The National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) leads the nation's effort to protect the United States from terrorism by integrating, analyzing and sharing information to drive whole-of-government action and achieve our national CT objectives.

Duties

Recognize identified program needs to inform and begin the requirements validation process. Coordinate or lead functional teams to analyze potential program requirements and refine program requirements and continuously coordinate with users to determine appropriate interpretation. Conduct advanced acquisition planning and programming to produce the acquisition and investment strategy and program plan and coordinate the acquisition through the contracting process (e.g., contracting milestones, solicitation, source selection, award, negotiation, and administration). Prepare, justify, and/or administer budgets and monitor expenditures for program areas. Plan, organize, staff, and monitor specific acquisition programs to ensure they meet cost, schedule, and performance requirements throughout the life cycle and maintain accountability for accurate and credible cost, schedule, and performance reporting. Develop a risk management approach to ensure program success. Develop and maintain ongoing working relationships and expectations with customers, stakeholders, users, and decision authorities throughout the program life cycle. Reference approved technical strategy against requirements. Ensure mission assurance (e.g. quality, maintainability, affordability, supportability, and training) for products and/or services throughout the life cycle.

Requirements

Qualifications

Extensive understanding of roles and missions of enterprise (e.g., agency, department, IC) and other external factors. Demonstrated ability to perceive organizational and political reality and expert understanding of how actions by one entity affect others to identify practical solutions for enterprise mission accomplishment. Demonstrated skill to align programs with strategic goals. Extensive understanding of the organization's financial processes. Prepares, justifies, and administers the project/program budget. Demonstrated ability to oversee procurement and contracting to achieve desired results; monitor expenditures and analyze cost-benefits to set priorities. Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships, especially in difficult situations (e.g. when defending or critiquing a position). Demonstrated ability to demonstrate and foster respect, understanding, courtesy, tact, and empathy. Considers varied cultural backgrounds, work experience, and organizational roles in working with others. Extensive knowledge to identify and understand issues, problems, different sources throughout the IC and external agencies to draw conclusions. Demonstrated ability to choose an approach, develop solutions, and take action consistent with IC values, available facts, constraints, and probable consequences. Extensive understanding of the interrelationships among organizations and components of the IC. Extensive understanding of how one's own work impacts, and is impacted by the mission and operations of IC organizations and components, and uses this information to maximize contribution to mission accomplishment. Demonstrated ability to identify and use principles, rules, and relationships to construct arguments or interpret facts, data, or other information. Demonstrated ability to dissect problems into meaningful parts and uses logic and judgment to determine accuracy and relevance of data. Demonstrated ability to identify and reconcile gaps, uncertainties, and key assumptions of data. Superior ability to integrate evidence/information, evaluates and prioritizes alternatives, and assesses similarities and differences in data to develop findings and conclusions. Extensive understanding of potential implications of these findings or conclusions. Demonstrated ability to identify, interpret, comply, and with and stay current on relevant regulations, guidelines, laws, and directives COTR I Certification

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Contacts

• Address EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Director Of National Intelligence Washington, DC 20511 US
• Name: Vacancy Team ODNI
• Email: [email protected]