The Policy & Capabilities Directorate ensures the IC is best postured for the threats and challenges of an uncertain future, through strategy, policy, and capabilities development. Comprised of 7 organizations, PC oversees IC Human Capital; Acquisition, Procurement & Facilities; Intelligence Advance Research Projects Activity; Science & Technology Group; Requirements, Cost & Effectiveness; Policy & Strategy; and Domestic Engagement, Information Sharing & Data.

Duties

Major Duties and Responsibilities: Interface and coordinate with interagency partners across the executive branch to execute programs and priorities in support of the IC's science and technology mission in a range of emerging technology with a focus on microelectronics and advanced computing. Serve as objective party to generate consensus approaches and provide expert guidance and advice for IC leadership. Prepare and brief senior IC leadership on key science and technology focus areas to enable well-informed decisions by policymakers. Communicate IC priorities and needs to a range of IC programs and help perform oversight activities to ensure IC leadership remains apprised of microelectronics and advanced computing activities. Conceive, plan and conduct activities in support of the identification and synthesis of future technology trends to guide IC's investments, manage contracts, coordinate forecasted activities, and develop periodic reports for the IC. Provide expert programmatic recommendations to management and other major stakeholders by gathering, analyzing, and summarizing data from across the IC's portfolio. Provide expert guidance and advice to Office of the Director of National Intelligence and IC on matters of such difficulty and controversy that leading experts disagree as to the proper approach to or the probable outcome of significant and far-reaching efforts and generate new hypotheses, develop new concepts, and plan and evaluate the long-range programs and projects that accomplish the mission. Represent the organization at meetings, conferences, and other public forums to foster and cultivate strategic alliances with other IC components. Prepare expert findings, reports, briefing papers, and other communication vehicles; serve as a principal advisor on the policies and procedures governing intelligence information. Conceive, cultivate, develop, and sustain professional networks across the IC. Lead the evaluation and preparation of estimates of the technical maturity of key technologies. Other duties, as assigned.

Requirements

Qualifications

Mandatory Requirements: Superior ability to understand and synthesize new scientific and technical advances from a range of technical disciplines into policy or investment recommendations that will impact mission. Superior ability to lead studies, initiatives, or projects across multiple IC elements through superior collaboration, negotiation, or facilitation. Expert knowledge and experience with the IC's technology community, including research and development entities, and broad understanding of the organizations, missions and functions, and operating practices of the IC with a focus on microelectronics and/or advanced computing. Superior oral and written communication and interpersonal skills and the superior ability to work effectively with peers and leaders from across the IC and Department of Defense. Expert experience with work of superior impact on agency programs related to a rapidly evolving field. Expert experience pioneering development efforts to achieve new capabilities with previously unattainable characteristics. Expert experience conceiving, planning, and conducting pioneering work of outstanding scope, difficulty, and complexity in unexplored or previously unpromising areas of investigations or managed complex and extensive scientific programs of critical importance to the agency. Expert experience with work involving high levels of uncertainty and the balancing of conflicting interest of extreme intensity. Expert experience with work of major importance and scope as to affect technical policies of a major department or agency, have a significant bearing on legislation, or involve equivalent implications. Expert extended training and experience which has demonstrated leadership and unusual attainments in professional, scientific, or technical research, practice, or administration, or in administrative, fiscal, or other specialized activities. Expert experience consulting or other professional, scientific, technical, administrative, fiscal, or other specialized work of equal importance, difficulty, and responsibility, and requiring comparable qualifications. Master of Science degree in a science, math, or engineering disciplines such as computer science, physical science, mathematics, physics, chemistry, or electrical engineering.

Education

Master's Degree

Contacts

• Address SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY GROUP Director Of National Intelligence Washington, DC 20511 US
• Name: Vacancy Team ODNI
• Email: [email protected]