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

The IC Human Capital Office (IC HC) is responsible for the overall strategic management of the Intelligence Community's (IC) workforce, comprising civilian, contractor, and military personnel. The office develops Human Capital (HC) policies and programs to include workforce planning, recruitment and career development, diversity strategy programs, pay and benefits, leadership training and development, performance management and recognition, work/life programs, and Human Resources (HR) information requirements. The IC HC Foreign Language Group (FLG) ensures integration, collaboration, and oversight of the Intelligence Community's (IC) language operations, language skill development, human language technology development and utilization, language education and training, language proficiency assessment, and policies and programs in order to ensure that the IC has the knowledge, skills, technologies, training and operational processes necessary to achieve IC mission objectives. FLG works with the IC and Department of Defense to understand the foreign language community's mission imperatives and develop initiatives. It also represents the ODNI in language-focused forums across the community, to include Foreign Language Executive Committee, National Security Education Board, and Defense Language Steering Committee meetings. Serve as the Program Manager for the IC Community of Practice for Language Recruiting. Hold monthly meetings that bring together the IC's lead recruiters for foreign language expertise to discuss best practices and shared challenges in recruiting this expertise, and help organize and lead IC-wide recruiting efforts at select events to promote the importance of foreign language expertise in the IC market current job opportunities using those skills. Serve as FLG's lead for the Foreign Language Executive Committee's Culture and Regional Knowledge Expert Group; help organize bi-monthly meetings and agenda items for the meetings. Serve as FLG's lead for the National Intelligence Professional Awards for Foreign Language. Efforts will include promoting the awards program and deadlines, collecting nominations, organizing the awards panel, and supporting the annual awards ceremony. Serve as FLG's lead for engagements with that National Security Education Program (NSEP) throughout the year, including attending National Security Education Board meetings and engaging with students from the Boren Scholars and Fellows programs, Language Flagship program, and English for Heritage Language Speakers program to inform them of potential careers in the IC using foreign language. Serve as FLG's lead for engagement with NSA's STARTALK program; attend select summer language camps, and help arrange annual program reviews. Serve as FLG's lead for engagement with IC HC's IC Centers for Academic Excellence (IC CAE) for foreign language-related issues. Duties will include attending annual IC CAE Principal Investigators Conference and annual summer seminar as well as engaging with grant schools that are building their programs in less commonly taught languages. Lead FLG's efforts to attend the annual conference of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, and other notable language-focused recruiting events, such as those organized by the University of Maryland. Prepare expert communications on foreign language topics for senior leadership, when needed. Lead and oversee the development of strategic and tactical plans to support HC program initiatives; guide and lead the development, implementation, and evaluation of HC programs in response to IC directives and/or mission requirements.

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: Expert knowledge of Intelligence Community (IC) elements, requirements, functions, interrelationships, and the role of language and technology in meeting IC requirements for analytic and operational foreign language capabilities. Excellent interpersonal and team building skills to foster a collaborative work environment and to coordinate, network, and communicate across the IC. Superior ability to communicate, both verbally and in writing, complex information in a clear, concise manner that is targeted to and meets the needs of diverse audiences with different perspectives and objectives. Superior ability to plan and execute long-term strategic goals and objectives. Superior ability to manage IC-wide processes and activities. Superior analytic abilities to evaluate complex data, resolve inconsistencies, and propose innovative solutions to challenging problems. Education: Bachelor's degree in a foreign language or related degree.

Education

Bachelor's degree

Contacts

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