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

Major Duties and Responsibilities (MDRs) Lead, initiate, cultivate, and maintain productive working relationships with senior policymakers across the IC in order to coordinate strategy development activities and evolving requirements and promote the implementation of mission and enterprise objectives. Serves as the principal collection subject matter expert responsible for supporting NIM/DSOP, including the ODNI and NCTC leadership. Leads and directs the analysis of strategic collection initiatives and requirements for NIM to ensure their alignment with National Intelligence Priorities Framework objectives and organizational missions and goals. Liaises with ODNI elements and with other agencies engaged in collection activities to coordinate joint actions and ensure alignment of programs, procedures, and guidelines. Leads efforts to align and integrate collection enterprise capabilities through CT working groups in conjunction with the NIM. Supports DSOP Group Chief's efforts to determine the state of collection on CT issues and coordinate efforts to address identified shortfalls consistent with overall guidance from the ODNI. Evaluates the IC's responsiveness and success in filling collection shortfalls and meeting mission requirements. Serves as a member of the DSOP Leadership Team, and is often called upon to represent DSOP in various ODNI and NCTC forums. Partners with the IC's CT community to assess progress against key lines of effort in the national strategy for counterterrorism and NIMs Unifying Intelligence Strategy. Lead, initiate, cultivate, and maintain productive working relationships with senior policymakers across the IC in order to coordinate strategy development activities. Leads, fosters, and cultivates strategic relationships and professional networks with interagency partners and other community elements to ensure adequate resource availability and priority attention on National Intelligence Strategy and other mandates. Balances long-term, enduring requirements against current issues and trade-offs while also documenting opportunity costs across the collection enterprise, in conjunction with the NIM. Provide expert input into the formulation of fiscal year budget builds and other program and budget matters in support of IC collection initiatives.

Requirements

Qualifications

Required Qualifications Expert knowledge of IC organizations' missions in order to develop the national-level strategies and policies necessary to support U.S. national security and foreign policy interests. Expert ability to exercise independent judgment on time-sensitive issues and work collaboratively across the IC. Expert knowledge of and broad experience addressing intelligence collection-related issues, and in-depth expertise on US government and foreign partner intelligence collection organizations, programs, and capabilities. Expert knowledge of CT collection operations and activities. Extensive knowledge of IC organizations, including IC mission posture, structures, capabilities, processes, and policy development. Expert leadership skills and the ability to lead interagency working groups and build coalitions with IC elements to achieve common goals. Expert analytical and critical thinking skills, including the demonstrated ability to think strategically, identify needs and requirements, develop recommendations, and evaluate outcomes against goals and objectives. Expert interpersonal skills and superior ability to work effectively in both independently and in a team or collaborative environment. Expert oral and written communication skills, including demonstrated ability to draft and edit written reports of varying length and complexity, and to communicate effectively with audiences of varying seniority and expertise. Superior ability to coordinate, network, and communicate across the ODNI, IC and US Government agencies. Must have at least 2 years of prior experience focused on CT and collection-related issues.

Education

Bachelor's Degree.

Contacts

• Address DIRECTORATE OF STRATEGIC OPS PLAN Director Of National Intelligence Washington, DC 20511 US
• Name: Vacancy Team ODNI
• Email: [email protected]