OSINT/PAI Analyst

* This position is contingent upon contract award*. 

** Some positions may be asked to deploy on a no-notice basis as identified by the supported unit to hazardous duty/combat zones. Deployments may be to a theater of operations with permissive, uncertain, or hostile environments while living in austere conditions for extended periods. Deployment billets will be allocated based on merit as defined by the supported unit selection criteria. **

 Job Summary:

Team Members on this effort will be responsible for providing Open Source/PAI analysis as part of an analytical team supporting DoD and National Intelligence Priorities. Efforts will leverage commercial subscriptions, social media, financial transactions, and open-sourced geospatial data to fulfill priority intelligence requirements as defined by the supported unit. 
 
 Responsibilities:

• Conduct advanced collection, Processing, Exploitation, Dissemination (PED), reporting, and targeting using publicly available and commercially available data sources. 
• Interface with the Intelligence Community to produce intelligence assessments in support targeting, HUMINT and exploitation operations, cyber operations, and indications and warnings threat estimates. Fuse publicly available and commercially available information for multi-intelligence assessments. 
• Some analysts may function as language enabled OSINT/PAI analysts and will conduct analysis in a language identified at government discretion. 

Requirements:

• Must be a US citizen.
• Must have an active Top-Secret/SCI security clearance or equivalent.
• Four (4) or more years of total experience as an intelligence analyst within the DoD or the Intelligence Community. 
• One (1) or more years of specific experience in OSINT/PAI exploitation directly supporting special operations, intelligence operations, kinetic/non-kinetic targeting, and/or HUMINT lead development. 
• Strong proficiency in the current suite of available all-source intelligence tools, databases, and repositories.
• Strong proficiency in the current suite of available specific OSINT/PAI tools, databases, and repositories, as well as OSINT research and methodology.
• Strong background required in the following analytical areas: Regional analysis, Geo-Political analysis, and HUMINT/SIGINT analysis, Geospatial analysis, bulk data analysis, public records research and analysis, or investigative analysis. 
• Strong written communication skills and proficiency with the Microsoft Officer suite of applications.
• Strong verbal briefing skills, able to brief at the O-3/GS13 level of above. 
• Successful background/credit check and drug screening.

Preferred Requirements:

• Prior experience providing OSINT analytic support to special operations. 
• Eight (8) or more years of experience performing counterintelligence related operations while serving in a Joint Special Operations Task Force, Inter-agency Task Force, National Intelligence Agency, Law Enforcement Agency, Joint CI Activity or Combatant Command.
• Three (3) or more years of specific experience in OSINT/PAI exploitation directly 3supporting special operations, intelligence operations, kinetic/non-kinetic targeting, and/or HUMINT lead development. Prior experience providing OSINT analytic support to special operations is preferred.
• Two (2) or more years of experience with digital signature reduction.
• Understanding of OSINT/PAI authorities, regulations, and policy.

Physical Demands or Work Environment: 

The work environment characteristics and physical demands described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• The majority of the time is spent in an office setting. 
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance, vision, color vision and ability to adjust focus.
• Frequently required to sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, and talk or hear.

About Zel Tech

Zel Tech is a minority owned small business (NAICS 541715) specializing in customer threat reduction. We provide a full spectrum of threat reduction services from planning, training, operations, R&D, advising, and solution prototyping across our services and solutions business groups. We combine best of breed engineering practices, subject matter expertise, design services, computer science, and data analytics with innovative approaches in artificial intelligence and machine learning, AR/VR, R&D, and physics-based modeling and simulation providing tailored solutions addressing our customer’s unique threat requirements.

Our Mission

We provide customers with the knowledge, tools, and solutions needed for correct and timely decisions and effective actions to help ensure U.S. national security.

Diversity Workforce

Zel Tech team members represent a wide range of backgrounds, skills, experience, and personalities bound together by common objectives and mutual respect. You will join a caring community of professional, including many military veterans who challenge and support each other in seeking the right solutions to important matters.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance 
• 401k immediate vesting with company match
• Flexible Spending Accounts 
• Health Savings Account with company contributions
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Bonuses for performance
• Voluntary life/accidental death & dismemberment 
• Educational assistance and special training programs 
• Voluntary benefits (accidental, critical illness, whole life) 
• Group life insurance (Company paid)
• Short-term and Long-term Disability Insurance (Company paid)
• Paid Time Off (PTO), Holiday Leave, Jury Duty, and Military Leave 
• Health and fitness reimbursement
• Referral bonuses
• Employee discounts on various services and products

 Equal Opportunities

Zel Tech is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, creed, sex, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, marital status, military status, genetic predisposition, or any other basis protected by law.