Job Description

Celestar Corporation is actively seeking a Senior Socio-Cultural Analysis (SCA) Analyst supporting the Theater Special Operations Commands (TSOC) Intelligence Directorate / Joint Intelligence Center Special Operations Command (JICSOC) to SOCEUR who will be stationed in Stuttgart, Germany. If interested and qualified, we welcome you to apply for this challenging opportunity.

CLEARANCE REQUIREMENT:Top Secret with SCI eligibility

About Us

Celestar, a Veteran-Owned Company, is Very Competitive with Salaries and Benefits. For example, we offer Company-Paid Benefits, including Employee and Family Dental Insurance, Employee Health Insurance, Life Insurance, and Disability Insurance. We also offer a 401(k) employer match, paid holidays, and Personal Time Off.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide socio-cultural analysis of Areas of Interest (AOIs), including population dynamics and relationships with VEOs, TCOs, and local governments

• Deliver cultural insights on leadership, historical context, group dynamics, norms, values, and attitudes to support operations
• Research, analyze, and produce intelligence products (e.g., studies, desk notes, briefings, bulletins) in response to RFIs
• Integrate socio-cultural analysis with other intelligence disciplines into finished intelligence products
• Identify population vulnerabilities to extremist influence and assess behavioral patterns, attitudes, and sentiments
• Analyze factors that enable or hinder extremist and illicit activity within local populations
• Identify exploitable opportunities within the socio-cultural environment to support asymmetric operations
• Maintain and upload analytical data (e.g., geospatial, link analysis, social network data) to designated systems (SGE/UDOP)
• Support SOF operational planning and provide updates on socio-cultural impacts to missions and conflicts
• Leverage open-source and archival research to gather relevant socio-cultural and geographic information
• Provide briefings and subject matter expertise to SOCOM/TSOC leadership, staff, and stakeholders
• Travel, as required, to deliver real-time cultural intelligence and support engagements with partner nations
• Attend conferences, workshops, and meetings in support of mission objectives
• Meet production requirements, including monthly and quarterly analytical deliverables

Minimum Required Qualifications:

• 10 years of experience conducting sociocultural analysis in the intelligence community.
• Graduate-level degree (MA/MS) in Cultural Anthropology, Applied Behavioral Analysis, or Social and Cultural analysis, or related field discipline, or 5+ years on a PAS or HQ SCA team.
• 8 years’ experience with social/cultural studies (e.g., anthropology, sociology, political science, etc.) or development economics.
• 8 years of IC or DOD all-source intelligence experience, including writing and briefing for senior IC/DoD customers
• 2 years’ experience working in a multi-skilled team environment, collaborating on the all-source production of intelligence analysis
• Intermediate-level certification in ArcGIS: analysts have a working knowledge and skills necessary to process GIS data, conduct spatial and suitability analysis, and create maps.
• 8 years’ experience utilizing All-source Intelligence Community tools and applications (Trident, TAC, etc.)
• Current Top-Secret clearance with SCI eligibility
• Must have a valid US Passport

Come on board with a company that values its Employees!

Celestar is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, protected veteran status, disability status, gender identity, or national origin.