Job opening: Senior Advisor for Europe, Americas, and Arctic
Salary: $180 359 - 221 900 per year
Published at: Sep 25 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
This position is in the Excepted Service under Title 10, Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System. Excepted Service includes all positions in the Executive Branch of the Federal Government which are specifically excepted from the competitive service by or pursuant to statute, by the President, or by the Office of Personnel Management.
Duties
This position is located in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security (OUSD(I&S)), Director for Defense Intelligence (Warfighter Support) (DDI(WS)), Directorate for Europe, Americas, and Arctic. The incumbent serves as the serves as the DoD senior leader and lead integrator for intelligence and security matters related to defense policy/strategy, military operations, and foreign partnerships within Europe, Americas, and the Arctic.
Major duties and responsibilities will include but are not limited to the following:
Direct and oversee intelligence and security support related to Europe, Americas, and the Arctic, enable integrated OUSD((I&S) and Defense Intelligence and Security Enterprise (DISE) support to development and implementation of defense policy/strategy, military operations, and foreign partnerships in the region.
Continuously seek to innovate the ends, ways and means by which WS creates and delivers value to its stakeholders in the DISE and across the Department.
Serve as the lead subject matter expert and advisor to OUSD(I&S) and other OSD organizations on intelligence and security matters for defense policy, military operations, and foreign partnerships in Europe, Americas, and the Arctic, to inform OSD decisions on policies, prioritization, and resources.
Serve as OUSD(I&S) and DISE lead integrator for intelligence and security support to crisis management activities in Europe, Americas, and the Arctic, in coordination with the Intelligence Community, DISE, interagency, and foreign partners as appropriate. Responsible for ensuring support and coordination with fellow DDI(WS) office leaders, and with broader OUSD(I&S).
Drive and lead integrated intelligence and security support to enduring and emergent intelligence and security gaps to defense policy/strategy and military operations across the spectrum of conflict in the Europe, Americas, and the Arctic, including crafting policy, strategies, priorities, guidance, and/or driving resources, in coordination with IC, DISE, interagency, and foreign partners, as appropriate.
Qualifications
To meet the minimum qualification requirements for this position, you must show that you possess the Mandatory Technical Qualifications, Intelligence Community (IC) Senior Officer Core Qualifications (SOCQ), and other qualifications, if applicable.
Intelligence Community (IC) Senior Officer Core Qualification (SOCQ) - Leading the Intelligence Enterprise: Required for all senior executive positions effective 1 October 2010. This SOCQ involves the ability to integrate resources, information, interests, and activities effectively in support of the IC's mission and to lead and leverage cross organizational collaborative networks to achieve significant mission results. Inherent to this Standard is a deep understanding of the Intelligence enterprise (or other comparable interagency or multi-organizational environment) and a shared commitment to the IC's core values.
You must include a separate attachment, one page maximum per competency.
IC Senior Officers have a responsibility to share information and knowledge to achieve results, in that regard are expected to build effective networks and alliances; actively engage these peers and stakeholders; involve them in key decision; and effectively leverage these networks to achieve significant results. Senior officers are expected to create an environment that promotes employee engagement, collaboration, integration, information and knowledge sharing, and the candid, open exchange of diverse points of view. Candidates assessed against this competency must:
(1) Collaboration and Integration: -Build, leverage, and lead collaborative networks with key peers and stakeholders across the IC and/or other government/private-sector organizations, or professional/technical disciplines to achieve significant joint/multi-agency mission outcomes.-Integrate joint/multi-agency activities effectively exercising collaborative plans that realize mutual IC, joint, or multi-organizational goals.
(2) Enterprise Focus: IC Senior officers are expected to demonstrate a deep understanding of how the missions, structures, leaders, and cultures of the various IC components interact and connect; synthesize resources, information and other inputs to effectively integrate and align component, IC, and the United States Government interests and activities to achieve IC-wide, national, and international priorities. Senior officers are expected to encourage and support Joint Duty assignments and developmental experiences that develop and reinforce enterprise focus among their subordinates. Candidates assessed against the component must: Understand the roles, missions, capabilities, and organizational and political realities of the intelligence enterprise; apply that understanding to drive joint, interagency, or multi-organizational mission accomplishment. Understand how organizations, resources, information, and processes within the IC interagency/multi-organizational environment interact with and influence one another; apply that understanding to solve complex interagency or multi-organizational problems.
(3) Values-Centered Leadership: IC Senior officers are expected to personally embody, advance and reinforce IC core values. Senior officers are expected to demonstrate and promote departmental and/or component values. Candidates assessed against this competency must demonstrate: A Commitment to selfless service and excellence in support of the IC's mission, as well as to preserving, protecting, and defending the Nation's laws and liberties. The Integrity and Courage(moral, intellectual, and physical) to seek and speak the truth, to innovate, and to change things for the better, regardless of personal or professional risk. Collaboration as members of a single IC-wide team, respecting and leveraging the diversity of all members of the IC, their background, their sources and methods, and their points of view. Promote, reinforce, and reward IC, departmental/component core values in the workforce and ensure that actions, policies, and practices are aligned with, and embody those values. Ensure that organizational strategies, policies, procedures, and actions give appropriate focus, attention, and commitment to diversity of people, points of view, ideas, and insights.
MANDATORY TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS: All applicants must submit written statements (narrative format) of accomplishments that would satisfy the technical qualifications. You must address each technical qualification separately. You are required to respond to all of the technical qualifications. If you fail to do so, you will be rated as ineligible. Please limit your written statements to no more than two pages per technical qualification.
1. Demonstrated experience in synchronizing intelligence and other relationships and facilitating intelligence or other information sharing activities across the Defense Intelligence Enterprise or other communities of interest.
2. Demonstrated experience in foreign partner engagement and/or foreign disclosure policies and activities.
3. Demonstrated experience with leadership and management of personnel, projects, and workflow of teams in formal or informal settings, relating to international and cross component DoD and interagency activities, especially in support of Combatant Commands and/or military operations or crises.
4. Demonstrated experience influencing and synchronizing DoD functional activities, policies, and/or programmatic activities to achieve outcomes, such as the planning and budgetary cycles and the joint operational requirements process.
Education
There is no positive education requirement for this position.
Contacts
- Address Office of the USD for Intelligence and Security
Human Resources Directorate
4800 Mark Center Drive
Alexandria, VA 22350
US
- Name: Senior Executive Services
- Email: [email protected]
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