Collection Manager, Mid

Job Type: Full-Time

Workplace Type: Onsite

Clearance: Minimum TS/SCI with the ability to obtain a CI Poly

Must be a U.S. Citizen

Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401k matching, generous PTO, paid holidays, professional training opportunities, and even pet insurance to ensure your furry friends are cared for too.

Job Summary

Castalia Systems is seeking a Collection Manager (Scientific Support), Mid to support to the government’s all source intelligence analysis of foreign weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programs, to include the proliferation and procurement of WMD-applicable materials, technologies, and knowledge, and provides intelligence analysis support to the entire spectrum of DoD and USG counter-WMD efforts. This position will be at Reston, VA.

Roles and Responsibilities

A qualified candidate will perform the following duties and responsibilities, but are not limited to:

• 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. 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.
• Assists 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.
• Identifies collection gaps, related trends and opportunities; assesses collection options, tests assumptions, and produces judgements, recommendations and solutions to refine collection.
• Produces analyses identifying gaps in collections methods, and models future intelligence collection scenarios for Collection Strategists, Intelligence Planners, and Collection Enterprise Architects.
• Demonstrates proficiency conducting statistics and using statistical packages such as, but not limited to, MATLAB, SPSS, SAS, S-PLUS, or R.

Required Qualifications

• Meets all qualifications and skills of a Junior, plus:
• Demonstrates comprehensive mission knowledge and skills that affirms completion of all developmental training and experiences for the labor category.
• Demonstrates ability to communicate understanding from information that may be incomplete, indirect, highly complex, seemingly unrelated, and / or technically advanced.
• Demonstrates ability to structure analysis based on trends in reporting and a range of analytic perspectives from other analysts, organizations, and intelligence disciplines.
• Demonstrates ability to work independently with minimal oversight and direction.
• Demonstrates ability to collaborate and work with other IC members on information sharing, driving collection, and addressing analytic disputes and conflict resolution.
• Demonstrates 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.
• Graduate of an in-residence DoD / IC collection management course.
• Desired Experience: 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.
• Desired Education: 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.

Physical Requirements/Work Environment

• Typical office environment.

Travel

• Not required.

Company Description

Castalia Systems is a proven business partner providing mission-critical solutions to the Federal Government. We provide cutting-edge solutions from Securing and Managing Data to Systems Engineer