Integration Team Lead

Office of the Director of National Intelligence•Bethesda, MD

About The Position

The National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) leads the U.S. Counterintelligence and Security communities, counters threats from adversarial foreign intelligence, and strengthens national security. The NCSC serves as the head of U.S. counterintelligence and integrates the instruments of national power to counter foreign intelligence threats, supporting counterintelligence and security efforts across the U.S. interagency and public sector. The Integration Team Lead leads and manages interagency partners and personnel from across the Intelligence Community (IC) and U.S. Government (USG), integrating their authorities. The role oversees collaboration-related legal and policy expertise, assessments of best practices and lessons learned, governance structures, and efforts to achieve operational capability with constrained resources. The position also develops working relationships with senior policymakers, coordinates strategy development and evolving requirements, and prepares briefings, reports, and presentations with expert analysis and recommendations to help align IC plans and programs with strategic objectives.

Requirements

Must be a U.S. citizen residing in the United States.
Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance based on a single-scope background investigation (SBI), with eligibility for sensitive compartmented information (SCI).
Appointment is subject to a suitability or fitness determination based on a completed background investigation.
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 new permanent appointments to the ODNI.
Expert knowledge of counterintelligence missions, authorities, and organizations.
Expert knowledge of IC organizations, mission posture, structures, capabilities, processes, and policy development.
Superior ability to anticipate issues relevant to the IC and USG and recommend or implement needed actions.
Superior leadership skills and ability to lead interagency working groups and build coalitions with IC elements to achieve common goals.
Superior analytical and critical-thinking skills, including strategic thinking, identifying needs and requirements, developing recommendations, and evaluating 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 ability to work effectively independently and in team or collaborative environments.
Superior oral and written communication skills, including drafting and editing reports of varying length and complexity and communicating effectively with audiences of varying seniority and expertise.
Bachelor's degree is the lowest acceptable education level.
Applicants must meet the stated eligibility conditions: the position is open to the public and current federal employees at GS-15 and one level below; current federal employees at GS-13 and below are not eligible. Current federal employees must submit a recent SF-50 dated within 52 weeks of the vacancy closing date.

Responsibilities

Lead and manage a team of interagency partners, including members of the IC, DoW, NT-50s, and USG.
Manage personnel from across the IC and USG, integrating their authorities.
Oversee, build, and apply expertise on legal and policy issues related to collaboration.
Lead assessments that leverage best practices and lessons learned.
Manage, oversee, guide, and monitor governance structures to ensure decisions are made through appropriate forums and disputes are resolved expeditiously.
Oversee efforts to ensure systems can achieve operational capability with constrained resources.
Cultivate and maintain productive working relationships with senior policymakers across the IC to coordinate strategy development, evolving requirements, and implementation of mission and enterprise objectives.
Plan and prepare briefings, reports, and presentations for organizational leadership, senior policymakers, and senior USG officials.
Provide expert analysis and recommendations to align IC strategic plans and programs with strategic objectives.
Perform other duties as assigned.