Job opening: Principal Deputy National Intelligence Officer for China
Salary: $147 649 - 204 000 per year
Published at: Feb 06 2024
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 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.
Lead the Intelligence Community's (IC) production of strategic analyses on issues of importance to United States (US) interests regarding China and advise the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) on key developments and issues.
Lead and oversee the preparation, production, and coordination of National Intelligence Estimates and other community-coordinated papers (Intelligence Community Assessments and Sense of the Community Memoranda).
Review and preside over the research and production plans on China issues of the Community's analytic components, identify redundancies and gaps, direct strategies to address gaps, and advise the DNI on gaps and shortfall in analytic capabilities across the IC.
Lead, plan, and oversee the preparation of background papers and briefing books for the DNI's participation in National Security Council, Cabinet meetings, and other senior-level policymaking meetings.
Provide strategic guidance, direction, and leadership to establish national intelligence collection and analysis priorities, and in doing so identity critical intelligence gaps and support collection initiatives based on customers' needs and analytic requirements.
Lead and oversee the preparation of 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 senior IC members, policymakers, military decision makers, members of Congress, and other major stakeholders on China issues.
Review and analyze IC analytic components' research and production plans on China, identify redundancies and gaps, direct strategies to address gaps, and advise the DNI on gaps and shortfalls in analytic capabilities across the IC.
Serve as a member of the NIC Council, including preparing aligning China analytic program with other NIO programs, sharing insights, and preparing cross-cutting projects.
Establish and foster liaison relationships with IC analysts, analytic managers, and collection managers as well as academia, the business community, and other non-government subject matter experts to ensure the IC has a comprehensive understanding of emerging trends regarding China issues.
Lead and oversee the formulation, development, production and evaluation of a broad range of policies, processes, and guidance on subject areas, including mission enabling functions and intelligence oversight disciplines, and communicate these policies, processes, and guidelines to community stakeholders.
Support and/or act for the NIO on China issues.
Qualifications
Mandatory Requirements:
Expertise on China and a deep understanding of relevant US foreign policy priorities: proven ability to synthesize complex issues involving China topics for senior policymakers.
Exhibit expert capability to direct interagency, interdisciplinary IC teams against a range of functional and/or regional analytical issues.
Expert knowledge of the IC analytic and collection communities and missions regarding China sufficient to lead the IC's analytic production and identify collection requirements and gaps.
Superior interpersonal, organizational, and management skills and an expert ability to conceptualize and effectively lead complex analytic projects and promote consensus building across the IC when analytic views differ across agencies.
Superior oral and written communications skills, including an expert ability to communicate effectively with people at all levels of the IC, deliver effective oral presentations, prepare finished intelligence assessments and other written products with emphasis on clear organization and logical presentation, and represent the NIC in interagency meetings.
Expert knowledge of collection requirements and proven experience driving collection and identifying collection gaps.
Expert ability to prioritize and manage multiple short-term and longer-term tasks and projects and perform senior staff functions as required.
Expert knowledge of and superior ability to apply research capabilities and analytic, diagnostic, and qualitative techniques in order to produce authoritative finished intelligence products; expert ability to employ new methodological approaches to analyze information.
Direct and oversee national intelligence issues related to the area of responsibility, set collection, analysis and Intelligence operations priorities that has an impact on IC, ODNI, directorates or components, or external partners.
Master's degree in subject matter area, or closely related discipline.
Desired Requirements:
Generally, twelve or more years of related work experience.
Education
Master's Degree.
Contacts
- Address NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE COUNCIL
Director Of National Intelligence
Washington, DC 20511
US
- Name: Vacancy Team ODNI
- Email: [email protected]
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