The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) Directorate for Mission Integration (MI) creates a consistent and holistic view of intelligence from collection to analysis and serves as the Director of National Intelligence's (DNI) principal advisor on all aspects of intelligence. MI integrates mission capabilities, informs enterprise resource and policy decisions, and ensures the delivery of timely, objective, accurate, and relevant intelligence.

Duties

Major Duties and Responsibilities: Assist NIM-Africa in directing and overseeing national intelligence related to the Africa issues; setting collection, analysis, and intelligence operations priorities on behalf of the ODNI, in consonance with the National Intelligence Priorities Framework (NIPF). Assist NIM-Africa in determining the state of collection, analysis, or intelligence operations resource gaps; developing and publishing a Unifying Intelligence Strategy which identifies and formulates strategies to mitigate gaps; advising IC and ODNI leadership of the gaps, mitigation strategies, progress against the strategies, and assessing the effectiveness of both the strategies and the closing of the intelligence gaps. Build an effective NIM-Africa staff on a priority basis to take on the substantive duties of the NIM-Africa, leveraging available ODNI resources to identify and hire personnel skilled in collection, analysis, operations, program management, and other areas as appropriate. Develop integrated collection policies and strategies and influence policy development and strategy implementation for the IC on Africa. Perform personnel management responsibilities with a focus on building a high performance workforce; promote team building and a collaborative work environment; ensure goals and performance objectives are understood; assess performance and provide timely feedback, recognition, and remediation. Facilitates cooperation and motivates team members to accomplish group goals. Determines objectives, sets priorities, and delegates work based on priorities, selective consideration of the difficulty and requirements of assignments and the capabilities of employees. Ensure staff is in compliance with established policies and regulations. Develop IC-level analytic production strategies to ensure major shortfalls on Africa being examined either as a community or by individual analytics. Evaluate and determine the state of analysis by assessment of the quality of analysis and ensure competitive and alternative analysis is conducted on high-priority topics. Identify research and developmental opportunities in order to defend, advocate for, and institute justifications for additional or dedicated funding. Liaise with community elements to perform outreach and ensure resources and priority attention is given to targets. Administer NIM-Africa resource allocations, budget processes and activities, to include the establishment of controls to ensure NIM-Africa equities remain within budget. Direct and oversee advocacy initiatives to integrate and optimize contributions from current and planned technical, analytic, and openly available sources. Brief senior IC and Department of Defense (DoD) officials, members of Congress, and other major stakeholders as necessary on US intelligence enterprise issues and emerging trends concerning West Hemisphere. Liaise with ODNI leadership to develop innovative approaches, and provide structured recommendations focused on the advancement against intelligence mission and enterprise across the Africa (collection, analysis, counterintelligence, and priorities and resources), and broader ODNI goals. Manage, lead and develop dynamic and long-term planning efforts in the current and anticipated planning structure.

Requirements

Qualifications

Mandatory Requirements: Expert knowledge of IC organizations; IC mission posture, structures, capabilities, processes, and policy development. Expert organizational, managerial, and leadership skills. Outstanding interpersonal and negotiation skills, and the ability to build consensus, work effectively, and independently exert influence to major stakeholders. Expert knowledge of Sub-Sahara and/or North Africa issues and the ICs role in supporting these missions. Bachelors Degree. Desired Requirements: Superior analytical and critical thinking skills, including the ability to think strategically and identify needs, requirements, and develop innovative recommendations and solutions for improvement. Superior knowledge of the IC's analytic and/or collection architecture as related to Africa, and expertise working on the Africa target across multiple analytic and/or disciplines. Superior knowledge of the budget processes, particularly as they relate to the Africa target.

Education

Bachelors Degree.

Contacts

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