Job opening: Chemical and Biological Issues Lead Strategist
Salary: $155 700 - 183 500 per year
Published at: Oct 02 2023
Employment Type: Full-time
The National Counterproliferation and Biosecurity Center (NCBC) leads the Intelligence Community and the interagency to counter and halt the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, their delivery systems, related technologies, and expertise. The NCBC also serves as the lead for the integration, mission management, and coordination of intelligence activities pertaining to biosecurity and foreign biological threats
Duties
Serve as the lead subject matter expert responsible for addressing global chemical and biological issues within NCBC's Office of Mission Integration to enable the IC to counter WMD and biosecurity threats.
Lead NCBC's policy support on global chemical and biological issues.
Lead chemical and biological group efforts to develop IC-wide, integrated campaigns to improve IC posture against global chemical and biological collection and analytic issues.
Lead group efforts to work collaboratively with ODNI, IC, and interagency stakeholders to develop coordinated campaign plans to identify key intelligence gaps, implement initiatives to address shortfalls in the IC's ability to address gaps, and evaluate IC progress to close gaps.
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.
Guide and mentor team members to promote use of best practices and to ensure common approaches across chemical and biological lines of effort.
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.
Support IC and DOD efforts under hard target strategies against actors of interest wherever chemical and biolgocial issues equities are involved.
Lead, plan, and oversee NCBC execution of chemical and biological-related Consolidated Intelligence Guidance (CIG) Programmatic Actions in order to improve community posture against future challenges.
Lead chemical and biological group efforts with interagency outreach with IC chemical and biological issues elements in order to guide and inform NCBC advocacy for resources as required.
Serve as the senior NCBC, ODNI, or IC representative at national security meetings, committees, task forces, and working groups, and serve as a focal point for any tasks related to global chemical and biological issues.
Qualifications
Expert knowledge of the IC's structure, roles and responsibilities, and intelligence capabilities as it relates to counterproliferation and biosecurity issues.
Superior experience and knowledge of regarding chemical and biological intelligence issues, including the relationship between collection needs and the analytic process, collection platforms, and IC tradecraft.
Technical knowledge, education, and expertise in fields such as chemical weapons, biological weapons, and biosecurity.
Ability to lead efforts in synchronizing and coordinating the implementation of plans and programs.
Experience in developing and implementing strategies.
Superior leadership skills and ability to lead interagency working groups and build coalitions with IC elements to achieve common goals.
Expert ability to coordinate, network, and communicate with individuals across the ODNI, IC, and U.S. interagency counterproliferation and/or biosecurity community to build and sustain effective working relationships to ensure superior intelligence support to the interagency policy-making process, and superior intelligence community understanding of policy objectives.
Superior ability to identify emerging trends and strategic issues and incorporate these in developing strategic plans for the organization.
Superior ability to exercise independent judgment on time-sensitive issues and work collaboratively across the IC.
Expert critical thinking skills, including superior ability to think strategically, to identify intelligence requirements, and to develop innovative recommendations and solutions.
Expert organizational and interpersonal skills to facilitate diverse forums, manage competing priorities and advocate new ideas/concepts/processes.
Expert ability to evaluate strategic trends, strategy and implementation plans, results, and programmatic data, propose innovative solutions, and implement change.
Expert negotiation and leadership skills, the ability to exert influence and build consensus, and experience in reconciling competing interests.
Education
Bachelors Degree.
Contacts
- Address OFFICE OF MISSION INTERGRATION
Director Of National Intelligence
Washington, DC 20511
US
- Name: Vacancy Team ODNI
- Email: [email protected]
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