Senior OSINT Collector Job Listing at SAIC in Fort Bragg, NC (Job ID 2610402)

Description

Description

SAIC is looking for a Sr. OSINT Collector to work with a diverse team of collectors, linguists, cultural experts, and operations officers, providing operational support to dynamic operations in support of the U.S. Army Western Hemisphere Command (USAWHC).

This position will sit at Fort Bragg in North Carolina.  

Job Duties:

• Responsible for conducting OSINT collection, production, and dissemination activities in response to Commander's Priority Intelligence Requirements (PIR), validate requests for information (RFIs), or missions assigned by operational orders to support indications and warning (I&W), threat awareness, force protection, conflict support, targeting, and tipping/cueing of other Intelligence disciplines.
• Utilize Collection Management programs of record to identify additional Intelligence Community (IC) requirements and Collection Directives applicable to each report. 
• Employs across a suite of provisioned and commercially available exploitation tools, and advanced collection and signature reduction techniques, to identify and collect information from diverse sources in the Cyber domain relevant to intelligence gaps and requirements.
• Ensure all collection and production is compliant with established policies and procedures and maintain collection plans, logs, and other requisite documents to support Intelligence Oversight functions and auditing requirements.
• Produces timely, complete, and accurate incident, threat, and information reports based on customer direction, and in compliance with relevant U.S. government policies. 
• Collaborates with team members, government representatives, and industry partners to support intelligence collection, processing, exploitation, and dissemination activities.
• Monitors and analyzes all strategic and operational aspects of political, military, and economic developments for the countries in the AORs and AOIs.
• Advocate for OSINT by supporting current DOD, Army, and USAWHC OSINT applications and plans, promote tool and tradecraft development, and help coordinate local capability requirements—such as recommending new tools, technologies, or capability development opportunities.
   

Qualifications

Required Education and Experience: 

• Bachelors and five (5) years of experience; Masters and three (3) years of experience; four (4) years of experience in lieu of degree.
   

Required Security Clearance:   
 

• Must be a U.S. Citizen with an Active Top Secret SCI Clearance with ability to obtain SCI and pass a counter-intelligence polygraph (PR within 6 years).
   

Qualifications:

• Experience conducting open-source intelligence, defense intelligence, online investigations, research, or similar profession.
• Ability to execute multiple tasks and ongoing projects while ensuring compliance with applicable policies, and procedures.
• Working knowledge of popular, legacy, and new social media, forums, messaging services, blog sites, and mobile applications.
• Willing to work outside normal business hours in exigent circumstances (this position is not shift work).
• Willing to travel up to 25%.
   

Desired Certifications & Skills: 
 

• Minimum of 5 years of intelligence experience within the U.S. DOD or Intelligence Community.
• At least 2 years of previous OSINT collection experience, preferably in the past 5 years.
• Foreign language proficiency in Russian, Farsi, Chinese, or MS Arabic at 2/2 level or higher; native speaker or DLI-trained (or language training equivalent)
• Knowledge of military operations, terminology, and structure (branch immaterial).
• Experience working with Special Forces and/or Psychological Operations Forces
• Completion of U.S. Army OS-301 and OS-302, OSINT Basic Course, or NERD Course.
• Technically proficient with computers and an interest/aptitude for data science, scripting, digital architecture, data acquisition, and research methodology.
• Demonstrable writing proficiency