Senior Targeting Officer

## Senior Targeting Officer Apply:
Sterling, VA:
Full time:
Posted Yesterday:
JR102170

Nightwing provides technically advanced full-spectrum cyber, data operations, systems integration and intelligence mission support services to meet our customers’ most demanding challenges. Our capabilities include cyber space operations, cyber defense and resiliency, vulnerability research, ubiquitous technical surveillance, data intelligence, lifecycle mission enablement, and software modernization. Nightwing brings disruptive technologies, agility, and competitive offerings to customers in the intelligence community, defense, civil, and commercial markets.  

Nightwing is seeking an experienced and cleared Senior Targeting Officer in the Northern Virginia area. This position requires work in a secure, mission-focused operations environment. Rotating shift work may include nights, weekends, holidays, and surge support based on mission requirements.

This position may require travel as determined by the Customer.  ## Position Summary  The Senior Targeting Officer guides and monitors the execution of collection operations against high-priority national security threats and integrates the resulting multi-INT information into a coherent intelligence picture. Operating in a fast-paced 24/7 intelligence operations center, this role generates leads that advance dynamic overseas operations, identifies and closes information gaps, and delivers time-critical recommendations to mission leadership and senior stakeholders.  

The successful candidate will bring deep targeting experience, mature analytic judgment, and recognized authority on an assigned target set and area of responsibility. This role requires the ability to fuse raw, time-sensitive intelligence from multiple sources, manage taskings and information flow across organizations within operational decision timelines, and communicate complex information accurately in both formal and ad hoc settings.  ##

Key Responsibilities:

* Guide and monitor the execution of collection operations supporting defined intelligence requirements and high-priority targets.
* Research, analyze, and fuse complex multi-INT data sets to generate leads that advance dynamic overseas operations.
* Integrate collection results, intelligence reporting, and mission partner inputs into a cohesive targeting narrative.
* Identify information and collection gaps and take proactive steps to close them, including drafting and disseminating requests for information.
* Provide resource allocation recommendations that maximize collection effectiveness against assigned priorities.
* Manage taskings and maintain information flow across multiple organizations within operational decision timelines.
* Deliver time-critical recommendations to mission leadership and senior stakeholders, including well-reasoned dissenting perspectives when warranted.
* Brief senior leadership, analysts, and mission partners through scheduled briefings and ad hoc operational updates.
* Author concise written summaries, assessments, and targeting support products that capture salient all-source information.
* Apply knowledge of customer tradecraft and relevant legal and policy guidance to targeting decisions.
* Develop and maintain authority on assigned target sets, areas of responsibility, targeting methodologies, and operational tools.
* Mentor junior targeting officers and support team development, knowledge transfer, and operational readiness.
* Support domestic and international travel, exercises, or short-duration deployments as required.
* Perform other targeting or operational support duties as assigned.  ##

Required Qualifications:

* Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph, or ability to obtain and maintain required clearance and…