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HUMINT Targeting Specialist

Prescient Edge
Washington, DC Full Time
POSTED ON 7/22/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 8/22/2026
Description

Prescient Edge is seeking a HUMINT Targeting Specialist to support a Federal Government client.

Please note that the availability of this position is contingent upon contract award.

HUMINT Targeting Specialist

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.

Requirements

Responsibilities:

  • Provide detailed all source HUMINT targeting support against assigned targets.
  • Develop in depth analysis of the topics in support of operational planning and target knowledge, ensuring its analytical/ targeting efforts are aligned with valid HUMINT requirements.
  • Focus analytical efforts to identify, assist or enhance HUMINT collection operations and operational planning.
  • Employ an array of analytical methodologies, leveraged against targeting requirements to identify critical nodes within the network and their relationship to the topic.
  • Leverage the multi-intelligence community to support their targeting efforts.
  • Research and assess potential targets for HUMINT collection activities utilizing unique HUMINT targeting mythologies.
  • Produce various Targeting Packages (TP).
  • Utilize client systems and processes to receive field generated requests and track production status.
  • Conduct analysis utilizing critical intelligence databases including TAC, TIDE, SIGINT databases, MAS, QLIXs, KaCHING, Palantir, and other investigative databases.

Requirements:

  • Must have eight (8) years of hands-on experience.
  • Prior HUMINT operational background, directly supporting and/or conducting full spectrum strategic HUMINT operations (above MSO).
  • Previous experience providing HUMINT support to TF or SOF.
  • Previous support to strategic foreign intelligence collection against hard target (non- CT) issues.

Education:

  • Bachelor’s degree
  • Certification from any of the courses below (or their title 50 equivalent).
  • Fundamental HUMINT Targeting Course (FHTC).
  • Advance HUMINT Targeting Course or Target Network Profiling Course (TNPC).
  • Operational HUMINT Targeting Course (OHTC).

Security Clearance:

  • Current active TS/SCI clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph.

Location:

  • Washington, DC.

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