Senior Counterintelligence Specialist

About the role

Cherokee Strategic Edge (CSE) is seeking a Counterintelligence Specialist –Senior to support our Government Customer.

Responsibilities

• Produces IC-coordinated all-source intelligence analytic products on foreign intelligence entities capabilities, intentions, willingness, and opportunities to threaten U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) personnel, resources, activities, and interests worldwide.
• Analysis is comprised of regional and functional CI topics, including foreign intelligence threats to Defense Critical Infrastructure Program (DCIP) and DoD supply chains and emerging technologies, and threats from foreign intelligence technical equipment to the DoD.
• Provides analytic support to senior officials, collectors, and operators throughout the DoD, IC, and law enforcement agencies/organizations and for DIA’s CI programs, functions, and mission activities.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Active TS/SCI security clearance with the ability and willingness to obtain a Counterintelligence polygraph.
• U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident (documentation required).
• Minimum of twelve (12) years of experience related to the specific labor category, with at least a portion within the last two (2) years.
• Either a Master’s degree in a related field from an accredited institution, OR a Bachelor’s degree in a related field plus an additional five (5) years of related senior experience (total seventeen (17) years) as a substitute for the Master’s degree.
• Ability to communicate understanding from incomplete, indirect, highly complex, seemingly unrelated, or technically advanced information.
• Demonstrates ability to structure analysis based on trends in reporting and a range of analytic perspectives.
• Experience collaborating with other IC members on information sharing, driving collection, and addressing analytic disputes and conflict resolution.
• Ability to develop concise, insightful, and comprehensive products for defense intelligence.
• Experience leading teams in researching multifaceted or critical problems and providing guidance in selecting, designing, and applying analytic methodologies.
• Uses argument evaluation and validated analytic methodologies to challenge differing perspectives.
• Mastery of qualitative and quantitative analytic methodologies and pursues developments in academia or other fields affecting tradecraft methodology.
• Ability to define comprehensive, new, or unique research approaches enabling rigorous assessments for high‑level tasks.
• In‑depth analysis of analytic operations and knowledge management issues across organizational and intra‑IC boundaries, clearly articulating key findings.
• Ability to work independently with minimal oversight.
• Experience reviewing analytic products for cogent arguments, tradecraft standards, and adequate support for conclusions; routinely tests analytic rigor of analytic products.

Compensation

Estimated starting salary range: $130,000‑$140,000.

Benefits

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

Benefits are subject to change with or without notice.