Veteran-Owned Firm Seeking Discovery & Collection Specialist for Springfield, VA

My name is Stephen Hrutka. I manage a veteran-owned firm in Washington, DC, focusing on Supply Chain Management, Strategic Sourcing, and Technical/ Cleared Recruiting.

HRUCKUS helps other Veteran-owned businesses recruit positions across DARPA, Strategic Capabilities Office, and Federal Agencies. One of our longest-engaged Veteran-owned clients has a funded opening for a Discovery & Collection Specialist.

The ideal candidate will have an Active TS/SCI Clearance, 1-3 years of experience and knowledge in Collecting, researching, evaluating, and compiling publicly available information (PAI) by established customer policies and procedures, including current storage policies, OPSEC protocols, and Intelligence Oversight (IO) Governance.

If this role is not a fit for you but you may know someone, I am glad to offer a referral bonus.

Thanks,

Stephen M Hrutka

Principal Consultant

HRUCKUS LLC

Position Description: Our client seeks a Discovery & Collection Specialist with an Active TS/SCI Clearance to support their subsidiary operations.

Our client provides professional GEOINT exploitation, analysis, production services, and GEOINT management solutions. To succeed, The Discovery & Collections Manager must possess the passion to ramp up quickly as a valuable teammate, skillfully communicate and scale activities, and always meet or exceed professional expectations.

Essential Duties:

• Collect, research, evaluate, and compile publicly available information (PAI) by 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 by established SOPs
• Populate activities in the assigned performance management system (Currently JIRA)
• Support timely responses to intelligence priorities, requests for information (RFIs), and other customer and mission needs

Tasks Include:

• Regional/Target Monitoring
• Language support
• Geolocating
• Data discovery and transfer
• Address coding
• Contribute to preparing data releases and analytical, observational, and technical reports and publications
• Assess open-source media veracity utilizing splice detectors, hex editors, GAN detectors, etc.
• Maintain proper file management following 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 tradecrafts to leadership, partners, and customers
• Maintain an 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

Required Skills and Experience:

• Must possess an Active TS/SCI Clearance
• 1-3 years of experience conducting Open-Source collection or Open-Source Analysis
• Experience with web browsing tools and advanced searching techniques
• Coursework or one year of experience building/using PowerPoint slides, Excel spreadsheets, Email, and One Note Notebooks
• Basic knowledge of how to conduct safe searches (OPSEC)
• 1-3 years of demonstrated work experience directly engaging with IC partners/customers

Preferred Qualifications:

• Foreign language capabilities (Reading, Writing, Listening)
• Knowledge of geospatial technologies (ArcGIS, Google Earth, I Spy)
• 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

Additional Client Requirements:

Physical:

• Frequently required to sit and work at a desk/computer for up to 8 hours a day
• While performing the job responsibilities, the employee is required to talk and hear
• Must have repetitive wrist/hand/finger movement to work on computer and related office equipment
• Vision abilities required by this job include close vision

Cognitive:

• Ability to learn new tasks
• Ability to maintain focus and complete tasks independently
• Ability to remember processes
• Ability to complete tasks in situations that have a speed or productivity quota

Benefits:

• This full-time position offers Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K Match, Generous PTO, and Additional Company Paid Benefits

The target annual rate is $60,000-$65,000.