Operations Officer

Full Job Description

The National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) leads the nation's effort to protect the United States from terrorism by integrating, analyzing and sharing information to drive whole-of-government action and achieve our national CT objectives.

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.

Required Qualifications: Thorough knowledge of terrorist identities, analysis, compilation, and dissemination, coupled with extensive knowledge of associated databases and identity targeting processes.

Thorough knowledge of traditional and nontraditional information resources, particularly current or projected collection systems and data sources for analysis; basic knowledge of selected analytic tools (link analysis, data integration, geographic information systems).

Ability to remain open-minded and change opinions on the basis of new information and requirements; basic ability to support group decisions, accept and incorporate feedback, and solicit opinions from coworkers.

Thorough knowledge of IC organizations, policies, and procedures, and their requirements with regard to terrorist identities intelligence research and analysis.

Thorough knowledge of the mission, charter, roles, and responsibilities of the ODNI, IC, and USG agencies, and how these organizations can effectively integrate their terrorist identities analysis capabilities.

Ability to communicate clearly, both orally and in writing.

Ability to research and logically analyze, synthesize, and judge information, as well as the ability to review and incorporate multiple sources of information in performing assignments.

Interpersonal, organizational, and problem-solving skills, including an ability to work effectively within an interagency environment on complex issues requiring negotiation and consensus-building.

Ability to work under pressure with strict deadlines while maintaining a high level of attention to detail. Major Duties:

Perform in-depth all-source research and analysis for specifically defined targets; conduct targeted analysis of known and unknown terrorist personalities, groups and networks in order to reveal identity attributes for future analytical and watchlisting purposes.

Present findings as appropriate via written products, graphic presentations or oral briefings.

Develop an understanding of and utilize a variety of methodological tools and approaches to gain a comprehensive understanding of known or suspected terrorists (KSTs), including as appropriate, social networking and other "new" media; incorporate policies, strategies, tactics, techniques, procedures and mechanisms to reveal the true identity of individuals, personas, or groups by analyzing and exploiting data related to sets of specific identity attributes to build the most comprehensive terrorist identity record available to the USG.

Resolve target identities through the integration of biographic, biometric, contextual and behavioral information.

Identify, gather, and extract Identity Intelligence information and perform relational tracing to determine relationships, patterns, trends, indicators and warnings that address intelligence gaps.

Communicate regularly with internal and external peers and counterparts to collaborate on intelligence issues and conduct initial assessments of the types of information and circumstances that may create opportunities to pursue joint-targeting activities.

Validate data within terrorist identity records using a variety of traditional and non-traditional intelligence sources.

Identify and correct conflicting and inaccurate data within terrorist identity records, using a variety of traditional and non-traditional intelligence sources.

Establish and maintain effective working relationships with counterparts in the CT, Intelligence, and Law Enforcement Communities to support NCTC mission requirements and analytic undertakings and to promote intelligence integration.

Perform independent, targeted research and analysis to identify potential KSTs appropriate for nomination and/or entry into Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE) and US Government watchlisting databases.

Identify CT intelligence gaps pertaining to terrorist identities and prepare requirements for and implement methodologies to collect required information to fill the gaps.