Senior Intelligence Management Specialist (Staff Ops)

Leidos hiring for Senior Intelligence Management Specialist (Staff Ops) jobs in McLean, VA, US

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The Leidos National Security Sector combines technology-enabled services and mission software capabilities in the areas of cyber, logistics, security operations, and decision analytics to support our defense and intel customers’ mission to defend against evolving threats around the world. Our team’s focus is to ensure our customers have the right tools, technologies, and tactics to keep pace with an ever-evolving security landscape and succeed in their pursuit to protect people and critical assets.

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The National Security Sector at Leidos is hiring for a Senior Intelligence Management Specialist (Staff Ops) to join our team supporting a U.S. federal government intelligence agency. This role involves providing a full range of intelligence and staff operations support to ensure the timely dissemination of Defense intelligence, and executive support to DOD leadership. The ideal candidate will have attention to detail, professionalism, and be motivated to support the warfighter. This position is contingent upon contract award.

What you’ll be doing:

• Provide intelligence, administrative, and staff operations support to Customer leadership, including reviewing documents for accuracy, responding to requests for information, creating read-ahead documents for DOD executives, manage compartmented programs, monitoring the flow of analytic products, and supporting Customer business areas.
• Provide support to Customer Client Engagement Officers by organizing pre-briefs, loading intelligence delivery tablets and testing functionality, supporting client meetings & engagements, and more.
• Mentor and provide guidance to junior team members.

What does Leidos need from me?

• Must have an active Top Secret security clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Polygraph.
• Minimum 12 years of experience relevant to intelligence management, with at least a portion of the experience within the last two years.  
• Experience in applying IC and DoD classification guidelines and procedures.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently without oversight and direction.
• Experience guiding and mentoring junior team members.
• Demonstrated ability to use logic when evaluating and synthesizing multiple sources of information.
• Experience interpreting analysis to include, but not limited to, its meaning, importance, and implications.
• Demonstrated ability to defend analytic judgements with sound, logical conclusions and adapt analytic judgments when presented with new information, evolving conditions, or unexpected developments.
• Experience processing analytic reports, documents, assessments, studies, and briefing materials in formats including Microsoft 365 (e.g. Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.), electronic / soft copy matrices and / or web-enabled formats in a timely manner.
• Experience communicating complex issues clearly in a concise and organized manner both verbally and non-verbally; with strong grammar skills.
• Demonstrated ability to recognize nuances and resolve contradictions and inconsistencies in information.
• Experience with 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.
• Knowledge of structured research including, but not limited to, obtaining, evaluating, organizing, and maintaining information within security and data protocols.
• Experience with intelligence collection capabilities and limitations, to include but not limited to, technical sensors / platforms and human intelligence sources related to the labor category.
• Demonstrated ability to define comprehensive, new, or unique research approaches that enable rigorous assessments to address and contribute to high-level tasks.
• Demonstrated in-depth analysis of analytic operations and knowledge management issues across organizational and intra-IC boundaries and clearly articulates key findings.
• Demonstrated ability to review analytic products for cogent arguments, tradecraft standards, and adequate support for conclusions; routinely tests analytic rigor of analytic products.

Favorable if you have:

• Experience in all-source intelligence analysis, collection management, or intelligence operations.
• Experience in cross domain information transfer.
• Experience with multiple IC agencies or service intelligence centers.
• Master’s degree in an area related to intel management from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education; or have Bachelor’s degree related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and an additional five years of related senior experience, for a total of 17 years, as a substitute to the Master’s degree.

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.