Counter-intelligence Analyst

The Ascendancy Group LTD • Tacoma, WA

1d • $120,000 - $147,000

About The Position

As a Counterintelligence Analyst, you will identify, monitor, and assess foreign intelligence efforts to collect sensitive national security information on U.S. persons, activities, and interests, including threats posed by emerging technologies. The position is full-time and contingent upon contract award, and requires a current Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) security clearance.

The Ascendancy Group (TAG) provides technical, service, and training-based solutions focused on special operations forces and the Intelligence Community. TAG describes its team as government-focused professionals with prior Department of War or Intelligence Community experience, working in small teams on challenging national-security problem sets.

Requirements

• At least 12 years of experience related to this labor category, with a portion of that experience within the last two years, and a master's degree in a related field from an accredited college or university. A bachelor's degree and 17 total years of related experience may be substituted for the master's degree.
• Active TS/SCI security clearance.
• Graduate of an in-residence Fundamentals of Intelligence Analysis course or military service equivalent.
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of labor-category activities required to meet mission requirements.
• Mastery of qualitative and quantitative methodologies used in this field.
• Ability to define new or unique approaches that support rigorous assessments and high-level tasks.
• Ability to review products for sound arguments, tradecraft standards, and adequate support for conclusions.
• Ability to work independently with minimal oversight.
• Ability to draw understanding from incomplete, indirect, highly complex, or technically advanced information.
• Ability to collaborate with Intelligence Community partners on information sharing, driving collection, and resolving analytic disputes.
• Ability to lead or guide teams researching multifaceted or critical problems.
• Knowledge of Intelligence Community and Department of War classification guidelines and procedures, and ability to apply them.
• Ability to communicate complex issues clearly and concisely, verbally and in writing, with strong grammar skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting Joint or special operations organizations.
• Ability to work independently with limited government oversight and function effectively as part of a team in a joint environment.
• Experience in a deployed environment.

Responsibilities

• Identify, monitor, and assess foreign intelligence efforts targeting U.S. persons, activities, and interests.
• Assess threats posed by emerging technologies to U.S. operations and interests.
• Apply knowledge of foreign intelligence capabilities and U.S. and partner counterintelligence capabilities to in-depth research and all-source counterintelligence studies.
• Contribute to developing counterintelligence strategies.
• Develop and present programs of instruction on collection operations and supporting processes for HUMINT and technical intelligence operations under Department of War authorities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior