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Top Secret/SCI
Unspecified
Polygraph
IT - Software
Reston, VA (On-Site/Office)
Description
SAIC is seeking qualified and experienced Strategy, Policy, Program Development Experts, to work with a diverse team of operations staff and interagency partners to provide support to dynamic, global intelligence operations for a national security partner in Reston, VA and Fort Belvoir, VA.
This position requires excellent verbal and written communication, analytic, research, and problem-solving skills, and the ability to operate in a diverse, evolving, and high-profile environment. Competitive candidates should bring extensive documented experience delivering planning, policy, and program support to national security executives and stakeholders.
Qualifications
Education and Experience:
Clearance Requirement:
Additional Requirements:
Desired Certifications and Skills:
SAIC is seeking qualified and experienced Strategy, Policy, Program Development Experts, to work with a diverse team of operations staff and interagency partners to provide support to dynamic, global intelligence operations for a national security partner in Reston, VA and Fort Belvoir, VA.
This position requires excellent verbal and written communication, analytic, research, and problem-solving skills, and the ability to operate in a diverse, evolving, and high-profile environment. Competitive candidates should bring extensive documented experience delivering planning, policy, and program support to national security executives and stakeholders.
- Conduct deep research, stakeholder collaboration, policy analysis, assessments, and performance monitoring to drive strategic outcomes, bridging strategy with practical program execution.
- Develop strategic plans, policies, and implementation strategies to address organizational challenges and opportunities, including new legislation, national policy changes, emerging technologies, and national security imperatives.
- Participate in, and contribute expertise to, senior and executive level coordination boards, planning teams, and policy coordination working groups.
- Drafts policies, procedures, manuals, and reports, ensuring consistency with agency/organizational requirements.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams, internal staff, and external partners to ensure alignment and collaboration.
- Oversee administrative tasks and performance tracking for required reports and specialized projects.
- Build and maintain relationships with team members, government representatives, and industry partners to support intelligence collection, processing, exploitation, and dissemination activities.
- Evaluate program effectiveness and measures performance to ensure success and identify areas for improvement and present findings, recommendations, and program updates to senior decision-makers regarding strategic changes and adjustments to enhance program impact.
- Advocate for the Defense OSINT Enterprise's modernization and improvement of OSINT strategies, programs, and policy development.
Qualifications
Education and Experience:
- Masters degree in relevant field of study and sixteen (16) years of relevant experience, or Bachelors degree in relevant field of study and eighteen (18) years of relevant experience. Five (5) additional years of relevant experience may be substituted for degree.
Clearance Requirement:
- Must have an Active Top Secret SCI Clearance and active counter-intelligence polygraph (Active Top Secret SCI Clearance and ability to pass a counter-intelligence polygraph may be considered if all other requirements are met) .
Additional Requirements:
- Ten years or more experience supporting national security activities at the Joint / National / Interagency level. Positions involving extensive interagency support activities may qualify in lieu of Joint / National / Interagency assignments.
- Five years or more experience providing intelligence support to Joint, National, or Interagency elements within the U.S. government.
- Extensive understanding of policy and program implementation processes, including relevant statutes governing national security operations, Intelligence Community and Defense Department policies, including Executive Orders, Intelligence Community Directives, DoD Instructions, and other relevant policy sources.
- Functional understanding of the cyber domain, including internet protocols, data routing processes, data collection methodologies (e.g. - cookies, referrer https, software development kits, etc.), and other factors impacting online security and "digital exhaust" management.
- Willing to work outside normal business hours in exigent circumstances (this position is not shift work).
- Willing to travel up to 10%.
Desired Certifications and Skills:
- Five years or more experience supporting open-source intelligence activities (including Defense and IC activities, Industry anti-fraud or trust and safety, etc.) .
- Knowledge of military operations, terminology, and structure (branch immaterial) .
- Extensive understanding of military operations in the cyber domain, including Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO), Offensive Cyber Operations (OCO), Information Operations / Information Warfare (IO/IW), Psychological Operations (PsyOps), and Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT); and of the authoritative and operational distinctions between each .
- Completion of National Agency or DoD OSINT training program (OS1, OS302, OBC, NERD, etc.) or equivalent civilian courses (CASO, SEC497/587, etc.) .
- Technically proficient with computers and an interest/aptitude for coding languages, digital architecture, data acquisition, and research methodology .
- Demonstrable writing proficiency .
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