The Mid-Level OSINT Analyst will conduct comprehensive open-source intelligence collection, exploitation, and analysis to support operational planning, intelligence production, and mission-critical decision-making. The successful candidate will leverage advanced OSINT methodologies, commercial tools, foreign language capabilities, and regional expertise to identify emerging threats, assess adversary activities, and develop actionable intelligence products. This position requires strong analytical judgment, technical proficiency, and the ability to independently conduct complex research while collaborating with intelligence professionals and operational stakeholders.
Essential Job Functions:
Conduct Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) collection, exploitation, and analysis in response to Government Requests for Information (RFIs) and tasking from the Officer in Charge (OIC).
Collaborate with Government stakeholders to clarify and refine intelligence requirements, develop collection strategies, and deliver timely, accurate intelligence products with minimal supervision.
Conduct OSINT activities using authorized commercial internet, NIPRNET, SIPRNET, and SCINet systems and tools in accordance with applicable security policies and operational procedures.
Collect, evaluate, and analyze publicly available information from online sources, including news media, social media, academic publications, videos, maps, government publications, and other digital resources.
Develop targeted open-source research and collection strategies to address intelligence gaps, emerging threats, and operational information requirements.
Populate, maintain, and manage intelligence databases in coordination with Data Analysts, Data Scientists, and other intelligence professionals.
Document open-source data types, structures, and relationships; analyze datasets to identify patterns, correlations, trends, and potential intelligence indicators.
Trace, map, and integrate information across multiple systems and sources to support comprehensive intelligence assessments and reporting.
Assist the OSINT Team in evaluating, implementing, and optimizing Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) tools supporting intelligence collection, data aggregation, visualization, and analysis.
Utilize COTS platforms to aggregate, organize, visualize, and assess open-source information while evaluating source reliability, credibility, authenticity, relevance, and accuracy.
Employ Managed Attribution (MA) software and associated online tradecraft during authorized OSINT collection activities, demonstrating an understanding of the capabilities and limitations of MA technologies.
Develop innovative methods to integrate information from multiple tools, platforms, and data sources to produce intelligence assessments that provide enhanced operational value to U.S. Marine Corps forces.
Conduct manual and tool-assisted research across foreign-language online sources to identify relevant intelligence, corroborate reporting, and address collection gaps.
Apply established methodologies to verify the authenticity, accuracy, timeliness, and credibility of information obtained from internet-based sources.
Leverage foreign language proficiency and cultural or regional expertise to support intelligence research, analysis, and reporting, including Arabic, Farsi/Persian, Korean, Mandarin, and Russian, as applicable.
Search, review, interpret, and translate foreign-language articles, journals, media reporting, and other open-source materials into English to support intelligence production.
Develop comprehensive written intelligence assessments, including Open-Source Intelligence Reports (OSIRs), research summaries, briefings, and other mission-specific analytic products.
Utilize Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and other approved reporting tools to communicate research findings, intelligence assessments, and analytic judgments.
Present intelligence findings, research methodologies, and operational implications to Government stakeholders, intelligence professionals, and mission leadership.
Train and mentor U.S. Marines in OSINT tradecraft, collection methodologies, analytic techniques, and best practices, including supporting or administering the Marine Corps Intelligence Activity (MCIA) Expeditionary OSINT Course.
Identify, develop, document, and formalize new OSINT tradecraft, collection methodologies, and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to support evolving mission requirements.
Collaborate with intelligence analysts, collectors, technical specialists, and Intelligence Community partners to support information sharing, intelligence production, and collection objectives.
Participate in mission-related meetings, conferences, training events, and operational exercises as required.
Required Skills:
U.S. Citizenship is required due to the sensitivity of customer-related requirements.
Active Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) security clearance is required.
Eight (8) or more years of experience conducting intelligence analysis relevant to the specific labor category, with a portion of that experience obtained within the last two (2) years.
Bachelor's degree in a field related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
Demonstrated foreign language proficiency and cultural or regional expertise in Mandarin or Russian, with a Defense Language Proficiency Test (DLPT) score of 3/3 or higher. The DLPT score must be no older than five (5) years at the time of hire.
Successful completion of a joint-accredited OSINT training course or an accepted commercial equivalent.
Recognized joint-accredited OSINT courses include Expeditionary OSINT (EOSINT) - U.S. Marine Corps; OS301 and OS302 - U.S. Army; ONI OSINT Fundamentals Course - U.S. Navy; Introduction to OSINT - U.S. Air Force; DIA BOTC - Defense Intelligence Agency; NGA OSINT Course - National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency; and NERD - U.S. Special Operations Command.
Accepted commercial alternatives include CASO - Black Horse Solutions and SEC497 or SEC587 - SANS Institute.
Demonstrated comprehensive mission knowledge, OSINT tradecraft expertise, and technical proficiency reflecting completion of required developmental training and relevant professional experience.
Experience conducting open-source research, collection, exploitation, and analysis using commercial platforms, intelligence databases, and approved analytic tools.
Demonstrated ability to evaluate the credibility, reliability, authenticity, and relevance of information obtained from diverse open-source environments.
Ability to analyze and communicate insights derived from information that may be incomplete, indirect, highly complex, technically advanced, or seemingly unrelated.
Proven ability to structure intelligence analysis using reporting trends and incorporate diverse perspectives across analysts, organizations, intelligence disciplines, and data sources.
Demonstrated ability to work independently, exercise sound analytic judgment, and perform effectively with minimal supervision or direction.
Strong ability to collaborate across the Intelligence Community (IC), including information sharing, supporting and driving collection efforts, and resolving differing analytic judgments.
Demonstrated experience producing clear, insightful, accurate, and comprehensive intelligence products supporting Defense Intelligence requirements.
Proven ability to lead or coordinate analytic teams addressing complex, high-priority, or mission-critical intelligence problems.
Experience guiding the selection, design, and application of analytic methodologies and structured analytic techniques to support intelligence assessments.
Demonstrated ability to evaluate arguments, challenge assumptions, assess competing perspectives, and apply validated analytic methodologies to develop defensible intelligence judgments.
Strong research, analytical writing, foreign-language research, briefing, and verbal communication skills.
