Collection Manager 125-008

Collection Manager 125-008

Position Description:

• The contractor shall engage with analysts to determine intelligence needs, identify and develop possible collection postures/strategies, and convert these intelligence needs into collection requirements to satisfy USCENTCOM intelligence requirements. This, also, includes establishing priorities and tasking, coordinating with appropriate collection sources or agencies, and monitoring results.

• The contractor shall support solicitation, coordination, research, de-confliction, creation, registration, prioritization, and validation of multiple intelligence (multi-INT) such as Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT), Measurement and Signature Intelligence (MASINT), Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), Human Intelligence (HUMINT), and Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) CRM per standing policy. This will include associated issue trackers, internal requirements trackers, and collection requirement programs of record.

In support of this subtask, the contractor shall:

• Translate received requirements into discipline-specific language IAW SOPs and Combat Support Agency (CSA) guidance, including maintaining associated issue trackers, internal requirements trackers, and collection requirement programs of record.

• Research, manage, and align IC collection requests to USCENTCOM Theater/IC priorities and guidance.

• Balance time sensitive requests with standing collection requirements to ensure appropriate deployment of ISR assets, including managing the daily/weekly Joint Intelligence Prioritized Collection List/Component Intelligence Collection List database as required.

• Monitor and provide routine updates to requestors on the status of USCENTCOM collection requirements. Specifically, contractor personnel shall monitor and routinely provide updates to requestors on the status of collection requirements (e.g. where the requirements were submitted for tasking, the expected collection schedule, etc.) and adjust requirements to ensure optimal deployment of limited assets.

• Review existing collection requirements including development of ISR utilization and contributions summaries, management of issues and requirements, and tracking databases/ assessments.

• Contact collection requirements originators about the status of each requirement’s disposition and expiration (e.g. contacting requestors to determine continued relevance, then directing resubmission or cancelation).

• Solicit, assess, review, and publish HUMINT Report Evaluations from the USCENTCOM analytical team; including tracking, maintaining, and briefing the status of evaluations associated with Intelligence Information Reports (IIRs) cited in Finished Intelligence (FINTEL) and IIR responses to Source Directed Requirements (SDRs).

• Review HUMINT Report Evaluations for content, formatting, classification, and release.

• Provide weekly number of HUMINT requirements, evaluations, and HUMINT On-Line Tasking and Reporting (HOT-R) accounts established for the section.

• Develop requested products reflecting current and future collection operations and postures for the USCENTCOM AOR.

• Provide input to policy, procedures, and doctrine relating to collection operations in the USCENTCOM AOR; including development of division, branch, and team SOPs, TTPs, JQS, and other policy related documents.

• Populate mission tracker spreadsheets with ISR data as specified by, and IAW published USCENTCOM orders and directives. Mission tracker spreadsheets must capture essential ISR activity by intelligence discipline and asset. This includes: populating mission tracker Excel spreadsheets by utilizing sources of reporting and detailing operational planning, tasking, and execution to extract relevant data required to assess the activity/effectiveness of ISR resources/operations.

• Build the data infrastructure required to effectively understand, track, monitor, and assess ISR operations and activities in the USCENTCOM AOR to ensure effective employment of ISR assets.

• Identify/document technical and functional ISR system needs.

• Perform assessments of projected system requirements to ensure future intelligence, information, ISR systems, and programs support USCENTCOM ISR requirements.

• Provide technical guidance in translating ISR and CM software or website application requirements into technical systems specifications to include, but not limited to, assisting in the production of formal architecture products consisting of system, technical views, and the development of software functional requirements documents.

• Support ISR/CM related systems, tools and associated processes, requirements, research, analysis, user solicitation, coordination, communication, and documentation.

• Support associated coordination and communication with external/subordinate organizations as required.

• Provide expertise to enable interoperable intelligence systems and information flow between services, national agencies, CCMDs, coalition partners, and USCENTCOM.

Performance Includes:

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.