All Source Analyst 125-001

All-Source Analyst contractor personnel shall have and maintain the ability to conduct all-source analysis of the USCENTCOM AOR and USCENTCOM AOI (as defined by the Unified Command Plan). Contractor personnel shall have/maintain the ability to gather information, analyze information, and prepare draft analytic products necessary for the U.S. Government to publish, disseminate, and apply intelligence in the following subject areas: Foundational Military Intelligence, Geopolitical, Socio-Cultural, Terrorism, Cyber Threats, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Regional Infrastructure Capacity, and other functional areas as required, with a geographic focus on transnational issues. Produce current all-source intelligence analysis to assess, interpret, forecast, and explain a range of regional or functional national security issues and developments in the USCENTCOM AOR and AOI. Produce timely, relevant all-source analysis on security and political developments affecting defense issues in the USCENTCOM region and its periphery in line with Director of National Intelligence (DNI)/DIA analytic tradecraft standards as established in Intelligence Community Directive (ICD) 203 and 206. Network with forces in the USCENTCOM region, components, IC counterparts/stakeholders ensuring effective external coordination/collaboration on branch production; communicate with relevant USCENTCOM Divisions/Directorates to ensure internal intelligence issue coordination; initiate collaborative production/support to plans and operations efforts as appropriate; and coordinate finished production internally and externally.

• The candidate shall develop and refine collection requirements. The candidate shall draft and maintain a list of intelligence questions regarding assigned topics to guide production, tend analytic lines, and identify intelligence gaps IAW USCENTCOM priorities and the Theater Campaign Plan (TCP). The candidate shall provide all-source analytic support to collections, operations, investigations, and other defense intelligence analytic requirements. The candidate shall provide anticipatory analysis, actionable intelligence, joint intelligence preparation of the operating environment, analytic support to targeting, situational awareness, and long-term stability warning assessments of developments in and around the USCENTCOM region and its periphery to USCENTCOM CDR; component forces; U.S. Embassy country teams; U.S. Government agencies; and fielded forces to support the planning, execution of operations, and achievement of USCENTCOM objectives.
• Contractor all-source analysts supporting Regional Issues shall be capable of preparing draft analytic products necessary to support rapidly emerging objectives centered on the designated countries in the USCENTCOM AOR and AOI.
• Contractor all-source analysts supporting Transregional Issues shall be capable of preparing draft analytic products necessary to support rapidly emerging objectives affecting vital U.S. and allied interests in and around the USCENTCOM AOR.
• Contractor all-source analysts supporting Strategic Competition analytics shall be capable of preparing draft analytic products necessary to addressing increased or diversified strategic competition in the USCENTCOM AOI.
• Contractors supporting the Write for Release function shall produce releasable versions of USCENTCOM J2's finished intelligence products to ensure maximum utility to support intelligence sharing with the broadest audience possible, per U.S. Government regulations and guidance.
• Contractors shall create tailored releasable products for USCENTCOM's coalition partners and allies to support USCENTCOM J2's partner sharing and engagement requirements. Contractors shall work closely with USCENTCOM Foreign Disclosure Office (FDO) and maintain currency on all foreign intelligence sharing policies across a non-U.S. audience.

Duties may include

Mid-Level:

• 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:

• 3 (three) years of experience conducting analysis relevant to the specific labor category with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 (two) years and either a Bachelor's degree or an additional 4 (four) years of direct experience, for a total of 7 (seven) years of experience in the specific labor catergory may be substituted for a Bachelor's degree

Education:

• Desired: 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.

Senior-Level:

• 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.

Experience:

• 8 - 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: 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.

Expert-Level:

• Demonstrates ability to define problems, supervise studies and lead surveys to collect and analyze data to provide advice and recommend solutions.
• Demonstrates analytic leadership and expertise in identifying, planning, developing, and executing analytic production methodologies, tradecraft and techniques aligned with labor category mission.
• Demonstrates extensive ability to provide strategic advice, technical guidance and expertise to Defense planners and policymaker (e.g. Undersecretary level or higher).

Experience:

• 12 - 20 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: 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.

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI and the willingness to sit for a polygraph, if needed

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