Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Analysis (Multiple AORs)
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Posted: March 27, 2026 (0 days ago)
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Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Other Agencies and Independent Organizations
Location
Washington, District of Columbia
Salary
$143,913 - $187,093
per year
Type
Full-Time
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This role involves leading teams of intelligence experts to analyze global issues and advise top U.S.
leaders on national security matters, such as threats from countries like China or Russia, or topics like weapons proliferation.
It requires coordinating across government agencies to produce clear, timely insights that support policy decisions.
A good fit would be someone with deep experience in intelligence analysis, strong leadership skills, and a passion for serving the country through objective, high-stakes work.
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.
Mandatory Requirements: Expert capability to direct interagency, interdisciplinary IC teams against a range of analytical issues.
Superior interpersonal, organizational, and management skills to conceptualize and effectively lead complex analytic and policy-support projects.
Superior ability to produce analytic finished intelligence related to the subject matter issue, either as lead analyst or manager of analysts, and broad knowledge of the role of intelligence analysis within the IC.
Expert ability to work with and fairly represent the IC when analytic views differ among agencies.
Deep understanding of relevant allied and partner relationships and priorities, along with the ability to represent ODNI and the IC in various fora at all levels.
Extensive communication skills, including ability to exert influence with senior leadership and communicate effectively with people at all staff levels, both internal and external to the organization, including domestic and foreign partners, and to give oral presentations and to otherwise represent the ODNI, MI, and/or NIC in interagency meetings.
Superior oral and written communication skills, including the superior ability to clearly convey complex information and technical data to all levels of USG management and foreign partners.
Superior negotiation skills and the superior ability to build consensus, work effectively, and independently exert influence to major ODNI stakeholders. Must possess current TS/SCI with CI Polygraph.
Must include which AOR you're applying to in Cover Letter.
Other duties, as assigned AORs where we are looking for officers: Arctic & Homeland Iran Russia & Eurasia Counterintelligence Economic Issues Military Issues Global Issues & Warning Counternarcotics & Transnational Organized Crime Weapons of Mass Destruction & Proliferation China Major Duties:
The National Intelligence Council (NIC) consists of the senior most intelligence analysts and mission managers supporting the DNI in carrying out their responsibilities as the head of the IC and as the principal intelligence adviser to the President.
The NIC ensures customer outcomes by leading advances in analysis, collection, and resources which ensure the quality, timeliness, and utility of insights for the nation's decision-makers.
Additionally, the NIC drives improvements in expertise and tradecraft at all levels of the IC through specialization, integration, and collaboration.
Finally, the NIC drafts and implements the DNI's strategies, direction, and planning to deliver a more integrated IC reflecting the collective wisdom of our analytic and collection components to advance national security objectives.
Major Duties and Responsibilities In support of the Senior Director/National Intelligence Officer (SD/NIO) for AOR, for Analysis for AOR leads, authors, and oversees strategic and tactical intelligence analysis related to AOR.
On behalf of the SD/NIO for AOR, the DNIO-A drafts and coordinates finished intelligence products and leads strategic and tactical analysis for AOR; specifically: On behalf of the SD/NIO, orchestrate and direct Community-wide mid- and long-term strategic analysis on AOR issues.
Serve as a subject matter expert and advise the SD/NIO and other senior IC leaders on all analytical and substantive AOR issues in support of the DNI's role as the principal intelligence adviser to the President.
Oversee IC-wide production and coordination of National Intelligence Estimates and other IC papers (IC Assessments, IC Briefs, and Sense of the Community Memoranda) concerning AOR issues.
Develop and sustain a professional network with IC analysts and analytic managers to ensure timely and appropriate intelligence support to policy customers regarding AOR. Other duties, as assigned
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