Clarification from the agency

All qualified applicants

The DIRECTOR, GEOSPATIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS ACQUISITION DIRECTORATE (IE-1101-00):

• Directs the formulation and execution of long-range, strategic plans for the entire GEOINT Directorate. Ensures key national and NRO goals, priorities, and values are part of the planning process. Forecasts for technology advancements and integrates these advances into strategic plans. Directs reviews and adjustments of strategic plans as needed based on changes in national goals, technology, and resource constraints. Communicates challenging goals, translates vision into specific initiatives, and effectively delegates, coordinates and motivates individuals to achieve results.
• Directs the development and promulgation of policies and programs to achieve long-range strategic plans. Establishes the organizational strategic direction and day-to-day operations of the Directorate; manages the integration and execution of Directorate activities and resources across GEOINT; and provides management, guidance, and day-to-day oversight of GEOINT personnel in achieving the mission and goals of the NRO Strategic Framework.
• Evaluates GEOINT's management control processes and objectives for alignment with the NRO Strategic Framework. Manages GEOINT acquisitions to satisfy current and future community-validated requirements. Provides accurate, complete and timely reporting to DNRO/PDDNRO.
• Ensures the development and execution of the GEOINT portion of the NRO budget; prepares thorough estimates of financial and personnel resources required to execute GEOINT programs; ensures lifecycle costs are appropriately considered.
• Determines long-term acquisition strategies, coordinates DNRO/PDDNRO approval of the strategies, postures the organization to support those strategies, and oversees the implementation to ensure necessary integration, cohesiveness, and optimal use of resources are executed.
• Allocates resources required to execute the mission throughout the Directorate (i.e.; civilian, military personnel, Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDC), and contract Advisory and Assistance Services (CAAS)/Systems Engineering Technical Analysis (SETA) personnel). Ensures subordinate staff and agencies have sufficient funds to conduct acquisition activities.
• Interfaces directly with Congressional members and staff, Office of Management and Budget, ODNI, and DOD principals, mission partners, user communities, and industry to develop, communicate, and defend end-to-end solutions or technology options that maximize the contribution of the NRO to near-term GEOINT problems and optimize strategies that enable the availability and unfettered sharing multi-INT data to meet user requirement for actionable integrated information per prescribed timelines.
• Promotes continuous improvement by identifying deficiencies, and redundancies in directorate processes, facilitates agreement and acceptance of corrective action, communicates procedural changes, and monitors the effectiveness of implementation. Establishes and communicates programmatic and mission execution authorities, personnel management responsibilities, and
  expectations for general conduct to the GEOINT Senior Leadership Team (SLT). Provide guidance and direction to GEOINT SLT members and adjudicates between offices on business management issues.
• Serves as a Source Selection Authority unless delegated for all GEOINT contractual activities. Serves as chair of applicable Award Fee Boards and executes Fee Determining Official authorities.
• Responsible for the development of military and civilian personnel within assigned career fields to provide the skills, experience, and training needed for the future. Ensures personnel management initiatives are consistent with strategic plans. Exercises leadership and management in acquiring a diverse work force and enforces equal opportunity and treatment. Exercises final authority for the spectrum of personnel actions recommended by subordinate organization leadership.
• Supports and reviews, in coordination with the Chief of Staff, GEOINT's hiring, training, development, retention, and succession planning activities to maintain continuity of mission operations and objectives during personnel transitions. Delegates personnel management responsibility to subordinate organization chiefs consistent with NRO management philosophy.

Conditions of employment

• Must be a U.S Citizen.
• Male born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• Resume and supporting documents received by 11:59 PM EST May 5, 2023 will be considered.
• This is a Drug Testing designated position.
• Position is a DCIPS Position in the Excepted Service under U.S.C 1601.
• Work Schedule: Full Time
• Overtime: DISES are not eligible for overtime
• Tour of Duty: Max- Flex
• Permanent Change of Station (PCS): May be Authorized
• Fair Labor Standard Act (FLSA): Exempt
• Financial Disclosure: OGE-278e, Executive Personnel Financial Disclosure, is required.
• Telework Eligibility: This position is Telework eligible but is not a full time telework position. The incumbent will be required to report to the office on a routine basis.
• This position is designated Special Sensitive, the incumbent must obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI Security Clearance.
• The incumbent may be subject to a one-year trial period in the Defense intelligence Senior Executive Service, unless required trial period has been served.
• The incumbent may be subject to a two-year DCIPS trial period, unless required trial period has been served.
• This position may require occasional Temporary Duty Travel (TDY) and/or local Travel.
• This position is designated as Mission Essential.
• COVID19: See additional information.

Qualifications

EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS (ECQs): Applicants must submit written statements (narrative format) describing accomplishments that would satisfy the ECQs. You must address each ECQ separately. You are required to respond to all five ECQs. If you fail to do so, you will be rated as "ineligible". Additional information on the ECQs is available at www.opm.gov/ses/recruitment/ecq.asp. Each narrative statement should be clear, concise, and emphasize your level of responsibilities, the scope and complexity of programs managed, and results of your actions. Please limit your written statements to no more than 2 pages per ECQ not to exceed a total of 10 pages.

