OCONUS JR OSINT/CAT III Linguist

About this task

Seeking CAT II and III linguists with junior-level experience conducting open-source intelligence (OSINT) research and analysis to support CENTCOM and USAF OSI with all-source analytic services. Multiple site locations include Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.

The Counterintelligence Operational Support Team fuses intelligence and collects raw data from multiple sources and classifications to identify threats, trends, structures, and locations of Foreign Intelligence Entities. The team disseminates time-sensitive and non-time-sensitive Force Protection threat information and assessments to supported commanders.

Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team supporting OSI’s mission through foreign-language assistance. Transcription, translation, and interpretation are the primary functions of this position.
- Analyze publicly available intelligence and information to assess, interpret, forecast, and explain regional or functional national security issues and developments.
- Provide open-source analytic support to collections, operations, investigations, and other defense intelligence requirements.
- Research and analyze foreign and domestic publicly available information and media, including news articles, magazines, newspapers, television, and radio, to identify trends, patterns, and relationships relevant to defense intelligence requirements. Translate open-source information.
- Conduct research and social network analysis using publicly available information in the target language, producing threat reporting and advising on cultural themes or events.
- Assist with language and cultural reviews of Media Exploitation efforts.
- Monitor issues and trending topics in the local community through social media and other public sources.
- Support AFOSI communications and briefings to other units on antiterrorism, force protection, and counterintelligence matters.
- Develop cultural awareness briefs, unit mission briefs, talking points, and analytical products as directed by AFOSI field leadership.