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Posted: March 31, 2026 (2 days ago)

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Chief CAPCO Access Management Team

Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Other Agencies and Independent Organizations

Fresh

Location

Washington, District of Columbia

Salary

$169,279 - $197,200

per year

Closes

April 15, 2026

SES Pay Grade

Base salary range: $147,649 - $221,900

Typical requirements: Executive-level leadership experience. Senior executive qualifications required.

Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).

Job Description

Summary

This leadership role involves guiding a team that manages access to sensitive intelligence information across U.S.

government agencies, ensuring secure and efficient sharing while protecting national security.

The job focuses on solving access challenges, building partnerships, and improving how intelligence is exchanged between collectors, analysts, and users.

It's ideal for someone with deep experience in intelligence operations, strong leadership skills, and a passion for upholding government principles like efficiency and constitutional values.

Key Requirements

  • Prior experience in access management, including handling compartmented data in analysis, operations, or policy support
  • Expert knowledge of ODNI, Intelligence Community (IC), and U.S. Government missions, roles, and cooperation in information sharing and safeguarding
  • Superior ability to identify emerging information sharing trends and assess their impact on government programs
  • Extensive experience supporting intelligence information exchange to enhance national and homeland security
  • Superior skills in developing professional relationships and earning trust across ODNI, IC, and U.S. Government
  • Proven ability to balance competing priorities, manage transitions, and adapt to evolving mission needs
  • Current TS/SCI clearance with CI Polygraph

Full Job Description

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) Directorate for Mission Integration (MI) creates a consistent and holistic view of intelligence from collection to analysis and serves as the Director of National Intelligence's (DNI) principal advisor on all aspects of intelligence.

MI integrates mission capabilities, informs enterprise resource and policy decisions, and ensures the delivery of timely, objective, accurate, and relevant intelligence.

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]).

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. 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. 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.

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.

Prior experience working with access management, including working compartmented data in analysis, operational, or policy support mission areas.

Expert knowledge of the mission, charter, roles, and responsibilities of the ODNI, IC, and U.S.

Government agencies, and how these organizations can effectively cooperate in implementing information sharing and safeguarding plans and programs.

Superior ability to identify emerging information sharing trends and issues, as well as the ability to assess the influence of these trends and issues on the effectiveness of U.S. Government programs.

Extensive experience supporting the exchange of intelligence information between collectors, analysts, and end users in order to improve national and homeland security.

Superior ability in developing effective professional relationships with peers and colleagues in ODNI, the IC, and U.S. Government, and to earn their confidence and trust.

Superior ability to balance responsibilities among competing priorities; including the ability to manage transitions effectively from task to task, and proven adaptability to evolving mission needs.

Must possess current TS/SCI with CI Polygraph Major Duties:

Lead the Access Management Team of the Controlled Access Programs Central Office (CAPCO), consisting of staff, contractors, and detailees, under the supervision of the CAPCO Director and Deputy Director.

Lead the planning, identification, and development of effective solutions to intelligence access issues experienced by departments throughout the IC and U.S. Government.

Provide oversight and leadership to ensure the maximum exchange of information throughout the IC and to non-traditional customers by balancing the responsibility-to-provide principle with the need-to-know standard as defined by existing policies, laws, and regulations.

Develop and maintain relationships with data stewards and control officers across the IC and ODNI regarding the management of CAP access for intelligence analysis, operations, and planning.

Provide strategic oversight and guidance on improvements to the technical aspects of IC access management processes.

Serve as an expert on compartmented programs that support IC analytic production, including reviewing and facilitating access to compartmented reporting from across the Intelligence Community, including SSRP, Gamma sub compartment, BUR, and GEOCAP.

Coordinate with team members to ensure time-sensitive support of senior ODNI customers for meetings, briefings, and memos.

Collaborate with team to solve access challenges for sensitive and complex issues spanning the ODNI's mission.

Conduct briefings for and ensure maintenance of appropriate records on ODNI personnel for CAPs.

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Posted on USAJOBS: 3/31/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 4/2/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: 26-12925921-DNI/MI/CAPCO