All Source Analyst – Arabic Linguist

The Capabilities, Analysis and Development (CAD) division of Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) has an outstanding opportunity for an accomplished All-Source Analyst with experience using intelligence and information from multiple sources to assess, interpret, forecast, and explain a range of national security issues and developments that are regional and/or functional in nature. This person will need to have Arabic language proficiency at the DLPT 3 level with the ability to read and analyze technical documents, grey literature, and academic journals.

This position provides all-source analytic support to Defense, Service, and military customers in accordance with defense intelligence priorities, requirements, and guidance. This position routinely contributes to Defense Intelligence Enterprise deliverables, including but not limited to foundational assessments, warning reports, technical briefings, and other analytic documents. The position collaborates with the Intelligence Community, Defense Department, national labs, and academia to address a variety of foreign adversary and threat issues. The All-Source Analyst provides guidance to less experienced staff, reviews the work of others, and authoritatively contributes to multi-functional analytic teams. The position is expected to understand and articulate official government analytic positions during customer engagements and represent Defense Intelligence Enterprise analytic units as directed.

This position is contingent upon customer funding with an anticipated start date in January 2025.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and 3 years of recent experience with intelligence analysis, including employing multi-INT databases to develop analytic assessments and briefings OR 8 years experience without a bachelor’s degree
• Working familiarity with established Intelligence Community directives, standards, and tradecraft documents.
• Arabic language proficiency at the DLPT 3 level with the ability to read and analyze technical documents, grey literature, and academic journals
• Ability to communicate complex analyses at a level comprehensible to diverse military audiences and senior-level government representatives
• Ability to clearly express in writing technical analysis results and program characterizations
• Familiarity with intelligence cycle processes and outcomes and ability to enhance intelligence cycle functioning with tailored all-source support
• Experience providing all-source intelligence support to military planning, operations, and exercise efforts
• Understanding of the Defense Intelligence Enterprise, DIA, and Service intelligence production centers
• Experience responding to and effectively answering requests for intelligence/information (RFI)
• Word, Excel and PowerPoint proficiency
• Active TS/SCI clearance

Desired Qualifications:

• Advanced degree and/or specialized Intelligence Community-related training(s)
• Military or defense-related experience and working familiarity with strategies, policies, and plans that enable defense against CBRN threats and prevent the proliferation of WMD
• Experience effectively devising, utilizing, and communicating methodological approaches to complex problem sets
• Knowledge of state nuclear, biological, and/or chemical (NBC) programs, strategic weapons developments, and WMD-related proliferation and procurement
• Proficiency with network analysis tools (Analyst Notebook, Palantir, etc.) and methodologies

COMPANY INFORMATION:

Applied Research Associates, Inc. is an employee-owned international research and engineering company recognized for providing technically superior solutions to complex and challenging problems in the physical sciences. The company, founded in Albuquerque, NM, in 1979, currently employs over 1200 professionals. ARA offices throughout the United States and Canada provide a broad range of technical expertise in defense technologies, civil technologies, computer software and simulation, systems analysis, environmental technologies, and testing and measurement. The corporation also provides sophisticated technical products for environmental site characterization, pavement analysis, and robotics.

At ARA, employees are our greatest assets. The corporation realizes that employee ownership fosters greater creativity and initiative along with higher performance and customer satisfaction levels. ARA gives its employees the tools, training, and opportunities to take more active roles as owners. The culture is challenging; innovation and experimentation are the norm. Employees are eligible for contributions which not only add to the company’s success, but also their own through the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). The motto, “Engineering and Science for Fun and Profit” sums up the ARA experience. For additional information and an opportunity to join this unique workplace, please visit our website at www.ara.com.

Please apply at www.careers.ara.com for the All-Source Analyst position.

Experience

• 3 - 5 years: Relevant work experience

Behaviors

• Thought Provoking: Capable of making others think deeply on a subject
• Loyal: Shows firm and constant support to a cause
• Innovative: Consistently introduces new ideas and demonstrates original thinking
• Functional Expert: Considered a thought leader on a subject
• Enthusiastic: Shows intense and eager enjoyment and interest
• Detail Oriented: Capable of carrying out a given task with all details necessary to get the task done well
• Dedicated: Devoted to a task or purpose with loyalty or integrity

Motivations

• Self-Starter: Inspired to perform without outside help
• Growth Opportunities: Inspired to perform well by the chance to take on more responsibility
• Goal Completion: Inspired to perform well by the completion of tasks
• Entrepreneurial Spirit: Inspired to perform well by an ability to drive new ventures within the business

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)