All Source Analyst - Senior

This position requires an active TS/Sensitive Compartmental Information (SCI) clearance with the ability to obtain a Counterintelligence polygraph to be considered.

Cherokee Strategic Edge is seeking an All Source Analyst - Senior to conduct analysis using intelligence and information from multiple sources to assess, interpret, forecast, and explain a range of national security issues and developments that are regional or functional in nature. 

Compensation & Benefits:

Estimated Starting Salary Range for All Source Analyst - Senior: $110,000-113,000

Pay commensurate with experience.

Full time benefits include Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, and other possible benefits as provided.Benefits are subject to change with or without notice.

All Source Analyst - Senior Responsibilities Include:

• Provides all-source analytic support to collections, operations, investigations, and other defense intelligence analytic requirements.
• Develop, coordinate, and disseminate intelligence information used for programming platform mission data systems in development, testing, training, operations, and sustainment. This intelligence data includes, but not limited to:
  • Characteristics and Performance (C&P)
  • Electronic Warfare Integrated Reprogramming (EWIR)
  • Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT)
  • Order-of-Battle (OB)
  • Signatures
  • Modeling and Simulation (M&S) threat capability information
• Provide technical expertise to support IMD databases and M&S as required by the Government.
• Develop, coordinate, and support staffing processes for the Life-Cycle Mission Data Plans (LMDPs) and IMD Dependency Determination Memorandums with acquisition program offices. 
• Perform assessments of acquisition program offices' LMDPs to ensure that LMDPs adequately identify specific IMD requirements. 
• Assist IMD-dependent acquisition programs in translating requirements into LMDP formats with sufficient details to allow Intelligence Production Centers (IPCs) to adequately assess their ability to meet the requirements. 
• Ensure LMDP requirements documented in the appropriate IMD management and/or requirement system for each program of record (PoR) along with tracking these requirements throughout the acquisition program lifecycle.
• Conduct reviews, evaluations, and assessments of acquisition program documentation along with comprehensive reviews of threat intelligence information to identify IMD-dependent acquisition programs. 
• Provide acquisition programs with technical expertise to enable identification of specific IMD program dependencies as necessary to meet customer requirements.
• Collaborate with the IPCs such as MSIC, NASIC, NGA, NSIC, ONI, and 57th IS to determine if current IMD requirements can be met with the baseline production capacity of the IPC, if they exceed the capacity, and what resources would be required to meet the gap between the current/future IMD requirements and existing production capacity.
• Maintain a list of IMD-dependent acquisition programs and provide quarterly updates to the Government.
• Develop, coordinate, and produce the Validated Intelligence Mission Data Supportability Reports (VISRs) along with assisting with the oversight and management in support of DIA/Joint Staffs (J2) acquisition and operational requirements process (formerly Priorities and Risk Management Framework -PRMF).
• Perform reviews of Office of the Secretary of War (OSW) policies to include DoD Directives and Issuances related IMD governance for the DIE as required by the Government.
• Conduct and lead meetings, routine engagements, collaboration, and coordination with DoD IMD customers, and stakeholders including allied partners.
• Conduct detailed cross-acquisition program analysis of IMD requirements to support gap identification across multiple U.S. services including Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines, and Space Force.
• Coordinate with the appropriate IPCs to establish a cost-baseline required to develop IMD products to meet the program's IMD requirements.
• Assist in the development of threat analysis and assessment products for IMD and intelligence supportability of new acquisition programs, as required by the Government. 
• Include technical written products with applied analytic tradecraft along with oral briefings/presentations to customers.
• Assist with the facilitation of DoD/IC/allied partners bimonthly, quarterly, and annual/technical exchange meetings (virtual or in-person) related to IMD and Electronic Warfare (EW) as required by the Government.
• Provide additional support to IMD and EW meetings by drafting agendas and meeting notes, providing topic recommendations, developing issue resolutions, and dissemination of meeting highlights and action items as required.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned

All Source Analyst - Senior Experience, Education, Skills, Abilities requested:

• Active TS/SCI security clearance with the ability to obtain a Counterintelligence polygraph.
• Preferred to have a minimum of twelve (12) years of experience related to the specific labor category with at least a portion of the experience within the last two (2) years.
• Desired to have one of the following: 
  • Master's degree in an area related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education
  • Bachelor's degree related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and an additional five (5) years of related senior experience, for a total of seventeen (17) years, as a substitute to the master's degree.
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of the labor category activities required to meet mission requirements.
• Demonstrates mastery of qualitative and quantitative analytic methodologies and pursue developments in academia or other fields that affect tradecraft methodology. 
• Ability to define comprehensive, new, or unique research approaches that enable rigorous assessments to address and contribute to high-level tasks.
• Demonstrates in-depth analysis of analytic operations and knowledge management issues across organizational and intra-IC boundaries and clearly articulates key findings.
• Work independently and with minimal oversight.
• Experience reviewing analytic products for cogent arguments, tradecraft standards, and adequate support for conclusions; routinely tests analytic rigor of analytic products.
• Comprehensive mission knowledge and skills that affirms completion of all developmental training and experiences for the labor category.
• Communicate understanding from information that may be incomplete, indirect, highly complex, seemingly unrelated, and / or technically advanced. 
• Ability to structure analysis based on trends in reporting and a range of analytic perspectives from other analysts, organizations, and intelligence disciplines.
• Experience collaborating and working with other IC members on information sharing, driving collection, and addressing analytic disputes and conflict resolution.
• Develop concise, insightful, and comprehensive products for defense intelligence.
• 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.
• Must pass pre-employment qualifications of Cherokee Federal

Company Information:

Cherokee Strategic Edge is a part of Cherokee Federal - the division of tribally owned federal contracting companies owned by Cherokee Nation Businesses. As a trusted partner for more than 60 federal clients, Cherokee Federal LLCs are focused on building a brighter future, solving complex challenges, and serving the government’s mission with compassion and heart. To learn more about CSE, visit cherokee-federal.com.

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