Agile Defense is seeking to fill a Monitoring Specialist - Intelligence Research Specialist role to support the nation's most important missions by integrating advanced technologies and providing adaptive innovation. The role involves monitoring open source and social media to identify potential threats and provide intelligence to various government agencies.
Requirements
- The contractor shall have expert knowledge and proficiency in the designated language.
- The contractor shall have expert knowledge of media platforms in the designated region, in particular those aligned with cultural, political and security interests as they relate to the U.S. interests in order to conduct complex open and all-source source operations focused on a wide range of DS monitoring priorities that may include threats, political violence, crime, terrorism and other critical security priorities for internal and external customers.
- The contractor shall have knowledge of open source concepts, methods, and practices to provide technical and analytical support for the planning, conduct, and coordination of intelligence research and analysis operations.
- The contractor shall have knowledge of qualitative and quantitative various techniques to effectively locate and identify information of concern regarding Department equities in publicly available information including social, news, and traditional media.
- The contractor shall have knowledge of Internet-based research, including Boolean logic, search engine and database resources, and Internet sources, such as social media, social networking tools, data exploitation, and commercial- and industry-based database in order to conduct complex open source operations focused on a wide range of DS monitoring priorities that may include threats, political violence, crime, terrorism and other critical security priorities for internal and external customers.
- The contractor shall have knowledge of foreign language research methodologies using internationally-focused Web sites to conduct complex open and all-source source operations focused on a wide range of DS monitoring priorities that may include threats, political violence, crime, terrorism and other critical security priorities for internal and external customers.
- The contractor shall have knowledge of advanced search techniques, information databases, data visualization, and related tools to conduct complex open and all-source source investigative operations focused on a wide range of DS monitoring priorities that may include threats, political violence, crime, terrorism and other critical security priorities for internal and external customers.
Responsibilities
- The contractor shall monitor open source and social media in accordance with established DS monitoring priorities.
- The contractor shall perform cursory, initial triage of reports to eliminate information that is from sources known to be provocative, parodic, or similar.
- The contractor shall maintain internal data-base of sites and users known to be valuable, reliable, unreliable, or parodic.
- The contractor shall create cursory, standardized reports per Program SOP to provide to analytical team for further analysis.
- The contractor shall provide open source monitoring, assistance, and support to domestic investigative offices, protection details, protective intelligence offices, intelligence analysis offices, and other DS and external consumers.
- The contractor shall utilize numerous datasets, specialized tools, and advanced techniques to identify potential threat(s) to the Department for referral to analytical teams, other DS offices, and/or law enforcement, defense, and intelligence partners.
- The contractor shall interpret, plan, and execute the collection of open source intelligence as necessary to meet DS priorities including operations in support of large-scale, multi-national events domestically and abroad.
Other
- Clearance: Secret
- Designated language - Subject Matter Expert (SME).
- Monitoring - Novice (minimum)
- The contractor must demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in written form, with superiors and colleagues, fluently speaking, reading, listening and translating the designated-language to English and the reverse.
- The contractor must be able to translate narrative using colloquial slang words and phrases.
