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

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 strategic objectives. Lead, plan, and prepare briefings, reports, and presentations to organizational leadership, senior policymakers, and senior United States (U.S.) Government agencies USG officials in a manner that meets their specified requirements and provide expert analysis and recommendations that ensure IC strategic plans and programs align with strategic objectives. Lead and oversee the planning, development, and evaluation of the related strategic planning documents in support of U.S. Government agencies' national security and foreign policy interests and programs. Lead and oversee the planning, development, and production of strategic guidance for the allocation of resources and investment planning and programming staff elements and activities. Develop near/mid/long term strategy documents that provide guidance to needs/requirements and resource/investment planning and programming staff elements and activities. -Lead and oversee efforts to engage senior IC leadership on strategic priorities, intelligence needs and gaps, and cross-IC interdependencies in order to link resources to strategy. Lead, plan, and oversee efforts to create a culture of strategic planning across the IC by promoting best practices in strategy development, execution, and evaluation and communicating priorities, activities, and impact of the strategy to the IC to promote shared vision, values, and goals. -Partner with ODNI staff, Functional, Mission, and Enterprise Managers, and IC elements to promote implementation of strategic objectives Lead, plan, and oversee the advancement of outreach activities within and beyond the IC to ensure long term strategy development is informed by the latest and best efforts across the U.S. Government, industry, and foreign partners. Provide analysis and recommendations to ensure that ODNI and IC element plans and programs align with objectives of the strategic plan. Manage to ensure full range of understanding of customer requirements related to assigned missions and ensuring these requirements have been conveyed to and coordinated with the ODNI and the IC. Lead the IC to meet the objectives of the National Intelligence Strategy (NIS). Advise and engage senior ODNI and IC leadership on strategic priorities, opportunities, gaps, and interdependencies to link resources to strategy; lead and oversee the communication of emerging strategic issues and trends, independently evaluate against IC strategic elements, and make recommendations for improvements.

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 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 leadership experience and analytic expertise to support strategy and policy development, strategic planning and implementation efforts. Superior ability to identify emerging trends and strategic issues and incorporate these in developing strategic plans. Expert ability to evaluate strategic trends, strategy and implementation plans, results, and programmatic data, propose innovative solutions, and implement change. Expert ability to conceptualize, organize, and draw inferences from incomplete data and present a compelling analysis of findings and issues; expert ability to identify, articulate, document, and mitigate knowledge gaps or alternatives approaches. Superior communication (written and verbal) skills to effectively and efficiently communicate organizational vision, mission, and plans. Superior ability to communicate clearly, both orally and in written reports, and to logically analyze, synthesize, and evaluate multiple sources of information for their inclusion in briefings and written documents. Expert organizational and interpersonal skills to facilitate diverse forums, manage competing priorities, and advocate new ideas/concepts/processes. Superior ability to exercise independent judgment on time-sensitive issues and work collaboratively across the IC. Bachelors' degree or 7 years' experience within the Intelligence Community. Desired Requirements: Experience in publishing strategic level products for policy, analytic, private sector, resource-related or other senior customers. Experience or training as a facilitator or experience leading large groups to think strategically.

Education

Bachelors' degree.

Contacts

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