Job opening: Assistant Program Director
Salary: $117 962 - 153 354 per year
Relocation: YES
Published at: Aug 19 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
ODNI established the Office of Economic Security and Emerging Technologies (OESET) in response to increasing demand for improved intelligence on the application of disruptive technologies and related global supply chains. Improved IC posture in this area is critical to enabling the whole-of-government response that maintains United States' economic and technological competitive advantage and ensures U.S. access to goods and services central to its national security.
Duties
Support the National Intelligence Manager (NIM) for Economic Security and Emerging Technologies (ESET) by facilitating integration of the Intelligence Community's analytic, collection, counterintelligence and supporting capabilities as the program director for one of the office's primary accounts: advanced materials, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, digital assets, economics, export controls, energy security, investment security, next-generation energy storage, microelectronics, quantum computing, global supply chains, sanctions, and trade.
Support DNI, PDDNI, DDNI, and Office of Economic Security and Emerging Technologies (OESET) participation in high-level policy and partnership (private and foreign) meetings with talking points, background information, and the results of relevant engagements with IC agencies.
Contribute to senior briefings to senior IC officials and other major stakeholders' collaboration, progress, issues, and challenges.
As requested by leadership, represent the ODNI in national level working groups, committees, and exercises, including other governmental agencies and associated centers of excellence, academia, the private sector, and with international partners as appropriate.
Conduct research to leverage best practices and lessons learned.
Conduct research for stakeholders to collaborate and to develop the roadmaps for the strategic solution to compartmented collaboration.
Support efforts to ensure that the IC has the correct policy, human capital, data, technical, and resource posture for economic security and emerging technology missions.
Inform and support integrated national security response planning and IC strategy development; deliver on planned and ad hoc tasking for IC leadership and the policy community; fulfill responsibilities for ensuring effective alignment and timely implementation of specific portfolio efforts to flagship collaboration initiatives; and to that end, identify relevant performance measures, validate outputs, and demonstrate accountability.
Requirements
- Must be a U.S. Citizen residing in the United States
- Appointment is subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance based on an SBI with eligibility for sensitive compartmented information (SCI)
- Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration.
- A two-year trial period is required for all new permanent appointments to the ODNI.
Qualifications
Mandatory Requirements:
Thorough knowledge of IC organizations; IC mission posture, structures, capabilities, processes, and policy development.
Ability to anticipate issues relevant to the IC and United States Government and recommend/implement needed actions.
Skills and ability to collaborate with interagency working groups, maintain coalitions with IC elements to achieve common goals.
Ability to implement integration strategies for IC initiatives and programs, including the ability to manage human, financial, and information resources.
Analytical and critical thinking skills, including the ability to think strategically, identify needs and requirements, develop recommendations, and evaluate outcomes against goals and objectives.
Interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively in both independent and in a team or collaborative environment.
Oral and written communication skills, including ability to draft and edit written reports of varying length and complexity and to communicate effectively with audiences of varying seniority and expertise.
Technical expertise in assigned areas of interest (advanced materials, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, digital assets, economics, export controls, energy security, investment security, next-generation energy storage, microelectronics, quantum computing, global supply chains, sanctions, trade, and strategic industry and foreign partnerships) and a minimum of one to three years' experience in the private or public sector or academia.
Desired Requirements:
Experience representing the IC in engagements with senior government officials.
Experience in the economic security or emerging technology mission areas.
Experience with multiple portions of the intelligence cycle (e.g. planning and direction; collection; processing; analysis and production; and dissemination).
Experience in coordinating planning, programming and budgeting activities, to include leading budget justification activities, planning resource strategies, and preparing resource analytic papers, background papers, talking points, and/or other products to support senior leadership in making informed programmatic decisions.
Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience as determined by mission specialty area.
Education
Bachelor's degree.
Contacts
- Address Office of Economic Security and Emerging Technologies
Director Of National Intelligence
Washington, DC 20511
US
- Name: Vacancy Team ODNI
- Email: [email protected]
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