Intelligence Analyst II - Executive Protection Unit

The Department of State Police Executive Protection Unit is seeking an Intelligence Analyst II, who will apply advanced principles, practices and techniques of research and analysis to the work performed. This includes open-source intelligence research and analysis. Incumbents use the methods of applied research and the intelligence cycle to analyze data, draw conclusions, formulate hypotheses, assess resources, create intelligence products and provide valuable intelligence services to law enforcement and other public safety and homeland security officials in specific subject matter areas or for a specialty work unit.

Duties of this position include, but are not limited to:

• Conduct research into secure and open-source law enforcement and information databases to identify and acquire data that may prove relevant to developing actionable intelligence for criminal cases, multi-jurisdictional law enforcement agency use, and current and future public safety and homeland security operations.

• Monitor open-source and law enforcement sensitive communications such as internet traffic, teletype messages, scholarly and general interest articles, professional publications, public safety bulletins and advisories, and public information exchanged via meetings, minutes, and summaries to maintain awareness of threats, trends and critical information in multi-jurisdictional law enforcement domains such as violent fugitive apprehension and financial crime.

• Process incoming requests for data and generate complex qualitative and quantitative reports and other appropriate intelligence products to support law enforcement operations and criminal investigations.

• Perform liaison duties for intake and outreach with federal, state, local and private sector entities within the criminal information, intelligence, and public safety and homeland security communities to build relationships on behalf of the agency and secretariat.

• Contribute actionable intelligence upon request to support prevention and security efforts within the state relative to the protection mission.

• Adhere to prevailing state and federal laws and policies regarding the handling of criminal offender record information and document classification markings including sensitive but unclassified and classified information.

• Collect and rapidly assimilate information to author special topics bulletins, advisories, reports, and related publications, to produce special flyers on criminal subjects and to disseminate reports, bulletins, advisories, and related publications in support of law enforcement operations.

• Coordinate the exchange of interstate and intrastate information pertaining to criminal activity and criminal movement.

• Establish criminal pedigrees that include identification of criminal history and criminal relationships to aid in making connections between members of criminal organizations.

• Attend meetings and conferences to obtain or disseminate information and criminal intelligence and to receive or share information regarding unit issues and work activities.

• Determine authorization of requestors to receive intelligence and other confidential or sensitive information and collect and disseminate information in accordance with applicable laws, acts, regulations, rules, policies, and guidelines. 

• Exercise professional judgment and discretion in the dissemination of oral and written communication in order to safeguard confidential information.

• Gather and summarize data to provide accurate information for briefs, reports, and correspondence. 

• Submit reports (e.g. monthly activity, budgetary, statistical etc.) upon request to provide accurate information to management.

• Coordinate security and application access for agency end-users of criminal justice information systems or external users of agency-based intelligence information systems when needed.

• Conduct computer-based background research on suspects or known criminals under investigation, applicants for security clearances, and other p