All Source Analyst 125-001

All Source Analyst 125-001

Position Description:

• Contractor personnel shall have and maintain the ability to conduct all-source analysis of the USCENTCOM AOR and USCENTCOM AOI (as defined by the Unified Command Plan). Contractor personnel shall have/maintain the ability to gather information, analyze information, and prepare draft analytic products necessary for the U.S. Government to publish, disseminate, and apply intelligence in the following subject areas: Foundational Military Intelligence, Geopolitical, Socio-Cultural, Terrorism, Cyber Threats, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Regional Infrastructure Capacity, and other functional areas as required, with a geographic focus on transnational issues. Contractor personnel shall produce current all-source intelligence analysis to assess, interpret, forecast, and explain a range of regional or functional national security issues and developments in the USCENTCOM AOR and AOI.

• Contractor personnel shall produce timely, relevant all-source analysis on security and political developments affecting defense issues in the USCENTCOM region and its periphery in line with Director of National Intelligence (DNI)/DIA analytic tradecraft standards as established in Intelligence Community Directive (ICD) 203 and 206. Contractor personnel shall make use of structured analytic techniques as appropriate, including conducting analysis of competing hypothesis or application of pattern analysis to leverage large data sets.

• The candidate shall network with forces in the USCENTCOM region, components, Intelligence Community (IC) counterparts, and other stakeholders to ensure effective external coordination and collaboration on branch production; communicate with relevant USCENTCOM Divisions/Directorates to ensure internal intelligence issue coordination; initiate collaborative production/support to plans and operations efforts as appropriate; and coordinate finished production internally and externally.

• The candidate shall develop and refine collection requirements. The candidate shall draft and maintain a list of intelligence questions regarding assigned topics to guide production, tend analytic lines, and identify intelligence gaps IAW USCENTCOM priorities and the Theater Campaign Plan (TCP). The candidate shall provide all-source analytic support to collections, operations, investigations, and other defense intelligence analytic requirements. The candidate shall provide anticipatory analysis, actionable intelligence, joint intelligence preparation of the operating environment, analytic support to targeting, situational awareness, and long-term stability warning assessments of developments in and around the USCENTCOM region and its periphery to USCENTCOM CDR; component forces; U.S. Embassy country teams; U.S. Government agencies; and fielded forces to support the planning, execution of operations, and achievement of USCENTCOM objectives.

• Contractor all-source analysts supporting Regional Issues shall be capable of preparing draft analytic products necessary to support rapidly emerging objectives centered on the designated countries in the USCENTCOM AOR and AOI.

• Contractor all-source analysts supporting Transregional Issues shall be capable of preparing draft analytic products necessary to support rapidly emerging objectives affecting vital U.S. and allied interests in and around the USCENTCOM AOR.

• Contractor all-source analysts supporting Strategic Competition analytics shall be capable of preparing draft analytic products necessary to addressing increased or diversified strategic competition in the USCENTCOM AOI.

• Contractors supporting the Write for Release function shall produce releasable versions of USCENTCOM J2’s finished intelligence products to ensure maximum utility to support intelligence sharing with the broadest audience possible, per U.S. Government regulations and guidance.

• Contractors shall create tailored releasable products for USCENTCOM’s coalition partners and allies to support USCENTCOM J2’s partner sharing and engagement requirements. Contractors shall work closely with USCENTCOM Foreign Disclosure Office (FDO) and maintain currency on all foreign intelligence sharing policies across a non-U.S. audience.

Performance Includes:

Junior Level

Skills

•  Demonstrates working knowledge of the concepts involved in the specific functions outlined in the specified labor category description.

• Knowledgeable of 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 proficiency using Microsoft Office tools.

• 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. Structured analytic techniques include, but not limited to, Analysis of Competing Hypotheses, Devil’s Advocacy, High-Impact / Low-Impact Analysis, Red Team Analysis and Alternative Futures Analysis.

• 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."

Experience

• Required: No (0) years of experience conducting analysis relevant to the specific labor category

• Desired: Minimum 3 years of experience conducting analysis relevant to the specific labor category, with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.

Education

• Required: Bachelor’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.

• Desired: Bachelor’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. An additional 4 years of experience in the specific labor category, for a total of 7 years of experience in the specific labor category, may be substituted for a Bachelor’s degree.

Mid-Level

Skills

• Demonstrates comprehensive mission knowledge and skills that affirms 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."

Experience

• Required: Minimum 3 years of experience conducting analysis relevant to the specific labor category, with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.

• Desired: At least 8 years of experience conducting analysis relevant to the specific labor category with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.

Education

• Required: Bachelor’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. An additional 4 years of experience in the specific labor category, for a total of 7 years of experience in the specific labor category, may be substituted for a Bachelor’s degree.

• Desired: Minimum 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; or have Bachelor’s degree related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and an additional 5 years of related senior experience, for a total of 17 years, as a substitute to the Master’s degree.

Senior-Level

Skills

• Meets all qualifications and skills of a Mid, plus:

• 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.

Experience

• Required: At least 8 years of experience conducting analysis relevant to the specific labor category with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.

• Desired: Minimum 12 years of experience related to the specific labor category with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.

Education

• Required: Bachelor’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.

• Desired: Minimum 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; or have Bachelor’s degree related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and an additional 5 years of related senior experience, for a total of 17 years, as a substitute to the Master’s degree.

Expert-Level

Skills

• Meets all qualifications and skills of a Senior, plus:

• Demonstrates ability to define problems, supervise studies and lead surveys to collect and analyze data to provide advice and recommend solutions.

• Demonstrates analytic leadership and expertise in identifying, planning, developing, and executing analytic production methodologies, tradecraft and techniques aligned with labor category mission.

• Demonstrates extensive ability to provide strategic advice, technical guidance and expertise to Defense planners and policymaker (e.g. Undersecretary level or higher).

Experience

• Required: 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: Minimum 20 years of experience conducting analysis relevant to the specific labor category with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.

Education

• Required: Minimum 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; or have Bachelor’s degree related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and an additional 5 years of related senior experience, for a total of 17 years, as a substitute to the Master’s degree.

• Desired: 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.