Targeting Analyst and Planner

Company Overview:

ANSER enhances national and homeland security by strengthening public institutions. We provide thought leadership for complex issues through independent analysis, and we deliver practical, useful solutions. ANSER values collaboration, integrity, and initiative and we are client focused in all that we do. Because we were established for the purpose of public service and not for profit, we measure our success in the impact of our service.

Position Summary:

The Targeting Analyst and Planner provides Operational Intelligence (OI) services and targeting support that enhances situational awareness, enables rapid decision-making, improves current and long-term IO/IW planning, and synchronizes IO with mission partners. In this role you will deliver Intelligence Support for Information Operations (ISIO) and Sensitive Activities (SA) targeting support, coordinating and tracking intelligence requirements across IRCs and ensuring feedback loops between collection, targeting, and IO/IW operations.

Day to Day Responsibilities:

• Provide ISIO and sensitive activities targeting technical expertise supporting USFK OAIs

• Facilitate deconfliction supporting intelligence gain/loss considerations and political/military assessments

• Support development of intelligence inputs to command collection plans enabling planning, execution, and feedback for measures of performance/effectiveness

• Coordinate, consolidate, submit, track, and manage intelligence requirements across IRCs

• Participate in development of targeting activities to align collections, capabilities, prioritization, and feedback to IW/IO activities

• Produce analytical products supporting IO/IW planning for supported USFK J3 divisions; deliver required intelligence reports/products

• Support quantitative/qualitative analysis and assessment research reinforcing baseline establishment and IO/IW and sensitive activities assessment

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent relevant experience)

• TS/SCI Clearance

• 5+ years of experience in all-source analysis, operational intelligence support, targeting support, or information operations intelligence support

• Demonstrated experience drafting analytical products and coordinating intelligence requirements and collection-support activities

• Ability to work in dynamic operational planning environments (competition through contingency response)

• Ability to operate effectively in a security-conscious environment and comply with all training/access requirements

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting joint targeting processes specifically for IO/IW, ISIO, and sensitive activities targeting

• Experience building measures of performance/measures of effectiveness feedback loops tied to collection plans and assessments

• Experience integrating intelligence support into campaign planning and OIE-focused execution

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), if you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation in order to apply for a position with ANSER, please call 703-416-2000 or e-mail [email protected]

ANSER is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We seek individuals from a broad variety of backgrounds with varying levels of experience who have a desire to do meaningful work. We recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote regardless of race, color, gender, religion, national origin, ancestry, disability, age, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law.