SummaryLead proactive counterintelligence and security activities across the United States government, integrating the instruments of national power to detect, report, deter, disrupt, investigate, exploit, and defeat foreign intelligence threats.
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The Security Directorate (SD) is embedded with the National Counterintelligence & Security Center (NCSC). The SD develops and implements policies, guidance, and standards for personnel security, IC-wide and SCI security-relevant issues, and security clearance reform. SD also engages with government and industry partners to protect national security equities against foreign intelligence and security threats, and advance the U.S. Government's risk management environment to safeguard against adversarial and insider threats. NCSC/SD enables the DNI in carrying out his responsibilities as the Security Executive Agent (SecEA) across the Executive Branch and serves as the lead staff element executing NCSC's security mission in support of safeguarding national security programs across the Intelligence Community (IC). The Chief, Personnel Security (PerSec) Policy is responsible for leading the successful formulation, research, development, coordination, production, and evaluation of Executive-level security-policies, processes, and guidance in support of the DNI's SecEA responsibilities, NCSC mission, and related counterintelligence and security functions. The Chief is also responsible for the communicating, coordinating, and supporting implementation of these policies and guidance across the Executive Branch, including IC Stakeholders.
The selected candidate will:
Lead and oversee the formulation, development, production, and evaluation of a broad range of policies processes, and guidance on Security-related topics including mission enabling functions, and intelligence oversight disciplines and communicate these policies, processes, and guidelines to community stakeholders.
Lead, oversee, and perform the review and analysis of policies, processes, and guidelines that are contained in United States Government (U.S.) Government and Intelligence Community (IC) Directives, Policy Guidance, Standards, plans, and memoranda to ensure equities are captured and relevant concerns are resolved.
Lead, develop, and conduct substantive intelligence briefings, presentations, reports, and other materials to inform senior leadership and other major stakeholders on policy issues.
Lead, oversee, produce, and communicate trends and developments to organizational leadership, senior policymakers, and other senior U.S. Government officials.
Oversee, lead, foster, and promote communications that increase stakeholders', consumers', IC colleagues', and U.S. Government executive agents' overall understanding of U.S. Government and IC policies, processes, and guidance to promote mission effectiveness.
Lead, plan, and prepare communications and reports that address Executive Branch taskings and Congressional hearings; produce and coordinate executive-level briefings; represent organizational equities to the IC and other government agencies at meetings, conferences, and other public fora.
Lead and conduct substantive reviews of an extensive volume of written materials and prepare or contribute to written and verbal products including congressional testimony or responses to inquiries, senior-level issue papers or briefings, and letters and memoranda.
Lead, initiate, cultivate, and maintain productive working relationships with colleagues, experts, IC members, and policy committees, and use these relationships to share information of interest; attend internal and external training, seminars, or conferences on broad intelligence topics or more strategic subject areas.
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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.
QualificationsRequired Qualifications:
A minimum of eight years of expert-level experience leading and managing personnel security disciplines and deep knowledge and understanding of personnel security reform efforts.
Expert knowledge of IC and related U.S. Government policies, directives, and standard operating procedures and superior ability to develop a broad range of IC-wide policies, processes, and guidelines.
Expert knowledge of the U.S. Government and its IC components, missions, and interrelationships and experience working either with or in a major U.S. Government or IC organization; superior understanding of the authorities, roles, and responsibilities of the organizations within the IC community.
Expert knowledge of and superior experience in the research, formulation, development, and coordination of national level policies and directives, including expert knowledge of qualitative and/or quantitative methods for policy development and assessment.
Expert ability to apply knowledge of ODNI and IC organizations and relevant customer organizations or operations (e.g., intelligence disciplines, military, policymakers, and law enforcement) in order to effectively address their national intelligence requirements and provide appropriate policy responses to meet IC needs.
Superior interpersonal, organizational, and problem-solving skills, including superior ability to work independently and in a collaborative environment effectively with senior officials, management, teams, and colleagues.
Superior written and oral communication skills with expert ability to articulate complex intelligence issues to a wide audience, including the ability to write policy or analytic products for the senior U.S. Government officials and the IC workforce.
Expert ability to build and sustain professional networks and collaborate with both management and staff to continuously improve community relationships, products, and services.
Expert project leadership capabilities, including the ability to effectively coordinate business processes, deliver within time constraints, manage competing priorities, and adjust quickly to deal with time sensitive requirements.
Superior ability to formulate objectives and priorities and implements plans consistent with the long-term interests of the Intelligence Community. Capitalizes on opportunities and manages risk.
Desired Qualifications:
Expert knowledge of personnel security disciplines.
Expert knowledge of current National-level security-related topics such as Trusted Workforce 2.0, clearance process timelines, reciprocal recognition of security clearances and access approvals, and security business practices.
Expert experience leading government-wide initiatives and achieving improvements.
EducationLowest acceptable education level: Bachelors
Additional informationJOB INTERVIEW TRAVELCandidates from outside the Washington Metropolitan Area (WMA) may be selected for a telephone, teleconference, or in-person interview.
SALARY DETERMINATIONThe ODNI uses a rank-in-person system in which rank is attached to GS employees on the basis of individual qualifications, experience, and performance. Individuals whose current GS grade is equivalent to the grade of the advertised position will retain their current grade and step. Individuals who transfer to the ODNI from a non-GS pay scale will have base pay converted to the appropriate GS grade and step as determined by the Chief of Human Resource Management.
Current federal employees whose current GS grade is lower than the grade of the advertised ODNI position will have pay set at his or her current grade and step.
In some cases when a current federal civilian employee applies for an ODNI position that is a lower grade than his or her personal grade, the candidate's personal grade will be downgraded to the grade of the advertised ODNI position and pay will be set at the step that is closest to, and not less than, the employee's current annual base rate of pay, not to exceed the maximum step rate of the GS grade to which assigned.
RELOCATION EXPENSESFor new ODNI employees, reimbursement for relocation is discretionary based on availability of funds.
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