Targeting Analyst

Targeting Analyst
- Mid

Cherokee Insights is seeking a Targeting Analyst to provide mid-level targeting analysis to identify, assess, and disrupt threats to cleared industry, cleared personnel, DOD, and Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA). The Targeting Analyst will facilitate USG responses to adversary action and insider threats by sharing threat indicators and enabling responsive measures from other agencies and services.

Compensation & Benefits:

Estimated starting salary range: $90,000-$100,000. Pay commensurate with experience. Full time benefits include Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, and other possible benefits as provided. Benefits are subject to change with or without notice.

Targeting Analyst
- Mid

Responsibilities Include:

• Develops targets and target systems for joint lethal and / or non-lethal engagements.
• Develops target nominations, creates database records, and databases target intelligence products.
• Produces all-source analytic damage estimates and battle damage assessments and assists with combat assessment requirements.
• Conducts collateral damage estimation, performs target list management, target strategy development, and provides joint target intelligence support to deliberate and dynamic target engagements.
• Provides recommendations for target prioritization to achieve commander objectives for plans and operations.
• Provides database nominations, creates and updates database and uploads GTMs into databases.
• Develop and operationalize an enterprise security risk management methodology across Government and industry stakeholders.
• Independently conduct research using all sources of information and intelligence, and if required, seeks out access to information and databases to complete the mission to focus DCSA targeting efforts.
• Identify adversarial entities targeting cleared industry facilities, information, personnel, and/or technologies resident in the NISP.
• Develop target products that facilitate USG responses to adversary action.
• Draft multi-disciplinary targeting products that support key U.S. national security and foreign policy objectives and helps shape IC investigations, operations, collections, and priorities.
• Develop comprehensive targeting packages for OGA action to deter, detect, exploit, neutralize, or disrupt adversarial entities.
• Apply a full range of targeting methodologies, tools, and approaches to gain a comprehensive understanding of complex issues and incorporate insights and finding into well crafted, sophisticated targeting products.
• Coordinate, collaborate, and engage with customers and stakeholders to improve integration and share threat information to enable responsive measures from DCSA, and other agencies and services.
• Coordinate and collaborate with DCSA, DoD, other USG departments and agencies to collect and share intelligence information.
• Disseminates information throughout the intelligence, CI and LE communities.
• Refer detailed threat information meeting certain investigative and operational thresholds expeditiously to the appropriate IC and/or LE partners for investigative or operational exploitation.
• Attend targeting-related conferences, as tasked.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned

Targeting Analyst
- Mid Experience, Education, Skills, Abilities requested:

• Must have an active Top Secret / SCI level security clearance.
• Desired to have a minimum 8 years of experience related to the Targeting Analyst role with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.
• Preferred to have a Bachelor's degree
• Comprehensive mission knowledge and skills that affirms completion of all developmental training and experiences for the Targeting Analyst position.
• Ability to communicate understanding from information that may be incomplete, indirect, highly complex, seemingly unrelated, and / or technically advanced.
• Structure analysis based on trends in reporting and a range of analytic perspectives from other analysts, organizations, and intelligence disciplines.
• Work independently with minimal oversight and direction.
• 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.
• Demonstrates ability to lead teams in researching multifaceted or critical problems.
• Provides guidance in selecting, designing, and applying analytic methodologies.
• Uses argument evaluation and validated analytic methodologies to challenge differing perspectives.
• Working knowledge of the concepts involved in the specific functions outlined in the specified Targeting Analyst description.
• Knowledgeable of and demonstrates ability to apply Intelligence Community (IC) and DoD classification guidelines and procedures.
• Work semi-independently with oversight and direction.
• Able to use logic when evaluating and synthesizing multiple sources of information.
• Understanding of interpreting analysis to include, but not limited to, its meaning,…