Intelligence Analyst SME

The Intelligence Analyst SME is a highly skilled professional who provides intelligence support to a federal agency in support of the US Government's threat watchlisting and screening mission.

Duties may include processing and verifying national security threat actor nominations, data integrity/quality control, encounter management, information sharing, and/or multiple discipline intelligence analysis.

The Intelligence Analyst SME analyzes complex problems, applies expert-level analytic tradecraft, and uses conceptualizing, reasoning, and interpretation to identify solutions.

A successful Intelligence Analyst SME must have good interpersonal skills and work well with others, possess excellent written and verbal communication skills, and have the ability to engage with senior executive leadership regarding matters of strategic importance.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provides timely responses to requests as needed, including after-hours coordination when necessary.
• Assists the Program Manager to fill vacancies with fully qualified candidates in a timely and efficient manner.
• Creates and properly documents activities in accordance with policies and procedures.
• Develops knowledge of government program goals and objectives, the sequence and timing of key program events and milestones, and methods of evaluating the worth of program accomplishments.
• Designs and conducts comprehensive management and/or program studies where the boundaries are extremely broad and difficult to determine, and develop logical, clear, and well-documented recommendations and conclusions.
• Communicates clearly and effectively, both orally and in writing, in order to tactfully and persuasively advise and guide executive management relative to a variety of issues that can be delicate in nature; includes making presentations and preparing complete, clear, and concise formal and informal reports, correspondence, briefings, charts, tables, and graphs that are distributed throughout the government and its partner agencies.
• Leads and supervises a team of junior analysts with oversight from Government leadership.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Basic Qualifications:

• Mastery knowledge of applicable theories, principles, practices, approaches, and techniques of research, survey methodology, and analysis concepts.
• Comprehensive knowledge and/or the ability to learn the range of administrative laws, executive orders, directives, policies, regulations, and precedents related to US Government watchlisting and screening.
• Extensive familiarity with applicable IC directives, analytic tradecraft standards, and reporting cycles.
• Excellent communication skills (oral and written); ensures information contained within reports is intelligible, cogent, comprehensive, and understandable, and that all reports use proper grammar and spelling.
• Demonstrated problem-solving experience.
• Capacity to work independently and as part of a team to provide multi-faceted intelligence products and support to operational units and IC components is essential.
• Conducts research and analysis of data, information, and intelligence to produce a wide range of finished all-source intelligence products. Finished intelligence products shall include standard and non-standard Agency products as well as briefings for the tactical and strategic customers.
• Participates in meetings, conferences, and working groups and provides strategic and operational analysis in assigned focus area.
• Ability to be flexible to perform a wide variety of tasks, change focus quickly, and adapt to meet mission requirements.
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Outlook applications.
• Ability to work with and engage the customer daily.
• Active TS/SCI clearance and eligible for C/I Polygraph.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Completion certificate from a commercial, military, or US government all-source analysis training course or a specialized intelligence career field.
• Interagency experience within the Intelligence Community or federal law enforcement.
• Counterintelligence (CI) and/or Counterterrorism (CT) experience in a national level intelligence agency is highly desired.
• Degree in security or intelligence studies with a recommended focus on terrorism or other transnational security threats is highly desired.