Intelligence Analyst

VTG•Chantilly, VA

12d•Onsite

About The Position

VTG is seeking Intelligence Analysts to synchronize intelligence activities across the full intelligence cycle. Analysts process, analyze, and produce internal and analytical products to inform customer decision-making and operations across all domains. The position is based in Chantilly, Virginia, and is 100% onsite. The position is contingent upon contract award. The role supports intelligence processing and exploitation, foreign threat analysis, technical and vulnerability assessments, cyber intelligence interpretation, counterintelligence threat assessment, intelligence dashboard maintenance, and evaluation of intelligence impacts on customer capabilities and operations. Analysts compile and disseminate Intelligence Community products, translate customer feedback to improve intelligence value, and support survivability and assurance through threat analysis and reporting. All analytical products must follow structured analytic techniques and Intelligence Community Analytic Standards. Analysts must be able to explain and defend judgments and adapt them when new information becomes available. The posting describes qualifications at junior, mid-level, senior, and expert levels. Requirements vary by level and include relevant education or experience, functional-area knowledge, analytical and research skills, communication abilities, and, for some levels, leadership and strategic advisory capabilities. An active Top Secret/SCI clearance with polygraph is required.

Requirements

Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with polygraph.
For junior level: bachelor's degree in a related field from an accredited college or university; three years of intelligence experience, including experience within the last two years. Seven years of experience may substitute for education.
For junior level: working knowledge of concepts involved in the specific functions.
Knowledge of and ability to apply Intelligence Community and Department of War classification guidelines and procedures.
Ability to use logic to evaluate and synthesize information from multiple sources.
Ability to conduct structured research, including obtaining, evaluating, organizing, and maintaining information within security and data protocols.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools.
Ability to communicate complex issues clearly, concisely, and in an organized manner, verbally and in writing, with strong grammar skills.
For mid-level: at least eight years of relevant functional-area experience, including experience within the last two years. Twelve years of experience may substitute for education.
For mid-level: comprehensive mission knowledge and skills demonstrating completion of developmental training and experience for the functional area.
For mid-level: ability to communicate understanding from incomplete, indirect, highly complex, seemingly unrelated, or technically advanced information.
For mid-level: ability to lead teams researching multifaceted or critical problems.
For senior level: minimum 12 years of experience; may substitute for a master's degree and 10 years of experience.
For senior level: in-depth knowledge and understanding of functional-area activities to meet mission requirements.
For senior level: mastery of qualitative and quantitative methodologies and pursuit of developments in academia or other fields that affect tradecraft methodology.
For senior level: ability to define comprehensive, new, or unique research approaches for rigorous assessments addressing high-level tasks.
For senior level: ability to conduct in-depth analysis of operations and knowledge-management issues across organizational and Intelligence Community boundaries and clearly articulate key findings.
For senior level: ability to review products for cogent arguments, tradecraft standards, and adequate support for conclusions.
For expert level: master's degree in a related field from an accredited college or university and at least 15 years of experience; alternatively, a Ph.D. in a related field from a college or university and eight years of experience.
For expert level: ability to define problems, supervise studies, and lead surveys to collect and analyze data, provide advice, and recommend solutions.
For expert level: analytic leadership and expertise in identifying, planning, developing, and executing methodologies, tradecraft, and techniques aligned with the functional-area mission.
For expert level: extensive ability to provide strategic advice, technical guidance, and expertise to senior planners and policymakers.

Responsibilities

Assist with processing and exploiting intelligence products to support customer missions and requirements, and analyze foreign intelligence threats to customer equities.
Assist in developing comprehensive technical threat capability assessments and contribute to vulnerability assessments for customer systems and operations.
Interpret cyber intelligence for customer mission relevance; analyze intelligence from National and Joint Services; and assess counterintelligence threats to customer missions.
Operate and maintain intelligence dashboards to provide decision-makers with current and reliable threat tracking and analytical products.
Provide analysis related to the customer Information Environment and evaluate the impact of intelligence products on customer capabilities and operations.
Compile and deliver Intelligence Community products across the customer, including the Presidential Daily Brief and Executive Intelligence Summary.
Translate Intelligence Community feedback to improve intelligence value for the customer.
Support survivability and assurance through threat analysis and reporting.
Apply structured analytic techniques and Intelligence Community Analytic Standards to analytical products.
Defend analytic judgments with sound, logical conclusions and adapt judgments when presented with new information.
At expert level, define problems, supervise studies, and lead surveys to collect and analyze data and recommend solutions.
At expert level, provide analytic leadership and expertise in developing and executing methodologies, tradecraft, and techniques aligned with the functional-area mission.
At expert level, provide strategic advice, technical guidance, and expertise to senior planners and policymakers.