Job opening: Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Counterintelligence
Salary: $112 015 - 172 075 per year
Published at: Oct 04 2023
Employment Type: Full-time
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.
Duties
The National Intelligence Council (NIC) consists of the most senior and expert 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.
Write. As part of the NIO/CI team, produce strategic, all-source, estimative CI analysis, and provide CI analytic support and demonstrated knowledge to the DNI and policymakers.
Lead. Lead and oversee preparing, producing, coordinating, and disseminating National Intelligence Estimates, Intelligence Community Assessments, Sense of the Community Memoranda, and other NIC Reports.
Inform. Provide demonstrated national CI analytic assessments; prepare and coordinate background papers and briefing books for the DNI, PDDNI, DDMI, NIO/CI, and other ODNI senior leaders' participation in the National Security Council Principals, Deputies, and Policy Coordinating Committees; Cabinet meetings; Congressional testimonies; and other senior-level policymaking meetings.
Support. Support the development of national CI analytic and collection priorities to identify and mitigate critical intelligence gaps.
Respond. Lead and oversee preparing correspondence and/or products in response to congressional tasking, including testimony, talking points, and statements for the record for the DNI and senior DNI staff.
Brief. Brief senior USIC officials and other major stakeholders at interagency meetings, conferences, and other public fora on major events and emerging trends on counterintelligence issues. Represent. Represent the NIO/CI team in internal and external fora.
Engage. Establish and foster liaison relationships with USIC analysts, analytic managers, and collection managers as well as academia, the business community, and other non-government subject matter experts to ensure the USIC has a comprehensive understanding of current and emerging CI issues.
Build and leverage diverse collaborative networks within the ODNI and across the IC.
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
Mandatory Requirements:
Knowledge of intelligence threats. Extensive knowledge of USIC CI priorities and national-level foreign intelligence threats, particularly from adversaries other than China or Russia. Demonstrated ability to pivot to and develop in new CI threats as needed.
Knowledge of CI research and analysis. Extensive knowledge and experience in CI analysis relevant to a regional or functional national intelligence priority area, including familiarity with USIC databases and research tools, and the ability to locate relevant analysis and reporting on short notice to inform short-deadline tasking.
Knowledge of the CI Community. Extensive knowledge and experience in collaborating with strategic CI components from across the USIC, including knowledge of different components' missions and capabilities.
Critical thinking. Demonstrated and recognized analytic and critical thinking skills, including demonstrated ability to think strategically.
Ability to produce. Demonstrated ability to produce high-quality, national-level CI analytic products for senior policymakers.
Ability to provide feedback. Significant experience providing feedback, edits, and constructive criticism on CI and non-CI draft intelligence products from across the USIC.
Ability to work with and lead others. Excellent interpersonal, organizational, and leadership skills and a demonstrated ability to conceptualize and effectively lead complex analytic projects and promote consensus-building across the USIC when analytic views differ. Proven ability to mentor junior colleagues.
Ability to communicate. Excellent communications skills, including the ability to communicate strategic CI issues effectively with people at all levels of leadership and all levels of knowledge on CI issues, including non-CI policymakers; ability to give effective oral presentations and to represent ODNI, the NIC, and the NIO/CI team in interagency meetings and other fora.
Ability to prioritize. Demonstrated ability to prioritize and manage multiple short-term and longer-term tasks and projects and perform senior staff functions as required.
Ability to share information. Demonstrated ability to oversee and direct information sharing across ODNI and USIC.
Flexibility. Demonstrated levels of flexibility and demonstrated ability to remain open-minded and change opinions on the basis of new information and requirements; demonstrated ability to support group decisions and solicit opinions from coworkers.
Creative problem-solving skills and initiative in carrying out mission responsibilities.
Education
Desired Requirements:
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience as determined by mission specialty area.
Contacts
- Address NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE COUNCIL
Director Of National Intelligence
Washington, DC 20511
US
- Name: Vacancy Team ODNI
- Email: [email protected]
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