Job opening: PDB Briefer
Salary: $139 395 - 191 900 per year
Published at: May 28 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
Major Duties and Responsibilities:
Represent the Intelligence Community-not just the agency you come from-to PDB principals.
Plan and produce effective briefing materials for customers that incorporate finished intelligence products, raw intelligence background notes, and other relevant information that is synthesized, organized, and compiled in the delivery of an effective oral briefing; anticipate likely questions and develop responses using background information, acquired materials, or information provided by IC experts.
Research, review, and comprehend complex information required to brief the consumer at the level they require; anticipate questions and develop responses using provided background information, acquire materials or information furnished via consultations with IC experts, and interact effectively and confidently with consumers to explain, and as necessary, argue or justify IC analysis.
Anticipate questions and develop responses using provided background information, acquire materials or information furnished via consultations with IC experts, and interact effectively and confidently with the principals to explain, and as necessary, educate them on IC tradecraft and analysis.
Synthesize raw traffic on key issues into a coherent briefing and consult with IC components as necessary to understand the significance and relevance of late-breaking/overnight information.
Record daily feedback in the PDB database (Bookbuilder) that accurately characterizes your principal's reaction to the briefing.
Engage the principals to frame and elicit clear, appropriate, and meaningful taskings, collaborate with IC components to ensure taskings are well understood and that the principals' needs are clear.
Compile relevant materials from daily finished intelligence products and raw traffic to meet consumer interests and needs, identify and read IC finished products, raw traffic, background notes, and other relevant information to determine consumer relevance and timeliness, and maintain a comprehensive awareness of material to brief orally.
Interact directly with senior ODNI and IC analytic managers to provide the principals' PDB feedback and any taskings, and to help shape the intelligence questions that follow-on products should address.
Discuss issues and developments with internal and external peers and customers, communicate regularly to exchange subject information, and meet frequently with analysts and substantive experts to clarify tasking, coordinate production, and build expertise.
Be aware of and abide by dissemination restrictions on sensitive intelligence.
Work collaboratively with other briefers and principals' staffs.
Participate in PDB corporate activities. Strive to improve processes and practices and engage in creative problem solving. Foster PDB educational efforts in the IC and recruitment by setting up in-depth substantive interactions with analysts, meeting with potential applicants, and attending PDB training and outreach events to share best practices and lessons learned.
Support PDB expeditionary operations by traveling with PDB principals as needed
Qualifications
Mandatory Requirements:
A GS-15 (or exceptionally strong GS-14) with at least 7 years of all-source analytic experience, superior and exceptional critical-thinking and representational skills, experience briefing senior customers, and a broad understanding of US national-security interests.
Expert knowledge of key U.S. foreign policy and national security objectives for key regional and transnational issues, including the superior ability to stay informed of current trends and developments.
Expert knowledge of analytic tradecraft, IC policies, capabilities, and procedures, coupled with knowledge of political, cultural, social, historical, and diplomatic traits and behaviors of key countries or regions.
Superior oral and written communication skills.
Expert knowledge of analytic tradecraft, IC policies, capabilities, and procedures.
Superior ability to remain open-minded and change opinions on the basis of new information and requirements.
Superior ability to work under tight time constraints with multiple daily deadlines to review a large body of information and distill relevant products into a comprehensive, sophisticated daily intelligence briefing, and the superior ability to efficiently prioritize, perform multiple tasks, and change focus quickly as demands change in a fast-paced, time constrained environment.
Superior knowledge and experience exercising sound judgment, tact, and integrity to manage interactions with senior U.S. policymakers and intelligence officers, including a superior ability to establish and maintain regular contacts in the IC for exchanging information.
Superior interpersonal skills to work effectively with superiors, colleagues, and subordinates.
Generally, fifteen years of related work experience.
Desired Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in subject matter area, or closely related discipline.
Experience as a PDB Briefer
Experience as an all-source analyst.
Education
Bachelor's degree
Contacts
- Address PRESIDENT"S DAILY BRIEF
Director Of National Intelligence
Washington, DC 20511
US
- Name: Vacancy Team ODNI
- Email: [email protected]
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