Biometrics/Video Examiner

Summary

The National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) leads the nation's effort to protect the United States from terrorism by integrating, analyzing and sharing information to drive whole-of-government action and achieve our national CT objectives.

Duties

This position is within the Directorate of Identity Intelligence.

The selected candidate will be responsible for supporting Identity Intelligence efforts focused on known or suspected terrorist biometric and biographic information.

Selected candidates will work with data from across the Intelligence Community, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and other sources.

Selected candidates will be responsible for ensuring that policies and procedures are applied consistently and accurately to the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE) database, and ensuring the integrity of the data used to populate TIDE with international terrorist identities information.

The person in this position is expected to exhibit professional and inclusive behaviors and help create and maintain a positive, professional, and high-performance workplace.

Initiate, cultivate, and maintain cooperative and productive relationships with individuals in the US Government (USG), Intelligence Community (IC), and ODNI.

Develop, utilize, and refine approaches to gain a comprehensive understanding of complex and significant issues and incorporate insights and findings into biometric reports and cables.

Resolve target identities through the integration of biographic, biometric, contextual and behavioral information.

Develop an understanding of and utilize a variety of tools and approaches to gain a comprehensive understanding of known or suspected terrorists (KSTs); incorporate policies, strategies, tactics, techniques, procedures and mechanisms to reveal the true identity of individuals, personas, or groups by analyzing and exploiting data related to sets of specific identity attributes to build the most comprehensive terrorist identity record available to the USG.

Identify, and develop strategies to overcome identified gaps and increase efficiencies in data collection or processes.

Cultivate and facilitate collaborate with counterparts in other agencies to support the integration of IC-wide terrorism analysis capabilities throughout the USG.

Perform terrorist identities analysis, compilation, and dissemination, utilizing associated databases and implementing watchlisting processes.

Coordinate with IC organizations, and implement policies, and procedures, and requirements with regard to terrorist identities intelligence research and analysis.

Champion the mission, charter, roles, and responsibilities of the ODNI, IC, and USG agencies, and identify methods for how these organizations can effectively integrate their terrorist identities analysis capabilities.

Coordinate and contribute to the analysis of images of targets of interest; conduct detailed analysis of media to distinguish characteristics of individuals attempting to disguise their identities, time critical photo alterations, and reconstructive comparisons.

Conduct advanced exploitation of images, video, documents, and other forms of captured media.

Coordinate and contribute to the analysis of numerous, complex, and diverse biometric data sets to provide direct operational, engineering, and analytical support focused on providing fused, integrated biometric intelligence support to TIDE customers and the greater IC.

Other duties, as assigned.

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