Integration Team Lead

Intelligence Careers; Bethesda, Northern (MD, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Intelligence Careers seeks a highly experienced Counterintelligence and Security leader to oversee nationwide proactive counterintelligence and security activities for U.S. government programs.

This is an excepted GS-15 level position; current federal employees at GS-15 and below are ineligible to advance. The role requires expert knowledge, strategic planning, and strong communication across IC components to detect, deter, disrupt, and defeat threats.

Qualifications

• Experience: 12 years leading strategic planning and directing programs.
• Badged and Credentialed Counterintelligence Agent required.

Responsibilities

• Lead proactive counterintelligence and security activities across the US government.
• Develop national-level strategies and policies to support national security interests.
• Identify emerging trends, evaluate strategy and data, and propose innovative solutions.
• Communicate organizational vision effectively to senior leaders and forums.
• Coordinate across IC components to manage priorities and drive change.

Skills

Counterintelligence

IC organizations missions

Strategic planning

Data-driven analysis

Written and verbal communication

Cross-agency collaboration

Independent judgment

Job description

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. This is an excepted service GS-15 position open to the public and all current federal employees at the GS-15 and one level below. Current federal employees at the GS-15 and one level below may apply to this position, and if selected will maintain pay set at their current grade and step. Current federal employees at grade levels GS-13 and below are not eligible for this position and their application will not be forwarded to the hiring manager. All current federal employees that apply for this position must submit their most recent SF-50, Notification of Personal Action (i.e., dated within the last 52 weeks from the closing date of this vacancy announcement) to verify their status of eligibility.

• Expert knowledge in counterintelligence missions, authorities, and organizations.
• Expert knowledge of IC organizations' missions in order to develop the national-level strategies and policies necessary to support U.S. national security and foreign policy interests.
• Superior ability to identify emerging trends and strategic issues and incorporate these in developing strategic plans for the organization.
• Expert ability to evaluate strategic trends, strategy and implementation plans, results, and programmatic data, propose innovative solutions, and implement change.
• Expert ability to conceptualize, organize, and draw inferences from incomplete data and present a compelling analysis of findings and issues; expert ability to identify, articulate, document, and mitigate knowledge gaps or alternatives approaches.
• Superior communication (written and verbal) skills to effectively and efficiently communicate organizational vision, mission, and plans.
• Superior ability to communicate clearly, both orally and in written reports, and to logically analyze, synthesize, and evaluate multiple sources of information for their inclusion in briefings and written documents.
• Expert organizational and interpersonal skills to facilitate diverse forums, manage competing priorities, and advocate new ideas/concepts/processes.
• Superior ability to exercise independent judgment on time-sensitive issues and work collaboratively across the IC.

Minimum Qualifications

Experience: 12 years of experience leading strategic planning, managing, and directing the successful efforts of a government or private organization.

Certifications/Licenses:

• Must be, or was previously, a Badged and Credentialed Counterintelligence Agent