Compliance Officers develop and implement comprehensive mission compliance solutions to protect privacy and civil liberty during the conduct of NSA's mission activities. They support the development, implementation, and monitoring of a mission compliance program that includes internal control activities, risk assessments, standards and procedures, awareness and training, and verification and assessment to ensure compliance with applicable legal and policy requirements.

The responsibilities of a Compliance Officer include:

- Ensuring compliance with federal law, Executive Orders, Presidential directives, Intelligence Community directives, and Department of Defense and NSA/CSS policy
- Provide oversight and compliance support to operational and compliance systems, algorithms, analytics and analysis processes, and dissemination activities.
- Preparing generalized or specialized educational materials for the global workforce about the laws, policy, practices, and procedures that apply to cybersecurity and intelligence mission activities.
- Identifying, understanding, and applying the external and internal obligations with which the Agency must comply with to training, mission functions, processing, and reporting procedures
- Identifying, designing, and assessing the effectiveness of existing preventative and detective compliance controls as applied to mission data sets and mission activities.
- Performing risk assessments of existing controls set against a complex, evolving architecture and dynamic analytic methods.
- Preparing documentation for the overseers such as the Department of Justice, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and the Inspector General.
- Performing mission or project lead activities that result in improved systems, algorithms, or methods that underpin current or future compliance controls.
- Managing and executing technical preventive and detective controls systems applied against all mission data sets as well as processing, analysis, and dissemination analytic activities.
- Monitoring, auditing, and enhancing privacy compliance activities (interviewing, planning, developing) supported by Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning models.
- Utilizing investigative techniques to make competent investigative mission compliance determinations and associated recommendations.
- Managing compliance incidents and related processes to perform root cause analysis and develop mitigation strategies.
- Serving as a subject matter expert liaison between groups internal or external to the NSA/CSS.

Conditions of employment

• All applicants and employees are subject to random drug testing in accordance with Executive Order 12564. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a security background investigation and polygraph.

Qualifications

The qualifications listed are the minimum acceptable to be considered for the position.

A degree in any field is acceptable.

Relevant experience must include one or more of the following: compliance, legal, policy, records management, computer information management, auditing, or working in the DOD/IC.

ENTRY/DEVELOPMENTAL
Entry is with a high school diploma or GED plus 4 years of relevant experience, or an Associate's degree plus 2 years of relevant experience, or a Bachelor's degree and no experience.

FULL PERFORMANCE
Entry is with a high school diploma or GED plus 7 years of relevant experience, or an Associate's degree plus 5 years of relevant experience, or a Bachelor's degree plus 3 years of relevant experience, or a Master's degree plus 1 year of relevant experience, or a Doctoral degree and no experience.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

The ideal candidate is someone who possesses the following skills:

Accountability
determining objectives, setting priorities, delegating work, and ensuring that work is completed with a focus on quality and timeliness, whether in technical, mission, policy, or all three areas.

Continual Learning
assessing and recognizing own strengths and weaknesses and pursuing self-development activities that also will build expertise in compliance methods and practices as well as mission practices, whether technical, analytic, or both.

Flexibility
adapting to new information, with highly complex, changing conditions, including unexpected challenges and obstacles.
Remaining open to change and responsive to new information in the legal, policy, architecture, and analytic methods domains.

Influencing/ Negotiating
persuading others, building consensus through negotiation, and gaining cooperation from others to obtain information and accomplish goals.

Interpersonal Skills
considering varied backgrounds, work experience, and organizational roles in working with others. treating others with courtesy, sensitivity, and respect.

Oral Communication
listening, being receptive to others, attending to non-verbal cues, and responding appropriately. Clearly and effectively expressing ideas, facts, or other information to individuals or groups.
Making clear and convincing oral presentations in policy, procedural and technological topics.

Partnering
collaborating with colleagues, counterparts, management, and others to achieve common goals. Building alliances with colleagues and counterparts within NSA, with overseers, and with other IC agencies.
Developing collaborative information and knowledge sharing networks.

Problem Solving
identifying and analyzing problems, distinguishing between relevant and irrelevant information. Making recommendations and providing solutions to problems.

Resilience
remaining optimistic and persistent, even under adversity.

Written Communication
communicating relevant information accurately, in a succinct and organized manner, and using the proper format, grammar, and spelling.
Producing written material that is compelling and appropriate for the intended audience.

The National Security Agency (NSA) is part of the DoD Intelligence Community Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS). All positions in the NSA are in the Excepted Services under 10 United States Codes (USC) 1601 appointment authority. DoD Components with DCIPS positions apply Veterans' Preference to eligible candidates as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 USC, in accordance with the procedures provided in DoD Instruction 1400.25, Volume 2005, DCIPS Employment and Placement. If you are a veteran claiming veterans' preference, as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 U.S.C., you may be asked to submit documents verifying your eligibility.

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