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 Data and Partnership Interoperability.

Duties

Major Duties and Responsibilities: Ensure recognition of identified program needs to inform and begin the requirements validation process. Lead and integrate 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). Oversee the preparation, justification, and/or administration of budgets and monitor expenditures for program areas. Lead, 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. Establish and oversee a risk management approach to ensure program success. Manage ongoing working relationships and expectations with customers, stakeholders, users, and decision authorities throughout the program life cycle. Oversee, monitor, and approved the 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

Mandatory Requirements: Expert understanding of roles and missions of enterprise (e.g., agency, department, IC) and other external factors. Superior 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. Superior skill to align programs with strategic goals. Expert understanding of the organization's financial processes. Prepares, justifies, and administers the project/program budget. Superior ability to oversee procurement and contracting to achieve desired results; monitor expenditures and analyze cost-benefits to set priorities. Superior ability to develop collaborative information and expert knowledge of sharing networks and building alliances with colleagues and counterparts within and/or across the organization, the IC, other government/private organizations, or professional/technical disciplines to achieve organizational outcomes. Superior ability to persuade others, builds consensus through give and take, and gains cooperation from others to obtain information and accomplish goals. Superior ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships, especially in difficult situations (e.g. when defending or critiquing a position). Superior ability to demonstrate and foster respect, understanding, courtesy, tact, and empathy. Considers varied cultural backgrounds, work experience, and organizational roles in working with others. Expert knowledge and experience with acquisition and contracting principals and procedures sufficient to monitor and oversee diverse range of acquisitions supporting R&D, and /or 5+ years of demonstrated experience as a Contracting Officer Representative (COR) and/or contracting Officer's Technical Representative (COTR), or Industry equivalent, over contracts with increasing complexity. This should be in accordance with Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA), the Intelligence Community, other Government agencies, or Industry equivalent standards. Minimum of 5 years of demonstrated experience in business operations or business management overseeing contract management activities. Superior oral and written communication skills and expert ability to produce clear, logical, and concise work products. Expert ability to manage competing priorities while maintaining a high-level of attention to detail in a dynamic, fact paced environment. Expert experience managing projects comprised of multidisciplinary teams to collaborate on work products, share knowledge and build networks and alliances with colleagues and counterparts within and/or across the organization, the IC, other government and private organizations, and/or professional and technical disciplines to achieve organizational outcome.

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Contacts

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