Strategy Management Officer

Full Job Description

The Policy & Capabilities Directorate ensures the IC is best postured for the threats and challenges of an uncertain future, through strategy, policy, and capabilities development.

Comprised of 7 organizations, PC oversees IC Human Capital; Acquisition, Procurement & Facilities; Intelligence Advance Research Projects Activity; Science & Technology Group; Requirements, Cost & Effectiveness; Policy & Strategy; and Data and Partnership Interoperability.

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. Extensive knowledge of IC and related U.S.

Government policies, directives, and standard operating procedures and demonstrated ability to develop a broad range of IC-wide policies, processes, and guidelines. Extensive knowledge of the U.S.

Government and its IC components, missions, and interrelationships and experience working either with or in a major U.S.

Government or IC organization; extensive understanding of the authorities, roles, and responsibilities of the organizations within the IC community.

Expert knowledge of IC organizations' missions in order to develop the national-level strategies and policies necessary to support U.S. national security and foreign policy interests.

Expert leadership experience and analytic expertise to support strategy and policy development, strategic planning and implementation efforts.

Superior ability to identify emerging trends and strategic issues and incorporate these in developing strategic plans for the organization.

Expert ability to evaluate strategic trends, strategy and implementation plans, results, and programmatic data, propose innovative solutions, and implement change.

Expert ability to conceptualize, organize, and draw inferences from incomplete data and present a compelling analysis of findings and issues; expert ability to identify, articulate, document, and mitigate knowledge gaps or alternatives approaches.

Superior communication (written and verbal) skills to effectively and efficiently communicate organizational vision, mission, and plans.

Superior ability to communicate clearly, both orally and in written reports, and to logically analyze, synthesize, and evaluate multiple sources of information for their inclusion in briefings and written documents.

Expert organizational and interpersonal skills to facilitate forums, manage competing priorities, and advocate new ideas/concepts/processes.

Superior ability to exercise independent judgment on time-sensitive issues and work collaboratively across the IC. Major Duties:

The Policy & Capabilities (PC) Directorate ensures the IC is best postured for the threats and challenges of an uncertain future, through strategy, policy, & capabilities development.

PC is comprised of the Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO) & Policy Strategy and Accountability (PSA) Office.

The Policy, Strategy & Accountability (PSA) Office is at the forefront of developing, implementing, & evaluating the National Intelligence Strategy, to restore our clandestine technological dominance while ensuring the protection of American civil liberties.

Key functions include strategy & prioritization management, the development of IC policy, IC strategy & guidance on science, technology, & data and net assessments & comparative analysis.

Lead, initiate, cultivate, and maintain productive working relationships with senior policymakers across the IC in order to coordinate strategy development activities and evolving requirements and promote the implementation of mission and enterprise objectives.

Lead, plan, and prepare briefings, reports, and presentations to organizational leadership, senior policymakers, and senior United States (U.S.) Government agencies USG officials in a manner that meets their specified requirements and provide expert analysis and recommendations that ensure IC strategic plans and programs align with strategic objectives.

Lead and oversee the planning, development, and evaluation of the related strategic planning documents in support of U.S.

Government agencies' national security and foreign policy interests and programs.

Lead and oversee the planning, development, and production of strategic guidance for the allocation of resources and investment planning and programming staff elements and activities.

Develop near/mid/long term strategy documents that provide guidance to needs/requirements and resource/investment planning and programming staff elements and activities.

Lead and oversee efforts to engage senior IC leadership on strategic priorities, intelligence needs and gaps, and cross IC interdependencies in order to link resources to strategy.

Lead, plan, and oversee efforts to create a culture of strategic planning across the IC by promoting best practices in strategy development, execution, and evaluation and communicating priorities, activities, and impact of the strategy to the IC to promote shared vision, values, and goals.

Partner with ODNI staff, Functional, Mission, and Enterprise Managers, and IC elements to promote implementation of mission and enterprise objectives.

Lead, plan, and oversee the advancement of outreach activities within and beyond the IC to ensure long term strategy development is informed by the latest and best efforts across the U.S.

Government, industry, and foreign partners. Provide analysis and recommendations to ensure that ODNI and IC element plans and programs align with objectives of the strategic plan.

Lead and oversee the planning and completion of assessments to evaluate IC progress towards mission and enterprise objectives and determine how well the IC is postured for future environments.

Conduct assessments to capture IC progress towards mission and enterprise objectives and assess how well the IC is postured for future environments.

Manage to ensure full range of understanding of customer requirements related to assigned missions and ensuring these requirements have been conveyed to and coordinated with the ODNI and the IC.

Direct the setting of collection and analysis priorities for national intelligence related to assigned missions.

Lead the IC to meet mission and enterprise objectives of the National Intelligence Strategy (NIS). Develop integrated collection strategies for respective mission areas.

Conduct analysis and provide recommendations on "cross-target tradeoffs".

Advise and engage senior IC leadership on strategic priorities, opportunities, gaps, and interdependencies to link resources to strategy; lead and oversee the communication of emerging strategic issues and trends, independently evaluate against IC strategic elements, and make recommendations for improvements.

Lead efforts to determine the state of collection against assigned missions, identifying gaps against those missions, developing integrated, cross-intelligence collection strategies to fill gaps, tasking collection activity against their assigned missions, consistent with overall guidance from the Deputy Director of National Intelligence/Intelligence Integration (DDNI/II), and evaluating collector responsiveness and success in filling collection gaps and meeting mission requirements.

Determine the state of analysis on assigned missions, identifying analytic gaps related to customer requirements, and tasking analysis related to those missions, ensuring that such tasking is consistent with the overall guidance from the Deputy Director of National Intelligence/Intelligence Integration (DDNI/II), and evaluating analysis responsiveness in filling analytic gaps.