The National Counterproliferation and Biosecurity Center (NCBC) leads the Intelligence Community and the interagency to counter and halt the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, their delivery systems, related technologies, and expertise. The NCBC also serves as the lead for the integration, mission management, and coordination of intelligence activities pertaining to biosecurity and foreign biological threats

Duties

Major Duties and Responsibilities: Serve as a subject matter expert responsible for addressing chemical and biological issues within NCBC's Office of Mission Integration, and the IC broadly, to counter WMD and biosecurity threats. Lead NCBC's policy support on chemical and biological issues within a specified portfolio. Lead a line-of-effort within an integrated campaign to improve IC posture against specified chemical and biological issues. Plan, develop and evaluate the related strategic planning documents in support of United States (U.S.) national security and foreign policy interests and programs. Work collaboratively across ODNI and interagency stakeholders to develop a coordinated campaign plan to identify key intelligence gaps, implement initiatives to address shortfalls, and objectively evaluate community progress in closing gaps. Support IC efforts and hard target strategies against actors of interest when there is a portfolio equity involved. Plan and complete assessments of the IC's progress towards mission and enterprise strategic objectives and determine how well the IC is postured for future environments. Initiate, cultivate, and maintain productive working relationships within the ODNI, IC, U.S. Government, industry and academic partners, and with foreign counterparts to advance portfolio-specific objectives. Represent NCBC, ODNI, and the IC at national security meetings, committees, task forces, and working groups; serve as a focal point for any resulting IC tasks related to portfolio-related subjects. Plan and prepare briefings, reports, and presentations to organizational leadership, senior policymakers, and senior U.S. Government 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.

Requirements

Qualifications

Mandatory Requirements: Extensive knowledge of strategy development and planning and a demonstrated ability to identify emerging trends and strategic issues and incorporate these into organizational strategic plans. Demonstrated ability to evaluate strategic trends, strategy and implementation plan, results and programmatic data, propose innovative solutions and implement change. Extensive knowledge of the IC's structure, roles and responsibilities, and intelligence capabilities as it relates to counterproliferation and biosecurity issues. Knowledge and experience with planning processes, critical analysis, consensus building, as well as the application and integration of all instruments of national power in protecting the U.S. and its interests abroad. Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly, both orally and in written reports, and to logically filter and synthesize data, and produce clear, logical, and concise products. Demonstrated interpersonal, organizational, and problem-solving skills, including the ability to work effectively both independently and in a team or collaborative environment, often under pressure with short operating deadlines. Demonstrated ability to coordinate, network, and communicate with individuals across the ODNI, IC, and U.S. interagency counterproliferation and/or biosecurity community to build and sustain effective working relationships to ensure superior intelligence support to the interagency policymaking process, and superior intelligence community understanding of policy objectives. Demonstrated ability to exercise independent judgement on time-sensitive issues and work collaboratively across the IC. Demonstrated critical thinking skills, including demonstrated ability to think strategically, to identify intelligence requirements, and to develop innovative recommendations and solutions. Desired Requirements: Demonstrated negotiation and leadership skills, the ability to exert influence and build consensus, and experience in reconciling competing interests. Demonstrated experience and knowledge of chemical and biological intelligence issues including the relationship between collection needs and the analytic process, collection platforms and tradecraft crucial for WMD and biosecurity subjects, or challenges facing the counterproliferation and biosecurity intelligence community. Technical knowledge, education and/or expertise chemical and biological fields such as chemical, biological, and nuclear radiological threats and weapons, delivery systems, maritime interdiction, cooperative threat reduction, or other specific USG counterproliferation or counter WMD tools. Demonstrated experience and knowledge of intelligence needs of U.S. Government customers of counterproliferation and biosecurity customers, including intelligence needed to support international arms control treaties and export control regimes, negotiate United Nations Security Council Resolutions, conduct U.S. Government strategic messaging, improve security at foreign facilities holding WMD or biothreat material, disrupt WMD-related networks, or inform demilitarization and countermeasure efforts.

Education

Bachelor's Degree.

Contacts

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