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.

Ensure that intelligence supporting Continuity of Operations, Continuity of Government and Enduring Constitutional Government is available and shared with all appropriate IC personnel.

Collaborate with IC partners to ensure that resources are properly arrayed to address continuity requirements identified in existing policy.

Provide mission assurance for the IC 24-hour alert and warning support function, as well as the collection of information from a wide range of intelligence disciplines for accuracy, deception, relevance, and timeliness for the purpose of alert and warning to include providing updates on fast-breaking intelligence issues and developments to senior customers. Coordinates collection activities with IC as needed by the customer.

Coordinate with Intelligence Community (IC), watch officers and operation centers to ensure situational awareness of collection enterprise's activities, and to assure alignment with key national priorities

Evaluate the IC's efforts to build and sustain a continuity capability against existing requirements.

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.

Coordinate and support professional staff in the monitoring, sorting, prioritization, and analysis of intelligence and operational message traffic.

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

Develop, justify, 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.

As required, develop and support Watch Officers' training and professional development by identifying relevant courses consistent with the officer's skills, career path, and the team's mission requirements; monitor team training activities to ensure all required and requested training is completed to standard.

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 McLean, VA with ability to report or travel to alternate locations as needed to support mission requirements.

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

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

Demonstrated 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.

Extensive knowledge of intelligence analysis and production.

Extensive knowledge of relationships and interrelationships in the IC and collection capabilities, including crisis/operations center with 24-hour/7-day responsibilities.

Capable of working rotating shifts of 12.5 hours in a fast-paced demanding environment.

Extensive knowledge of defense, domestic, and national IC collection issues and capabilities.

Demonstrated ability to maintain and develop effective working relationships with counterparts and more senior staff in the IC for the purpose of sharing information.

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

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

Demonstrated interpersonal, organizational, and problem-solving skills, including demonstrated ability to work effectively both independently and in a team or collaborative environment, and to lead and mentor junior colleagues.

Desired Requirements:

Bachelor's Degree

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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