What are the responsibilities and job description for the Junior Operations Research Analyst position at SMX?
The SMX GOST Cell is looking for a Junior Operations Research Analyst to join our team in providing cutting edge analytics in support of the Global Combatant Commands. Specifically, this role entails advanced unclassified data research and analysis in support of DASD Counter-Narcotics (CN) and Counter-Transnational Organized Crime (CTOC) efforts.
This position requires the ability to obtain a DoD security clearance which requires US citizenship for work on a DoD contracts.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Support the identification, gathering, analysis, and evaluation of open-source and commercially available data, products, and services
- Conduct quantitative and qualitative analysis to integrate and evaluate data, solve problems, and effectively communicate results to senior leaders and decision makers
- Study, evaluate, and report on all-source data, to include spatial and temporal data
- Utilize available industry data, including market data available for purchase, independent reports, and other data provided by the requested agency, to identify threat networks and nodes
- Fuse multidiscipline sources to provide accurate and timely network and geospatial analysis
- Analyze commercially and publicly available and data to deliver actionable information products
- Create customized and dynamic data solutions based on specified requirements
Required Skills & Experience
- Demonstrated ability to operate in a team environment in researching multi-faceted problem sets in a dynamic environment
- Demonstrated ability to operate independently in performing research, data fusion, and analysis of multi-discipline datasets
- Experience with advanced interdisciplinary research concepts
- Proficiency in big-data manipulation, including the collection, synthesis, and visualization of content intended for complex deliverables in a variety of formats
- Demonstrated critical thinking skills, creative innovation, technical knowledge, and tradecraft standards to deliver analytic findings in textual form, graphic annotation, or other formats as directed by the end-users
- Proficiency in geospatial analysis, including advanced analytic functions and the creation of publishable cartographic material
- Four years of practical experience, comparable education, or a combination thereof
Desired Skills & Experience
- Computer science experience with emphasis on statistical analysis, automation, and data mining
- Experience with cyber analytics
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