Legislative Liaison Officer

Full Job Description

The Office of Legislative Affairs (OLA) is the principal interface between the Office of Director of National Intelligence and the Congress.

OLA's responsibilities include, but are not limited to, facilitating the implementation of Section 502 of the National Security Act of 1947, which stipulates that each heads of the Intelligence Community agencies shall "keep the congressional intelligence committees fully and currently informed of all intelligence activities of the United States." 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: Extensive knowledge of the ODNI, IC, US Congress, congressional committees, and congressional liaison activities.

Knowledge of trends and developments in proposed and existing legislation with the potential to affect the ODNI and the IC relative to the intelligence mission; extensive knowledge of the views of individual members of Congress and the agendas of congressional committees.

Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities under strict deadlines while maintaining a high level of attention to detail and the demonstrated ability to work effectively with a team of senior officers in a high profile and demanding office.

Demonstrated ability to develop and implement ODNI's congressional strategy to improve the effectiveness and responsiveness of ODNI and the IC in communicating with and informing Congress of its activities, issues, plans, and programs.

Strong interpersonal, organizational, and problem-solving skills with demonstrated ability to interact with members of Congress and with senior IC and ODNI officials.

Extensive oral and written communication skills including demonstrated ability to tactfully convey complex information and ideas to members of Congress, congressional committees, and their staffs.

Major Duties:

Liaise between Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the United States (US) Congress regarding plans, policies, procedures, and the evaluation of current and future budgetary and policy needs of the ODNI and the Intelligence Community (IC).

Execute the development of ODNI testimony, briefings, and reports to Congress; identify, review, evaluate, and develop information to be presented; and anticipate congressional reactions to ODNI briefings and testimony.

Prepare response packages to include fully coordinated reports, accompanying transmittal letters, signed Staff Summary Form, supporting documents, and OLA's internal routing slip; Analyze all recurring CDAs against new congressional requirements, amendments, modifications, repeals, and replicate for following Fiscal Year, as deemed appropriate.

Provide insight, strategies, guidance, and quality control measures necessary to distill congressional direction into congressional action thereby recommending appropriate National Intelligence Programs (NIP), Agencies, or Departments to assume specific roles and responsibilities to address congressional concerns.

Cultivate, and maintain productive working relationships with congressional members, congressional committees, and their staffs and use these relationships to share information of interest, support a continuing dialog, and provide active insight into ongoing and planned ODNI activities.

Develop and continuously improve organizational procedures and processes, especially those that apply to responding to CDAs; manage competing priorities in response to internal and external demands and customers' requirements; and provide complete, accurate, and on-time responses to CDAs and other congressional inquiries.