Clarification from the agency

Open to current permanent ODNI employees only.

Serve as the Chief, Enterprise Operations Group, responsible for overseeing the National Counterterrorism Center's budget, resource and contract planning and execution, facilities, and strategic workforce planning.

Lead, manage, and direct a professional level staff, evaluate performance, collaborate on goal setting and provide feedback and guidance regarding personal and professional development opportunities.

Manage NCTC resource planning & programming efforts, working with NCTC senior leaders and the COO on the Center's equities across all business and operational areas.

Lead the discussion of strategic budget priorities among the Directorates and Offices at key decision points, In conjunction with CFE, draft and/or review budget requests, impact statements, and responses to resource reductions, Questions for the record for OMB or Congress, and inquiries from other oversight bodies.

Oversee ranking and prioritizing of competing requirements for additional capabilities through a transparent and accountable methodology.

Oversee to ensure systems can achieve operational capability with constrained resources.

Oversee the Center's Strategic Workforce Planning, staffing posture, and tracking of personal services expenditures and FTE utilization, working closely across Directorates and Offices to ensure NCTC's recruitment and retention strategies meet mission needs and NCTC's authorized budget.

Manage the Center's space allocations, logistics, and coordinate NCTC's IT requirements and actions. Work with ODNI/Mission Support Division, ITS, and NCTOC to maintain a facilities Infrastructure to support NCTC's continuity of operations and disaster recovery.

Serve as one of the Center's Accountability Officers, responsible to D/NCTC to manage NCTC's property transactions for ODNI accountable property.

Maintain records concerning property, receipt, storage, issuance and disposition.

Conduct quarterly and annual inventories. Oversee NCTC's accountable property Responsible Officers in the execution of their duties.

Oversee acquisitions and procurement activities in support of NCTC missions and operations.

Conditions of employment

Must be a current permanent ODNI employee.

FREE RESPONSE ESSAY QUESTIONS

All applicants must answer the following four short, free response essay questions. The responses cannot exceed 200 words per question. By submitting your responses to the following questions, you certify that you are using your own words and did not use a consultant or AI (such as a large language model [LLM]).

1. How has your commitment to the Constitution and the founding principles of the United States inspired you to pursue this role within the Federal government? Provide a concrete example from professional, academic, or personal experience.
2. In this role, how would you use your skills and experience to improve government efficiency and effectiveness? Provide specific examples where you improved processes, reduced costs, or improved outcomes.
3. How would you help advance the President's Executive Orders and policy priorities in this role? Identify one or two relevant Executive Orders or policy initiatives that are significant to you and explain how you would help implement them if hired.
4. How has a strong work ethic contributed to your professional, academic or personal achievements? Provide one or two specific examples and explain how those qualities would enable you to serve effectively in this position.

Qualifications

Expert knowledge of financial and budget processes, acquisition and procurement activities. Deep understanding of preparation and execution of project and organization budgets.

Expert knowledge of IC organizations; IC mission posture, structures, capabilities, business processes, and policy development.

Superior ability to lead a team in the design and implementation of integration strategies for IC initiatives and programs, including the superior ability to manage human, financial, and information resources.

Superior analytical and critical thinking skills, including the superior ability to think strategically, identify needs and requirements, develop recommendations, and evaluate outcomes against goals and objectives.

Superior ability to manage strategic and tactical level topics, and develop innovative recommendations and solutions for improvement.

Superior interpersonal skills and superior ability to work effectively in both independent and in a team or collaborative environment.

Superior ability to monitor expenditures and analyze cost-benefits to set priorities.

Superior oral and written communication skills, including superior ability to draft and edit written reports of varying length and complexity, and to communicate effectively with audiences of varying seniority and expertise.

How you will be evaluated

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

You must submit the supporting documents listed under the required documents section of this announcement. We will review your resume and supporting documentation to ensure you meet the basic qualification requirements. If you are among the best qualified, you may be referred to the hiring manager for consideration and may be called for an interview.

A complete application package must include:

a. RESUME: Resumes must be no longer than two (2) pages in length. Resumes longer than two (2) pages will be removed from consideration. Applicants are encouraged to carefully review the vacancy announcement, particularly the MDRs, and construct their resume to highlight their most significant experience and qualifications relevant to this job opportunity. You must ensure the resume contains all of the required information and you organize it so we can associate the following information for each experience/position: job title; name of employer; beginning and ending dates of employment (month/day/year format), and hours worked per week. We will assume full-time unless otherwise stated. Additionally, include a detailed description of job duties, accomplishments, related skills and responsibilities, to include any supervisory/managerial responsibilities and number of staff supervised (if applicable), and series and grade or equivalent (if a federal position).

b. ESSAY QUESTION RESPONSES: The responses cannot exceed 200 words per question (please see questions in the Requirements section above). By submitting your responses to these questions, you certify that you are using your own words and did not use a consultant or AI (such as a large language model [LLM]).

c. COVER LETTER: Applicants must submit a professional narrative as a supplement to the resume to elaborate on their qualifications and previous work performed.

d. POSITION NUMBER: Reference the announcement number in the subject line on each document submitted.

Failure to submit any of the above-mentioned required documents may result in loss of consideration due to an incomplete application package. It is your responsibility to ensure all required documents have been submitted.

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