Senior Collection Management Officer

Description

The Collection Management Officer (CMO) works to evaluate data for dissemination to appropriate partners, assists in the drafting of reports, and interfaces with respective regional and subject matter experts with equities in the information being disseminated. The CMO is available to field questions and to educate colleagues on the Sponsor's production cycle, the threshold for dissemination, product lines, and to troubleshoot dissemination-related questions.

The CMO provides governance for technical collection, reporting, and dissemination of products; provides strategic and tactical input on products as required; responds to customer requirements that can include an array of technical topics; creates sophisticated leads and proposals; provides expert knowledge of the technology; has a track record of effective business practices; provides excellent communications; and follows established reporting policies.

Key duties include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Work with a staff Collection Management Officer (CMO) to help bridge scientific officers and mission center CMO’s with respect to disseminating technical intelligence reporting resulting from technical operations
• Understand and stay abreast of key technical operations
• Coordinate on technical intelligence reports
• Coordinate on directorate and mission center cables from the perspective of protecting directorate equities
• Provide customer feedback on and assess impact of technical intelligence reports to directorate management and officers
• Stay abreast of key emerging technologies, specifically the nexus of those technologies to Customer and directorate operations and capabilities
• Help directorate officers identify avenues for technical intelligence collection and dissemination as regular reporting or memorandums
• Remain informed about reporting policies that impact the classification of technical intelligence reports
• Educate directorate officers on CMO tradecraft

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph

• Bachelors and eighteen (18) years or more experience; Masters and sixteen (16) years or more experience; PhD or JD and thirteen (13) years or more experience.

• Strong organizational skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Minimum of four years of experience supporting the Customer in an operational capacity, preferably as a CMO or previous experience as an analyst
• Previous experience with operational and CMO tradecraft
• If no prior experience in the Customer’s scientific directorate, then willingness to learn basic directorate capabilities and methodologies in general terms
• Knowledge of operational products, including various intelligence reports and cables
• Knowledge of operational systems and tools
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent strategic and critical thinking skills

Desired Qualifications:

• Knowledge of broader intelligence community products