Sme All Source Analyst/ Afco Workflow Manager

CLEARANCE REQUIRED: TS/SCI with Poly

This job is located in: FT. Meade, MD

Job Summary:

The candidate’s primary duty will be to serve as the AFCO Task/Workflow Manager: Primary duties include:
Assist the Director and staff to coordinate task flow activities with subordinate units. Manage the customer’s formal tasking process, including tasking assignment, suspense requirements and task response, across multiple networks and classification levels. Respond to internal and external tasking, including identifying discrepancies and ensuring documentation is sufficient for decision-making. Interact with customer’s staff to coordinate, develop, and process timely responses to internal and external formal tasking requests for information (RFI). Collaborate with other organizations and directorates within 16 AF Headquarters as well as subordinate Wings to ensure quality and timeliness of completed tasks. Assist with limited scope projects with impact at all levels where one or multiple functions are involved. Ensure effective communication, action management, and timely outcomes in support of executive priorities and goals. Organize project team efforts, develop and recommend proposals for improvement and resolve integration issues

Additional Responsibilities:
In addition to primary duties as the AFCO Task and Workflow manager, the candidate may, during periods of limited manning, perform activities as an Executive Assistant to the AFCO Senior Staff. These activities will not come at the expense of primary duties. Additional duties include: Perform a variety of complex and senior executive level administrative duties with minimal supervision in compliance with written and oral guidance and policies. Execute independent decisions within established guidelines, and performing a full range of administrative services, including organizing the Director’s schedule.

Required Education and Experience:

• TS/SCI security clearance with CI Polygraph
• Bachelor’s degree and 20 + years of related experience OR a Master’s Degree and 15+ years of relevant experience
• Possess excellent communications skills to critically review, independently edit, format and synthesize various types of input (verbal, notes, emails, drafts) into a cohesive document or correspondence in accordance with the Air Force Tongue and Quill and other format policies, including military technical documents such as point papers, policies, and messages
• Experience creating, facilitating and controlling workflow processes of confidential and sensitive information
• Experience either as a Project Analyst, Project Coordinator or Project Manager
• Proficiency in Microsoft Suite across three different systems (NIPR, SIPR and JWICS)
• Document, manage, update, and oversee AFCO Workflow processes
• Excellent organizational skills

Conducts analysis using intelligence and information from multiple sources to assess, interpret, forecast, and explain a range of national security issues and developments that are regional or functional in nature. Provides all-source analytic support to collections, operations, investigations, and other defense intelligence analytic requirements.

• Demonstrates ability to define problems, supervise studies and lead surveys to collect and analyze data to provide advice and recommend solutions.
• Demonstrates analytic leadership and expertise in identifying, planning, developing, and executing analytic production methodologies, tradecraft and techniques aligned with labor category mission.
• Demonstrates extensive ability to provide strategic advice, technical guidance and expertise to Defense planners and policymaker (e.g., Undersecretary level or higher).
• Required Experience: Minimum 15 years of experience conducting analysis relevant to the specific labor category with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.
• Required Education: Master’s degree from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education or have a bachelor’s degree from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and an additional 5 years of related expert experience, for a total of 20 years, as a substitute to the master’s degree.

Desired:

• Air Force staff experience at the Wing or above level echelon
• Familiarization with Cryptologic Component and national agency enterprise missions
• Knowledge of Air Force ISR or Cyberspace policy directives and guidance
• 10 years’ experience working with the national intelligence community and supporting the ACC ISR enterprise
• Experience as an executive officer or executive assistant
• Knowledge Management experience
• SharePoint Administration experience
• Prior experience in an Air Force cryptologic career field

Why work for QSL?

Our founders, Mel Wick and Bill Cronin, retired from storied careers in the Special Operations Forces (SOF) Community. Like many Americans and military veterans, they felt a strong desire to support the nation’s response to the 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in any way they could. They established QSL to do just that, Stay in the Fight! QSL is built on a SOF culture, emphasizing selfless-service and teamwork. Our employees work to ensure that warfighters have every possible resource and all necessary support to safely accomplish their missions in defense of our nation.

QSL's Benefit Package

Because we believe our employees are our most valuable asset, offering a competitive comprehensive compensation package is very important to us. It is the goal of QSL to attract and retain the highest level of experience and technical talent necessary for successful performance. In order to accomplish this, we feel that it is necessary to provide satisfying work, an excellent work environment, and we continually monitor the marketplace to ensure that our total compensation/benefit package remains competitive.

Listed below are some of our standard benefits. We combine all traditional paid time off (Federal holidays, sick time, leave time personal days, jury duty, bereavement, etc.) into one category which allows employees flexibility in how they use their leave time and enables them to better balance their career with their personal needs.

• Combined Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Medical, Dental, Life Insurance
• Disability (Short-Term and Long-Term)
• Vision Insurance (CONUS-based employees)
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Employee Referral Bonus Program
• Employee Discount Programs
• Critical Illness and Accident Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not and will not discriminate in employment and personnel practices based on race, sex, age, disability, veteran status, religion, national origin or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. Hiring, transferring, and promotion practices are performed without regard to the above listed items. EEO/AAP, M, F, V, D.