Junior Counterintelligence Analyst

Description Prescient Edge is seeking a Junior Counterintelligence Analyst to support a federal government client.

Benefits At Prescient Edge, we believe that acting with integrity and serving our employees is the key to everyone's success. To that end, we provide employees with a best-in-class benefits package that includes:

• A competitive salary with performance bonus opportunities.
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits, including medical, vision, dental, and orthodontia coverage.
• A substantial retirement plan with no vesting schedule.
• Career development opportunities, including on-the-job training, tuition reimbursement, and networking.
• A positive work environment where employees are respected, supported, and engaged.

Security Clearance

• TS/ SCI/ CI POLY or with the ability to obtain one.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated specialized training or experience, capable of assessing FIE threats to: DoD nuclear operations; nuclear command, control, and communications (NC3); integrated missile defense (IMD); through cyberspace to the aforementioned mission equities, and supply chains pertaining to STRATCOM systems and acquisitions. Shall have completed the JCITA CI Threats and Operations in Cyberspace Seminar within the last 5 years. Shall have completed the JCITA CI support to Research, Development, and Acquisition (CIRDA) course within the last 7 years.
• Specialized training on the organizations, capabilities, and tradecraft used by four

different foreign intelligence services. Shall possess qualifying training; specifically, the JCITA analysis support to CI functions course AND at least one of the four country threat seminars offered by JCITA, or equivalent offered by another IC organization. To satisfy this requirement, such training shall have been completed within the last 7 years.

• Specialized training on using publicly available information (PAI) and performing open-source research in the furtherance of intelligence analysis and production. Shall have completed at least two of the following Intelligence Community accredited PAI or open-source research training: Basic Open-Source Intelligence Course, Basic OSINT Tradecraft Training, Hidden Universes of Information on the Internet, or OS 101 – Open Source Fundamentals, within the last 5 years.
• Shall demonstrate strong intelligence research and analysis skills, including knowledge of, and ability to apply, Intelligence Community analytic tradecraft and analytic writing styles, as well as a firm understanding of the utility and purpose of multiple production lines. Shall possess experience authoring complex search queries in IC databases, such as RMT, Palantir, Next Generation Trident (NGT), or TAC. Strongly desired and recommended training includes, DIA PACE Essentials, or other IC equivalent analyst-qualifying coursework.
• Shall possess strong writing skills suitable to communicate analytic findings clearly, concisely, and logically to a diverse set of clients. The base analytic team shall be capable of delivering five separate formal intelligence products and/or briefings simultaneously. With minimal Government oversight, contract analysts shall be able to take a concept (key intelligence question) and apply analytic design to create a published intelligence document in adherence with analytic tradecraft standards.

Requirements Experience:

• Have a minimum of three (3) years' experience performing all-source intelligence analysis in the IC and have authored, or co-authored intelligence products released through IC dissemination processes.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in an area related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. An additional 4 years of experience in the specific labor category, for a total of 7 years of experience in the specific labor category, may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.