Deputy National Intel Officer/Scientific and Technical Intel Committee Chair

Position description

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) Directorate for Mission Integration (MI) creates a consistent and holistic view of intelligence from collection to analysis and serves as the Director of National Intelligence’s (DNI) principal advisor on all aspects of intelligence. MI integrates mission capabilities, informs enterprise resource and policy decisions, and ensures the delivery of timely, objective, accurate, and relevant intelligence.

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

The National Intelligence Council (NIC) consists of the most senior intelligence analysts supporting the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) in carrying out responsibilities as the head of the Intelligence Community (IC) and as the principal adviser to the President for intelligence matters related to national security. The NIC produces a variety of all-source, IC coordinated intelligence reports, including its flagship product, the National Intelligence Estimate, which represents the Intelligence Community’s most authoritative statement on a key national security issue.

Provide expert guidance, leadership, and in-depth tradecraft reviews to multiple teams simultaneously in their production of well-crafted sophisticated, complex analytic finished intelligence products on sometimes controversial or particularly difficult issues in support of United States (US) foreign policy and national security objectives; review final analytic products, written and oral, for clarity, organization, accuracy, and logic; effectively explain highly complex concepts and results to non-expert customers and tailor products to correspond to customer needs.

Lead an IC-wide, interagency team of analysts in conducting analysis and supporting national intelligence collection initiatives.

Serve as US Head of Delegation for an international Emerging and Disruptive Technologies (E&DT) group. Support briefings and conference planning efforts on behalf of the US IC.

Lead and contribute to contractual NIO/E&DT outreach efforts.

Help lead and manage the IC input on emerging and disruptive technologies.

Advise senior ODNI and IC leadership on global S&T issues in support of NIO/EDT projects. Contribute to and manage the coordination of authoritative IC assessments, briefings, or other tailored products as necessary on global S&T issues in response to Congressionally Directed Actions, Questions for the Record, and other requests from policy makers and military decision makers.

Brief senior IC members, policy makers, military decision-makers, members of Congress, and other major stakeholders as necessary on global S&T issues.

Represent the NIC, NIO/E&DT, and the STIC at senior level meetings, conferences, and other fora to collaborate and exchange knowledge related to global S&T capabilities and threats.

Establish and manage liaison relationships with academia, the business community, and other non-government subject matter experts to ensure the IC has a comprehensive understanding of global S&T issues.

Other duties, as assigned.

Qualifications

Conditions of Employment

• 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

Mandatory Requirements:

Expert knowledge of foreign S&T issues, with focus on E&DT, the IC’s S&T community, and IC collection issues sufficient to lead the STIC’s analytic production and, where appropriate, identify collection requirements and gaps.

Superior interpersonal, organizational, and management skills to conceptualize and effectively lead complex analytic projects; ability to work with and represent the IC when analytic views differ among agencies.

Superior communications skills, including the ability to give effective oral presentations, and to otherwise represent the ODNI, NIC, and NIO E&DT in interagency meetings and other fora.

Superior critical thinking skills and reasoning skills and the ability to prepare finished intelligence assessments and other written products with emphasis on clear organization, and concise, logical presentation.

Expert knowledge of IC analytic tradecraft, and ability to apply diagnostic and qualitative techniques sufficient to produce authoritative finished intelligence products, and the ability to employ new methodological approaches to analyze information.

Superior creative problem-solving skills and superior ability to provide leadership in carrying out mission responsibilities

Expert ability to work effectively with, and within, all organization levels and structures, including with senior leadership.

Superior knowledge of the IC’s S&T structure, resources, and customers.

Expert analytic and critical thinking skills, including superior ability to think strategically; superior ability to effectively express complex, multi-discipline ideas and insights verbally and in writing to a variety of audiences up to and including senior leadership.

Expert ability to direct taskings, assess and manage performance, collaborate on goal setting, and support personal and professional development.

Bachelor’s degree in subject matter area, or closely related discipline.

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Application instructions

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