Mission Assurance Officer

Full Job Description

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) Chief Operating Officer (COO) administers the Director of National Intelligence (DNI's) vision and direction to the ODNI enterprise.

This includes synchronizing policy, plans, procedures, and cross-functional issues.

The COO oversees all ODNI business operations, including such areas as human resources, internal policies, finance and budget, information technology, security, facilities, and information management.

Mandatory Requirements: Position is primarily located in McLean, VA with ability to report or travel to alternate locations as needed to support mission requirements.

Extensive knowledge of the ODNI and larger IC mission, operations, tradecraft, capabilities, and requirements.

Extensive knowledge of intelligence production and analytical methodologies, including strategic gaming, employed in the strategic forecasting/futures domain.

Demonstrated ability to work effectively with senior leadership to build consensus on contentious issues and to foster a collaborative work environment across the ODNI, IC and mission partners.

Extensive knowledge of intelligence analysis and production.

Extensive knowledge of relationships and interrelationships in the IC and collection capabilities, including crisis/operations center with 24-hour/7-day responsibilities.

Ability to work rotating shifts of 12.5 hours in a fast-paced demanding environment. Extensive knowledge of defense, domestic, and national IC collection issues and capabilities.

Demonstrated ability to maintain and develop effective working relationships with counterparts and more senior staff in the IC for the purpose of sharing information.

Demonstrated ability to make assessments of time-sensitive issues, adjust priorities, and change focus quickly as demands change.

Demonstrated ability to communicate, both oral and in written, complex information in a clear, concise manner that is targeted to and meets the needs of all audiences with different perspectives and objectives.

Demonstrated interpersonal, organizational, and problem-solving skills, including demonstrated ability to work effectively both independently and in a team or collaborative environment, and to lead and mentor junior colleagues.

Desired Requirement: Bachelor's Degree, Major Duties:

Ensure that intelligence supporting Continuity of Operations, Continuity of Government and Enduring Constitutional Government is available and shared with all appropriate IC personnel.

Collaborate with IC partners to ensure that resources are properly arrayed to address continuity requirements identified in existing policy.

Provide mission assurance for the IC 24-hour alert and warning support function, as well as the collection of information from a wide range of intelligence disciplines for accuracy, deception, relevance, and timeliness for the purpose of alert and warning to include providing updates on fast-breaking intelligence issues and developments to senior customers.

Coordinates collection activities with IC as needed by the customer.

Coordinate with Intelligence Community (IC), watch officers and operation centers to ensure situational awareness of collection enterprise's activities, and to assure alignment with key national priorities Evaluate the IC's efforts to build and sustain a continuity capability against existing requirements.

Develop and implement strategies to augment and extend strategic collection capabilities, and coordinate with national, defense, and domestic authorities to ensure alignment with key intelligence priorities.

Coordinate and support professional staff in the monitoring, sorting, prioritization, and analysis of intelligence and operational message traffic.

Develop and deliver oral briefings and written reports to ODNI leadership on intelligence issue activities and/or threats.

Develop, justify, and provide structured recommendations and innovative solutions for collection enterprise situational awareness on the status and employment of collection capabilities.

Participate in the preparation of reports and oversight material for collection enterprise situation awareness, to ensure substantive accuracy and consistency with applicable policies and statutes; edit and provide quality control review of written products.

As required, develop and support Watch Officers' training and professional development by identifying relevant courses consistent with the officer's skills, career path, and the team's mission requirements; monitor team training activities to ensure all required and requested training is completed to standard.

Other duties, as assigned.