Intelligence Analyst, SME (TS/SCI Clearance)

VMD Corp now part of Xcelerate Solutions is looking for an individual ready to be a member of a dynamic and fast paced Intelligence Analysis program as an Intelligence Analyst Subject Matter Expert (SME).  The successful individual provides intelligence support to a federal agency in support of the US Government’s threat watchlisting and screening mission.  Duties may include the processing and verification of national security threat actor nominations, data integrity/quality control, encounter management, information sharing, and/or multiple discipline intelligence analysis.

The Intelligence Analyst SME analyzes highly complex problems, applies expert level analytic tradecraft, and uses conceptualizing, reasoning and interpretation to identify solutions.  A successful Intelligence Analyst SME must have good interpersonal skills and work well with others, possess excellent written and verbal communication skills, and can engage with senior executive leadership (internally or client) regarding matters of strategic importance. Come join our award-winning organization and work with the most talented and brightest minds in the GovCon industry.  

• Location: Vienna, VA
• Clearance: Active TS/SCI clearance and eligible for C/I Polygraph

Responsibilities:  

• Will work closely with the PM and establish priorities and plans across the contract and engage with customers to understand changing needs and requirements.
• Providing coverage support ensuring operational coverages for all critical areas to meet 24 hours, 7 days a week, 365-day requirements and priorities as identified by Leadership.
• Responsible for timely responses to email and phone calls as needed to include after-hours coordination when needed.
• Assist the PM to fill vacancies with fully qualified candidates in a timely and efficient manner. 
• Creating and properly documenting activities in accordance with policies and processes.
• Providing expert knowledge and mastery in the application of a wide range of qualitative and/or quantitative methods for the assessment and improvement of program effectiveness and/or the improvement of complex management processes, systems, and procedures.
• Comprehensive knowledge of the range of national security and administrative laws, executive orders, directives, policies, regulations, and precedents applicable to the administration.
• Supporting the development of program goals and objectives, the sequence and timing of key program events and milestones, and methods of evaluating the worth of program accomplishments.
• Quickly develop knowledge of relationships with other programs and key administrative support functions within the agencies.
• Designing and conduct comprehensive management and/or program studies where the boundaries are extremely broad and difficult to determine and to develop logical, clear, and well-documented recommendations and conclusions.
• Communicating clearly and effectively, both orally and in writing, to tactfully and persuasively advise and guide executive management relative to a variety of issues that can be delicate in nature; includes making presentations and preparing complete, clear, and concise formal and informal reports, correspondence, briefings, charts, tables, and graphs that are distributed throughout the agencies.
• Planning, organizing, and directing team study work, and negotiating effectively with management to accept and implement recommendations.
• Shall perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree with 10-15 years of relevant intelligence experience or Master’s Degree with 10 -13 years of relevant intelligence experience
• Active TS/SCI clearance and eligible for C/I Polygraph
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Outlook applications
• Extensive knowledge base in multiple of the following disciplines: watchlisting, identity analysis, intelligence, law enforcement, United States military, and / or national security (counterterrorism, counterintelligence, transnational organized crime, and weapons of mass destruction) experience.
• Mastery knowledge of applicable theories, principles, practices, approaches, and techniques of research, survey methodology, and analysis concepts.
• Comprehensive knowledge and/or the ability to learn the range of administrative laws, executive orders, directives, policies, regulations, and precedents related to US Government watchlisting and screening.
• Extensive familiarity with applicable IC directives, analytic tradecraft standards and reporting cycles.
• Excellent communication skills (oral and written); ensure information contained within reports is intelligible, cogent, comprehensive, and understandable, and that all reports use proper grammar and spelling.
• Demonstrated problem-solving experience.
• Capacity to work independently and as part of a team to provide multi-faceted intelligence products and support to operational units and IC components is essential.
• Conduct research and analysis of data, information, and intelligence to produce a wide range of finished all-source intelligence products. Finished intelligence products shall include standard and non-standard Agency products as well as briefings for the tactical and strategic customers.
• Participate in meetings, conferences, and working groups and provide strategic and operational analysis in assigned focus area.
• Ability to be flexible to perform a wide variety of tasks, change focus quickly, and adapt to meet mission requirements
• Ability to work with and engage the customer daily  

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Completion certificate from a commercial, military, or US government all source analysis training course or a specialized intelligence career field.
• Interagency experience within the Intelligence Community or federal law enforcement
• Counterintelligence (CI) and/or Counterterrorism (CT) experience in a national level intelligence agency is highly desired
• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree focused on security or intelligence studies with a recommended focus on terrorism or other transnational security threats is highly desired

VMD provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable Federal, state and local laws. VMD maintains a drug-free workplace.