ECQ 1 - LEADING CHANGE: This core qualification involves the ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment.
ECQ 2 - LEADING PEOPLE: This core qualification involves the ability to lead people toward meeting the organization's vision, mission, and goals.
Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts.
ECQ 3 - RESULTS DRIVEN: This core qualification involves the ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to make decisions that produce high-quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks.
ECQ 4 - BUSINESS ACUMEN: This core qualification involves the ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically.
ECQ 5 - BUILDING COALITIONS: This core qualification involves the ability to build coalitions internally and with other federal agencies, State and local governments, nonprofit and private sector organizations, foreign governments, or international organizations to achieve common goals.

To meet the minimum qualification requirements for this position, you must show in your resume that you possess the (three) Intelligence Community (IC) Senior Officer Core Qualification (SOCQ), (three) Technical Qualifications (TQs) and other qualifications, if applicable, listed below.

Intelligence Community (IC) Senior Officer Core Qualification (SOCQ) - Leading the Intelligence Enterprise: Required for all senior executive positions effective 1 October 2010. This SOCQ involves the ability to integrate resources, information, interests, and activities effectively in support of the IC's mission and to lead and leverage cross organizational collaborative networks to achieve significant mission results. Inherent to this Standard is a deep understanding of the Intelligence enterprise (or other comparable interagency or multi-organizational environment)
and a shared commitment to the IC's core values. (Include a separate attachment one page maximum per competency).

IC Senior Officers have a responsibility to share information and knowledge to achieve results, in that regard are expected to build effective networks and alliances; actively engage these peers and stakeholders; involve them in key decision; and effectively leverage these networks to achieve significant results. Senior officers are expected to create an environment that promotes employee engagement, collaboration, integration, information and knowledge sharing, and the candid, open exchange of diverse points of view. Candidates assessed against this competency must:

1. Collaboration and Integration: Build, leverage, and lead collaborative networks with key peers and stakeholders across the IC and/or other government/private-sector organizations, or professional/technical disciplines to achieve significant joint/multi-agency mission outcomes.Integrate joint/multi-agency activities effectively exercising collaborative plans that realize mutual IC, joint, or multi-organizational goals.

2. Enterprise Focus: IC Senior officers are expected to demonstrate a deep understanding of how the missions, structures, leaders, and cultures of the various IC components interact and connect; synthesize resources, information and other inputs to effectively integrate and align component, IC, and the United States Government interests and activities to achieve IC-wide, national, and international priorities. Senior officers are expected to encourage and support Joint Duty assignments and developmental experiences that develop and reinforce enterprise focus among their subordinates. Candidates assessed against the component must:
Understand the roles, missions, capabilities, and organizational and political realities of the intelligence enterprise; apply that understanding to drive joint, interagency, or multi-organizational mission accomplishment. Understand how organizations, resources, information, and processes within the IC interagency/multi-organizational environment interact with and influence one another; apply that understanding to solve complex interagency or multi-organizational problems.

3. Values-Centered Leadership: IC Senior officers are expected to personally embody, advance and reinforce IC core values. Senior officers are expected to demonstrate and promote departmental and/or component values. Candidates assessed against this competency must demonstrate:
A Commitment to selfless service and excellence in support of the IC's mission, as well as to preserving, protecting, and defending the Nation's laws and liberties. The Integrity and Courage(moral, intellectual, and physical) to seek and speak the truth, to innovate, and to change things for the better, regardless of personal or professional risk. Collaboration as members of a single IC-wide team, respecting and leveraging the diversity of all members of the IC, their background, their sources and methods, and their points of view. Promote, reinforce, and reward IC, departmental/component core values in the workforce and ensure that actions, policies, and practices are aligned with, and embody those values. Ensure that organizational strategies, policies, procedures, and actions give appropriate focus, attention, and commitment to diversity of people, points of view, ideas, and insights.

TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS (TQ): All applicants must submit written statements (narrative format) of accomplishments that would satisfy the technical qualifications. You must address each technical qualification separately. Please limit your written statements to 2 pages per technical qualification.
1. Extensive experience in acquiring state-of-the-art intelligence collection systems and recent knowledge of the NRO mission.

2. Extensive experience in the identification and adaptation of state-of-the-art/best practices in acquisition, project/program management, frameworks, software programming, computing engineering, digital computing, collection systems, and overhead communication systems or special communications systems technologies.

3. Thorough knowledge of:
a. the intelligence program budget cycle and building program plans and congressional budget justifications;
b. resource management and strategic planning to secure and manage resources and apply those resources to affect desired outcomes; familiarity with GEOINT capital planning, investment policy, and procedures;
c. current collection technology trends, potential for the application of current and emerging technology solutions to meet customer requirements or to identify software engineering, programming, etc., technology gaps/shortfalls in current capabilities and processes;
d. space survivability issues; and
e. Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), the Federal Managers Financial Integrity Act (FMFIA) and ODNI IC directives pertaining to Major Defense Acquisition Programs.

Failure to submit ECQs, ICSOCQ's and TQS will disqualify applicants from consideration.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

Once the application process is complete, a review of your application will be made to ensure you meet the job requirements. To determine if you are qualified for this job, a review of your resume and supporting documentation will be made and compared against your responses to the occupational questionnaire. The numeric rating you receive is based on your responses to the questionnaire. The score is a measure of the degree to which your background matches the knowledge, skills and abilities required of this position. If, after reviewing your resume and or supporting documentation, a determination is made that you have inflated your qualifications and/or experience, your score can and will be adjusted to more accurately reflect your abilities. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your rating.