Clarification from the agency

Open to current and former Federal employees with competitive or excepted status; and all U.S. Citizens. Former members of the Peace Corps may be considered for ODNI employment only if five full years have elapsed since separation from the Peace Corps.

Develop and disseminate ODNI's COOP strategic communications plans and related documentation including contingency plans, operational plans, and other plans that contribute directly to synchronized operations, planning, and exercise support.

Maintain 24/7 global situational awareness by independently researching and analyzing raw intelligence reporting and maintaining awareness of current intelligence issues.

Monitor, sort, prioritize, and analyze intelligence and operational message traffic.

Evaluate COOP strategies and plans, identify issues in a timely manner, and provide initial recommendations to resolve efficiently and effectively.

Maintain productive working relationships with ODNI staff, other IC organizations, and private service providers in order to effectively respond to COOP issues, and coordinate strategic planning, best practices, lessons learned, programming, and policy issues.

Develop strategic networks of working relationships with colleagues, experts, and customers throughout the IC to broaden the IC'S 24-hour alert and warning support function's customer base and establish lines of communication, and leverage the relationships to fulfill the mission of the Operations Center, and ensure progress toward achieving organizational goals. Consistently seek customer feedback on outputs and services in order to gain insight on their level of satisfaction. Continuously work to improve internal processes in order to meet customer needs.

Develop and implement strategies to augment and extend strategic collection capabilities, and coordinate with national, defense, and domestic authorities to ensure alignment with key intelligence priorities.

Develop and disseminate oral briefings and written reports to ODNI leadership on intelligence issue activities and/or threats.

Develop and provide structured recommendations and innovative solutions for collection enterprise situational awareness on the status and employment of collection capabilities.

Participate in the preparation of reports and oversight material for collection enterprise situation awareness, to ensure substantive accuracy and consistency with applicable policies and statutes; edit and provide quality control review of written products.

Other duties, as assigned.

Conditions of employment

• Must be a U.S. Citizen residing in the United States
• Appointment is subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance based on an SBI with eligibility for sensitive compartmented information (SCI)
• Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration.
• A two-year trial period is required for all new permanent appointments to the ODNI.

Qualifications

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.

Position is primarily located in Liberty Crossing (LX) with ability to report or travel to alternate locations as needed to support mission requirements.

Ability to work rotating shifts of 12.5 hours in a fast-paced demanding environment.

Thorough Knowledge of defense, domestic, and national IC collection issues and capabilities.

Thorough knowledge of the ODNI and larger IC mission, operations, tradecraft, capabilities, and requirements.

Ability to work effectively with senior leadership to build consensus on contentious issues and to foster a collaborative work environment across the ODNI, IC and mission partners.

Thorough knowledge of intelligence production and analytical methodologies, including strategic gaming, employed in the strategic forecasting/futures domain.

Ability to communicate, both oral and in written, complex information in a clear, concise manner that is targeted to and meets the needs of diverse audiences with different perspectives and objectives.

Ability to make assessments of time-sensitive issues, adjust priorities, and change focus quickly as demands change.

Ability to understand substantive and administrative issues, exert influence to senior leadership, communicate cogently and effectively with people at all levels (both internal and external), brief management on reviews and findings, and organize and edit written reports of varying length and complexity.

Ability to work effectively both independently and in a team or collaborative environment, coupled with established and effective interpersonal, organizational, and problem-solving skills.

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. CURRENT SF-50: Federal Government employees must provide your official most recent SF-50 (i.e., dated within the last 52 weeks from the closing date of this vacancy announcement). An SF-50, Notification of Personnel Action, is used to verify current federal status, position, title, grade, and organization of record. If your SF-50(s) does not provide the information needed to make a final determination for qualification, you will be found ineligible for the position.

e. 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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