CLEARANCE REQUIRED: TS/SCI with Poly

This job is located at: FT. Meade, MD

Education: MA/MS

Experience: 15+ years

Job description:

This position is part of a large program supporting Air Combat Command's (ACC) Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) mission. The Air Force SIGINT SME will serve as an experienced intelligence specialist capable of providing support and expertise to the AF cryptologic enterprise by leveraging integrated ISR capabilities to enable the collection, processing, exploitation, and dissemination of accurate and timely information to combatant commanders and other customers across the enterprise.

Primary Responsibilities

The Air Force SIGINT SME will serve as the Service Cryptologic Component functional authority for ISR issues and be responsible to the Directorate of Operations for executing operations related to the support of SIGINT mission management, SIGINT policy and applicable national and tactical authorities. Develop plans and exercises, and the development and execution of strategic initiatives for the Air Force enterprise. Candidates will work with 16 AF and subordinate ISR Wings to maintain the health of operations and assigned SIGINT authorities, including a robust quality control and compliance program. Make recommendations and defends decisions on operational policy matters to the Director and 16 AF staff. In addition, this candidate will represent 16 AF across a variety of functional area organizations to establish, develop, and maintain effective working relationships with ACC directorates, USAF Special Program Offices, Headquarters of the Air Force, the Secretary of Defense, Services, combat support agencies, other combatant commands, the Intelligence Community, interagency, academia, and industry.

Required Qualifications:

TS/SCI cleared with Polygraph
BA degree and 20+ years of relevant experience OR a Masters degree 15+ years of experience. Additional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
Experience working with both National and Tactical SIGINT.
Knowledge of the national intelligence community, Joint Command, DoD structure, organizations, and mission/functions, inter-relationships and operations.
Experience supporting the ACC ISR enterprise.
Knowledge of advanced dissemination principles, concepts, and methods to disburse complex information/situations attained from multiple sources, to include entitlement management systems
Skilled in communicating effectively with others, both orally and in writing, in working out solutions. to problems or questions related to the work, writing clear and concise intelligence products, and delivering written and/or verbal presentations to senior level audiences for decision-making purposes.

Provides a full range of intelligence and administrative support to assist analysts, engineers, and scientists involved in a variety of intelligence disciplines and activities. Activities include, but are not limited to, reviewing documents for accuracy, and responding to staff requests on accessing, coordinating, consolidating, or formatting, assisting with administration and management of RFIs, task actions, reports, and briefings; preparing correspondence and other documents needed to support the management of the program and associated activities; creating read-ahead documents, coordinating with security to ensure guests have appropriate access, and building read ahead books or material for official functions and meetings; and providing cross-domain data transfer and intelligence dissemination support.
• Demonstrates ability to define problems, supervise studies and lead surveys to collect and analyze data to provide advice and recommend solutions.
• Demonstrates analytic leadership and expertise in identifying, planning, developing, and executing analytic production methodologies, tradecraft and techniques aligned with labor category mission.
• Demonstrates extensive ability to provide strategic advice, technical guidance and expertise to Defense planners and policymaker (e.g., Undersecretary level or higher).
• Required Experience: Minimum 15 years of experience conducting analysis relevant to the specific labor category with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.
• Required Education: Master's degree from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education or have a bachelor's degree from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and an additional 5 years of related expert experience, for a total of 20 years, as a substitute to the master's degree.

Desired Qualifications:

Skill in conducting unbiased complex research, identifying appropriate available systems/data sources, and producing collection requirement assessments that answer requests for information (RFI) and specific tasks to link and leverage agency capabilities.
Clear understanding of SIGINT reporting policies.
Fundamental understanding of software applications and databases associated with SIGINT report writing and target development.
Experience with military collection management.
Masters in national security, intelligence, or analysis with 6 - 10 years of relevant experience.