Senior CI Specialist

Prescient Edge; Charlottesville (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary with bonus

Comprehensive healthcare (medical, vis

Retirement plan

Career development opportunities

Positive work environment

Job summary

Prescient Edge is seeking a senior intelligence professional to identify, monitor, and assess foreign intelligence efforts targeting U.S. information and interests.

The role emphasizes applying expertise in CI capabilities, producing all-source studies, and developing training on collection operations and TTPs for DoD authorities. The candidate should have graduate-level education in a related field, a deep understanding of analytic methodologies, and the ability to work independently with

Qualifications

• Identifies, monitors, and assesses foreign intelligence efforts threatening U.S. information on U.S. persons and interests.
• Applies understanding of foreign intelligence capabilities and partner CI capabilities and TTPs for in-depth analytic research.
• Develops instruction programs on collection operations TTPs for HI and DoD authorities.

Responsibilities

• Identify and analyze analytic operations and knowledge management issues across IC boundaries.
• Produce all-source CI studies and contribute to CI strategies.
• Develop and present programs of instruction on collection operations TTPs.
• Review analytic products for cogent arguments and rigorous support for conclusions.

Skills

Analytic thinking

Independent work

Communication of findings

Research methods

Education

Master’s orBachelor + 5+ years experience

Job description

Please note that the availability of this position is contingent upon award.

Benefits:

At Prescient Edge, we believe that acting with integrity and serving our employees is the key to everyone's success. To that end, we provide employees with a best-in-class benefits package that includes:

• A competitive salary with performance bonus opportunities.
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits, including medical, vision, dental, and orthodontia coverage.
• A substantial retirement plan with no vesting schedule.
• Career development opportunities, including on-the-job training, tuition reimbursement, and networking.
• A positive work environment where employees are respected, supported, and engaged.

Description:

• Identifies, monitors, and assesses foreign intelligence efforts attempting collection of sensitive national security information on U.S. persons, activities and interests, including threats posed by emerging technologies to U.S. operations and interests.
• Applies understanding of foreign intelligence capabilities / activities and U.S. and foreign partner CI capabilities and TTPs for in-depth analytic research and production of all-source CI studies and contributes to developing CI strategies.
• Conducts, develops, produces, and presents programs of instruction in specified collection operations TTPs, and related or supporting processes, relevant to the various human intelligence and technical intelligence operations under DoD authorities.
• Graduate of in-residence Fundamentals of Intelligence Analysis course or Military Service equivalent.
• 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 to no oversight.
• Demonstrated ability to review analytic products for cogent arguments, tradecraft standards, and adequate support for conclusions; routinely tests analytic rigor of analytic products.

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.

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; 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.

Security clearance:

• TS/SCI/CI POLY or the ability to obtain a CI POLY.

Location:

Prescient Edge is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) founded as a counterintelligence (CI) and Human Intelligence (HUMINT) company in 2008. We are a global operations and solutions integrator delivering full-spectrum intelligence analysis support, training, security, and RD&E support solutions to the Department of Defense and throughout the intelligence community. Prescient Edge is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO). All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic that is protected by law. We strive to foster equity and inclusion throughout our organization because we believe that diversity of thought is critical for creating a safe and engaging work environment while also enabling the organization’s success.