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Junior Watch Officer

Red Cedar Consultancy · Alexandria
Full-timeGeneralEntry Level$179,000–$241,000/yr
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**Looking for candidates with Active Secret Clearance onlyJob Title:** Junior Watch Officer **Location:** 6315 Bren Mar Drive, Alexandria, VA 22312 **Summary:** This program supports services by providing continuous watch, briefing, and analytical support for the customers Operations Center and Incident Management System. The effort delivers 24/7 situational awareness through the monitoring, analysis, synthesis, and dissemination of operational, intelligence, and incident-related information impacting federally protected facilities nationwide. Contractor support includes producing executive-level briefings, daily and emergent reports, geospatial and data-driven products, and coordinating information flow across the regions, DHS components, and interagency partners. The program operates in both classified and unclassified environments and is designed to support steady-state operations, special events, emergencies, and incident response, ensuring the customer leadership has timely, accurate, and actionable information to support mission-critical decision-making**.** **Responsibilities:** - Responsible for the quality of deliverables provided and performance of contract watch standers - Manages watch functions, processes, and information flow - Prioritize tasks and efforts and coordinate information gathering and reporting with other elements - Maintain situational awareness of DHS related events, incidents, and threats and participates in daily NOC Operations calls - Brief senior leadership on priority information requirements - Review and approve incident reports and reporting products before distribution - Maintain RFI database, assigns RFIs, tracks RFI's, and ensures RFI's are reviewed and approved - Capable of maintaining the COP - Produce, review, and brief the DOSR and Ensure DOSR is distributed - Maintain distribution lists and telephone rosters - Capable of producing limited GIS imagery to support reporting products - Maintain reviews watch turnover/pass down report - Access, navigate, and utilize DHS law enforcement data systems and networks (to secret clearance level) - Formulate and apply mathematical modeling and other optimizing methods to develop and interpret information that assists management with decision making, policy formulation, or other managerial functions - Collect and analyze data and develop decision support software, service, or products - Develop and supply optimal time, cost, or logistics networks for program evaluation, review, or implementation. - Should be able to type 65-70 words per minute and is skilled in Adobe and Microsoft office products, including excel, PowerPoint, Word **Requirements:** - A Junior Watch Officer shall have 3 years of experience in operation centers, emergency management, dispatch, first responder (law enforcement/fire/rescue) or related work - Minimum requirement of a BA/BS - Candidate should have Active Secret Clearance

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