Targeter

Booz Allen Hamilton; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 62,000 - 141,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Paid time off

Tuition assistance

Professional development

Retirement benefits

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking an intelligence Targeter to deliver actionable intelligence for national security. You will perform daily briefs, analyze complex operations, and inform senior leaders with time-sensitive updates.

The role emphasizes all-source intelligence expertise, rigorous analysis, and collaboration across IC partners, often under pressure, leveraging diverse tools and policies to shape targeting narratives.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of all-source intelligence (SIGINT, MASINT, IMINT, HUMINT) and ability to process reports and directives.
• Ability to research, analyze, fuse data sets, and generate leads for dynamic objectives.
• Ability to conduct weekly rotating shift work and travel up to 25%.

Responsibilities

• Provide time-critical briefs and updates to senior leaders.
• Analyze complex worldwide operations to develop actionable intelligence.
• Manage information flow across IC organizations within decision timelines.
• Convey dissenting perspectives to ensure all data streams are considered.

Skills

All-source intelligence

All-source reports analysis

Data fusion and leads

Weekly rotating shifts

Domestic/international travel

TS/SCI with polygraph

HS diploma or GED + experience

Bachelor's degree + experience

Education

HS diploma or GED

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Targeter The Opportunity: Critical decisions are made every single day in support of our nation's defense. What if you could use your analytical skills and operational mindset to help protect the country? With all the information available today, it takes a skilled intelligence analyst to find and interpret the best data to provide their clients with the best answers. As an intelligence analyst and targeting officer, you can use your technical expertise, briefing skills, attention to detail, and curiosity to develop actionable intelligence for our clients. If you have a strong technical and analytical background with a problem-solving mindset, we have an opportunity for you to use those skills to support our national security. As a Targeter on our team, you’ll play a critical role in helping our client understand the operational battlespace and the national-level threats in that space. You will do this through daily briefs and operational and time-critical updates to senior leaders. Additionally, you may be charged with analyzing complex worldwide operations to develop actionable intelligence against the highest priorities. As such, you will demonstrate knowledge of lifecycle sponsor operations, including how to support them, and leverage expertise in the appropriate legal and policy guidance for executing the client’s particular mission. You will manage, task, and maintain information flow across IC organizations within operational decision timelines. You will convey well-reasoned dissenting perspectives to ensure all data streams are considered for key decisions and become an authority on your target set, AOR, and operational tools. Our client will look to you for time-critical recommendations, often under pressure. This is a chance to define your expertise as you develop new skills incorporating raw, often time-sensitive intelligence paired with many platforms and tools enabling you to affect the targeting narrative or picture. You will be with a team where you will share your skills, expertise, and hunger for solutions with other analysts. We focus on growing as a team to deliver the best support to our customers and use multiple resources for mentoring and learning new skills and tools.

You Have:

• Knowledge of all-source intelligence, including SIGINT, MASINT, IMINT, and HUMINT
• Ability to read and process all-source intelligence reports and implement directives, as presented daily
• Ability to research, analyze, and fuse complex data sets and generate leads to advance dynamic objectives, collection, and analysis
• Ability to conduct weekly rotating shift work
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 25% of the time
• TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph
• HS diploma or GED and 7+ years of experience with the targeting lifecycle
• Bachelor's degree and 3+ years of experience with the targeting lifecycle

Nice If You Have:

• Possession of excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Master's degree

Compensation

At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits.

Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $62,000.00 to $141,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees.

This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.

Identity Statement

As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.

Candidate AI Usage Policy

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Work Model

• Remote: If this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility.
• Hybrid: If this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen facility frequently, in alignment with leadership expectations and the needs of the role. You may also be required to work from or visit a customer facility.
• Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed at a Booz Allen office or customer facility, where employees will collaborate directly with colleagues and customers as required by the role.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.

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About Booz Allen

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