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Leidos Geospatial Discovery & Collection Specialist in St. Louis, Missouri
Description
The National Security Sector at Leidos currently has an opening for a cleared Geospatial Discovery & Collection Specialist to work at a customer location in St. Louis, MO. This is an exciting opportunity to apply tradecraft to employ safe searching principles in order to identify and collect geospatial open source data. Staff must also quantify the veracity of open sources data and provide context and insight about cultural topics and entities on which they collect.
Primary Responsibilities. The candidate shall perform the following duties:
a. Collect, research, evaluate, and compile publicly available information (PAI) in accordance with established customer policies and procedures, including current storage policies, OPSEC protocols, and Intelligence Oversight (IO) Governance.
b. Produce and disseminate Open Source reports and alerts in accordance with established SOPs.
c. Populate activities in assigned performance management system (Currently JIRA).
d. Support timely responses to intelligence priorities, requests for information (RFIs) and other customer and mission needs. Tasks include:
i. Regional/Target monitoring
ii. Language support
iii. Geolocating
iv. Data discovery and transfer
v. Address coding
e. Contribute to the preparation of data release, analytical, observational, and technical reports, and publications.
f. Assess open-source media veracity utilizing splice detectors, hex editors, GAN detectors, etc.
g. Maintain proper file management in accordance with division standards.
h. Request and maintain access to security domain systems (SBU/NIPR, SecNet, COE).
i. Request, maintain access to, and utilize IC Open-Source databases/portals (Tier 0).
j. Suggest and implement process improvements.
k. Contribute to Open-Source Tradecraft knowledge management.
l. Support presentations of activities, discoveries, conclusions, and/or tradecraft to leadership, partners, and customers.
m. Maintain active presence in Open Source chatrooms and collaboration spaces to engage with team members, customers, and partners.
n. Conduct persona maintenance activities (surfing, seasoning, posting) in accordance with the service constraints paragraph on sensitive operations.
o. Support Senior management with outreach and marketing efforts.
Required Qualifications.
a. 1-3 years of experience conducting Open-Source collection or Open-Source Analysis.
b. Experience with web browsing tools and advance searching techniques.
c. Course work or 1 year of experience building/using Power Point slides, Excel spreadsheets, Email, and One Note Notebooks.
d. Basic knowledge of how to conduct safe searches (OPSEC).
e. 1-3 year of demonstrated work experience directly engaging with IC partners/customers.
- Preferred Qualifications.
a. Foreign language capabilities (Reading, Writing, Listening).
b. Knowledge of geospatial technologies (ArcGIS, GoogleEarth, ISpy).
c. Knowledge of DoD/IC databases and services.
d. Knowledge of Common Open-Source databases and Services.
e. Familiarity with Social Media.
f. Familiarity with JIRA.
g. Knowledge of DoD, and IC missions.
h. Experience Geolocating images (Handheld photography, videos, etc.).
i. Ability to remain flexible to changing priorities and requirements from supervisors and customers
Original Posting Date:
2024-06-18
While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
Pay Range:
Pay Range $55,250.00 - $99,875.00
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
REQNUMBER: R-00137884
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. Leidos will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment in accordance with relevant Laws. Leidos is an equal opportunity employer/disability/vet.