The Challenge:
Critical decisions are made every single day in aligning our military forces for the future operating environment. The Marine Corps Intelligence Activity (MCIA) delivers intelligence to inform policy makers, the force development enterprise, and warfighters in order to enable success in the current and future operating environment. What if you could use your Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) expertise to assist those efforts?
The successful Junior Open Source Analyst on our team will conduct all-source analytic production on sources and products of information available from public, private, and U.S. and foreign Government open source materials within established security protocols. You will analyze foreign and domestic-based publicly available information to identify trends, patterns, and relationships that provide unique insights to address defense intelligence requirements.
Build Your Career: At JCTM, we know the power of knowledge and experience combined with integrity. When you join JCTM, you are joining a team that empowers their people, does what is right, and believes that every ‘JCTMer’ has a role in helping manage our culture.
Meaningful work – Use your skills, knowledge, experience, and drive to empower change within the United States Marine Corps, the Joint Force, and the Intelligence Community. Your work will directly support the safety and security of our Nation’s service members.
State-of-the-art technology – Broaden your capabilities while working directly in support of the DoD optimizing emerging technologies and methodologies for successful employment at multiple echelons.
New skills – Alongside a myriad of both technical and functional experts, you can gain practical experience with advanced technologies, emerging tools and concepts, and strategic level implementation.
Room to grow – You’ll be inspired to grow your career and become a key contributor to the company’s processes and strategic goals through your alignment with mentors and collaborative colleagues.
You Have:
Active TS/SCI clearance
Bachelor's Degree in related field
Completed a joint-accredited OSINT course. Joint-accredited OSINT courses include but are not limited to: EOSINT (USMC), OS301 and OS302 (Army), ONI OSINT Fundamentals Course (Navy), Introduction to OSINT (USAF), DIA BOTC (DIA), NGA OSINT Course (NGA), NERD (SOCOM). Commercial alternatives to a joint-accredited OSINT course include but are not limited to: CASO (Black Horse Solutions), and SEC 497 and SEC 587 (SANS Institute)
3+ years' experience
Knowledge of and ability to apply Intelligence Community (IC) and DoD classification guidelines and procedures.
Ability to work semi-independently with oversight and direction.
Ability to use logic when evaluating and synthesizing multiple sources of information.
Understanding of interpreting analysis to include, but not limited to, its meaning, importance, and implications.
Ability to defend analytic judgements with sound, logical conclusions and adapt analytic judgments when presented with new information, evolving conditions, or unexpected developments.
Nice To Have:
Ability to communicate understanding from information that may be incomplete, indirect, highly complex, seemingly unrelated, and / or technically advanced.
Ability to structure analysis based on trends in reporting and a range of analytic perspectives from other analysts, organizations, and intelligence disciplines.
Ability to work independently with minimal oversight and direction.
Ability to collaborate and work with other IC members on information sharing, driving collection, and addressing analytic disputes and conflict resolution.
Ability to develop concise, insightful, and comprehensive products for defense intelligence.
Ability to lead teams in researching multifaceted or critical problems.
Ability to define comprehensive, new, or unique research approaches that enable rigorous assessments to address and contribute to high-level tasks.
Ability to conduct in-depth analysis of analytic operations and knowledge management issues across organizational and intra-IC boundaries and clearly articulate key findings.
*Education/experience may substitute for degree/years of experience requirements for this position.
Clearance:
Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; TS/SCI clearance is required.
JCTM is an EOE that empowers our people to fearlessly drive internal and external change while supporting the safety and security of our great nation.
