Orbis is seeking a Media Analyst Consultant for a mission critical customer in the Intelligence Community. The Consultant will be responsible for finding unique ways to leverage media advertisements for operational support and our customer's program evaluation activities. This is a multi-year project with growing potential, on which the Consultant will have the opportunity to demonstrate intellectual agility by exploring and leading cutting-edge data research design, data collection, and data analysis for a client in the US Intelligence Community, all centered around media analysis. This project features the opportunity to interact with a wide range of key stakeholders, including those at senior levels. This is an exciting opportunity for an intellectually curious, energetic data management consultant to work autonomously on a project with real impact to help our client operate and develop ways of better meeting the needs of its customers.
Department
Federal
Employment Type
Full Time
Location
McLean, VA
Workplace type
Onsite
Key Responsibilities
Duties/Responsibilities
Develop and implement research designs centered around social media and open-source systems with practical strategies for conducting evaluations of policies, processes, programs, and training
Work with a diverse team of mission specialists and data scientists to leverage open source, classified, and social media data to assist in our customer's program evaluation activities
Perform a variety of research activities to include document reviews, structured interviews, and focus group facilitation; involves stakeholder identification and design of interview guides and focus group questions as well as logistical coordination for data collection activities and documentation of discussions
Design and conduct survey research; includes sample identification, instrument development, survey distribution and response analysis
Analyze both qualitative and quantitative information to provide the customer with comprehensive insights into operational support
Prepare reports and presentations for senior leadership based on research plans, activities, findings and recommendations
Brief Senior-level customers on research plans, status of activities, findings and recommendations
Supervisory Responsibilities
This position has no supervisory responsibilities
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Education and Experience
A Bachelor's degree is required for this position.
Minimum of 5 years' experience in a consulting role in the IC.
Required Skills/Abilities
US Citizenship
Active TS/SCI clearance with Poly
Python & underlying libraries
Linux basics
Sigma
ION
Analyst Notebook
Data Manipulation
Basic Social Network Analysis
Natural Language Processing
Prompt Engineering for Large Language Models
Demonstrated experience running social media advertisements
Demonstrated proficiency with highly prevalent social media platforms
Demonstrated experience leading qualitative research and program evaluation activities
Demonstrated experience leading structured interviews and focus groups
Experience developing presentations and providing briefings to middle and senior management
Excellent oral and written communication skills, including visual representation of data using charts and graphs
Ability to perform in an individual contributor role while also excelling in a team environment
Ability to analyze information and identify implications for policy, processes, communications and training
Desired Soft Skills/Abilities
Familiarity with advanced statistical concepts
Experience explaining technical concepts in a non-technical way
Extract technical requirements from conversational taskings
Initiative to know what would be useful in the future and work on generating capabilities between taskings
Ability to work fully autonomously
Physical Requirements
Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
Routine video conference and/or in-person meetings.
Ability to attend planned meetings within the Washington Metro Area region.
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