Strategy Management Officer.

Office of the Director of National Intelligence; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Office of the Director of National Intelligence seeks a strategic leader to coordinate whole-of-government counterterrorism efforts. The role focuses on linking strategy, policy, and resources across IC elements, advising senior officials, and shaping national security programs.

The successful candidate will drive mission-aligned planning, deliver executive-level briefings, and promote best practices in strategic development while engaging with U.S. government partners and external stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Expert knowledge of IC organizations' missions to support U.S. national security and foreign policy interests.
• Expert leadership experience and analytic expertise to support strategy development, planning, and implementation.
• Superior ability to identify emerging trends and strategic issues and incorporate them into plans.
• Expert ability to evaluate trends, plans, results, and program data; propose innovative solutions and drive change.
• Superior communication skills to convey organizational vision and plans clearly, in writing and speech.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate whole-of-government counterterrorism strategy, plans, policies, programs, and activities to disrupt threats.
• Build and maintain relationships with senior policymakers across the IC to align strategy with requirements and objectives.
• Plan and prepare briefings, reports, and presentations for organizational leadership and senior USG officials.
• Oversee development of strategic planning documents and allocation of resources and investments.
• Develop near/mid/long-term strategy documents guiding needs, requirements, and staffing for programs.
• Engage IC leadership on priorities, gaps, and interdependencies to link resources to strategy.
• Promote best practices in strategy development and communicate priorities and impact across the IC.
• Lead outreach to external partners to inform long-term strategy and cross-government collaboration.

Skills

Strategy Development

Policy Coordination

Senior Stakeholder Engagement

Briefings & Reports

Resource Planning

Job description

Duties

The National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) Seeks a Motivated Individual Who Desires To Join a High-performing Team Of Officers Who Integrate And Coordinate Whole-of-government Counterterrorism Strategy, Plans, Policies, Programs, And Activities To Disrupt And Dismantle Transnational Threat Networks And Safeguard American Lives. The Selected Candidate Will Be Expected To

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 the planning, development, and evaluation of the related strategic planning documents in support of U.S. Government agencies' national security and foreign policy interests and programs.

Lead and oversee the planning, development, and production of strategic guidance for the allocation of resources and investment planning and programming staff elements and activities.

Develop near/mid/long term strategy documents that provide guidance to needs/requirements and resource/investment planning and programming staff elements and activities.

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.

Lead, plan, and oversee efforts to create a culture of strategic planning across the IC by promoting best practices in strategy development, execution, and evaluation and communicating priorities, activities, and impact of the strategy to the IC to promote shared vision, values, and goals.

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 that long-term strategy development is informed by the latest and best efforts across the U.S. Government, industry, and foreign partners.

Provide analysis and recommendations to ensure that ODNI and IC element plans and programs align with the objectives of the strategic plan.

Lead and oversee the planning and completion of assessments to evaluate IC progress towards mission and enterprise objectives and determine how well the IC is postured for future environments.

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 a full range of understanding of customer requirements related to assigned missions and ensuring that 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.

Lead the IC to meet the mission and enterprise objectives of the National Intelligence Strategy (NIS).

Develop integrated collection strategies for respective mission areas. Conduct analysis and provide recommendations on "cross-target tradeoffs."

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.

Lead efforts to determine the state of collection against assigned missions, identifying gaps against those missions, developing integrated, cross-intelligence collection strategies to fill gaps, tasking collection activity against their assigned missions, consistent with overall guidance from the Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Intelligence Integration (DDNI/II), and evaluating collector responsiveness and success in filling collection gaps and meeting mission requirements. Determine the state of analysis on assigned missions, identifying analytic gaps related to customer requirements, and tasking analysis related to those missions, ensuring that such tasking is consistent with the overall guidance from the DDNI/II, and evaluating analysis responsiveness in filling analytic gaps.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen residing in the United States
• Appointment is subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance based on an SBI with eligibility for sensitive compartmented information (SCI)
• Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration.
• A two-year trial period is required for all new permanent appointments to the ODNI.

Qualifications

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.

Expert leadership experience and analytic expertise to support strategy and policy development, strategic planning, and implementation efforts.

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 forums, manage competing priorities, and advocate new ideas, concepts, and processes.

Superior ability to exercise independent judgment on time-sensitive issues and work collaboratively across the IC.

Education

Do NOT submit transcripts.

Additional information

JOB INTERVIEW TRAVEL

Candidates from outside the Washington Metropolitan Area (WMA) may be selected for a telephone, teleconference, or in-person interview.

SALARY DETERMINATION

The ODNI uses a rank-in-person system in which rank is attached to GS employees on the basis of individual qualifications, experience, and performance. Individuals whose current GS grade is equivalent to the grade of the advertised position will retain their current grade and step. Individuals who transfer to the ODNI from a non-GS pay scale will have base pay converted to the appropriate GS grade and step as determined by the Chief of Human Resource Management.

Current federal employees whose current GS grade is lower than the grade of the advertised ODNI position will have pay set at his or her current grade and step.

In some cases when a current federal civilian employee applies for an ODNI position that is a lower grade than his or her personal grade, the candidate's personal grade will be downgraded to the grade of the advertised ODNI position and pay will be set at the step that is closest to, and not less than, the employee's current annual base rate of pay, not to exceed the maximum step rate of the GS grade to which assigned.

RELOCATION EXPENSES

For new ODNI employees, reimbursement for relocation is discretionary based on availability of funds.

REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS

The ODNI provides reasonable accommodations to otherwise qualified applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify the Reasonable Accommodations Office Representative by email at [e-mail], by telephone at [phone] or by FAX at [phone]. Your request for reasonable accommodations will be addressed on a case-by-case basis.

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The ODNI is an equal opportunity employer and abides by applicable employment laws and regulations.

Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding.

Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.