The mission of the National Counterintelligence & Security Center is to lead and support the U.S. Government's counterintelligence (CI) and security activities critical to protecting our nation; provide CI outreach to U.S. private sector entities at risk of foreign intelligence penetration; and issue public warnings regarding intelligence threats to the U.S.

Duties

The NCSC Special Security Directorate enables the DNI with her responsibilities as the Security Executive Agent (SecEA) across the Executive Branch and serves as the DNI's designee for oversight and director for safeguarding national security programs across the Intelligence Community (IC). The SSD/Group Chief is responsible for leading the successful formulation, development, production, and evaluation of a broad range of Executive-level security-related policies, processes, and guidance in support of the NCSC mission, enabling functions, and the intelligence disciplines. The Group Chief is also responsible for the communication and implementation of NCSC/SSD policies and guidance across the Executive Branch, including IC Stakeholders. The selected candidate will: Lead and oversee staff in the formulation, development, production, and evaluation of a broad range of policies processes, and guidance on Security-related topics including mission enabling functions, and intelligence oversight disciplines and communicate these policies, processes, and guidelines to community stakeholders. Lead and oversee Security professionals in the review and analysis of policies, processes, and guidelines that are contained in United States Government (U.S.) Government and Intelligence Community (IC) Directives, Policy Guidance, Standards, plans, and memoranda to ensure equities are captured and relevant concerns are resolved. Lead and direct the development of substantive intelligence briefings, presentations, reports, and other materials to inform senior leadership and other major stakeholders on policy issues. Lead and oversee Security professionals in communicating policy needs, trends, and developments relative to organizational leadership, senior policymakers, and other senior U.S. Government officials. Oversee, lead, foster, and promote communications that increase stakeholders', consumers', IC colleagues', and U.S. Government executive agents' overall understanding of NCSC, USG and IC policies, processes, and procedures to best promote mission effectiveness. Lead and oversee Security professionals in the planning and preparation of communications and reports that address Executive Branch taskings and Congressional hearings; direct staff in the production and coordination of executive-level briefings; represent organizational equities to the IC and other government agencies at meetings, conferences, and other public fora. Lead and oversee Security professionals in reviewing an extensive volume of written materials and preparing or contributing to written and verbal products including congressional testimony or responses to inquiries, senior-level issue papers or briefings, and letters and memoranda. Lead, initiate, cultivate, and maintain productive working relationships with colleagues, experts, IC members, and policy committees, and use these relationships to share information of IC interest; attend internal and external training, seminars, or conferences on broad intelligence topics or more strategic subject areas. Lead the planning, management, and deployment of resources including budget, staffing, IT support, and/or space allocations to successfully complete assignments; assess staff performance, collaborate, and oversee goal setting, develop, and execute a training plan for employees, and provide feedback on professional development.

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: A minimum of ten years of expert-level experience leading and managing personnel security disciplines and expert-level familiarity with personnel security reform efforts. Expert ability to supervise or lead and guide senior and expert staff members. Set priorities, goals, and deadlines, and make final determinations on how to plan and accomplish work. Expert knowledge of IC and related U.S. Government policies, directives, and standard operating procedures and superior ability to develop a broad range of IC-wide policies, processes, and guidelines. Expert ability to perform the review and analysis of policies, processes, and guidelines that are contained in United States Government (USG) and Intelligence Community (IC) Directives, Policy Guidance, Standards, plans, and memoranda to ensure equities are captured and relevant concerns are resolved. Expert knowledge of the U.S, Government and its IC components, missions, and interrelationships and experience working either with or in a major U.S. Government or IC organization; superior understanding of the authorities, roles, and responsibilities of the organizations within the IC community. Expert knowledge of and superior experience in the research, formulation, development, and coordination of national-level policies and directives, including expert knowledge of qualitative and/or quantitative methods for policy development and assessment. Expert ability to apply knowledge of ODNI and IC organizations and relevant customer organizations or operations (e.g., intelligence disciplines, military, policymakers, and law enforcement) to effectively address their national intelligence requirements and provide appropriate policy responses to meet IC needs. Superior interpersonal, organizational, and problem-solving skills, including superior ability to work independently and in a collaborative environment effectively with senior officials, management, teams, and colleagues. Superior written and oral communication skills with expert 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. Expert ability to build and sustain professional networks and collaborate with both management and staff to continuously improve community relationships, products, and services. Expert project leadership capabilities, including the ability to effectively coordinate business processes, deliver within time constraints, manage competing priorities, and adjust quickly to deal with time sensitive requirements. Expert ability to direct taskings, assess and manage performance, collaborate on goal setting, and support personal and professional development at all levels of personnel. Other duties, as assigned. Desired Requirements: Expert knowledge of personnel security disciplines. Expert knowledge of current National-level security-related topics such as Trusted Workforce 2.0, clearance process timelines, reciprocal recognition of security clearances and access approvals, security business practices. Expert experience leading government-wide initiatives and achieving improvements.

Education

Bachelor's Degree.

Contacts

• Address SPECIAL SECURITY DIRECTORATE FRONT OFFICE Director Of National Intelligence Washington, DC 20511 US
• Name: Vacancy Team ODNI
• Email: [email protected]