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

Major Duties and Responsibilities: 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 priorities. Manage the Measurement and Signature Intelligence (MASINT) portfolio, including a wide range of topics and issues spanning the MASINT domain. Communicate MASINT Functional Management strategy and community concerns to Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) leadership. Provide ODNI insight and priorities to the National MASINT Committee (MASCOM) and National MASINT Office (NMO) in accordance with ICD 113; prepare ODNI senior leadership for IC engagement. Conduct in-depth assessments of MASINT collection and Tasking, Processing, Exploitation and Dissemination (TPED) capabilities and provide expert counsel to ODNI senior leadership, National Intelligence Managers (NIMs), and National Intelligence Collection Officers (NICOs) to support decision-making on collection and analysis enterprise issues. Act as liaison with ODNI elements and other agencies with responsibility for MASINT collection and TPED to ensure alignment of programs, procedures, budgets, acquisitions, and guidelines. Lead, plan, and prepare briefings, reports, and presentations to organizational leadership, senior policymakers, and senior United States (U.S.) Government officials in a manner that meets their specified requirements and provide expert analysis and recommendations that ensure IC strategic plans and programs align with strategic objectives. Oversee the planning, development, and evaluation of related MASINT strategic planning documents in support of national security and foreign policy interests and programs. Assist the NMO with the planning, development, and production of MASINT strategic guidance for the allocation of resources and investment planning and programming staff elements and activities. Develop near/mid/long term MASINT strategy documents that provide guidance to needs/requirements and resource/investment planning and programming staff elements and activities. - Lead and oversee efforts to engage senior IC leadership on strategic priorities, intelligence needs and gaps, and cross- IC interdependencies in order to link resources to strategy. Lead, plan, and oversee efforts to create a culture of strategic planning across the IC by promoting best practices in strategy development, execution, and evaluation and communicating priorities, activities, and impact of the strategy to the IC to promote shared vision, values, and goals. Partner with ODNI staff, Functional, Mission, and Enterprise Managers, and IC elements to promote implementation of mission priorities. Assist the NMO with the advancement of MASINT outreach activities within and beyond the IC to ensure long term strategy development is informed by the latest and best efforts across the U.S. Government, industry, and foreign partners. Provide analysis and recommendations to ensure that ODNI and IC element plans and programs align with objectives of the MASINT strategic plan, in coordination with the NMO. Lead and oversee the planning and completion of assessments to evaluate IC progress towards mission and enterprise objectives and determine how well the IC is postured for future environments. Conduct assessments to capture IC progress towards mission priorities and assess how well the IC is postured for future environments. Ensure full range of understanding of MASINT customer requirements related to assigned missions and ensure these requirements have been conveyed to and coordinated with the ODNI and the IC. Advise on the setting of collection and analysis priorities for national intelligence related to assigned missions. Lead the IC to meet mission priorities of the National Intelligence Strategy (NIS). Develop integrated collection strategies for MASINT mission areas. Conduct analysis and provide recommendations on "cross-mission tradeoffs". Advise and engage senior IC leadership on strategic priorities, opportunities, gaps, and interdependencies to link resources to strategy; lead and oversee the communication of emerging strategic issues and trends, independently evaluate against IC strategic elements, and make recommendations for improvements. Lead efforts to determine the state of MASINT collection against assigned missions, identifying gaps against those missions, developing integrated, cross-intelligence collection strategies to fill gaps, tasking collection activity against their assigned missions, consistent with overall guidance from the Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Mission Integration (DDNI/MI), and evaluating collector responsiveness and success in filling collection gaps and meeting mission requirements.

Requirements

Qualifications

Mandatory Requirements: Expert knowledge and expertise in the MASINT discipline with the breadth of knowledge in collection, planning, critical analysis, mission management, and program principals, as well as an understanding of how MASINT integrates with other intelligence disciplines. Experience in either MASINT collection, collection operations management, collection requirements management, and or acquisition. Familiarity with the MASINT sub-disciplines and National MASINT systems. Expert knowledge of IC organizations' missions in order to develop the national-level strategies and policies necessary to support U.S. national security and foreign policy interests. Expert leadership experience and analytic and/or collection expertise to support strategy and policy development, strategic planning, and implementation efforts. Superior ability to identify emerging trends and strategic issues and incorporate these in developing strategic plans for the organization. Expert ability to evaluate strategic trends, strategy and implementation plans, results, and programmatic data, propose innovative solutions, and implement change. Expert ability to conceptualize, organize, and draw inferences from incomplete data and present a compelling analysis of findings and issues; expert ability to identify, articulate, document, and mitigate knowledge gaps or alternatives approaches. Superior communication (written and verbal) skills to effectively and efficiently communicate organizational vision, mission, and plans. Superior ability to communicate clearly, both orally and in written reports, and to logically analyze, synthesize, and evaluate multiple sources of information for their inclusion in briefings and written documents. Expert organizational and interpersonal skills to facilitate diverse forums, manage competing priorities, and advocate new ideas/concepts/processes. Superior ability to exercise independent judgment on time-sensitive issues and work collaboratively across the IC. Desired Skills: Expert knowledge and experience in the MASINT discipline, to include analysis, collection, and TPED processes. Ten years of experience leading strategic planning, managing, and directing the successful efforts of a government or private organization. Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience as determined by mission specialty area.

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Contacts

• Address MISSION PERFORMANCE, ANALYSIS, AND COLLECTION Director Of National Intelligence Washington, DC 20511 US
• Name: Vacancy Team ODNI
• Email: [email protected]