Intelligence Staff Operations Lead

Job Description:

Parsons is seeking a talented Intelligence Staff Operations Lead to join our growing team!

In this role you will work with a diverse team of operations staff and interagency partners to provide support to dynamic, global intelligence operations for a national security partner in Fort Belvoir, VA. This position requires excellent verbal and written communication, analytic, research, and problem-solving skills, and the ability to operate in a diverse, evolving, and high-profile environment. You should bring extensive documented experience delivering planning, policy, and program support to DoW or IC executives and stakeholders, and experience running an MI BN staff. Prior Army OSINT staff lead experience a plus.

• →Conduct deep research, stakeholder collaboration, policy analysis, assessments, and performance monitoring to drive strategic outcomes, bridging strategy with practical program execution.
• →Develop strategic plans, policies, and implementation strategies to address organizational challenges and opportunities, including new legislation, national policy changes, emerging technologies, and national security imperatives.
• →Participate in, and contribute expertise to, senior and executive level coordination boards, planning teams, and policy coordination working groups.
• →Drafts policies, procedures, manuals, and reports, ensuring consistency with agency/organizational requirements.
• →Coordinate cross-functional teams, internal staff, and external partners to ensure alignment and collaboration.
• →Oversee administrative tasks and performance tracking for required reports and specialized projects.
• →Build and maintain relationships with team members, government representatives, and industry partners to support intelligence collection, processing, exploitation, and dissemination activities.
• →Evaluate program effectiveness and measures performance to ensure success and identify areas for improvement and present findings, recommendations, and program updates to senior decisionmakers regarding strategic changes and adjustments to enhance program impact.
• →Advocate for the Army OSINT Enterprise’s modernization and improvement of OSINT strategies, programs, and policy development.

• Active TS/SCI Clearance
• Willing to travel up to 10%.
• Bachelors degree, with additional years of experience able to count in lieu of a degree
• 10+ years of experience, with additional education, training, and certifications able to count towards total years of experience
• Experience supporting national or DoW security activities at the Service /Joint / National / Interagency level. Positions involving extensive interagency support activities may qualify in lieu of Joint / National / Interagency assignments.
• Experience providing intelligence support to Service, Joint, National, DOW or Interagency elements within the U.S. government.
• Extensive understanding of OSINT policy and program implementation processes, including relevant statutes governing Intelligence Community and Defense Department policies, including Executive Orders, Intelligence Community Directives, DoD Instructions, and other relevant policy sources.
• Functional understanding of the cyber and OSINT domain, including internet protocols, data routing processes, data collection methodologies (e.g. – cookies, referrer https, software development kits, etc.), and other factors impacting online security and “digital exhaust” management (IdM).
• Willing to work outside normal business hours in exigent circumstances (this position is not shift work).

Security Clearance Requirement:

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