Collection Requirements Manager

Bridge Defense

$95K — $112K *
Aerospace & Defense
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree + 8 years of relevant experience or 12 years in lieu of degree.
  • Knowledge in evaluating collection requirements with MOEs and MOPs.
  • Proficient in intelligence collection capabilities and planning tools.
  • Experienced in statistical analysis using tools like Matlab or R.
  • Understanding of Collection Operational Tasking and HUMINT activities.
  • 3+ years in intelligence collection management and 2+ years in ISR strategies.
  • Familiar with multi-intelligence disciplines such as SIGINT and GEOINT.

Responsibilities

  • Monitor and refine collection strategies to meet client needs.
  • Execute operations management processes for national agency requirements.
  • Apply intelligence collection systems to inform stakeholders.
  • Collaborate across the IC to optimize collection efficiency.
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of multi-INT collection against requirements.
  • Identify collection gaps and produce actionable recommendations.
  • Utilize data visualization techniques to report findings.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on national security projects.
  • Support for professional development and advanced education.
  • Collaborative work environment with intelligence community.
  • Potential for exposure to high-level agency operations.
  • Access to cutting-edge intelligence technologies.
Full Job Description
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Help your client monitor, manage, develop, and refine collection requirements, operations, and multi-int strategies.
  • Assist with executing collection operations management processes supporting national agency tasking, synchronization, and strategy development to ensure collection requirements effectively support intelligence needs.
  • Use your understanding of intelligence collection disciplines, collection requirements management systems, collection plans and strategies, and intelligence community coordination processes.
  • Applies intelligence collection systems and capabilities to inform intelligence consumers of collection developments and relevancy through a range of products.
  • Collaborates across the IC to understand customer intelligence needs and gaps to optimize developing and validating collection requirements for the customer.
  • Evaluates the efficiency and effectiveness of multi-INT collection against requirements; and the execution of collection plans and strategies to generate reliable and valid intelligence to customers.
  • Assesses the value of collected intelligence versus the customers' need(s) and decision making.
  • Identifies collection gaps, related trends and opportunities; assesses collection options, tests assumptions, and produces judgements, recommendations and solutions to refine collection
  • Uses statistical, algorithmic, mining and visualization techniques to find and interpret ISR data sources.
  • Manages large amounts of data, ensures data consistency, produces visualizations and develops models to report findings.
  • Produces analyses identifying gaps in collections methods, and models future intelligence collection scenarios for Collection Strategists, Intelligence Planners, and Collection Data Engineers.

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree +8 years of relevant experience or 12 years of relevant experience in lieu of degree.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of developing methods and criteria to evaluate whether collection requirements been satisfied, using Measures of Effectiveness (MOEs), Measures of Performance (MOPs), responses to collection plans and strategies, and others, and produces feedback of findings.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of the intelligence collection capabilities, Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (PED), and planning tools.
  • Demonstrated proficiency conducting statistics and using statistical packages such as, but not limited to, Matlab, SPSS, SAS, S-PLUS, or R.
  • Full understanding of the Collection Operational Tasking and Reporting system, Collection Operations Policy, Oversight Requirements and tasking authorities, to include HUMINT and HUMINT related activities.
  • At least 3+ years of experience with intelligence collection management
  • 2+ years of experience with ISR and Multi-INT collection, strategy, and analysis
  • Experience in analyzing collection operations, requirements, and strategies to articulate effectiveness and identify areas for improvement
  • Experience with analyzing and visualizing large data sets to identify gaps, trends, and opportunities
  • Knowledge of multi-intelligence collection disciplines, including SIGINT, MASINT, IMINT, GEOINT, or TECHINT
  • Knowledge of joint command and subordinate organization's structure, role, and command relationship
  • Completion of a DoD or IC Collection Management Course

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Master's degree
  • 12+ years of experience with intelligence collection management
  • Experience as a collection strategist supporting national agency-level organizations
  • Possession of excellent verbal and written communication skills, including confidently interfacing with senior military and civilian officials
  • Graduate of an in-residence DoD / IC collection management course

General Factors:

  • Depending on project requirements, may be required to work within a compressed schedule; more than 40-hour work weeks should be expected when schedules demand it.
  • Willing to travel, if needed.
  • No Relocation.
  • Must be able to sit/stand at a desk for long-periods and must be able to lift 20 pounds occasionally.
  • Must be able to multi-task and rapidly change priorities with limited notice.

Clearance: TS/SCI with current CI Poly (adjudicated within the past 5 years or ability to pass a CI Poly)

Location: Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling; On-Site

Salary Range: 95K - 112K

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The pay range for this role is:

95,000 - 112,000 USD per year (Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, MD)

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