All-Source Intelligence Analyst - Senior (NGB/J2)

Celestar Corporation has an IMMEDIATE NEED to identify an All-Source Intelligence Analyst - Senior (NGB/J2) who will be seated in Arlington, VA. If interested and qualified, we welcome you to apply for this challenging opportunity.

CLEARANCE REQUIREMENT: Active Top Secret Level Clearance with SCI Access; Candidates without an in-scope Polygraph should expect to have one administered.

About Us:
Celestar, a Veteran-Owned Company, is Very Competitive with Salaries and Benefits. For example, we offer Company-Paid Benefits that include Employee and Family Dental Insurance, Employee Health Insurance, Life Insurance, and Disability Insurance. We also offer a 401K retirement company match, paid Holidays and Personal Time off.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• The All-Source Intelligence Analyst - Incident Awareness and Assessment, conducts analysis using intelligence and information from multiple sources to assess, interpret, forecast, and explain a range of national security issues and developments that are regional or functional in nature.
• Provides all-source analytic support to collections, operations, investigations, and other defense intelligence analytic requirements.
• Monitor all global natural and man-made hazards and disasters that impact National Guard equities and stakeholders to provide analytical support and briefing products on potential impacts to National Guard equities, properties, personnel, and equipment.
• Monitor information that could apply to any designated NGB J2 Priority Intelligence Requirement (PIR) or NGB Chief's Critical Information Requirement (CCIR).
• Monitor the official system of record for requests for information/assistance (RFI/RFA) from JFHQs applicable to NGB J2, and action RFI/RFAs within 4 hours.
• Provide updates to NGB J2 leadership on the status of applicable RFIs/RFAs in accordance with the contingency battle rhythm.
• During all-hazard events, the contractor shall observe and acquire situational knowledge from the lead federal agency, interagency partners, and impacted state, territory, and the District JFHQs.
• Provide a report of federal IAA capabilities supporting the all-hazard event to the NGB J23 and support coordination calls with the JFHQ-State's J2.
• Work with the impacted state and assist with collection requirements and analytical tools; this report shall be provided within two hours of the coordination call.
• Create unclassified and classified analytical products in response to emergent command requirements to include but not limited to IAA, Homeland Defense, Homeland Security, Medical Intelligence, Cyber Intelligence, Information/Influence Operations, and Critical Infrastructure topic areas; these products shall be based on All-Source, Publicly Available Information, and Geospatial data sources in both finished and unfinished forms.
• Comply with the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Analytic Tradecraft Standards during the creation, review, editing, and publishing of these products.
• Brief these products to National Guard senior leaders and publish for nationwide distribution.
• Provide analytic products as dictated by operational requirements and timing, but not less than weekly.
• In situations where NGB J2 is required to support the JFHQ-State or National Guard Joint Liaison Team (JLT), deploy in advance of, or with the National Guard JLT to the JFHQ - State(s).
• Deployments will be coordinated between NGB-J3 and NGB-J2; the contract program manager will be notified when a contractor is activated for deployment.
• When the JFHQ - State is developing its IAA collection plan, provide a current status of the federal IAA capabilities, techniques, and processes to the JFHQ - State and the NGB's interagency partners.
• Advise the JFHQ-J2 on all other IAA-related matters and report back to NGB.
• Support these situations at an average of ten (10) events per year, per required location (may include Multiple Contractors per event).
• Provide twice-daily Executive Summaries (EXSUMs) to the NGB J23.
• Deployments are expected to last no longer than 14 days, but may exceed 14 days depending on the situation and transportation availability.
• If a deployment reaches 14 days, NGB J2 will encourage a changeover in personnel. Changeovers will include a handover brief, orientation, and introductions between the incoming and outgoing personnel. Conditions on the ground may affect changeovers due to airport or road closures.
• Be able to deploy within four hours of notification.
• Provide up to 12 hours of support daily, without days off, to the state response effort, with the working hours based on the impacted state(s) response efforts.
• Deployed locations will vary in conditions for food and lodging availability; contractors should deploy with cash and rations on hand until meals can be obtained on site or locally.
• Update the IAA Continuity Book with all procedural changes to NGB J2 IAA Operations; the NGB J23 must approve these changes; report any changes within 48 hours to the NGB J2 and shall update the Continuity Book Summary of Changes Log Sheet; the continuity book will include the following SOP and checklists: Adaptive Battle Staff (ABS) SOP, NGB J2 Contact Rosters, Guides on Systems, Officer in Charge Event Checklist, Communications Primary, Alternate, Contingency, and Emergency (PACE) Plan, CCIRs/PIRs, Coordination Calls checklist, IAA checklists, Imagery Request Checklists and Augmentee/In-processing Checklist, and others as required.
• Be available to work based on operational demands in a shift work environment while at home station or other location as assigned, to include the 24/7 shift work for extended periods during contingency events.
• Provide support during the hours set forth by NGB's ABS level.
• Provide 12 or more hours of support if required by operational contingencies.
• When necessary, work from alternate locations to include partner agencies in the Washington, D.C., area and locations outside the D.C. area during continuity or contingency events.
• These events are forecasted to occur outside of the D.C. area four times per year and last an average of fourteen (14) days per iteration, but may be extended or changed based on operational requirements.

REQUIREMENTS

• Comprehensive mission knowledge and skills that affirm completion of all developmental training and experiences for the labor category.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of the labor category activities required to meet mission requirements.
• Mastery of qualitative and quantitative analytic methodologies and pursuing developments in academia or other fields that affect tradecraft methodology.
• Ability to define comprehensive, new, or unique research approaches that enable rigorous assessments to address and contribute to high-level tasks.
• In-depth analysis of analytic operations and knowledge management issues across organizational and intra-IC boundaries, and clearly articulates key findings.
• Ability to review analytic products for cogent arguments, tradecraft standards, and adequate support for conclusions; routinely tests the analytic rigor of analytic products.

DESIRED EDUCATION

• Master'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, and twelve (12) years of experience.
• OR 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 (5) years of related senior experience, for a total of seventeen (17) years, in lieu of a Master's Degree.

Celestar is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, protected veteran status, disability status, gender identity, or national origin.