Sr Kill Chain Analyst

About the job Sr Kill Chain Analyst


MANDATORY ACTIVE TOP SECRET SCI SECURITY CLEARANCE REQUIRED

THIS POSITION IS FOR IMMEDIATE FILL

This opportunity covers Imagery Intelligence Analysis in support of Marine Corps Intelligence Activity (MCIA), Intelligence (S2), Operations (S3) and Counterintelligence & Human Intelligence (CI HUMINT) Directorates and will provide the United States Marine Corps (USMC) with the Department of Defense's (DoD) best trained General Military Intelligence (GMI) professionals. This description covers the work required to provide stakeholders Intelligence Analytical support for all Intelligence factions.

Senior Kill Chain Analysts will:

• Conduct all-source analysis to evaluate foreign military systems and technologies.
• Conduct research, create intelligence products, create intelligence estimate assessments, and conduct intelligence briefings on request based on MCIAs Program of Analysis (POA) and customer-driven requests for information (RFIs).
• Collect, analyze, interpret, evaluate and research using tools, techniques, methodology and software.
• Produce and deliver written intelligence assessments and briefings to support consumers at the tactical, operational, and strategic level as assigned. Written products will meet Intelligence Community Standards (e.g., ICD 203, 206, 208) and MCIA standards and adhere to MCIA production and review processes.
• Maintain situational awareness of and analyze the assigned portfolio.
• Conduct research to determine current and future foreign capabilities.
• Follow technology transfer and its military impact and ability of recipient countries to assimilate transferred technology.
• Annually publish/produce at least the minimum number of all-source analysis products (e.g., written and oral reports) as dictated by the production requirements on assigned account.
• Collect, analyze, interpret, evaluate and integrate complex data from multiple sources to assess the relevance and significance of developments in his/her assigned subject matter and geographic area(s).
• Identify and assess intelligence gaps, recommend and submit collection requirements to fill gaps.
• Develops collection strategies and composes collection requirements.
• Correlate technically derived data using multiple intelligence disciplines and open-source information.
• Attend, participate in, and contribute to relevant conferences and other events.
• Maintain contact and collaborate with counterparts across MCIA and in other intelligence organizations to keep abreast of current developments, to resolve problems to eliminate duplication, and to provide free flow of information on matters of intelligence interest.
• Deliver subject matter expertise to support the development of new processes, procedures, and technologies.
• Conduct peer reviews and reviews of intelligence products submitted for internal coordination and external intelligence community coordination
• Conduct daily research and all-source analysis of adversary kill webs and the associated sensors, communication architecture, command and control procedures, targeting processes, and weapon systems, with a particular emphasis on those that present a specific threat to Marine Corps equities. Incorporate finished intelligence and reporting from various intelligence sources into analysis.
• Produce written and graphic products, to include kill web overviews and sensor-to-shooter timelines, as required to disseminate analytical findings in accordance with key intelligence questions specific to adversary kill chain analysis.
• Identify gaps in Branch and Service knowledge and take action with the Branch to resolve those gaps through research, collection, analysis, and production.
• Provide and maintain writing proficiency. Produce timely and relevant formal intelligence products in accordance with Kill Chain Analysis Branch deliberate production planning and in response to ad-hoc requests for information.
• Provide and maintain understanding of the systems and weapons that comprise the adversary kill web, to include Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance systems as well as kinetic and non-kinetic weapon systems.
• Provide and maintain understanding of the adversary kill web process, including their targeting cycle, flow of information, and decision-making functions.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 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.
• Desired 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.
• Desired Education: Masters 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 Bachelors 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 Masters degree
• Demonstrates ability to work independently and with minimal oversight.