Open Source Collection Specialist

This is a proposal position

CLEARANCE REQUIRED: TS/SCI

Education: BA/BS

Experience: 6 years

This job is located at: Washington D.C.

Job description:

• Provide support to the Government 24-hours a day, 7 days a week, 365-days a year through shift work performed by employees on a rotational basis. The work shall be divided into six (6) shifts supporting 24-hour operations with one person per shift at a minimum.
• Provide support to worldwide information requirements through the identification, collection, and aggregation of OSINT, media, social media, gray literature, or other publicly available information using customer approved OSINT tools.

• Produce daily, weekly, and monthly intelligence summaries as directed, or in response to RFIs.
• Conduct informational exchanges, which may be analytic and/or operational/tactical in nature as appropriate exchanges with I&A, the IC, and other FSLTTP partners to maintain communications and situational awareness of daily activities.
• Assess and provide recommendations on emerging OSINT methodologies and tools.
• Research, evaluate, correlate, analyze, integrate, and interpret information from multiple intelligence and operational sources.
• Prepare and present briefings to leadership as requested.
• Provide tactical open source intelligence support to the planning and execution of exercises to include analysis and production for scenario development and active participation in the tabletop exercises.
• Develop and maintain analytical procedures to meet changing requirements and ensure maximum operational success.
• Continuously identify new sources of publicly available information using multiple sources including websites, databases, and email distribution.
• Support the development of new OSINT targeting and exploitation techniques and analyze the development of OSINT policy and tradecraft.
• Maintain and develop a portfolio of threat profiles, activity, and trends from all available sources (open-source, agency feeds, commercial feeds, & dark web).
• Support functionality of Watch operations by providing significant information on emergent threats, breaking events, and crisis situations as directed.
• Collect and report on open source intelligence and information for I&A Government personnel.

Required Qualifications:

• TS/SCI clearance
• Bachelor’s degree or higher from an accredited institution preferred in International Studies, Intelligence, Homeland Security, Criminal Justice, or other related concentration.
• Six (6) years of prior experience performing Open Source Collection for tactical/operational support.
• Intelligence Community (IC) experience desired; DHS intelligence analysis experience preferred.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience working with DHS data sources desired.

Why work for QSL?

Our founders, Mel Wick and Bill Cronin, retired from storied careers in the Special Operations Forces (SOF) Community. Like many Americans and military veterans, they felt a strong desire to support the nation’s response to the 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in any way they could. They established QSL to do just that, Stay in the Fight! QSL is built on a SOF culture, emphasizing selfless-service and teamwork. Our employees work to ensure that warfighters have every possible resource and all necessary support to safely accomplish their missions in defense of our nation.

QSL's Benefit Package

Because we believe our employees are our most valuable asset, offering a competitive comprehensive compensation package is very important to us. It is the goal of QSL to attract and retain the highest level of experience and technical talent necessary for successful performance. In order to accomplish this, we feel that it is necessary to provide satisfying work, an excellent work environment, and we continually monitor the marketplace to ensure that our total compensation/benefit package remains competitive.

Listed below are some of our standard benefits. We combine all traditional paid time off (Federal holidays, sick time, leave time personal days, jury duty, bereavement, etc.) into one category which allows employees flexibility in how they use their leave time and enables them to better balance their career with their personal needs.

• Combined Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Medical, Dental, Life Insurance
• Disability (Short-Term and Long-Term)
• Vision Insurance (CONUS-based employees)
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Employee Referral Bonus Program
• Employee Discount Programs
• Critical Illness and Accident Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not and will not discriminate in employment and personnel practices based on race, sex, age, disability, veteran status, religion, national origin or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. Hiring, transferring, and promotion practices are performed without regard to the above listed items. EEO/AAP, M, F, V, D.