Clarification from the agency

Internal to an Agency = Open to current permanent ODNI employees Federal Employees = This detail opportunity is for current competitive and excepted service employees only. If you are not a current federal civilian employee you will not be eligible for this position. ODNI Joint Duty Assignments do not apply to members of the Military service or contractors. Applicants from federal agencies may be considered for this position as a reimbursable detailee, if endorsed by the employing agency.

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

The National Intelligence Council (NIC) consists of the most senior intelligence analysts supporting the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) in carrying out responsibilities as the head of the Intelligence Community (IC) and as the principal adviser to the President for intelligence matters related to national security. The NIC produces a variety of all-source, IC coordinated intelligence reports, including its flagship product, the National Intelligence Estimate, which represents the Intelligence Community's most authoritative statement on a key national security issue.

Serve as a senior analyst and utility player on select global issues topics, such as the confluence of geopolitics with socio-economic trends, the emergence of nontraditional national security challenges, and provide surge capacity on high-level taskings and Global Trends. All analytic disciplines are welcome to apply. The selected candidate's experience and mission needs will determine the specific portfolio.

Serve as a Strategic Futures Group (SFG) point of contact and expert resource for functional counterparts in the IC. In doing so, lead, initiate, cultivate, and maintain productive working relationships with the policy, defense, and intelligence communities, as well as policy committees and law enforcement agencies as appropriate, to support US strategy formulation, policy development, and contingency planning.

Facilitate and manage frequent meetings among IC analysts to establish IC analytic and collection priorities on nontraditional and global challenges. Coordinate on relevant intelligence products for senior policy makers.

Oversee and lead the production of a broad range of finished intelligence products in support of United States (US) foreign policy and national security interests.

Engage with senior U.S. Government policymakers, National Security Council Staff, State Department, Department of Defense (DoD), and Combatant Command strategic planners on issues within the global issues portfolio. Brief senior IC members, policymakers, military decisionmakers, members of Congress, and other major stakeholders as necessary. Support the DNI representative to Deputies Committee (DC) and Principals Committee (PC) meetings on issues related to the analytic portfolio.

Develop, lead, and oversee IC sessions, conferences, and other domestic and international forums to elicit insight from experts in support of NIC assessments. Represent the NIC at local and international meetings, conferences, workshops and other forums in support of the IC's analytic production.

Foster and strengthen relationships among analysts from across the IC and with academia, think tanks, the business community, and other nongovernment subject matter experts to ensure that the IC has a comprehensive understanding of emerging transnational and transfunctional issues of strategic importance. Organize analytic exchanges and other forums to draw on expertise from outside the government to support IC analysis and written production.

As required, provide process or substantive support to NIEs, DC/PC briefing packages, and PDB coordination.

Contribute to discussions in the SFG centered on other strategic (global, transnational, and/or long-range) issues of importance to senior US policymakers, defense planners and/or warfighters.

Recognize, value, build, and leverage diverse collaborative networks with the ODNI and across the IC.

Conditions of employment

Must be a current permanent ODNI employee.

OR

Must be a current permanent Federal employee
Must have supervisory approval to apply to the Joint Duty Assignment.
Must be currently at the grade level of the detail. *No Temporary Promotion Opportunity*
The program does not apply to members of the Military service or contractors.

Qualifications

Mandatory Requirements:

Superior critical thinking and reasoning skills including the ability to quickly draft high-quality, complex, and well-written analyses, reports, and briefings for IC consumers and policymakers at the highest levels of the US Government.

Expert ability to analytically link functional issues--such as environment, humanitarian, demographic, religion, economic, natural resources, media, and strategic communications topics--to US national security concerns.

Expert flexibility and openness to working a range of global issues topics as needed, while modeling superior analytic tradecraft and writing.

Expert knowledge in a social science field, with specialization in humanitarian issues, sociology, anthropology, political science, or security studies. Proven track-record of producing high-impact analysis on these topics.

Superior ability to conceptualize analytic topics and, with limited supervision, lead analytic teams with multi-disciplinary expertise. Superior interpersonal, collaborative, and networking skills, including the ability to interact with, solicit opinions from, and understand internal and IC counterparts and key consumers; the flexibility to remain open-minded and modify opinions on the basis of new information and requirements; and the deftness to work with and fairly represent the IC when analytic views differ among agencies.

Expert ability to effectively plan and lead the development of high-quality, complex analyses, studies, projects, assignments, and briefings on key US foreign policy and national security objectives focused on a specific region or transnational issue for IC consumers and policymakers at the highest levels of government.

Superior organizational and interpersonal skills, including the ability to effectively represent ODNI in interagency meetings and communicate effectively with people at all levels of leadership and knowledge as to the impact of environment and natural resource issues on US interests.

Superior analytic tradecraft and knowledge of relevant warning and change detection methods and the ability to apply appropriate futures and foresight analytic methodologies for identifying the implications of emerging trends and for conducting futures assessments.

Superior and recognized analytic and critical thinking skills, including superior ability to think strategically.

Superior ability to execute senior-level guidance in a fast-paced environment and superior ability to translate strategic goals into specific objectives with appropriate metrics and methods to track progress towards meeting those goals.

Generally, twelve or more years of related work experience

Desired Requirements:

Bachelor's degree in subject matter area, or closely related discipline.

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.

You must submit the supporting documents listed under the required documents section of this announcement. We will review your resume and supporting documentation to ensure you meet the basic qualification requirements. If you are among the best qualified, you may be referred to the hiring manager for consideration and may be called for an interview.