Counter Intelligence Analyst - Senior

Aim Point Innovation LLC; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 140,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Aim Point Innovation LLC in Maryland seeks a Senior Intelligence Analyst to conduct all-source CI analysis, identify trends, gaps, and leads, and provide timely warning on foreign threats to U.S. interests.

Requires TOP SECRET security clearance, IC/DoD tradecraft knowledge, and the ability to produce clear analytic reports and briefings. Collaboration with CI teams and continued professional development are expected. Salary ranges from $140,000 to $150,000 per year.

Qualifications

• TOP SECRET security clearance required.
• Experience with IC/DoD classification guidelines.
• Ability to work semi-independently with oversight.
• Strong analytic writing and briefing skills.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate CI analytic products with analysts for quality review.
• Identify and assess foreign intelligence threats to U.S. interests.
• Produce timely all-source CI studies and briefings.
• Inform CI concept and strategy development.
• Lead and mentor teams in research and analysis.

Skills

All-source analysis

Team leadership

Clear communication

Critical thinking

Education

Fundamentals of Intelligence Analysis course

Master's degree in Intelligence/Security

Tools

PowerPoint

Excel

Word

PDF

Job description

MANDATORY TOP SECRET SECURITY CLEARANCE REQUIRED

Conducts all‑source analysis across the functions of CI by using information and intelligence from multiple sources to identify trends, gaps, and leads, assess, interpret, forecast, and provide warning of foreign intelligence services’ intent and capability to target U.S. interests

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with community analysts and coordinates CI analytical products for quality‑of‑analysis evaluation and peer review in accordance with Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC) processes
• Identifies, monitors, and assesses foreign intelligence efforts attempting to collect sensitive national security information on U.S. persons, activities, and interests, including threats posed by emerging technologies to U.S. operations and interests
• Applies knowledge and understanding of foreign intelligence capabilities, activities, and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) for in‑depth analytic research and production of all‑source CI studies
• Helps to inform, from an analytical perspective, the development of CI concepts, procedures, plans, and strategies across the functions of CI
• Adheres to Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) all‑source analytic tradecraft standards
• Produces tactical and operational level analytical products to support requests for information (RFis) across the functions of CI
• Ensures colleagues, team, Senior Intelligence Analyst (SIA), and leadership are well informed on the status and disposition of relevant CI products
• Informs the development of briefings for foreign visitors and/or traveling to countries with an elevated CI threat

Qualifications

• MANDATORY TOP SECRET SCI SECURITY CLEARANCE
• 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 judgments 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 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 ability to use 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 Compet‑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.
• Demonstrates comprehensive mission knowledge and skills that affirm 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.
• 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 review analytic products for cogent arguments, tradecraft standards, and adequate support for conclusions; routinely tests analytic rigor of analytic products.

Required experience

Graduate of an in‑residence Fundamentals of Intelligence Analysis course or military Service equivalent. Experience maintaining databases and repositories as well as in‑depth familiarity with PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and PDF.

Highly desired background/experience

Support to CI risk assessments, supply chain risk assessments, CI support to Research, Development, and Acquisition (RDA), or analytical support to one or more of the following CI functions: collection, functional services, investigations, and operations.

Experience supporting at least two of the four missions of CI

• countering espionage, international terrorism, and the CI insider threat;
• support to force protection;
• support to the defense critical infrastructure program
• support to research, development, and acquisition

Desired Experience

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 Education

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; and an additional 5 years of related senior experience, for a total of 17 years, as a substitute to the Master's degree.

This position is contingent upon contract award and/or final funding approval. All offers of employment are tentative and will only be finalized upon official notification of contract win by the client.

Expected Salary Range

$140,000 $150,000 annually.