OCONUS All Source Analyst - MID

Role overview

This position is for an experienced all-source analyst supporting CENTCOM missions in service of USAF OSI counterintelligence analytic work. The assignment may involve multiple locations across Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.

The team supports counterintelligence analysis by combining intelligence and raw data from multiple sources and classification levels to spot threats, patterns, structures, and locations linked to foreign intelligence entities. The role also includes distributing both urgent and non-urgent force protection threat reporting and assessments to supported commanders, including six AFCENT forward-deployed units in the CENTCOM area of responsibility and one CONUS-based unit.

Key duties

• Track, evaluate, and report on foreign intelligence efforts aimed at gathering sensitive national security information about U.S. people, activities, and interests, including risks created by emerging technologies.
• Build understanding of foreign intelligence capabilities, as well as U.S. and partner CI methods, tactics, techniques, and procedures, and use that knowledge for advanced all-source CI research and strategy support.
• Develop and deliver training materials and instruction on collection-operation techniques and related processes tied to human intelligence and technical intelligence activities under DoD authorities.
• Make sure finished products follow ICD and AFOSI requirements and are uploaded into the correct databases.
• Keep current knowledge of host-nation intelligence and security structures.
• Stay informed on third-country intelligence services and state-backed, transnational, international, or regional terrorist organizations that may threaten DAF resources and personnel.
• Train other analysts on CISFP, source management, and collection/production management.
• Review CRs and IIRs and provide analyst feedback.
• Distribute raw and finished intelligence to relevant recipients, including AFOSI leadership, base commanders, operating environment owners, and other intelligence or counterintelligence customers inside and outside the continental U.S.
• Produce detailed foreign intelligence and terrorism analysis products as directed by AFOSI or USAFCENT leadership.
• Merge intelligence and raw data from multiple sources and classifications to identify threats, trends, terrorist cell structures, locations, and attack indicators on a daily or weekly basis.
• Support collection management by assessing field reporting on terrorist group structures and relationships with other organizations and state-sponsored actors targeting the DAF/DoD.
• Help create target packages intended to reduce threats to 24 EFIS, subordinate units, and DAF/DoD personnel and assets in the USCENTCOM/AFCENT area.
• Prepare briefings on hostile group relationships, scope, identification, and potential impact when requested by AFOSI leadership and other customers.
• Build and maintain liaison links with military and national-level agencies.
• Ensure all products and briefings comply with security classification rules, restrictive caveats, and dissemination controls.
• Deliver mobile training and advisory support to AFOSI units across the USCENTCOM AOR to standardize analyst and agent workflow and improve the intelligence cycle.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for strategic engagement efforts such as Defense Threat Assessment Methodology Seminars and Crime Scene Exploitation Programs.
• Travel frequently, including extended OCONUS assignments, and provide support at CONUS and OCONUS locations as mission needs require.
• Keep a current passport and visa status and remain globally deployable, including medical clearance and any other required items.
• Include source citations in all products according to ICON guidance.
• Follow applicable governing documents and produce work that is accurate, properly formatted, and free of grammar and spelling issues.

Experience and qualifications

• At least 6 years of all-source analytical experience using HUMINT, SIGINT, IMINT, or OSINT.
• At least 1 year of full analytical support to counterintelligence, counterterrorism, and/or HUMINT operations, with that experience ending within the past 3 years.
• At least 1 year of analytical or operational experience tied to DoD priority countries such as Russia, China, or Iran.
• At least 6 years of experience producing intelligence analysis products.
• Strong writing ability and the capacity to work effectively as part of a combined or joint intelligence team.
• Strong briefing and communication skills for collection management reporting and requirements support.
• Recent experience using Microsoft Office tools, Analyst Notebook, SIPR/JWICS access, M3 or a comparable message-handling system, SOMM, Proton or a similar database, Intellink, CIDNE, CIA WIRE, HOT-R or CHROME, NCTC Online, and the J2 DCP Portal on JWICS.
• Knowledge of AFOSII2MS and/or CI2MS is considered an advantage.
• A bachelor’s degree in a relevant field is preferred, along with Southwest Asian regional expertise.

Security and travel requirements

A TS/SCI clearance is required. The position may involve very frequent or extended travel across the CENTCOM region, and the selected candidate must be able to meet worldwide deployment requirements.

Preferred background

Relevant degree fields include international affairs, national security studies, Arabic studies, international business, international terrorism, trends and analysis, or intelligence/counterintelligence. Regional expertise in Southwest Asia is preferred.