Analytic RFI Coordinator

Maxar is hiring for an Analytic Technical Lead on our team at a customer site in Reston, VA.  In this role you will be part of a talented team using various sources of data against challenging, high visibility and high impact projects.  

Life with Us 

Project: We're supporting a customer with the exciting mission of apply all source tradecraft and methodologies to advance a hard target mission.  Analytic Technical Lead will work provide technical expertise to a team of imagery analysts, geologists, and technologists to answer intelligence requirements.  

Your Career: We’re very serious about professional development and continuing education. We offer everyone the opportunity to define their own career trajectory. Our group has some amazing resources at its disposal specifically for this purpose. You will work with your direct supervisor and/or a mentor to set appropriate goals and design a plan to help you make consistent progress. 

We offer: 

• Dedicated professional development time 

• Flexible time off 

• Education reimbursement and student loan forgiveness 

• Competitive health benefits 

• Dependent and/or Medical Flexible Spending Plans 

• and much more... 

Day-to-Day with your Colleagues:  

• Direct and oversee support for receiving, tasking, tracking, and ensuring the receipt, completion, and dissemination of information related to Requests for Information (RFI) as well as requests for multi-INT, advanced analytics, and TECHINT support to the UFAC.   

• Facilitate tasking and RFI Coordination across the Applied Technology Branch and its components.  

• Direct and oversee the receipt and tracking of incoming and outgoing support requests using existing RFI Tracking tools as well as enforce the tools’ uses across the Branch.  

• Screen and evaluate incoming intelligence RFIs from multiple sources and determine validity/feasibility/level of effort of the RFIs. 

• Assign RFIs to the appropriate analyst/scientist/engineer.  

• Oversees review of completed tasks and ensures that all responses are properly classified and prepared for dissemination to the requester.  

• Provide quality control of RFI production data to assess trends and provide feedback/guidance to team members.  

• Coach team in OSIR’s and finished intelligence reports in accordance with division SOP and agency standards 

• Track and maintain metrics for RFIs and OSIR production to communicate to Branch and Division Leadership. 

• Maintain current knowledge of relevant technologies and subject areas. 

• Conduct outreach to community experts and mission partners to maintain awareness of community activities impacting AOIs and mission requirements 

• Perform quality review of intelligence reports and provide constructive feedback to team members 

• Manage customer communications, take administrative ownership of team processes and workflows, identify and enforce rigor and best practices, and interface with a hybrid team of the skilled analysts, scientist, and engineers. 

• Take direction from Project Manager and/or Functional Lead and be responsible for managing onsite activity of CDT and Direct Support Team, to include ad hoc data calls and weekly significant activities reports with metrics. 

• Keep the PM/Functional Lead up to date on all customer communications, employee satisfaction, and production concerns, while addressing any issues that may arise onsite. 

• Take part in and contribute to technical direction, work breakdown, and the day-to-day production and analytic workflow. 

• Have direct reports and be responsible in assisting them in their development and career growth. 

• Responsible for approvals related to direct reports (timecards, time off, booking travel, etc). 

• Manage, provide feedback and resolve issues for direct reports. 

Minimum Requirements:  

• Active TS/SCI clearance and be willing and able to obtain CI polygraph. 

• 10 years of intelligence analysis, at least two of which must be open-source research. 

• 1+ years of managerial experience (formal or informal). 

• Proven leadership in coordinating tasks across a technical/analytic team. 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including translating customer requirements into technical objectives and briefing customers in terminology they understand. 

• Must be a highly motivated, self-driven team player who can interact well with others, advise/consult with team members and customers, and recognize a need and take initiative to address it. 

Preferred Skills:  

• Bachelor’s degree or an additional 3 years of relevant experience     

• Proficiency with MS Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint  

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to help our customer understand their mission environment 

• Comprehensive understanding of various collection concepts, collection platforms and capabilities, to include misattribution 

• Experience creating finished intelligence products and briefings based on exploratory findings  

• Possess the technical skill, knowledge, and experience to work with minimal oversight 

• Previous experience working a hard target mission. 

• Previous experience supporting the DOD.