Chief National Technical Assistance Group

Full Job Description

Lead 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.

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.

Expert knowledge of IC organizations; IC mission posture, structures, capabilities, processes, and policy development.

Superior ability to anticipate issues relevant to the IC and United States Government and recommend/implement needed actions.

Superior leadership skills and ability to lead interagency working groups, build coalitions with IC elements to achieve common goals.

Superior analytical and critical thinking skills, including the superior ability to think strategically, identify needs and requirements, develop recommendations, and evaluate 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 superior ability to work effectively in both independent and in a team or collaborative environment.

Superior oral and written communication skills, including superior ability to draft and edit written reports of varying length and complexity, and to communicate effectively with audiences of varying seniority and expertise.

Major Duties:

Serve as Group Chief within NCSC/CD, and work in partnership with the Assistant Director and the Deputy Assistant Director of the Counterintelligence Directorate (CD) to lead and advance the U.S.

Government's mission of identifying, assessing, prioritizing, and countering foreign intelligence threats to the United States.

Lead and provide technical liaison support, IC-wide policy guidance, and investigative support related to polygraphs, technical surveillance countermeasures, counterintelligence investigations, counterintelligence cyber coordination, and deconfliction and resource support for Strike Team initiatives.

Lead, manage, and direct a professional staff in successfully defining and managing complex programs and projects that may include ill-defined requirements, ambiguity, parallel tasks, multiple dependencies, high risks, and multiple interfaces.

Ensure timelines, costs, deliverables, and outcomes are achieved according to approved plans.

Perform personnel management responsibilities with a focus on building a high-performance workforce; promote team building and a collaborative work environment; ensure goals and performance objectives are understood; assess performance and provide timely feedback, recognition, remediation, and guidance regarding personal and professional development opportunities.

Recognize, value, build, and leverage collaborative relationships within the IC, across the U.S.

Government, and with the private sector as appropriate and use these relationships to advance the counterintelligence mission; develop and lead collaborative initiatives to focus national attention on high priority foreign intelligence threats and counterintelligence mission needs.

Develop and continually expand personal knowledge in counterintelligence to achieve a government-wide reputation as a force for integration.

Lead and support briefings to senior IC officials and other major stakeholders collaboration progress, issues and challenges.