Category

Intelligence

Job Type

Full-Time

Career Level

Staff

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Travel

Security Clearance Required

TS/SCI with CI Polygraph

Job Description

Prescient Edge is seeking a Mid Counterterrorism Support/ Insurgency Analyst to support a Federal government client.

As a Mid Counterterrorism Support/ Insurgency Analyst, you will:

• Provide focused analysis of counterintelligence (CI), counterterrorism (CT), counterespionage (CE), insider threat (IT), and cyber CI investigations in support of the JTTF Investigative Mission
• Provide analysis of incoming reporting and referrals from across the U.S. Intelligence Community and from CI investigative, operational, collection, and targeting results. This analysis shall provide data for the JTTF to effectively scope potential leads and to determine the appropriate CI response in an investigation or other CI mission. Additionally, the analysis shall enable JTTF to maintain oversight on highly sensitive national security investigations and provide senior U.S. Army leaders, investigative managers, and field agents with appropriate perspective on threats to the U.S. Army for use in their decision making
• Evaluate multiple analytical efforts underway that are related to major and ongoing national security investigations for redundancy and provide written reports to Government Team, Branch, and Division Chiefs
• Identify and disseminate FIE modus operandi by conducting in-depth reviews of historical CONUS-based CT investigations and provide periodic analytical updates on major investigations currently underway
• Conduct extensive and in-depth liaison with counterintelligence analytical organizations across INSCOM and the intelligence community at large in order to understand investigations in a broader national context and utilize a wide variety of unclassified and classified internal and external databases and resources to conduct data queries and provide written reports to Agents assigned to the JTTF program
• Conduct exchanges with internal and external agency representatives and analysts
• Conduct financial analysis in support of CT investigations
• Conduct link chart analysis in support of CT investigations
• Support the Joint Terrorism Task Force Program which provides analytical support service to ongoing operations and investigations in the field serviced across 16 JTTFs in CONUS where INSCOM has agents staffed to provide Army support to the FBI’s JTTF Program supporting the full spectrum of CT investigations, operations, and collection missions
• Research emerging analytical related methodologies, tradecraft, tools, and procedures used by FIE and FTO against U.S. Army equities and develop information papers for leadership
• Provide comprehensive knowledge in all aspects involving sensitive investigations and operations involving networks, computers, and digital media
• Mentor and support inspections of subordinate units in the appropriate methods to collect, store, and process all sources of analysis
• Provide support as to how analytical applications can be used to facilitate national security crimes such as espionage or terrorism
• Use oral and written communication skills in order to conduct briefings and discussions with internal and external senior leadership and to author memoranda and finished analytical products
• Compile and disseminate metrics capturing cyber CI activities in support of investigations, collections, and operations
• Exercise knowledge of key U.S. Intelligence and Law Enforcement community resources to identify and obtain relevant information and effect any necessary coordination for a CT-related investigation

Benefits

At Prescient Edge, we believe that acting with integrity and serving our employees is the key to everyone's success. To that end, we provide employees with a best in class benefits package that includes:

• A competitive salary with performance bonus opportunities 
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits, including medical, vision, dental, and orthodontia coverage
• A substantial retirement plan with no vesting schedule
• Career development opportunities, including on-the-job training, tuition reimbursement, and networking 
• A positive work environment where employees are respected, supported, and engaged

Job Requirements

• Active TS/SCI security clearance required and must be willing to undergo and successfully complete a counterintelligence-scope polygraph examination with No Deception Indicated (NDI) on a pre-appointment and periodic basis.
• Must be a graduate of any of the following Military Department All- Source Analysis Certifying Courses:
  • Army – 350F Course (or Military Department/IC equivalent)
  • Army – 35F Course (or Military Department/IC equivalent)
  • Army – Counterintelligence Special Agent Course (CISAC)
  • Army – 35L Course (or its predecessor)
  • Army – 351L Course (or its predecessor)
  • Army – 35E Course
  • Air Force –Basic Special Investigators Course (BISC), U.S. Air Force Special Investigations Academy, or predecessor
  • Navy – Special Agent Basic Training Program (SABTB), Naval Criminal Investigative Service Training Academy, or predecessor
• Minimum 8 years of experience as a Counterintelligence Analyst or an All-Source Analyst (cannot be substituted for college education)
• Understanding of intelligence support to counterterrorism
• Comprehensive understanding of FIE and FTO TTPs and methodologies
• Knowledgeable of and demonstrates ability to apply Intelligence Community (IC) and DoD classification guidelines and procedures
• Demonstrated ability to work semi-independently with oversight and direction
• Demonstrated ability to use logic when evaluating and synthesizing multiple sources of information
• Demonstrated understanding of interpreting analysis to include, but not limited to, its meaning, importance, and implications
• Demonstrated ability to defend analytic judgements with sound, logical conclusions and adapt analytic judgments when presented with new information, evolving conditions, or unexpected developments
• Demonstrated ability to 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
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex issues clearly in a concise and organized manner, both verbally and non-verbally, with strong grammar skills
• Demonstrated proficiency using Microsoft Office tools
• Demonstrated ability to develop structured research including, but not limited to, obtaining, evaluating, organizing, and maintaining information within security and data protocols
• Demonstrated ability to recognize nuances and resolve contradictions and inconsistencies in information
• Demonstrated 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 are not limited to, analysis of competing hypotheses, devil's advocacy, high-impact/ low-impact analysis, red team analysis and alternative futures analysis
• Demonstrated understanding of intelligence collection capabilities and limitations, to include but not limited to, technical sensors/platforms and human intelligence sources related to the position
• Demonstrated understanding of evaluating collected intelligence reporting, engaging with collection managers, and developing collection requirements
• Demonstrated comprehensive mission knowledge and skills that affirms completion of all developmental training and experiences for the labor category.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate understanding from information that may be
• incomplete, indirect, highly complex, seemingly unrelated, and/or technically advanced
• Demonstrated ability to structure analysis based on trends in reporting and a range of analytic perspectives from other analysts, organizations, and intelligence disciplines
• Demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal oversight and direction
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and work with other IC members on information sharing, driving collection, and addressing analytic disputes and conflict resolution
• Demonstrated ability to develop concise, insightful, and comprehensive products for defense intelligence
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams in researching multifaceted or critical problems
• Ability to provide guidance in selecting, designing, and applying analytic methodologies
• Ability to use argument evaluation and validated analytic methodologies to challenge differing perspectives

Prescient Edge is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) founded as a counterintelligence (CI) and Human Intelligence (HUMINT) company in 2008. We are a global operations and solutions integrator delivering full-spectrum intelligence analysis support, training, security, and RD&E support solutions to the Department of Defense and throughout the intelligence community. Prescient Edge is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO). All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic that is protected by law. We strive to foster equity and inclusion throughout our organization because we believe that diversity of thought is critical for creating a safe and engaging work environment while also enabling the organization’s success.