Targeting Analyst

Cherokee Federal•Quantico, VA

19h•$90,000 - $100,000

About The Position

Cherokee Insights is seeking a Targeting Analyst to provide mid-level targeting analysis to identify, assess, and disrupt threats to cleared industry, cleared personnel, DOD, and Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA). The Targeting Analyst will facilitate USG responses to adversary action and insider threats by sharing threat indicators and enabling responsive measures from other agencies and services.

Requirements

Must have an active Top Secret / SCI level security clearance.
Desired to have a minimum 8 years of experience related to the Targeting Analyst role with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.
Preferred to have a Bachelor's degree
Comprehensive mission knowledge and skills that affirms completion of all developmental training and experiences for the Targeting Analyst position.
Ability to communicate understanding from information that may be incomplete, indirect, highly complex, seemingly unrelated, and / or technically advanced.
Structure analysis based on trends in reporting and a range of analytic perspectives from other analysts, organizations, and intelligence disciplines.
Work independently with minimal oversight and direction.
Collaborate and work with other IC members on information sharing, driving collection, and addressing analytic disputes and conflict resolution.
Ability to develop concise, insightful. and comprehensive products for defense intelligence.
Demonstrates ability to lead teams in researching multifaceted or critical problems.
Provides guidance in selecting, designing, and applying analytic methodologies.
Uses argument evaluation and validated analytic methodologies to challenge differing perspectives.
Working knowledge of the concepts involved in the specific functions outlined in the specified Targeting Analyst description.
Knowledgeable of and demonstrates ability to apply Intelligence Community (IC) and DoD classification guidelines and procedures.
Work semi-independently with oversight and direction.
Able to use logic when evaluating and synthesizing multiple sources of information.
Understanding of interpreting analysis to include, but not limited to, its meaning, importance, and implications.
Demonstrates ability to defend analytic judgements with sound, logical conclusions and adapt analytic judgments when presented with new information, evolving conditions, or unexpected developments.
Produce timely, logical, and concise analytic reports, documents, assessments, studies, and briefing materials in formats including Microsoft Office tools (e.g. Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.), electronic/ soft copy matrices and / or web-enabled formats.
Ability to communicate complex issues clearly in a concise and organized manner both verbally and non-verbally; with strong grammar skills.
Proficiency using Microsoft Office tools.
Develop structured research including, but not limited to, obtaining, evaluating, organizing, and maintaining information within security and data protocols.
Recognize nuances and resolve contradictions and inconsistencies in information.
Working knowledge using complex analytic methodologies, such as structured analytic techniques or alternative approaches, to examine biases, assumptions, and theories to eliminate uncertainty, strengthen analytic arguments, and mitigate surprise.
Structured analytic techniques include, but not limited to, Analysis of Competing Hypotheses, Devil's Advocacy, High-Impact/ Low-Impact Analysis, Red Team Analysis and Alternative Futures Analysis.
Demonstrates understanding of intelligence collection capabilities and limitations, to include but not limited to, technical sensors/ platforms and human intelligence sources related to the labor category.
Understanding of evaluating collected intelligence reporting, engaging with collection managers, and developing collection requirements.
Must pass pre-employment qualifications of Cherokee Federal

Responsibilities

Develops targets and target systems for joint lethal and / or non-lethal engagements.
Develops target nominations, creates database records, and databases target intelligence products.
Produces all-source analytic damage estimates and battle damage assessments and assists with combat assessment requirements.
Conducts collateral damage estimation, performs target list management, target strategy development, and provides joint target intelligence support to deliberate and dynamic target engagements.
Provides recommendations for target prioritization to achieve commander objectives for plans and operations.
Provides database nominations, creates and updates database and uploads GTMs into databases.
Develop and operationalize an enterprise security risk management methodology across Government and industry stakeholders.
Independently conduct research using all sources of information and intelligence, and if required, seeks out access to information and databases to complete the mission to focus DCSA targeting efforts.
Identify adversarial entities targeting cleared industry facilities, information, personnel, and/or technologies resident in the NISP.
Develop target products that facilitate USG responses to adversary action.
Draft multi-disciplinary targeting products that support key U.S. national security and foreign policy objectives and helps shape IC investigations, operations, collections, and priorities.
Develop comprehensive targeting packages for OGA action to deter, detect, exploit, neutralize, or disrupt adversarial entities.
Apply a full range of targeting methodologies, tools, and approaches to gain a comprehensive understanding of complex issues and incorporate insights and finding into well crafted, sophisticated targeting products.
Coordinate, collaborate, and engage with customers and stakeholders to improve integration and share threat information to enable responsive measures from DCSA, and other agencies and services.
Coordinate and collaborate with DCSA, DoD, other USG departments and agencies to collect and share intelligence information.
Disseminates information throughout the intelligence, CI and LE communities.
Refer detailed threat information meeting certain investigative and operational thresholds expeditiously to the appropriate IC and/or LE partners for investigative or operational exploitation.
Attend targeting-related conferences, as tasked.
Performs other job-related duties as assigned