Discovery & Collection Specialist/Collector

Discovery & Collection Specialist / Collector

U) Duties :

• Collect, research, evaluate, and compile publicly available information (PAI) in accordance with established customer policies and procedures, including current storage policies, OPSEC protocols, and Intelligence Oversight (IO) Governance.
• Produce and disseminate Customer Open Source reports and alerts in accordance with established SOPs.
• Populate activities in assigned performance management system (Currently JIRA).
• Support timely responses to intelligence priorities, requests for information (RFIs) and other customer and mission needs. Tasks include :

o Regional / Target monitoring

o Language support

o Geolocating

o Data discovery and transfer

o Address coding

• Contribute to the preparation of data release, analytical, observational, and technical reports and publications.
• Assess open source media veracity utilizing splice detectors, hex editors, GAN detectors, etc.
• Maintain proper file management in accordance with division standards.
• Request and maintain access to security domain systems (SBU, SecNet, COE).
• Request, maintain access to, and utilize IC Open Source databases / portals (Tier 0).
• Contribute to Open Source Tradecraft knowledge management.
• Support presentations of activities, discoveries, conclusions, and / or tradecraft to leadership, partners, and customers.
• Maintain active presence in Open Source chat-rooms and collaboration spaces to engage with team members, customers, and partners.
• Conduct persona maintenance activities (surfing, seasoning, posting) in accordance with the service constraints paragraph on sensitive operations.
• Support Senior management with outreach and marketing efforts.

U) Skills and Experience :

U) Required

• 1-3 years of experience conducting Open Source collection or Open Source Analysis.
• Experience with web browsing tools and advance searching techniques.
• Course work or 1 year of experience building / using Power Point slides, Excel spreadsheets, Email, and One Note Notebooks.
• Basic knowledge of how to conduct safe searches (OPSEC).
• 1-3 year of demonstrated work experience directly engaging with IC partners / customers.

U) Desired

• Foreign language capabilities (Reading, Writing, Listening).
• Knowledge of geospatial technologies (ArcGIS, GoogleEarth, ISpy).
• Knowledge of DoD / IC databases and services.
• Knowledge of Common Open Source databases and Services.
• Familiarity with Social Media.
• Familiarity with JIRA.
• Knowledge of DoD, and IC missions.
• Experience Geolocating images (Handheld photography, videos, etc.).
• Ability to remain flexible to changing priorities and requirements from supervisors and customers.

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