Job Title: Targeting Analyst – Mid

Job Location: Quantico, VA

SUMMARY

Cherokee Preting is seeking a Targeting Analyst to provide mid-level targeting analysis to identify, assess, and disrupt threats to cleared industry, cleared personnel, DOD, and Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA). The Targeting Analyst will facilitate USG responses to adversary action and insider threats by sharing threat indicators and enabling responsive measures from other agencies and services.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Includes the following:

• Develops targets and target systems for joint lethal and / or non-lethal engagements.
• Develops target nominations, creates database records, and databases target intelligence products.
• Produces all-source analytic damage estimates and battle damageassessments and assistswith combat assessment requirements.
• Conducts collateral damage estimation, performs target list management, targetstrategy development, and provides joint target intelligence support to deliberate and dynamic target engagements.
• Provides recommendations for target prioritization to achieve commander objectives for plans and operations.
• Provides database nominations, creates and updates database and uploads GTMs into databases.
• Develop and operationalize an enterprise security risk management methodology across Government and industry stakeholders.
• Independently conductresearch using all sources of information and intelligence, and if required, seeks out access to information and databases to complete the mission to focus DCSA targeting efforts.
• Identify adversarial entities targeting clearedindustry facilities, information, personnel, and/or technologies resident in the NISP.
• Develop targetproducts that facilitate USG responses to adversary action.
• Draft multi-disciplinary targeting products that support key U.S. nationalsecurity and foreignpolicy objectives and helps shape IC investigations, operations, collections, and priorities.
• Develop comprehensive targeting packages for OGA actionto deter, detect,exploit, neutralize, or disrupt adversarial entities.
• Apply a full range of targeting methodologies, tools, and approaches to gain a comprehensive understanding of complex issues and incorporate insights and finding into well crafted, sophisticated targeting products.
• Coordinate, collaborate, and engage with customers and stakeholders to improve integration and share threatinformation to enable responsive measures from DCSA, and other agencies and services.
• Coordinate and collaborate with DCSA, DoD, other USG departments and agencies to collect and share intelligence information.
• Disseminates information throughout the intelligence, CI and LE communities.
• Refer detailedthreat information meetingcertain investigative and operational thresholds expeditiously to the appropriate IC and/or LE partners for investigative or operational exploitation.
• Attend targeting-related conferences, as tasked.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

SUPERVISORY/MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY

No supervisory/management authority.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Desired to have at least 8 years of experience conducting analysis relevant to the specific labor category with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.
• Preferred to have a Bachelor's degree in an area related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Comprehensive mission knowledge and skills that affirms completion of all developmental training and experiences for the labor category.
• Ability to communicate understanding from information that may be incomplete, indirect, highly complex, seemingly unrelated, and / or technically advanced.
• Structure analysis based on trends in reporting and a range of analytic perspectives from other analysts, organizations, and intelligence disciplines.
• Work independently with minimal oversight and direction.
• Collaborate and work with other IC members on information sharing, driving collection, and addressing analytic disputes and conflict resolution.
• Ability to develop concise, insightful. and comprehensive products for defense intelligence.
• Demonstrates ability to lead teams in researching multifaceted or critical problems.
• Provides guidance in selecting, designing, and applying analytic methodologies.
• Uses argument evaluation and validated analytic methodologies to challenge differing perspectives.
• Working knowledge of the concepts involved in the specific functions outlined in the specified labor category description.
• Knowledgeable of and demonstrates ability to apply Intelligence Community (IC) and DoD classification guidelines and procedures.
• Work semi-independently with oversight and direction.
• Able to use logic when evaluating and synthesizing multiple sources of information.
• Understanding of interpreting analysis to include, but not limited to, its meaning, importance, and implications.
• Demonstrates ability to defend analytic judgements with sound, logical conclusions and adapt analytic judgments when presented with new information, evolving conditions, or unexpected developments.
• Produce timely, logical, and concise analytic reports, documents, assessments, studies, and briefing materials in formats including Microsoft Office tools (e.g. Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.), electronic/ soft copy matrices and/ or web-enabled formats.
• Ability to communicate complex issues clearly in a concise and organized manner both verbally and non-verbally; with strong grammar skills.
• Proficiency using Microsoft Office tools.
• Develop structured research including, but not limited to, obtaining, evaluating, organizing, and maintaining information within security and data protocols.
• Recognize nuances and resolve contradictions and inconsistencies in information.
• Working knowledge using complex analytic methodologies, such as structured analytic techniques or alternative approaches, to examine biases, assumptions, and theories to eliminate uncertainty, strengthen analytic arguments, and mitigate surprise.
• Structured analytic techniques include, but not limited to, Analysis of Competing Hypotheses, Devil's Advocacy, High-Impact/ Low-Impact Analysis, Red Team Analysis and Alternative Futures Analysis.
• Demonstrates understanding of intelligence collection capabilities and limitations, to include but not limited to, technical sensors/ platforms and human intelligence sources related to the labor category.
• Understanding of evaluating collected intelligence reporting, engaging with collection managers, and developing collection requirements.
• Must have an active Top Secret / SCI level security clearance.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Work is primarily performed in a climate-controlled office environment.

Please Note : This position is pending a contract award. If you are interested in a future with Cherokee Federal, APPLY TODAY! Although this is not an approved position, we are accepting applications for future or anticipated needs.

TEMPORARY NOTE :

Cherokee Federal has suspended it’s COVID mandate. However, it’s important to note that Cherokee Federal employees are included as covered employees in U.S. Presidential Executive Order 14042, which mandates COVID vaccines for federal contractors. Executive Order 14042 is currently not subject to enforcement by the Federal government. Therefore, Cherokee Federal has suspended application of the mandate and continues to monitor the government’s guidance on administration of any vaccine requirement.

ABOUT THE TEAM:

Cherokee Federal is a division of Cherokee Nation Businesses, the economic engine of Cherokee Nation, the largest Native American tribe in the U.S. As a trusted partner, the Cherokee Federal team of companies manages nearly 2,000 projects of all sizes across the construction, engineering and manufacturing and mission solutions portfolios – ranging from advanced data analytics and telehealth to cybersecurity, cloud and logistics.

Since 2012, our team of companies has won $6 billion in government contracts and completed more than 5,300 federal missions. Our 3,600+ employees work in 20+ countries, 50 states and 2 U.S. territories.

Why Cherokee Federal? Visit cherokee-federal.com to learn why you should join our team!

COMPLIANCE:

Cherokee Federal is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to prohibiting discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, union affiliation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We conform to the spirit as well as to the letter of all applicable laws and regulations governing all aspects of the relationship between the Company and its employees, including, but not limited to, recruitment, employment, promotion, transfer, training, working conditions, wages and salary administration, employee benefits, and application of policies. The policies and principles of EEO also apply to the selection and treatment of independent contractors, personnel working on our premises who are employed by temporary agencies and any other persons or firms doing business for or with the Company.

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