Job opening: NICO for Biosecurity
Salary: $112 015 - 172 075 per year
Published at: Dec 08 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 a subject matter expert responsible for WMD and biosecurity collection issues within NCBCs Office of Mission Integration, and the IC broadly, to counter WMD and biosecurity threats.
Plan, define, and develop integrated collection strategies to address critical gaps in IC posture against priority WMD and biosecurity issues, foster collaboration between collectors, operators, and analysts; monitor and evaluate results.
Work collaboratively with NCBC, ODNI/IC, and USG partners to develop and implement innovative collection approaches, and provide structured recommendations to advance the IC and USG capabilities to counter the proliferation of chemical warfare, biological warfare, nuclear warfare, WMD delivery systems, and biosecurity challenges.
Plan and complete assessments of the ICs progress towards mission and enterprise strategic objectives and determine how well the IC is postured for future environments.
Initiate, cultivate, and maintain productive working relationships within the ODNI, IC, U.S. Government, industry and academic partners, and with foreign counterparts to advance portfolio-specific objectives.
Participate in national security meetings, committees, task forces, and working groups, and support resulting NCBC tasks related to counterproliferation and biosecurity collection subjects.
Conduct research to identify priorities, opportunities, gaps, and interdependencies to link resources to strategy; draft emerging strategic issues and trends.
Draft and coordinate collection-focused national security memos, presentations, and annual reports related to counterproliferation and biosecurity.
Qualifications
Mandatory Requirements:
Extensive knowledge of strategy development and planning and a demonstrated ability to identify emerging trends and strategic issues and incorporate these into organizational strategic plans.
Demonstrated ability to evaluate strategic trends, strategy and implementation plans, results, and programmatic data, propose innovative solutions, and implement change.
IC experience demonstrating insight into the IC's structure, roles and responsibilities, and intelligence collection capabilities and mission.
Extensive understanding of IC and DOD collection management processes and tools, requirements reviews and future collection capability needs assessments, and multi-INT intelligence collection integration, strategy development, and execution.
Interpersonal, organizational, and management skills to conceptualize and carry out complex projects and manage competing priorities with limited supervision; demonstrated ability to work with and represent NCBC in diverse forums to the CP and Biosecurity communities on complex issues.
Demonstrated ability to exercise independent judgement on time-sensitive issues and work collaboratively across the IC.
Desired Requirements:
Demonstrated negotiation and leadership skills, the ability to exert influence and build consensus, and experience in reconciling competing interests.
Experience and knowledge of WMD, Counterproliferation, and Biosecurity issues, including the intersection of collection needs and the analytic process, and support to USG efforts to counter WMD.
Extensive experience and knowledge of intelligence needs of U.S. Government customers of counterproliferation and biosecurity customers, including intelligence needed to support international arms control treaties and export control regimes, negotiate United Nations Security Council Resolutions, conduct U.S. Government strategic messaging, improve security at foreign facilities holding WMD or biothreat material, disrupt WMD-related networks, or inform demilitarization and countermeasure efforts.
Education
Bachelor's 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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