Integration Team Lead

Office of the Director of National Intelligence; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 169,000 - 197,000; Full time

Job summary

Office of the Director of National Intelligence seeks a senior leader to head counterintelligence and security activities across the U.S. government. You will direct interagency collaboration to detect, deter, and defeat foreign intelligence threats and report to senior policymakers.

You will coordinate strategy development, prepare executive briefings, and ensure alignment of enterprise objectives with national security priorities while guiding outreach and interagency engagement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience as determined by mission specialty area.
• Master's degree or equivalent experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead proactive counterintelligence and security activities across the United States government, integrating the instruments of national power to detect, report, deter, disrupt, investigate, exploit, and defeat foreign intelligence threats.
• Lead and manage a robust interagency team, including IC and USG partners, to counter foreign intelligence threats.
• Engage senior policymakers to coordinate strategy development and evolving requirements for mission and enterprise objectives.
• Prepare briefings, reports, and presentations for organizational leadership and senior officials to align IC programs with strategic goals.
• Oversee outreach with IC leaders and external partners to inform long-term strategy and assess progress toward objectives.
• Translate customer requirements into priority collection and analysis actions for national intelligence related to assigned missions.
• Advise senior IC leadership on priorities, gaps, and interdependencies, and communicate emerging strategic issues to inform improvements.

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Master's degree or equivalent experience preferred

Job description

• Hiring Agency: Office of the Director of National Intelligence
• Department: Other Agencies and Independent Organizations
• Location: Bethesda, Maryland
• Hiring Path: Public
• Number of Openings: 1
• Security Clearance: Sensitive Compartmented Information

Lead proactive counterintelligence and security activities across the United States government, integrating the instruments of national power to detect, report, deter, disrupt, investigate, exploit, and defeat foreign intelligence threats.

Key Responsibilities

The National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) is dedicated to leading the U.S. Counterintelligence and Security communities, countering all threats posed by adversarial foreign intelligence affiliated threats and enhancing our national security posture at every level. We will serve as the head of U.S. counterintelligence and integrate the instruments of national power to counter foreign intelligence threats.

NCSC will be the "center of gravity" to support the counterintelligence and security efforts of the entire U.S. interagency, and public sector initiatives to protect our nation from adversarial efforts to exploit the United States and victimize the American people. Lead and manage a robust team of interagency partners, to include members of the IC, DoW, NT-50s, and USG.

Lead, initiate, cultivate, and maintain productive working relationships with senior policymakers across the IC in order to coordinate strategy development activities and evolving requirements and promote the implementation of mission and enterprise objectives.

Lead, plan, and prepare briefings, reports, and presentations to organizational leadership, senior policymakers, and senior United States (U.S.) Government agencies USG officials in a manner that meets their specified requirements and provide expert analysis and recommendations that ensure IC strategic plans and programs align with strategic objectives.

Lead and oversee efforts to engage senior IC leadership on strategic priorities, intelligence needs and gaps, and cross-IC interdependencies in order to link resources to strategy. Partner with ODNI staff, Functional, Mission, and Enterprise Managers, and IC elements to promote implementation of mission and enterprise objectives.

Lead, plan, and oversee the advancement of outreach activities within and beyond the IC to ensure long term strategy development is informed by the latest and best efforts across the U.S. Government, industry, and foreign partners. Conduct assessments to capture IC progress towards mission and enterprise objectives and assess how well the IC is postured for future environments.

Manage to ensure full range of understanding of customer requirements related to assigned missions and ensuring these requirements have been conveyed to and coordinated with the ODNI and the IC. Direct the setting of collection and analysis priorities for national intelligence related to assigned missions.

Advise and engage senior IC leadership on strategic priorities, opportunities, gaps, and interdependencies to link resources to strategy; lead and oversee the communication of emerging strategic issues and trends, independently evaluate against IC strategic elements, and make recommendations for improvements.

Requirements & Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience as determined by mission specialty area. Master's degree or equivalent experience preferred

Which agency is hiring for this position?

This position is with Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Other Agencies and Independent Organizations.

What is the salary for this position?

The posted pay range is $169279 – $197200/yr.

What security clearance is required?

This position requires a Sensitive Compartmented Information security clearance.

What is the application deadline?

Applications close on 2026-10-05.

Who is eligible to apply?

This position is open under the 'Public' hiring path.