Intelligence Targeting Analyst

KACE•Sterling, VA

2d•$115,000 - $120,000•Onsite

About The Position

The National Targeting Center Intelligence/Targeting Analyst supports all Inspection Service criminal programs. This position will provide intelligence and targeting analyst support services in conjunction with Federal and State partners to the Inspections Service and other government agencies. The analyst must be capable of using technology solutions to actively search, collect, analyze, and prioritize information to identify high value targets and support high impact investigations in a fast-paced environment.

Requirements

A Bachelors’ Degree from an accredited college or university in finance, information security, data science, intelligence, or other computer technology AND a minimum of (7) seven years’ experience.
Ability to review information, conduct analysis, conduct research, and communicate effectively orally and in writing.
Must be a U.S Citizen.
Favorable credit check for all cleared positions
Successfully passing a background investigation including drug screening.
Residency requirement - 3 consecutive years in the last 5 years.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting criminal investigations is highly desired.
Significant demonstrated experience will be considered in lieu of the education requirement.
Foreign languages are desirable.
Extensive experience in task management, team organization, and task tracking.

Responsibilities

Utilize advanced skillsets to obtain data from back-end data sources using a variety of code scripts, open source, and other government agencies.
Evaluate data from a variety of sources to include agency databases, investigative resources, social media, chats, forums, darknet, Tor network, news feeds, internet relay chats, and other sources of data openly available on the Internet.
Perform a prioritized assessment of the data to identify the most critical and reliable data in order to identify criminal activity, monetization methods, locations, accounts, services, travels, email addresses, IP addresses, and other patterns of life data in an effort to determine attribution.
Assess the work of others, including facilitating the flow of work-related information, peer-review of work product and providing technical guidance to achieve program or project objectives.
Analyze data to identify and interpret patterns and trends, assess data quality, and eliminate irrelevant data; present findings in reports and presentations in non-technical terminology to various audiences.
Responsible for documenting and reporting analytical results, creating graphic displays and reports that present clear and concise representations of the information analyzed; and disseminating data as required by the assigned task(s).
Assist Inspectors with developing intelligence for criminal investigations.
Prepare initial investigative research for referral.
Compile background information, USPIS sourced information, and intelligence from third-party entities such as commercial databases, law enforcement agencies, and victims.
Develop the required level of proof needed to seize and forfeit assets via civil, criminal, and administrative forfeiture processes; utilize compliance databases such as the USPS Bank Secrecy Act Database, SWB Trac and FINCEN to identify and locate assets.
Assist with subpoena content creation, property/vehicle title & lien review and open-source searches of relevant financial data and asset ownership.