Counterintelligence Analyst Sr

Location

Reston, VA | United States

Job description

Draper is an independent, nonprofit research and development company headquartered in Cambridge, MA. The 2,000+ employees of Draper tackle important national challenges with a promise of delivering successful and usable solutions. From military defense and space exploration to biomedical engineering, lives often depend on the solutions we provide. Our multidisciplinary teams of engineers and scientists work in a collaborative environment that inspires the cross-fertilization of ideas necessary for true innovation. For more information about Draper, visit   .

Our work is very important to us, but so is our life outside of work. Draper supports many programs to improve work-life balance including workplace flexibility, employee clubs ranging from photography to yoga, health and finance workshops, off site social events and discounts to local museums and cultural activities. If this specific job opportunity and the chance to work at a nationally renowned R&D innovation company appeals to you, apply now  .

Equal Employment Opportunity

Draper is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. We understand the value of diversity and its impact on a high-performance culture. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information.

Draper is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request reasonable accommodation, please contact [email protected].

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Job Summary:

Come help drive, shape, and integrate counterintelligence (CI) analytical efforts to proactively protect critical research and development projects supporting US national security at Draper. Draper’s Threat Management (TM) program preemptively identifies threats, internal and external risks, and develops countermeasures to manage these challenges.

The Senior CI Analyst will create TM’s analytical capacity, help form analytical strategies, and provide the analytical backbone in building and proactively identifying these threats and trends. The successful candidate will serve as TM’s analytical lead to review, analyze, and provide recommendations to improve the effectiveness of Draper’s CI, Insider Threat (InT), and Security Investigative programs.

The Senior CI Analyst will collaborate across Draper’s functions and programs, with multiple sponsors, and external CI/intelligence analytical organizations to accurately assess threats, risks, and vulnerabilities to inform Draper leadership and to protect relevant personnel and technologies.

While hybrid/remote work will be available, the role can be most effectively performed with ability to travel to sponsor and government sites regularly and with ability to respond in person, when incidents from time to time make personal interaction necessary. Location preference is near our Reston, VA office, in the National Capital regional, with other Draper locations a possibility. 

Responsibilities

• Increase understanding of- and responsiveness to- current threats, providing open-source, unclassified, and classified products and insight relevant to TM, Security, and Draper overall.
• Develop the analytical capacity for TM’s CI, InT, and Security Investigative actions, to enhance TM activities, identity risk trends, and assist in strategic threat mitigation.
• Provide and/or organize tailored analytical briefings to Draper leaders on relevant threats and CI, InT, and investigative issues, in coordinate with government sponsors and/or partners.
• Assist TM members and coordinate with various external partners in reviewing and analyzing threat intelligence, to include a focus on Cyber CI reporting.
• Organize and manage TM’s threat information on unclassified and classified systems.
• Assist TM in the development of threat and/or vulnerability assessments, tailored to protect Draper employees, technologies, and programs.
• Provide relevant case studies, analytical input into TM awareness, education, briefs to employees, and leadership.
• Develop external analytical partnerships across Draper and with sponsor, and government CI units to enhance TM’s ability to assess risks in supply chain, foreign travel, and foreign contacts.
• Assist TM and Security in measuring performance, impact, effectiveness, and refining priorities.
• Create, host, or participate in CI, InT analytical workshops among partners, sponsors.

Required Experience

• Bachelor’s degree and possess at least 10 years of analytical experience related to CI, foreign and/or insider threats.
• Experience and impact establishing and executing analytical programs, providing strategic and tactical analyses, products, assessments to educate employees, programs, and leadership.
• History of analytical collaboration with diverse organizations to produce and disseminate tailored assessments for digestible products to empower mitigation efforts and senior decision making.
• Experience with open-source tools, programs, data analysis, and visualization tools.
• Possess ability and experience in building trusting relationships across functions and outside organizations to enhance mission effectiveness and maintain positive partnerships.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications Word, Access, Excel, and classified systems.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communications skills.
• This position requires current and continued Top Secret security clearance eligibility. SAP and/or SCI accesses and a CI polygraph may be required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• In-scope Top Secret Clearance.
• Advanced degree in a relevant field.
• Experience providing direct CI analytical support to DoD/USG research, development, acquisition commands and/or programs.
• CI trained and certified to Under Secretary of Defense/Intelligence (USD/I) approved standards pursuant to DoD Directive 5240.02 or national-level certification.
• Experience providing direct support to a CI and Cyber-related task force.

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