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HELIOS is seeking highly experienced Intelligence Watch Officers to join our team in supporting the 24/7/365 intelligence mission for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) in Washington, D.C. These positions require employees to support shift work (days/swings/nights) over the week and weekend.

The Intelligence Watch Officer (IWO) serves as a key member of the 24/7 operations team responsible for maintaining continuous situational awareness and intelligence reporting in support of operational and strategic decisionmaking. The IWO monitors, analyzes, and disseminates intelligence and operational information to ensure leadership and mission partners have accurate, timely, and relevant intelligence.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain 24/7 Situational Awareness: Monitor multiple intelligence, operational, and communication systems to ensure timely identification of emerging threats, significant events, and global developments impacting assigned mission areas.
• Intelligence Analysis and Reporting: Conduct rapid allsource analysis to assess potential impacts to national security, space operations, and organizational equities. Produce and disseminate concise and actionable intelligence reports, summaries, and spot reports.
• Watch Floor Operations: Serve as the primary point of contact during assigned watch shifts for intelligence coordination, incident reporting, and realtime decision support.
• Information Management: Track, log, and archive intelligence reports, message traffic, and operational data to ensure continuity between watch shifts and maintain an auditable record of significant events.
• Coordination and Communication: Collaborate with interagency, joint, and coalition partners to validate and share intelligence information. Provide briefings to senior leadership, operations teams, and external stakeholders as required.
• Threat Warning and Indications: Identify and elevate timesensitive indications of hostile intent, emerging threats, or adversarial activity in accordance with established protocols.
• Continuity and Knowledge Transfer: Participate in watch turnovers, ensuring all critical issues, ongoing events, and pending actions are accurately communicated between shifts.
• Technical Systems Proficiency: Operate intelligence databases, communications systems, and visualization tools to maintain situational displays and intelligence summaries.
• Crisis Response: Support crisis management and contingency operations by rapidly collecting, synthesizing, and disseminating intelligence to enable mission continuity and informed decisionmaking.

This position is contingent on contract award. Veterans receive hiring preference.

Requirements

• Possess a current, active TOP SECRET Clearance
• Must be a U.S. Citizen
• Bachelors degree or higher from an accredited institution preferred in International Studies, Intelligence, Homeland Security, Criminal Justice, or other related concentration.
• Three (3) years of prior experience performing the functions related to Intelligence Watch Support
• Intelligence Community (IC) experience desired; DHS allsource intelligence analysis experience preferred
• Experience working with DHS data sources desired.
• Knowledge of the DHS I&A and Intelligence Community intelligence authorities, DHS component missions, overall, I&A intelligence research and analysis, and the role of I&A in supporting the DHS
• Intelligence Enterprise; overall I&A intelligence mission areas.
• Knowledge of Intel Watch style reporting best practices.
• Knowledge of Intel Watch warnings and indicator best practices.
• Knowledge of Intelligence Community best practices on current intelligence products
• Experience working with Microsoft Office suite and DHS and IC data systems.

Seniority Level

MidSenior level

Employment type

Fulltime

Job function

Other, Information Technology, and Management

Industries

IT Services and IT Consulting

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