Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) Collection Requirements Manager

PotomacWave•Washington, DC

1d•$65,000 - $82,000•Onsite

About The Position

PotomacWave is looking for a SIGINT Collection Requirements Manager to join our team supporting a Federal client in Washington, DC. This position will provide national-level collection requirement systems expertise and support related to SIGINT. This role will be responsible for assisting in the planning and organizing of INT-specific integrated collection requirement strategies using complex, coherent and systematic intelligence collection campaigns employing national, theater and tactical assets against nuclear and energy-related targets worldwide. This role includes working with a team of discipline specific and all source collection requirement managers to develop multi-discipline, department level collection requirement strategies in both complex and comprehensive generic templated approaches, as well as specifically focused ad-hoc methods. The ideal candidate will be able to perform a wide range of functions at the highest level of difficulty and complexity.

Requirements

A Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university in a related discipline with 5 years of professional experience preferred; or 3 years of professional experience with a related Master’s Degree
A minimum of five (5) years of experience in the desired collection requirement discipline (SIGINT) or operations management at the tactical, strategic, or national level preferred.
A strong overall collection requirements background with a thorough understanding of the National Intelligence Priority Framework (NIPF), relevant National Collection Directives, report generation and dissemination
Have training and a working knowledge of discipline-specific collection requirements, evaluation, and tasking systems used by originators.
Possess knowledge of, and skill in, applying advanced technical collection planning concepts, principles, practices, laws, regulations, and methods and techniques to include U.S. person reporting issues.
Knowledge of the full spectrum of IC collection capabilities and accesses to include strengths and weaknesses of specific sources/agencies in a specific discipline.
Extensive knowledge of the missions and functions of agencies within the Intelligence Community who specialize in the various collections.
Ability to establish and maintain effective mission execution and interdepartmental and interagency coordination of the department’s collection requirements, training, and tools.
Experience in collection requirements portfolio areas, understanding customer requirements, with proven skills in developing metrics and measuring the effectiveness of a specific INT’s usage in meeting departmental information gaps and collection strategies.
Mastery knowledge of the roles, missions and functions of the SIGINT community and the principles, concepts, and methodologies of the U.S. national, theater, tactical SIGINT collection environment.
Mastery and skill in coordinating diverse analytical gaps and addressing national level SIGINT priorities and SIGINT Information Needs (IN)s and Knowledge Gaps (KG)s.
Experience with entitlement management systems and administration.
Successfully completed a discipline-specific training program.
A mixture of tactical, strategic, and national-level experience with previous knowledge of the mission is desirable.
The selection of an individual for this position may be conditioned upon his or her successful completion of a counterintelligence-scope polygraph examination.
Must have an active DOE Q or TS clearance.

Responsibilities

Provide expert INT-specific collection management and requirements analysis on assigned target areas.
Plan, organize, and lead the INT collection requirements efforts in using complex coherent and systematic campaigns against nuclear, science, technology, counterintelligence, and energy-related targets world-wide.
Write, review, and submit National Level SIGINT requirements via the SIGINT Requirements Tool (SRT).
Work effectively as a member of a diverse team, accepting and giving effective feedback, and collaborating with other collection requirement managers across the intelligence community.
Develop and present intelligence collection requirement management strategies and approaches.
Build, establish, and maintain relationships with key national, Departmental, IC and military partners.
Represent the Department on SIGINT collection requirements subcommittees and working groups.
Conduct assessments of the effectiveness of intelligence collection.
Analyze Departmental and analyst needs to determine functional and cross-functional intelligence requirements and their relationship/performance against gaps.
Direct and oversee entitlement management duties, including Gatekeeper.
Develop and maintain the SIGINT entitlement missions and structures in Gatekeeper.
Oversee access to new and existing Gatekeeper missions and entitlements for tools, data, and controlled reporting.
Respond to requests for information via the Customer Service Request Portal (CSRP) regarding use of intelligence reporting in finished analysis.
Evaluate, edit, and draft national level requirements for validation and approval via appropriate Community requirements tools.