Targeting Analyst 125-033

Targeting Analyst 125-033

Position Description:

The contractor shall provide personnel with skills and knowledge to conduct focused and tailored targeting analysis to support targeting efforts across the USCENTCOM AOR, to enable strategic advantage for CDR USCENTCOM and subordinate war-fighters. Support contractor personnel shall conduct targeting intelligence functions IAW DoD policy, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) Manuals/Instructions, and USCENTCOM policies/standards. Personnel will be required to conduct extensive targeting analysis using all-source intelligence research and analysis in order to perform basic, intermediate, and advanced target development in support of lethal/non-lethal engagements. The contractor shall adhere to established product formats, fulfill production deadlines, and meet response suspense. Once contractor personnel arrive for duty, they may be required to attend additional qualification training.

In support of this subtask, the contractor shall:

• Conduct targeting analysis utilizing all available intelligence sources to perform basic, intermediate, and advanced target development in support of lethal/non-lethal engagements.

• Conduct collateral damage incident research and report as necessary.

• Compose database relevant remarks for electronic target folders (ETFs) for all five recognized target types.

• Conduct Collateral Damage Estimation (CDE) and produce required graphics.

• Perform target list management and provide joint target intelligence support to deliberate/dynamic target engagements.

• Conduct target planning; write/edit OPORD, CONPLAN, OPLAN Annex/Appendix; and edit/provide input to DoD and USCENTCOM policy to support targeting.

• Provide recommendations for target prioritization in order to achieve commander objectives for plans and operations.

• Support the target vetting and validation process; submit: collection requests, source directed requirements, and source evaluations to support target development.

• Assist in the development of Target System Analysis (TSA) by providing target prioritization recommendations for TSA development.

• Compile visual depictions of target intelligence to aid senior decision-makers.

• Conduct database nominations; create, review, update, and delete database records; and upload graphic/products into databases as required to support basic, intermediate, and advanced target development.

• Review no-strike data records for accuracy and nominate newly discovered no-strike facilities within assigned database.

• Develop training materials and conduct on-the-job training (OJT) for personnel as required.

• Provide subject matter expertise (SME) support to training events and requirements.

• Provide recommended input to CJCS Manuals/Instructions, USCENTCOM policies, and USCENTCOM SOPs as required.

• Respond to RFIs.

• Prepare/present Target Validation, Joint Target Working Group, and Joint Target Coordination Board briefings as required.

• Publish meeting notes upon conclusion of all meetings attended when representing the U.S. Government.

This subtask may require flexible support hours outside the standard duty hours of 0730-1630, to include:

weekend support, TDYs, deployments for targeting operations, and support to 24/7 targeting operations.

Performance Includes:

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

• 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.