Position Description & QualificationsSerco is seeking a Senior Intelligence Collection Manager / Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Subject Matter Expert (SME) to support the Joint Staff J-7 Deputy Directorate for Joint Training and Exercises (DDJTE) in Suffolk, Virginia. This high-impact position places you at the center of Joint Force readiness, where you will support the design, planning, execution, and assessment of Joint and multinational training events focused on intelligence operations, target development, targeting integration, and operational decision-making.
In this role, you will help Combatant Commands, Joint Task Forces, Service Components, and senior military leaders develop and exercise targeting processes necessary to compete and prevail in complex, multi-domain operational environments. You will integrate targeting methodologies, threat analysis, and intelligence support to operations across some of the Department of Defense's most demanding Joint exercises and experimentation efforts. Working directly with Joint Staff, Combatant Commands, Service Components, coalition partners, and intelligence community stakeholders, you will contribute to the development of training environments that strengthen Joint Force readiness, integrated deterrence, and decision advantage.
This position is contingent upon the ability to maintain/transfer an active U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Top Secret (TS) security clearance with eligibility for Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) access is required.In this role, you will:
- Serve as the lead Intelligence Targeting advisor providing exceptional senior-level project planning, execution, and deep military subject matter expertise in support of Joint exercises.
- Integrate intelligence targeting considerations throughout all phases of the Joint Training System (JTS) and Joint Event Life Cycle (JELC) to support Combatant Command training objectives and operational outcomes.
- Provide intelligence targeting expertise, training, and materials to support the successful execution of intelligence and operations training objectives during exercises.
- Operate targeting dissemination systems emulating real-world targeting processes.
- Develop and provide target packages depicting realistic and accurate targeting information at all classification levels based on real-world processes.
- Provide strategic advice, in-depth analysis, and robust support related to Intelligence operations, targeting systems, and information sharing capabilities.
- Develop, coordinate, and manage Joint Integrated Prioritized Target Lists (JIPTLs), Restricted Target Lists (RTLs), No-Strike Lists, and intelligence requirements in support of Joint exercises and training events.
- Lead Intelligence Scripting Working Groups (ISWGs) and targeting boards, facilitate intelligence planning efforts, and coordinate intelligence participation across Joint Staff, Combatant Commands, Services, Coalition partners, and Intelligence Community organizations.
- Analyze adversary capabilities, doctrine, campaign plans, and emerging threats to enhance operational realism within Joint exercise operational environments.
- Support operational environment development by integrating targeting perspectives into Road to Crisis products, adversary campaign plans, operational environment synchronization efforts, and scenariodevelopment.
- Support Exercise Control (EXCON), intelligence response cells, targeting boards, and operational planning teams during exercise execution.
- Conduct post-exercise analysis, lessons learned collection, operational assessments, and recommendations to improve Joint intelligence readiness and operational effectiveness.
To be successful in this role, you will have:
- Active DoD Top Secret (TS) clearance with eligibility for Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) access.
- A Bachelor's Degree in Intelligence Studies, Political Science, International Relations, Military Science, or related field
- 8 years of relevant military, government, or industry experience supporting intelligence operations, ISR operations, collection management, or Joint military operations
- Demonstrated experience supporting Combatant Commands, Joint Task Forces, Joint Staff, Intelligence Community organizations, or equivalent operational headquarters.
- Expert-level understanding of the Joint Targeting Cycle Find, Fix, Track, Target, Engage, Assess (F2T2EA) and the ISR Collection Management Cycle (Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (TCPED).
- Experience developing Collection Management Plans, ISR synchronization products, targeting products, CISRs, intelligence estimates, and intelligence operational planning documents.
- Strong understanding of Joint Planning Processes, Joint Intelligence doctrine, Joint Targeting, and Multi-Domain Operations.
- Experience supporting Joint and coalition operational environments and intelligence sharing architectures.
- Exceptional analytical, writing, briefing, and communication skills, including experience briefing senior military and government leaders.
- Ability to work on-site in Suffolk, Virginia .
- Ability to travel up to 25%.
Additional desired experience and skills:
- Master's Degree preferred.
- Joint Professional Military Education (JPME) Phase II graduate.
- Graduate of a Senior Service College, Joint Advanced Warfighting School (JAWS), School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS), National War College, or equivalent.
- Former Targeting Officer, Intelligence Officer, Joint Intelligence Planner, or equivalent military/intelligence professional.
- Proficiency in data analysis tools and techniques.
- Experience with Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) analysis and tools, and Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) collection and analysis.
- Understanding of Human Intelligence (HUMINT) operations and methodologies.
- Experience supporting Joint Staff J-7 exercises, Joint Exercise Life Cycle (JELC) planning, Operational Environment development, and Master Scenario Event List (MSEL) development.
- Familiarity with Joint Training Tool (JTT), JMSEL, Joint Training Information Management System (JTIMS), Joint Lessons Learned Information System (JLLIS), and Joint exercise planning processes.
- Experience supporting Globally Integrated Exercises (GIEs), Joint Force Development and Design (JFDD), and Joint Warfighting Concept implementation.
