Production Coordinator - 0012

The Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) is a bureau of the Department of State and a member of the Intelligence Community (IC). INR serves as the Intelligence Mission Center for the Department of State and the Assistant Secretary serves as the Secretary of State's Principal Intelligence Advisor and Head of an Intelligence Community Element. INR fulfills its operational mission through two core activities: (1) all-source intelligence analysis and support and (2) ensuring intelligence activities are consistent with U.S. foreign policy objectives.

INR is a strategic, all-source analytic agency in the U.S. IC. INR analysts provide daily intelligence support, warning, and analysis on national security issues that are priorities for the Department of State in support of U.S. foreign policy and diplomatic operations. INR analysts provide daily intelligence support to policy makers throughout the Department via in-depth written analyses and oral briefings. INR is a key contributor to all IC production under the auspices of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, including National Intelligence Council products and the President’s Daily Brief. INR is the IC leader on foreign public opinion research and analysis. INR is also responsible for analysis on land and maritime international boundaries and sovereignty issues, mapping, and geographic information systems. INR also serves as the focal point for IC analytic outreach to non-governmental experts to explore alternative perspectives and generate new knowledge.

Editorial review, publications operations, and web services conducted by the INR’s Office of Analytic Integration (INR/INT) play a critical role in effective and efficient support to policy clients. Among other responsibilities, INR/INT ensures the timely editing, processing, production, and dissemination of hundreds of intelligence products a year. INR/INT oversees INR tradecraft programs and compliance with IC analytic tradecraft development, upholds bureau analytic standards, and coordinates INR intelligence integration activities in the IC. INR/INT also houses the Bureau’s Executive Support team, the International Partnerships Unit, and the Open-Source Coordination Unit.

Duties:

• Tracks the status of individual products and updates production calendar to ensure accuracy.
• Assists with the daily production and publication of INR’s all-source intelligence assessments.
• Liaises with authoring analysts and troubleshoots production and process issues as necessary.
• Ensures publications are formatted and that graphics, maps, and pictures are properly laid out within the document.
• Creates, organizes, and maintains file structures in collaboration with other team members.
• Assists in the scheduling and publication of INR’s daily analytic production for the Secretary of State.
• Assists in the dissemination of INR finished production to policy clients and to INR’s websites, ensuring these sites reflect the bureau’s most recent and relevant work.

• Two (2) years working in project management or similar role. (Can trade out some years for education qualifications). Bachelor’s Degree required in relevant field.
• Attention to detail and ability to track progress on multiple concurrent projects.
• Excellent critical thinking, problem-solving, and analytical skills.
• Superlative communication skills, written and oral.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with experience building productive relationships across teams.
• Additional qualifications
• Knowledge and experience in editorial composition, copy-editing techniques, and publishing operations.
• Knowledge and experience with Web publishing.
• Top Secret/SCI Security Clearance