Dissemination Specialist (Team Lead) – Sr.

Education/Certifications: Bachelor's Degree (related area) preferred; may substitute Associate's Degree + 7 years intelligence experience OR HS diploma + 9 years intelligence experience

Years of Experience: 4+ years’ experience leading team & managing work tasks of subordinates (intel process); minimum 12 years’ related experience; 10+ years intelligence experience preferred

Clearance Level & Investigation: TS/SCI with ability to obtain CI polygraph

IT Level (AR 25-2): N/A

IA Cert Level (DoD 8570.01): N/A

Computing Environment Certifications: N/A

Job Description:

Qualifications:

The Senior Dissemination Specialist (Team Lead) requires the following minimum skills and expertise:

• 4+ years demonstrated experience leading team & managing work tasks of subordinates conducting intelligence planning, collection, processing, analysis, or dissemination.
• Must have demonstrated experience/understanding in the following:
  • Complex security classification decisions such as coalition/foreign partner support, foreign disclosure, intelligence dissemination, or cross-domain operations.
  • Ability to deliver professional briefings & presentations to diverse audiences.
  • Ability to draft & maintain documentation (e.g., SOPs)
  • Ability to produce reports incorporating text & graphics to convey complex concepts.
  • Understanding of metadata.
  • Ability to instruct & interact with small groups on data/information requirements & coordination tasks.
• Must meet all qualifications and skills of a Senior Dissemination Specialist, including:
  • In-depth knowledge & understanding of labor category activities required to meet mission requirements.
  • Mastery of qualitative & quantitative analytic methodologies.
  • Pursuit of developments in academia or other fields that affect tradecraft methodology.
  • Ability to define comprehensive, new, or unique research approaches that enable rigorous assessments to address & contribute to high-level tasks.
  • In-depth analysis of analytic operations & knowledge management issues across organizational & intra-IC boundaries; clearly articulate key findings.
  • Ability to review analytic products for cogent arguments, tradecraft standards, & adequate support for conclusions; routinely tests analytic rigor of analytic products.
  • Minimum 12 years’ experience related to specific labor category with portion of experience in last 3 years; 10+ years’ experience in intelligence discipline working in DoD or IC within last 2 years.
  • Advanced experience using MS SharePoint 2013+.
• Bachelor’s Degree (related area) from college or university accredited by agency recognized by U.S. Department of Education (desired); may substitute Associates Degree + 7 years’ experience in intelligence discipline OR High School Diploma + 9 years’ experience in intelligence discipline.
• Requires current DoD TS/SCI Security Clearance with ability to obtain CI polygraph.
• Additional special qualifications include:
  • Prepares & processes movement of appropriately marked intelligence products between security domains.
  • Manages sending & posting of products to approved individuals, organizations, & sites, including verification of appropriate clearances & accesses of users.
  • Logs potential inadvertent security incidents; utilizes and maintains site SOPs IAW appropriate policy & guidance.
  • Ensures timely, accurate, & complete generation/modification of intelligence product metadata consistent with Government-approved standards.
  • Uses government-specified tools to generate & modify product metadata (including, but not limited to, Government-developed macro-based solution called Document Dissemination Tool (DDT), Government-developed Create Organize Retrieve and Evaluate (CORE) tool, Government-developed DIA Product Control Numbering Database (PCN DB), & MS Office Suite.
  • Performs cross-domain products (associated material) dissemination on approved networks; registers product(s) into approved intelligence repositories.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee team responsible for delivering Cross Domain Solutions (CDS) & intelligence dissemination to Customer.
• Enable dissemination of relevant all-source, single-source, open-source, & publicly available information supporting Army intelligence requirements across U.S. & multinational networks.
• Identify relevant daily/weekly/ad-hoc intelligence products from national to tactical producers & across all computer networks that support Army intelligence requirements or those of joint/interagency/coalition partners.
• Disseminate intelligence products to destination networks based on classification & releasability.
• Implement metadata tagging for structured & unstructured intelligence content hosted in SharePoint & databases.
• Recommend & execute improvements to design/implementation of metadata applications, including increased automated solutions, standardization of metadata formats, & enhanced metadata tagging to support new & established data catalogs.
• Draft & maintain SOP for application of metadata.
• Coordinate with stakeholders on metadata requirements to improve quality, consistency, & efficiency.
• Ensure minimum metadata fields applied to all intelligence content following SharePoint/repository upload.
• Attend community metadata committees & working groups to maintain understanding of requirements/solutions.
• Follow all logging requirements & cross-domain file transfer procedures.
• Monitor common product posting e-mail accounts on supported networks.
• Maintain SOPs documenting dissemination tasks & review/update as needed.
• Provide ad-hoc cross domain transfer (CDT) support, including file transfers, maintenance of access lists, violation tracking, logging, & SOP maintenance.
• Support population of Message Processing System (MPS); process tearlines, conduct reporting, & conduct periodic QC of manually parsed tearlines.
• Record CDTs using removable media in Data Auditing Manager.
• Record tasks within Task Log accurately with required metrics.