Collection Manager

Nalley Consulting is filling the following position contingent on award:

Collection Manager

LCAT: Mid and Senior
Location: CENTCOM HQ, Tampa, FL
Required clearance: TS/SCI with CI poly
Desired Experience: At least 8 years for Mid level; at least 12 years for Senior level
Desired Education: Bachelor's degree for Mid positions; master's degree or an additional 5 years of related experience for Senior positions.

Description

• The contractor shall engage with analysts to determine intelligence needs, identify and develop possible collection postures/strategies, and convert these intelligence needs into collection requirements to satisfy USCENTCOM intelligence requirements. This, also, includes establishing priorities and tasking, coordinating with appropriate collection sources or agencies, and monitoring results.
• The contractor shall support solicitation, coordination, research, de-confliction, creation, registration, prioritization, and validation of multiple intelligence (multi-INT) such as Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT), Measurement and Signature Intelligence (MASINT), Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), Human Intelligence (HUMINT), and Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) CRM per standing policy. This will include associated issue trackers, internal requirements trackers, and collection requirement programs of record.
• Translate received requirements into discipline-specific language IAW SOPs and Combat Support Agency (CSA) guidance, including maintaining associated issue trackers, internal requirements trackers, and collection requirement programs of record.
• Research, manage, and align IC collection requests to USCENTCOM Theater/IC priorities and guidance.
• Balance time sensitive requests with standing collection requirements to ensure appropriate deployment of ISR assets, including managing the daily/weekly Joint Intelligence Prioritized Collection List/Component Intelligence Collection List database as required.
• Monitor and provide routine updates to requestors on the status of USCENTCOM collection requirements. Specifically, contractor personnel shall monitor and routinely provide updates to requestors on the status of collection requirements (e.g. where the requirements were submitted for tasking, the expected collection schedule, etc.) and adjust requirements to ensure optimal deployment of limited assets.
• Review existing collection requirements including development of ISR utilization and contributions summaries, management of issues and requirements, and tracking databases/ assessments.

Other responsibilities

• Contact collection requirements originators about the status of each requirement's disposition and expiration (e.g. contacting requestors to determine continued relevance, then directing resubmission or cancelation).
• Solicit, assess, review, and publish HUMINT Report Evaluations from the USCENTCOM analytical team; including tracking, maintaining, and briefing the status of evaluations associated with Intelligence Information Reports (IIRs) cited in Finished Intelligence (FINTEL) and IIR responses to Source Directed Requirements (SDRs).
• Review HUMINT Report Evaluations for content, formatting, classification, and release.
• Provide weekly number of HUMINT requirements, evaluations, and HUMINT On-Line Tasking and Reporting (HOT-R) or CHROME accounts established for the section.
• Develop requested products reflecting current and future collection operations and postures for the USCENTCOM AOR.
• Provide input to policy, procedures, and doctrine relating to collection operations in the USCENTCOM AOR including development of division, branch, and team SOPs, TTPs, JQS, and other policy related documents.
• Populate mission tracker spreadsheets with ISR data as specified by, and IAW published USCENTCOM orders and directives. Mission tracker spreadsheets must capture essential ISR activity by intelligence discipline and asset. This includes populating mission tracker Excel spreadsheets by utilizing sources of reporting and detailing operational planning, tasking, and execution to extract relevant data required to assess the activity/effectiveness of ISR resources/operations.
• Build the data infrastructure required to effectively understand, track, monitor, and assess ISR operations and activities in the USCENTCOM AOR to ensure effective employment of ISR assets.
• Identify/document technical and functional JSR system needs.
• Perform assessments of projected system requirements to ensure future intelligence, information, ISR systems, and programs support USCENTCOM ISR requirements.
• Provide technical guidance in translating ISR and CM software or website application requirements into technical systems specifications to include, but not limited to, assisting in the production of fom1al architecture products consisting of system, technical views, and the development of software functional requirements documents.
• Support ISR/CM related systems, tools and associated processes, requirements, research, analysis, user solicitation, coordination, communication, and documentation.
• Support associated coordination and communication with external/subordinate organizations as required.
• Provide expertise to enable interoperable intelligence systems and information flow between services, national agencies, CCMDs, coalition partners, and USCENTCOM.

LCAT Criteria

• Demonstrates in-depth knowledge and understanding of the labor category activities required to meet mission requirements.
• Knowledgeable of and demonstrates ability to apply IC and DoD classification guidelines and procedures.
• Demonstrates understanding of interpreting documents to include, but not limited to, its meaning, importance, and implications. Demonstrates ability to defend analytic judgements with sound, logical conclusions and adapt analytic judgments when presented with new information, evolving conditions, or unexpected developments.
• Demonstrates ability to develop concise, insightful, and comprehensive products including reports, documents, assessments, studies, and briefing materials in formats including Microsoft Office tools (e.g. Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.), electronic / soft copy matrices and / or web-enabled formats.
• Demonstrates ability to communicate complex issues clearly in a concise and organized manner both verbally and non-verbally, with strong grammar skills.
• Demonstrates ability to communicate understanding from information that may be incomplete, indirect, highly complex, seemingly unrelated, and / or technically advanced.
• Demonstrates ability to develop structured research including, but not limited to, obtaining, evaluating, organizing, and maintaining information within security and data protocols.

Other criteria

• Demonstrates ability to define comprehensive, new, or unique research approaches that enable rigorous assessments to address and contribute to high-level tasks.
• Demonstrates ability to recognize nuances and resolve contradictions and inconsistencies in information.
• Demonstrates ability to collaborate and work with other IC members on information sharing, and addressing disputes and conflict resolution.
• Demonstrates ability to lead teams in researching multifaceted or critical problems.
• Demonstrates ability to work independently and with minimal oversight.
• Demonstrates ability to review products for cogent arguments, tradecraft standards, and adequate support for conclusions; routinely tests analytic rigor of products.

ABOUT NALLEY CONSULTING

Nalley Consulting is a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business working with prime partners to staff Department of Defense and Intelligence Community positions. Created by a U.S. Navy intelligence veteran, Nalley Consulting has grown to include multiple IDIQ vehicles in several states.

Nalley Consulting fringe benefits include:

• Excellent medical, dental, and vision benefits
• PTO
• 11 paid federal holidays
• Tuition assistance
• Paid military-reserve leave
• Paid parental leave for birth or adoption
• 401k matching up to 5 percent of the base salary
• Flex time
• Company-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance.