Staff Officer

Full Job Description

The Office of Legislative Affairs (OLA) serves as the principal interface between the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the United States Congress.

OLA ensures timely, accurate, and coordinated congressional engagement in accordance with Section 502 of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C.

§ 3092), which requires that the congressional intelligence committees be kept fully and currently informed of U.S. intelligence activities.

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: Extensive knowledge of the IC mission, organization, roles, and responsibilities.

Demonstrated ability of exemplary communication skills, both written and oral, and demonstrated ability to produce clear, logical, and concise products.

Demonstrated analytical and critical thinking skills, including the demonstrated ability to think strategically and identify needs, requirements, and develop recommendations.

Demonstrated ability to work independently and collaboratively as a team member, and proactively manage competing priorities under strict deadlines.

Demonstrated ability of exemplary interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to build and sustain professional networks across organizational boundaries to exert influence. Major Duties:

• Major Duties and Responsibilities: Oversees, administers, coordinates, integrates, and evaluates the efforts of administrative operational areas to identify specific requirements and to plan and schedule for actions needed to meet those requirements; Conducts a wide range of complex administrative functions to support senior leadership and management officials within the ODNI; Advises senior leadership on administrative matters relating to the accomplishment, coordination, integration, and synchronization of a variety of substantive staff actions, events, and other related assignments; Provides information on continuing, current, and proposed actions, programs, and plans; Integrates organizational actions, events, and activities to facilitate effective management of subordinate elements; Initiates and ensures effective communication, coordination and follow-up actions with subordinate elements; Provides technical advice to the staff on administrative issues at all levels of the ODNI; Ensures internal procedures are current and do not conflict with other established regulations; Keeps abreast of new policies, procedures, regulations, directives and develops, recommends and issues adequate instructions to subordinate elements for proper implementation; Coordinates, monitors, and evaluates activities concerning administrative issues; Participates in and leads administrative working groups to plan and develop internal strategies to address administrative issues and concerns Interacts and collaborates with a variety of personnel to make decisions on administrative issues; Initiates and ensures effective communication, coordination and follow-up actions with subordinate elements; Receives and reviews all incoming correspondence documents and taskings directed to the office; Orders and/or approves purchase of required material or services and maintains positive control of accountable items; Maintains calendars and schedules; Receives and screens routine telephone calls and greets visitors; Makes travel arrangements, such as scheduling transportation, making hotel reservations, and preparing travel orders and vouchers based on general travel intentions, known preferences of the traveler, and in accordance with appropriate travel regulations; Serves as a liaison between the organization executive manager and their subordinate managers to coordinate special projects and tasks; Relays directions and tasking, and coordinates replies and responses; Collaborates with action officers to maintain status, to assure timely completion of tasks, and to identify any follow up actions; Conducts research and analysis of basic administrative issues and provides information and material to support recommendations needed for decision-making and passes on to senior management; Prepares situation reports to summarize conclusions for management review; Coordinates correspondence, memos, information papers, and desk notes as needed to support the division or office; and provides quality control for all materials; Analyzes customer requirements and future needs to determine solutions based on detailed understanding of organizational processes and customer needs, routes customer to the appropriate point of contact; Attends senior level meetings to provide status reports concerning budget needs for successful facilities maintenance and administration; May request supplies, equipment, and services for the office; maintains and monitors expenditures for all supplies, equipment, and impress funds; May support admissions and/or registrar requirements; Performs other duties, as assigned.