Deputy Chief

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.

Expert organizational and interpersonal skills to facilitate diverse forums, manage competing priorities, and advocate new ideas/concepts/processes .

Expert leadership experience and analytic expertise to support strategy and policy development, strategic planning and implementation efforts.

Superior ability to communicate clearly, both orally and in written reports, and to logically analyze, synthesize, and evaluate multiple sources of information for their inclusion in briefings and written documents.

Bachelors degree in subject matter area, or closely related discipline.

Desired Requirements: 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.

Expert knowledge of IC organizations and IC mission posture, structures, capabilities, processes, resources, and policy development. Extensive knowledge of and networks with ODNI offices.

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. Major Duties:

Partner with the Group Chief to oversee and enable the team day to day activities across a diverse and evolving range of issue in support of NIC and DMI goals.

Foster a diverse, collaborative, equitable, inclusive, and accessible organizational culture and role model behaviors that will enable creative solutions across , DMI, and with others in ODNI.

Supervise and enable a diverse professional staff, assess performance, oversee staff goal setting, provide feedback on personal and professional development, and award exceptional performance.

Manage the budget, to include managing requirements for evolving contract needs and tracking / forecasting future resource needs.

Lead and oversee the planning and completion of assessments to evaluate IC progress towards mission and enterprise objectives and determine how well the IC is postured for future environments.

Lead, plan, and prepare briefings, reports, and presentations to organizational leadership, senior policymakers, and senior United States (U.S.) Government agencies USG officials in a manner that meets their specified requirements and provide expert analysis and recommendations that ensure IC strategic plans and programs align with strategic objectives.

Foster and champion the SDAG and NIC brands, further NIC integration and standardization, tackle complex challenges, and enable the development of new capabilities (e.g. data savviness).

Create and sustain effective partnerships across regional, functional, and domain NIC teams, as well as with other MI Components, ODNI Directorates, and with key IC elements.

Cooperatively support and enhance the Planning, Programming, Budget, and Evaluation (IPPBE) process with key ODNI counterparts, including Policy and Strategy, Requirements Cost and Effectiveness (RCE) and the IC Chief Financial Officer (IC CFO).

Strengthen the development and enhancement of the Intelligence Planning Guidance (IPG), to include integrations across diverse mission and enterprise stakeholders, enhancements in a repeatable methodology, and ensuring completion to meet IPPBE timelines.

Partner with relevant Evaluation organizations to support the development of innovative, data-driven evaluation processes and evidentiary decision-making.

Manage a holistic process for the production and horizontal integration of 20 NIC-led Unifying Intelligence Strategies (UISs) and annual State of Mission (SoM) reports to ensure consistent approaches.