Nuclear and Delivery Systems Strategist

Summary

The National Counterproliferation and Biosecurity Center (NCBC) leads the Intelligence Community and the interagency to counter and halt the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, their delivery systems, related technologies, and expertise. The NCBC also serves as the lead for the integration, mission management, and coordination of intelligence activities pertaining to biosecurity and foreign biological threats.

This job is open to

• Federal employees - Competitive service
  
  Current or former competitive service federal employees.
• Federal employees - Excepted service
  
  Current excepted service federal employees.
• Internal to an agency
  
  Current federal employees of this agency.

Duties

• Serve as a subject matter expert responsible for nuclear and delivery system issues within NCBC's Office of Mission Integration, and the IC broadly, to counter WMD threats.
• Contribute to and when appropriate lead NCBC's nascent WMD campaign on Over-the-Horizon (OTH) nuclear issues, including policy support, to improve IC posture and align IC collection and analytic activities to answer key intelligence gaps for OTH countries of concern.
• Contribute to the planning and evaluation of the related strategic planning documents in support of United States (U.S.) national security and foreign policy interests and programs.
• Work collaboratively across ODNI and interagency stakeholders to develop a coordinated campaign plan to identify key intelligence gaps, implement initiatives to address shortfalls, and objectively evaluate community progress in closing gaps.
• Support IC efforts and hard target strategies against actors of interest when there is a portfolio equity involved.
• Support and promote IC strategies and assessments of the IC's progress towards mission and enterprise strategic objectives and determine how well the IC is postured for future environments.
• Represent NCBC in National Security Council meetings, committees, task forces, and working groups, and address resulting NCBC tasks related to portfolio subjects.
• Prepare briefings, reports, and presentations to organizational leadership, senior policymakers, and senior U.S. Government officials.
• Provide expert analysis and recommendations that ensure IC strategic plans and programs align with strategic objectives.

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

Must be a current permanent ODNI employee or 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*

Qualifications

Mandatory Requirements:

• Technical knowledge, education, and expertise in the nuclear fuel cycle, and/or nuclear weapons and associated delivery systems.
• Thorough knowledge of strategy development and planning and ability to identify emerging trends and strategic issues.
• At least four years' experience in the Intelligence Community, at least two years of which working weapons of mass destruction-related issues.
• Ability to evaluate strategic trends, strategy and implementation plans, results, and programmatic data, to propose innovative solutions and implement change.
• Thorough knowledge of IC organizations' missions and policies necessary to support U.S. national security and foreign policy interests.
• Experience and knowledge of nuclear and delivery system intelligence issues including the relationship between collection needs and the analytic process.
• Experience and knowledge of intelligence needs of U.S. Government counterproliferation customers.

Education

Bachelor's

Additional information

Job Interview Travel: Candidates from outside the Washington, D.C. area may be selected for a telephone, teleconference, or in-person interview.

Salary Determination: A current Federal Government employee, selected for a detail, will be assigned to the position at their current grade and salary.

Other Information

REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES: The ODNI provides reasonable accommodations to otherwise qualified applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify the Reasonable Accommodation Office Representative.

How You Will Be Evaluated

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.

Agency contact information

Vacancy Team ODNI

Email:

Address: OFFICE OF MISSION INTEGRATION

Director Of National Intelligence

Washington, DC 20511

US

Next steps

The most highly qualified candidates will be referred to the hiring manager for further consideration and possible interview.#J-18808-Ljbffr