National Counterintelligence Officer Adversarial Influence

Full Job Description

Lead proactive counterintelligence and security activities across the United States government, integrating the instruments of national power to detect, report, deter, disrupt, investigate, exploit, and defeat foreign intelligence threats.

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.

Demonstrated leadership skills and ability to lead interagency working groups and build coalitions with IC elements to achieve common goals.

Expert knowledge of and experience in the intelligence cycle.

Expert written, oral communication, and critical thinking skills, as demonstrated by the ability to think strategically, identify needs and requirements, develop recommendations, and evaluate outcomes against goals and objectives.

Superior interpersonal, organizational, and problem-solving skills; ability to set and execute a vision for the IC; build and leverage professional networks; and ability to work effectively both independently and in a team/collaborative environment.

Expert knowledge of IC organizations; IC mission posture, structures, capabilities, processes, and policy development.

Superior ability to anticipate issues relevant to the IC and United States Government and recommend/implement needed actions. Major Duties:

Lead national counterintelligence campaigns and initiatives for the Adversarial Influence portfolio, to include: leading analysis, collection, and counterintelligence initiatives to identify and counter foreign intelligence threats; leading the IC in assessing progress against counterintelligence priorities and gaps; leading the development of solutions to address counterintelligence capability needs; and integrating counterintelligence into national decision making.

Lead, initiate, cultivate, and maintain productive working relationships with colleagues, experts, IC members, policy committees, and law enforcement agencies as appropriate and use these relationships to share information of interest, coordinate joint actions, and drive counterintelligence initiatives related to the Adversarial Influence portfolio.

Recognize, value, build, and leverage diverse collaborative networks within the ODNI and across the IC and routinely engage IC counterparts to drive mission integration.

Develop and continually expand personal knowledge in counterintelligence and achieve a government-wide reputation as a force for integration.

Oversee ranking and prioritizing of competing requirements for additional capabilities through a transparent and accountable methodology.

Support briefings to senior IC officials and other major stakeholders collaboration progress, issues and challenges.