Collections Management Officer

Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency; Quantico (VA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency seeks a Collections Management Officer in the Office of Counterintelligence to manage collection requirements, coordinate strategies, and assess reporting to address foreign intelligence threats to cleared industry and supply chains.

You will translate customer intelligence needs into actionable requirements, develop collection strategies, review reports for quality, and prepare assessments for leadership to enable threat-informed decisions.

Qualifications

• Translate customer intelligence needs and gaps into actionable collection requirements by developing, refining, validating, prioritizing, registering, and tracking requirements.
• Develop and coordinate collection strategies that align intelligence requirements with authorized collection capabilities and available resources.
• Review intelligence information reports and other collection reporting for quality and responsiveness to validated requirements.
• Develop and apply measures of effectiveness to assess whether counterintelligence collection addresses intelligence requirements and gaps; identify capability and coverage gaps; and recommend adjustments to collection requirements and strategies.
• Research intelligence reporting, customer requirements, and relevant databases to support collection planning and assessments.
• Apply collection-management authorities, policies, and procedures to provide technical guidance, coordinate requirements and reporting feedback with customers and collection partners, and prepare written assessments and oral briefings for leadership.

Skills

Collection Resources Management

Customer Operations and Requirements

Collection Systems Capabilities

Planning and Evaluating

Tools and Methods

Job description

This position is located in the Office of Counterintelligence, Counterintelligence Component, Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency. The incumbent serves as a Collections Management Officer, managing collection requirements, coordinating strategies, and assessing reporting to address foreign intelligence threats to cleared industry, critical technologies, supply chains, and the trusted workforce, enabling threat-informed security decisions in support of warfighter readiness.

The experience described in your resume will be evaluated and screened from the Office of Personnel Management's (OPMs) basic qualifications requirements. See: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0100/intelligence-series-0132/ for OPM qualification standards, competencies and specialized experience needed to perform the duties of the position as described in the MAJOR DUTIES and QUALIFICATIONS sections of this announcement by 10/29/2026 Applicant must have directly applicable experience that demonstrates the possession of the knowledge, skills, abilities and competencies necessary for immediate success in the position. Qualifying experience may have been acquired in any public or private sector job, but will clearly demonstrate past experience in the application of the particular competencies/knowledge, skills and abilities necessary to successfully perform the duties of the position. You must have specialized experience sufficient to demonstrate that you have acquired all the competencies necessary to perform at a level equivalent in difficulty, responsibility, and complexity to the next lower grade GG/GS 12 in the Federal service and are prepared to take on greater responsibility. Generally, this would include one year or more of such specialized experience.

Specialized Experience Required

• Translate customer intelligence needs and gaps into actionable collection requirements by developing, refining, validating, prioritizing, registering, and tracking requirements.
• Develop and coordinate collection strategies that align intelligence requirements with authorized collection capabilities and available resources.
• Review intelligence information reports and other collection reporting for quality and responsiveness to validated requirements.
• Develop and apply measures of effectiveness to assess whether counterintelligence collection addresses intelligence requirements and gaps; identify capability and coverage gaps; and recommend adjustments to collection requirements and strategies.
• Research intelligence reporting, customer requirements, and relevant databases to support collection planning and assessments.
• Apply collection-management authorities, policies, and procedures to provide technical guidance, coordinate requirements and reporting feedback with customers and collection partners, and prepare written assessments and oral briefings for leadership.

Competencies Evaluated

1. Collection Resources Management: Receives and analyzes customer requirements, determines resource availability and capability, prioritizes and develops collection strategies, identifies task collection resources, evaluates performance and/or reporting, and updates collection planning.
2. Customer Operations and Requirements: Applies knowledge of relevant customer organizations or operations (e.g., military, policy-makers, and law enforcement), including how to translate requirements to provide appropriate output or response to meet customer needs.
3. Collection Systems Capabilities: Gains and applies knowledge of capabilities, limitations, and accesses of the intelligence source disciplines, strengths and weaknesses of specific technical sensors/platforms, and human sources in area of responsibility. Knowledge of IC collection management processes, systems, and tools. Demonstrates knowledge of collection strategies, targeting, assessment and methodology, feedback, and source validation/vetting processes.
4. Planning and Evaluating: Organizes work, sets priorities, and determines resource requirements; determines short- or long-term goals and strategies to achieve them; coordinates with other organizations or parts of the organization to accomplish goals; monitors progress and evaluates outcomes.
5. Tools and Methods: Applies tools and methods to substantive discipline, domain, or area of work. Adapts existing tools and/or methods or employs new methodological approaches required for substantive discipline, domain, or area of work.