Position Description:

The Counterdrug/Transnational Organized Crime (CD/TOC) Network Subject Matter Expert (SME) serves as the principal technical advisor, providing expert-level knowledge across the full spectrum of Counter Narcotics (CN), Counterterrorism (CT), Counter Threat Finance (CTF), and Counter-Transnational Organized Crime (C-TOC) activities in support of the NTC mission. This role places particular emphasis on enabling collaboration with key interagency partners, including the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). The CD/TOC Network SME supports the collaborative interagency targeting process by integrating intelligence, operational analysis, and mission planning to assist DoD, USG agencies, and partner nations in identifying, targeting, disrupting, and dismantling criminal and illicit networks that threaten U.S. national security interests.

Location:  Onsite - Arlington, VA

Clearance:  Possess a favorably completed Tier 5 (T5) investigation (Top Secret access) with Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) eligibility

Responsibilities and/or Success Factors: 

• Advise senior NTC leadership on emerging CN, CTF, and C-TOC developments, operational trends, and strategic priorities, while facilitating knowledge transfer between DoD, LE, and interagency personnel.
  
  
• Provide subject matter expertise on transnational criminal organizations, illicit trafficking networks, narco-terrorism, threat finance, money laundering methodologies, and related investigations to inform planning, operational decision-making, and implementation activities.
   
• Monitor, assess, and interpret U.S. Government and foreign partner policies, strategies, objectives, and operational developments affecting CN, CTF, and C-TOC missions, providing timely analysis and recommendations to NTC leadership. Independently lead stakeholder engagement, liaison, and outreach efforts with DoD, LE, IC, interagency partners, academia, international organizations, foreign partners, non-governmental organizations, and private industry to strengthen relationships, identify collaborative opportunities, and enhance operational effectiveness.
  
  
• Represent NTC at executive-level meetings, conferences, working groups, and interagency forums, effectively communicating NTC priorities, capabilities, and mission objectives. Increase stakeholder awareness and understanding of NTC missions, policies, procedures, capabilities, and operational requirements while collecting and analyzing customer feedback to improve mission support and organizational performance.
  
  
• Review and evaluate NTC support provided to law enforcement and interagency investigations, operations, programs, and projects to ensure alignment with mission objectives, identify capability gaps and redundancies, recommend corrective actions, and advise leadership on analytic and operational shortfalls across the NTC and broader Community of Action.
  
  
• Conduct or support all-source intelligence analysis of global drug trafficking, transnational organized crime, drug trafficking organizations (DTOs), narco-terrorism, illicit trafficking networks, threat finance, corruption, and related activities.
  
  
• Provide operational intelligence support to DoD drug detection and monitoring missions as well as U.S. and international law enforcement partners engaged in interdiction and counter-network operations. 
  
  
• Perform predictive analysis to identify trends, patterns, and emerging threats associated with transnational criminal organizations, illicit trafficking routes, financial networks, and criminal influence.
  
  
• Collaborate with the DSC, NTC senior leadership, and support teams to develop executive communications, strategic messaging, speeches, presentations, plans, briefings, and informational products supporting senior leader engagements, operational initiatives, program evaluations, and high-level visits.
  
  
• Serve as a Special Projects Officer supporting strategic initiatives, special studies, and executive priorities related to CN, CTF, and C-TOC support to the Department of Defense and interagency partners. 
  
  
• Represent NTC on advisory councils, interagency working groups, and collaborative forums while maintaining strong relationships across the Law Enforcement, Intelligence Community, DoD, Interagency, and foreign partner communities.
  
  
• Assist the Government in identifying, developing, and delivering formal and informal training programs focused on law enforcement, regulatory, administrative, CN, CTF, and C-TOC mission requirements.
  
  
• Additionally, this position requires exceptional strategic insight, extensive interagency experience, executive-level communication skills, and the ability to independently integrate intelligence, operations, policy, and stakeholder engagement to support national security objectives and advance the NTC mission.
  
  

Minimum Qualifications Including Certificates:

• Shall possess a favorably completed Tier 5 (T5) investigation (Top Secret access) with Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) eligibility
  
  
• Must be a U.S. citizen.
  
  
• A bachelor's degree relevant to the subject area of this contract from a college or university accredited by a body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and at least 12 years of specialized experience in the required area of expertise with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years. Experience in lieu of Education. 
  
  
• Individuals with prior military experience in a related field with an additional 5 years of related experience for a total of 17 years.
  
  
• Experience in Counternarcotics (CN), Counterterrorism (CT), Counter Threat Financing (CTF) Counter-Transnational Organized Crime (C-TOC) 
  
  
• Experience using open-source intelligence software tools. 
  
  
• Analytical experience dealing with identifying / detecting, targeting, and interdicting terrorist and/or criminal finance activities, and networks.
  
  
• Experience shall include entity level network analysis, and may include human intelligence and signals reporting, criminal and regulatory investigations, cases for designation, and experience with Bank Secrecy Act reporting mechanisms such as Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR).
  
  
• Experience providing support to law enforcement agencies in an investigative or analytical capacity, and working knowledge of preserving law enforcement evidence, chain of custody, and identifying relevant financial data. 
  
  
• Understands interagency restrictions and sensitivities on sharing certain types of data, as well as the steps necessary amongst the interagency to share said data.
  
  
• Understand relevant DoD intelligence and intelligence oversight policies, procedures, and requirements

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience in Counternarcotics (CN), Counterterrorism (CT), Counter Threat Financing (CTF) Counter-Transnational Organized Crime (C-TOC) Experience using open-source intelligence software tools.
  
  
• Analytical experience dealing with identifying / detecting, targeting, and interdicting terrorist and/or criminal finance activities, and networks.
  
  
• Experience shall include entity level network analysis, and may include human intelligence and signals reporting, criminal and regulatory investigations, cases for designation, and experience with Bank Secrecy Act reporting mechanisms such as Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR).
  
  
• Experience providing support to law enforcement agencies in an investigative or analytical capacity, and working knowledge of preserving law enforcement evidence, chain of custody, and identifying relevant financial data.
  
  
• Understands interagency restrictions and sensitivities on sharing certain types of data, as well as the steps necessary amongst the interagency to share said data.
  
  
• Understand relevant DoD intelligence and intelligence oversight policies, procedures, and requirements