SIGINT Collection Requirements Manager - Washington, DC

Military Spouse Corporate Career Network•Washington, DC

About The Position

PotomacWave is seeking a SIGINT Collection Requirements Manager to support a Federal client in Washington, DC. The role provides national-level collection requirement systems expertise and SIGINT support, assisting with the planning and organization of INT-specific integrated collection strategies. These strategies use complex, coherent, and systematic campaigns that employ national, theater, and tactical assets against nuclear, science, technology, counterintelligence, and energy-related targets worldwide. The manager works with discipline-specific and all-source collection requirements managers to develop multidisciplinary, department-level strategies using both comprehensive templated approaches and focused ad hoc methods. The role calls for performing a wide range of functions at a high level of difficulty and complexity. The position includes SIGINT collection management and requirements analysis, drafting and evaluating national-level requirements, and developing collection strategies. It also covers SIGINT entitlement management in Gatekeeper, coordination with intelligence community and military partners, and assessment of collection effectiveness. An active DOE Q or Top Secret clearance is required. Selection may be conditioned on successful completion of a counterintelligence-scope polygraph examination.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in a related discipline and five years of professional experience, or a related master’s degree and three years of professional experience.
Strong collection requirements background and thorough understanding of the National Intelligence Priority Framework (NIPF), relevant National Collection Directives, and report generation and dissemination.
Training and working knowledge of discipline-specific collection requirements, evaluation, and tasking systems used by originators.
Knowledge and skill applying advanced technical collection planning concepts, principles, practices, laws, regulations, methods, and techniques, including U.S. person reporting issues.
Knowledge of the full spectrum of intelligence community collection capabilities and access, including the strengths and weaknesses of specific sources and agencies in a discipline.
Extensive knowledge of the missions and functions of intelligence community agencies specializing in various collection disciplines.
Ability to establish and maintain effective mission execution and interdepartmental and interagency coordination of Department collection requirements, training, and tools.
Experience in collection requirements portfolio areas and understanding customer requirements, with demonstrated ability to develop metrics and measure the effectiveness of an INT in addressing Department information gaps and collection strategies.
Mastery of the roles, missions, and functions of the SIGINT community and the principles, concepts, and methodologies of the U.S. national, theater, and tactical SIGINT collection environment.
Mastery and skill coordinating diverse analytical gaps and addressing national-level SIGINT priorities, SIGINT Information Needs (INs), and Knowledge Gaps (KGs).
Experience with entitlement management systems and administration.
Must have an active DOE Q or Top Secret clearance.

Nice To Haves

A minimum of five years of experience in SIGINT collection requirements or operations management at the tactical, strategic, or national level is preferred.
A mixture of tactical, strategic, and national-level experience with prior knowledge of the mission is desirable.
Successful completion of a discipline-specific training program.

Responsibilities

Provide expert INT-specific collection management and requirements analysis for assigned target areas.
Plan, organize, and lead INT collection requirements efforts using systematic campaigns against worldwide nuclear, science, technology, counterintelligence, and energy-related targets.
Write, review, and submit national-level SIGINT requirements through the SIGINT Requirements Tool (SRT).
Collaborate with a diverse team and other collection requirements managers across the intelligence community, giving and accepting feedback.
Develop and present intelligence collection requirements management strategies and approaches.
Build and maintain relationships with national, Departmental, intelligence community, and military partners.
Represent the Department on SIGINT collection requirements subcommittees and working groups.
Assess the effectiveness of intelligence collection.
Analyze Departmental and analyst needs to identify functional and cross-functional intelligence requirements and assess their relationship to and performance against gaps.
Direct and oversee entitlement management duties, including Gatekeeper.
Develop and maintain SIGINT entitlement missions and structures in Gatekeeper.
Oversee access to new and existing Gatekeeper missions and entitlements for tools, data, and controlled reporting.
Respond through the Customer Service Request Portal (CSRP) to questions regarding the use of intelligence reporting in finished analysis.
Evaluate, edit, and draft national-level requirements for validation and approval through appropriate community requirements tools.