Strategic IC Budget & Resource Lead

Office of the Director of National Intelligence; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) in the Bethesda area seeks a senior financial management professional to lead IC resource strategies, budget analysis, and reporting for senior DNI leadership. The role emphasizes expert budgeting, policy guidance, and cross‑office collaboration to shape resource decisions across IC programs.

The position requires extensive experience in financial management within the IC and the ability to communicate complex information clearly to diverse

Qualifications

• Expert ability to plan, prepare, justify, administer, analyze, forecast, and monitor budget/financial information to ensure cost‑effective support of organizations and programs, including conducting budget/financial data analysis and assessing financial conditions by applying financial principles, policies, methods, techniques, and systems.
• Superior ability to serve as expert and consultant to top agency management officials and customers, in context of operation requirements bases on financial analysis and recommends possible courses of action.
• Expert analytic and critical thinking skills, including the ability to conduct financial assessments, identify needs and requirements, and develop process improvement recommendations for implementation.
• Expert knowledge of the IC and its components, missions, and interrelationships, including the superior ability to lead broad‑based teams regarding key IC financial management issues.
• Expert ability to communicate, both verbally and in writing, complex information in a clear, concise manner that is targeted to and meets the needs of varied audiences with different perspectives and objectives.
• Superior organizational and interpersonal skills, and demonstrated ability to negotiate, build consensus, and work effectively and independently in a team or collaborative environment.
• Expert interpersonal, organizational, and problem‑solving skills, including demonstrated ability to work independently and in a collaborative environment effectively with senior officials, management, teams, and colleagues.
• Superior written and oral communication skills with demonstrated ability to articulate complex intelligence issues to a wide audience, including the ability to write policy or analytic products for the senior U.S. Government officials and the IC workforce.
• Superior knowledge of and experience with National Intelligence Program (NIP) and Military Intelligence Program (MIP) budget formulation programming and budget execution.

Responsibilities

• Lead, plan, and author IC resource strategies, analytical issue papers, strategic evaluations, background papers, talking points, resource issue papers, and/or other analytical products applying extensive subject matter knowledge to support the IC senior leadership in making informed programmatic decisions.
• Lead and guide the planning, preparation, justification, administration, analysis, and monitoring of budget/financial information to ensure cost‑effective support of IC organizations and programs; oversee budget/financial data analysis and the assessment of financial conditions by applying financial principles, policies, methods, techniques, and systems.
• Manage the expectations of senior‑level customers and ensure the delivery of quality products and services; lead the examination of project successes and failures and develop solutions to improve products and services.
• Monitors the collection, research, and analysis of comprehensive and substantive financial information that includes budget, accounting, and financial reporting information to develop budget testimony, briefings, and talking points for senior DNI leadership and develop IC guidance on the preparation of resource requests and realignments or reprogramming to the DNI and Congress.
• May involve supporting major re‑allocation of staffing, funds, or other resources.
• Manage the development of complex financial analyses and provide expert advice and recommendations to OIC CIO and IC customers in the context of their operations and requirements.
• Plan, research, and identify key intelligence program and budget issues, evaluate program alternatives, and provide structured recommendations in accordance with the organizational policies, procedures, and viewpoints.
• Plan and conduct efforts to develop program alternatives and provide structured recommendations in order for OIC CIO leadership to make informed resource decisions impacting the IC.

Skills

Budget planning

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Leadership

Strategic planning

Policy writing

Cross‑functional collaboration

Budget/financial analysis

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) in the Bethesda area seeks a senior financial management professional to lead IC resource strategies, budget analysis, and reporting for senior DNI leadership. The role emphasizes expert budgeting, policy guidance, and cross‑office collaboration to shape resource decisions across IC programs.

The position requires extensive experience in financial management within the IC and the ability to communicate complex information clearly to diverse