OESET Chief of Staff

Full Job Description

ODNI established the Office of Economic Security and Emerging Technologies (OESET) in response to increasing demand for improved intelligence on the application of disruptive technologies and related global supply chains.

Improved IC posture in this area is critical to enabling the whole-of-government response that maintains United States' economic and technological competitive advantage and ensures U.S.

access to goods and services central to its national security. 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: Superior strategic and tactical planning, critical thinking, and analytical skills in order to propose innovative solutions and implement change with resourcefulness and creativity.

Superior organizational, managerial, and leadership skills and ability to manage competing priorities while maintaining a high level of attention to detail; superior ability to work effectively with ODNI leaders in a highly active, fast-paced, and demanding organization.

Superior ability to work effectively with teams, build and sustain professional relationships, exert influence effectively at all levels across the IC.

Desired Requirements: Expert knowledge and experience with resource planning, budget forecasting, and execution.

Extensive knowledge of economic security and emerging technology mission area daily operational topics, capabilities, and strategic intent, as well as project management concepts and principles.

Superior ability to plan, organize, schedule, and prioritize the organizational staff work load. A bachelor's degree. Major Duties:

Major Duties and Responsibilities: Oversee, manage, and lead programmatic initiatives and the daily operations of the organization and collaborate with office leadership to ensure strategic alignment with the mission, goals, and objectives of the DNI.

Lead, manage, and oversee personnel, training, budget, contract administration policies and procedures, as well as information technology, facilities, equipment, and logistics to foster successful achievement of OESET's mission.

Support budget planning and execution, strategic resource planning, and budget decisions and serve as an OESET approving official.

Oversee and facilitate human resources planning and personnel actions for OESET.

Manage and coordinate tasking responses, work activities, assignments, and projects internal to the organization, within the ODNI, OESET, and across the IC, ensuring the effective completion of initiatives and requirements.

Oversee and manage organizational action processing, standard operating procedures and processes, file maintenance and record-keeping, and morale, welfare, and recreation activities within OESET.

Facilitate corporate communications ensuring workforce awareness of IC, ODNI, and organizational programs, initiatives, requirements, training, and other opportunities; support two-way communications between workforce and leadership.

Manage and execute internal business management processes for OESET; ensure management and staff are kept abreast of emerging developments.

Lead a professional staff, assess performance, collaborate and oversee goal setting, and provide feedback on personal and professional development.

Work in close partnership with the OESET Front Office to enable leadership initiatives and serve as a constructive member of the OESET leadership team.