conduct safe searches (OPSEC)
• 1-3 years of demonstrated work experience directly engaging with IC partners/customers

Preferred Qualifications

• Foreign language capabilities (Reading, Writing, Listening)
• Knowledge of geospatial technologies (ArcGIS, Google Earth, I Spy)
• Knowledge of DoD/IC databases and services
• Familiarity with Social Media
• Familiarity with JIRA
• Knowledge of DoD and IC missions
• Experience Geolocating images (Handheld photography, videos, etc.)
• Ability to remain flexible to changing priorities and requirements from supervisors and customers