Mission AI Campaign Staff Officer

Full Job Description

The Policy & Capabilities (PC) Directorate ensures the IC is best postured for the threats and challenges of an uncertain future, through strategy, policy, and capabilities development.

PC is comprised of the Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO) and Policy Strategy and Accountability (PSA) Office.

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.

Minimum 3-5 years of experience in program coordination, project management, or staff officer roles.

Background in intelligence community operations, AI/ML initiatives, or technology integration preferred. Strong problem-solving aptitude with bias toward action.

Ability to navigate complex bureaucratic environments and build consensus Superior organizational and time management capabilities. Comfortable operating in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.

Understanding of AI/ML concepts and applications. Familiarity with IC legal and policy frameworks. Knowledge of data governance principles.

Excellent oral and written communication skills and demonstrated ability to collect, filter, and synthesize data, and produce clear, logical, and concise products with ability to translate between technical and non-technical audiences.

Excellent ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations.

Includes the ability to recommend decisions that produce high-quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks.

Record of success in building teams, leading change, and working effectively with others in a complex and evolving environment.

Ability to plan, manage and complete complex, multi-faceted projects involving government and contractor personnel.

Proven critical thinking skills and the ability to prepare finished assessments of interdependent campaign topics and issues and other written products with an emphasis on clear organization, and concise and logical presentation.

Experience working in or with the Intelligence Community and demonstrating a broad knowledge of the IC mission, objectives, policies, and current events within the IC.

Effective communication skills, both written and oral, and ability to produce clear, logical, and concise products Bachelor's degree. Desired Requirements: PMP certified. COTR Certified.

Experience with agile development methodologies, rapid prototyping or innovation initiatives. Background in intelligence operations, collection management, or analysis.

Familiarity with government-industry partnerships and acquisition processes.

Experience with privacy, civil liberties, or legal compliance in technology contexts Knowledge of emerging AI technologies and responsible AI principles Demonstrated experience supporting the development of, agentic, multi-modal systems.

Demonstrated experience building advanced compute systems. Major Duties:

The Policy & Capabilities (PC) Directorate ensures the IC is best postured for the threats and challenges of an uncertain future, through strategy, policy, and capabilities development.

PC is comprised of the Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO) and Policy Strategy and Accountability (PSA) Office.

ODNI's Policy and Capabilities (P&C) Directorate is squarely focused on winning the geostrategic competition to secure America's future.

P&C establishes the IC's strategic roadmap, develops requisite IC policies, and drives technology capabilities in alignment with national priorities.

Within P&C, the Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO) leads DNI-directed, results-oriented campaigns in key contested areas, including on Artificial Intelligence (AI), Advanced Compute, and Space & Sensors.

These campaigns run from 18-36 months and are focused on establishing multi-agency capabilities that will transform the intelligence community (IC).

The "Mission AI Campaign" is a bold, enterprise-wide effort to harness the power of AI to revolutionize the way IC executes its mission.

It will produce solutions that improve the IC's ability to deliver unprompted warning and improve the IC's ability to make sense of increasing amounts of data and information.

By leveraging innovative partnerships between government and industry, the campaign is committed to rapid prototyping, testing, and deployment of AI solutions.

The campaign will address technical, research, infrastructure, data and policy elements needed to build multi-modal, multi-agent solutions.

SCO is seeking two exceptional Mission AI Staff Officer to serve as critical liaisons and facilitators for the Mission AI Campaign.

Candidates will be dynamic, organized problem-solvers that will represent ODNI supporting multiple campaign use cases, serving as the primary interlocutor between operational teams and ODNI campaign and technical leadership.

Successful candidates will drive rapid solution enablement, break down barriers to integration, ensure adherence to campaign timelines, and facilitate cross-team sharing of functional solutions.

Use Case Coordination & Representation: Serve as ODNI's designated representative to multiple campaign uses cases and associated working groups.

Includes facilitating working group meetings, managing information flow, ensuring that AI efforts are aligned with campaign objectives, and addressing operational challenges.

Maintain situational awareness of working group progress, challenges, and emerging opportunities across assigned use case working groups.

Ensure working groups remain synchronized with overall campaign goals and timelines. Build and sustain productive relationships across organizational boundaries.

Program Management: Track working group progress against campaign milestones and deliverables, monitor risk factors and develop mitigation strategies.

Interlocutor & Facilitation: Act as the primary day-to-day liaison between working groups and ODNI campaign and technical leadership.

(U) Facilitate rapid resolution of legal, policy, technical, and data-related barriers to integration. Coordinate stakeholder engagement and decision-making across multiple organizational equities.

Solution Enablement & Integration: Identify and rapidly address obstacles preventing solution deployment and integration.

Work across IC agencies to ensure multi-agency collaboration and capability building. Drive toward measurable outcomes within aggressive 6-12 month timelines.

Knowledge Management & Cross-Pollination: Establish and maintain mechanisms for sharing functional solutions, best practices, documentation, artifacts and lessons learned across all working groups.

Identify synergies and opportunities for cross-team collaboration. (U) Document and disseminate innovative approaches that can be scaled across the IC.

Brief senior leadership on progress, challenges, and recommendations.

Participates in and leads administrative working groups to plan and develop internal strategies to address administrative issues and concerns.

Campaign Agility & Responsiveness: Monitor emerging needs and evolving priorities that may affect campaign focus.

Recommend adjustments to working group approaches based on operational feedback and changing threat landscape.

Ensure the campaign remains agile and responsive to threats to American technological dominance. Embody and foster a culture of excellence, respect, team pride, urgency of mission, and playing to win.