Discovery & Collection Specialist/Collector - International Underwater Explorations

Discovery & Collection Specialist/Collector

(U) Duties:

• Collect, research, evaluate, and compile publicly available information (PAI) in accordance with established customer policies and procedures, including current storage policies, OPSEC protocols, and Intelligence Oversight (IO) Governance.

• Produce and disseminate Customer Open Source reports and alerts in accordance with established SOPs.

• Populate activities in assigned performance management system (Currently JIRA).

• Support timely responses to intelligence priorities, requests for information (RFIs) and other customer and mission needs. Tasks include:

o Regional/Target monitoring

o Language support

o Geolocating

o Data discovery and transfer

o Address coding

• Contribute to the preparation of data release, analytical, observational, and technical reports and publications.

• Assess open source media veracity utilizing splice detectors, hex editors, GAN detectors, etc.

• Maintain proper file management in accordance with division standards.

• Request and maintain access to security domain systems (SBU, SecNet, COE).

• Request, maintain access to, and utilize IC Open Source databases/portals (Tier 0).

• Contribute to Open Source Tradecraft knowledge management.

• Support presentations of activities, discoveries, conclusions, and/or tradecraft to leadership, partners, and customers.

• Maintain active presence in Open Source chat-rooms and collaboration spaces to engage with team members, customers, and partners.

• Conduct persona maintenance activities (surfing, seasoning, posting) in accordance with the service constraints paragraph on sensitive operations.

• Support Senior management with outreach and marketing efforts.

(U) Skills and Experience:

(U) Required

• 1-3 years of experience conducting Open Source collection or Open Source Analysis.

• Experience with web browsing tools and advance searching techniques.

• Course work or 1 year of experience building/using Power Point slides, Excel spreadsheets, Email, and One Note Notebooks.

• Basic knowledge of how to conduct safe searches (OPSEC).

• 1-3 year of demonstrated work experience directly engaging with IC partners/customers.

(U) Desired

• Foreign language capabilities (Reading, Writing, Listening).

• Knowledge of geospatial technologies (ArcGIS, GoogleEarth, ISpy).

• Knowledge of DoD/IC databases and services.

• Knowledge of Common Open Source databases and Services.

• Familiarity with Social Media.

• Familiarity with JIRA.

• Knowledge of DoD, and IC missions.

• Experience Geolocating images (Handheld photography, videos, etc.).

• Ability to remain flexible to changing priorities and requirements from supervisors and customers.