
Collection Manager
Syntelligent Analytic Solutions
- Charlottesville, VA
- $72,000-120,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 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.
- Identifies collection gaps, related trends and opportunities; assesses collection options, tests assumptions, and produces judgements, recommendations and solutions to refine collection
- 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.
- Produces analyses identifying gaps in collections methods, and models future intelligence collection scenarios for Collection Strategists, Intelligence Planners, and Collection Data Engineers
- Demonstrated knowledge of 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.
- Demonstrated knowledge of the intelligence collection capabilities, Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (PED), and planning tools.
- Demonstrates proficiency conducting statistics and using statistical packages such as, but not limited to, Matlab, SPSS, SAS, S-PLUS, or R.
- Full understanding of the Collection Operational Tasking and Reporting system, Collection Operations Policy, Oversight Requirements and tasking authorities, to include HUMINT and HUMINT related activities.
- At least 3+ years of experience with intelligence collection management
- 2+ years of experience with ISR and Multi-INT collection, strategy, and analysis
- Experience in analyzing collection operations, requirements, and strategies to articulate effectiveness and identify areas for improvement
- Experience with analyzing and visualizing large data sets to identify gaps, trends, and opportunities
- Knowledge of multi-intelligence collection disciplines, including SIGINT, MASINT, IMINT, GEOINT, or TECHINT
- Knowledge of joint command and subordinate organization's structure, role, and command relationship
- Active TS/SCI clearance; willingness to take a polygraph exam
- Completion of a DoD or IC Collection Management Course
- Bachelor's degree
- 12+ years of experience with intelligence collection management
- Experience as a collection strategist supporting national agency-level organizations.
- Possession of excellent verbal and written communication skills, including confidently interfacing with senior military and civilian officials.
- Current CI Polygraph
- Graduate of an in-residence DoD / IC collection management course.
- Mid-Bachelor's degree +3 years of relevant experience or 7 years of relevant experience in lieu of degree.
- Senior-Bachelor's degree +8 years of relevant experience or 12 years of relevant experience in lieu of degree.
- SME-Master's degree and 12+ years of experience, Bachelor's and 17+ years of experience, or 21+ years of relevant experience in lieu of degree