Collection Strategist 125-010

Collection Strategist 125-010

Position Description:

• The contractor shall provide subject matter expertise with the ability to analyze and interpret single and multi-INT disciplines to support functional managers with development of collection managers, ISR planners, and customers as needed. The contractor shall present ISR activities and operations; expertise  on intelligence collection systems/sensors and capabilities; and employment of single or multi-INT disciplines to enable customers, decision makers, and other ISR stakeholders to visualize trends, understand key ISR, and recognize single/multi-INT effects. The contractor shall identify issues and opportunities potentially requiring a decision or other action in the development and creation of training, TTP/SOPs, and policy updates. The contractor shall identify ISR trends and opportunities; assess tradeoffs; test assumptions; and produce original and incisive judgments, solutions, and recommendations to better refine ISR effectiveness, assessment processes, and assessment support to decision making/ISR Branch processes.

In support of this subtask, the contractor shall:

• Assess single and multi-INT collection platforms.

• Detail the effectiveness of an ISR platform, operation, or mission in achieving stated objectives, supporting Commander's priorities, or meeting specified MoE and MoP.

• Support the establishment of MoE and MoP parameters and development of assessments, reports, and summaries.

• Demonstrate and apply an understanding of customer needs specific to each assessment, report, and summary.

• Extract performance and effectiveness data from SIPR and JWICS.

• Produce well and clearly written assessments, products, summaries, and reports, including, but not limited to, ISR Platform Effectiveness Assessments, General ISR Assessments, and MoE/MoP Development.

• Provide platform assessments sufficient to serve as a key enabler of short-term allocation or reallocation decisions on both SIPR and JWICS.

• Disseminate platform assessments to key ISR customers and stakeholders.

• Provide support to: planning and overseeing the deployment and integration of ISR assets; managing and tracking theater requirements; rapidly addressing shortfalls; developing necessary processing, exploitation, and dissemination (PED) support.

• Provide administrative support to SIGINT Military to Military agreements (SM2M) with partner nations.

• Provide direct support for preparation, updating, or reviewing of Operations Plans (OPLANS)/Concept of Operations Plans (CONPLANS), formal briefings, CONOPs/SCONOPs,and TTPs needed to effectively employ airborne ISR assets within the USCENTCOM AOR. This requires detailed knowledge and experience with related Joint Staff publications; ISR CONOPs development; EXORDs; Planning Orders (PLANORDs); Warning Orders (WARNORDs); Fragmentary Orders (FRAGOs); formal Joint Staff requirements processes; airborne ISR asset integration/interoperability; Service Level PED processes/activities; and expertise on National Security Agency (NSA) authorities, processes, United States Signal Intelligence Directives (IUSSIDs), and policies.

• Gather required information, monitor and assess the results of collection, and produce clearly written sensitive reconnaissance operations (SRO) assessments/summaries.

• Deliver weekly/monthly SRO assessments and summaries IAW the directives/ guidance set forth by the J32 Joint Chiefs of Staff.

• Disseminate assessments to key ISR customers and stakeholders.

• Discover, evaluate, and develop reliable and routine access to sources of data, detailing ISR operations at all organizational levels throughout the USCENTCOM AOR in support of the functional manager and ISR Branch.

• Utilize sources of reporting detailing operational planning, tasking, and execution to extract relevant data required by functional manager and ISR Branch.

• Identify, access, ingest, and interpret sources of ISR data and display/present the information when required.

• Develop visualization means and methods ensuring the information is easily understood by a wide range of ISR stakeholders and consumers as needed by the functional managers and ISR Branch.

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

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

• 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.