Senior Analyst - McLean, United States - Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Description

Summary The National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) leads the nation's effort to protect the United States from terrorism by integrating, analyzing and sharing information to drive whole-of-government action and achieve our national CT objectives.

Responsibilities The National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) leads the nation's effort to protect the United States from terrorism by integrating, analyzing and sharing information to drive whole-of-government action and achieve our national CT objectives.

The National Counterterrorism Center's Directorate of Intelligence (NCTC/DI) is seeking an experienced GS-15 or GS-14 analyst with strong tradecraft, leadership, and interpersonal skills to help oversee and drive the analytic effort of a high performing group working to combat terrorism in and threats emanating from Africa and Asia.

As a group-level asset in the DI, the selected officer will help managers formulate and implement an operationally and policy-relevant analytic program and advance analytic tradecraft and expertise on CT issues.

The selectee will work with senior analysts and leadership in other DI groups as part of a virtual team to identify and assess trends, understand interdisciplinary linkages, preserve analytic objectivity, and apply sophisticated analytic tools and techniques to complex projects related to terrorism and counterterrorism.

The officer will ensure that the Directorate's analytic lines are progressing and staying fresh by encouraging DI analysts to think creatively and challenge their own analytic lines, promoting diversity of analytic opinions, and helping them identify creative ways to tackle strategic production in an increasingly limited collection environment.

NCTC/DI is committed to developing its officers and will provide the selected officer with development and training opportunities, encourage research projects, and support the selectee's corporate contributions to NCTC, ODNI, and their home agency.

The officer will also have opportunities to travel, take appropriate language training, and attend relevant conferences.


Duties and responsibilities will include:
Sharing expertise with others and mentoring more junior analysts in the Directorate.

Senior Analysts are among the DI's leading teachers of our trade and organizational culture, setting a positive tone and playing a leading role in building workforce morale and fostering cooperation, collaboration, and continuous learning.

Leading the production of a broad range of finished intelligence products in support of US foreign policy and national security interests.

Senior analysts produce sophisticated, cross-cutting, finished intelligence and briefings on terrorism-related issues that model the highest standards of DI tradecraft and policy or operational relevance.

Cultivating and maintaining productive working relationships with colleagues, experts, IC members, policy committees, and law enforcement agencies as appropriate and use these relationships to share information of interest.

You also will have the opportunity to:

Provide leadership and expert guidance to the planning, analysis, and application of a full range of methodological tools and approaches to gain a comprehensive understanding of complex analytical issues and incorporate insights and findings into well-crafted, in-depth intelligence products.

Plan, prepare, and present written analysis and oral briefings to the most senior internal and external customers on counterterrorism issues; explain the most complex concepts to non-expert customers and tailor the output to correspond to customer needs.

Develop, utilize, and refine a full range of methodological tools and approaches to gain a comprehensive understanding of complex and significant analytic issues and incorporate insights and findings into well-crafted, sophisticated intelligence products.

Oversee the development and implementation of strategies for driving collection, or historical information in support of US interests and policy objectives; cultivate and identify key internal and external sources of relevant information that meet customer and self-derived needs.

Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications Mandatory Requirements:
Expert knowledge in Africa, Asia, and/or counterterrorism.

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 Africa or Asia for IC consumers and policymakers at the highest levels of government.

Superior ability to apply expert knowledge of ODNI, IC organizations, and relevant customer organizations or operations (e.g., military, policymakers, and law enforcement), in order to effectively translate their requirements and provide appropriate output or responses to meet customer needs.

Expert knowledge of IC policy and procedures and demonstrated knowledge of analytic tradecraft, to include structured analytic techniques, and superior ability to communicate intelligence information and judgments to generalists as well as specialists.

Outstanding critical thinking skills demonstrated in a portfolio of published analysis that show applicant's ability to think strategically and creatively.

Superior ability to work effectively across organizational lines-often under tight deadlines-to synthesize and produce sophisticated intelligence.

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 toward meeting those goals.

Superior ability to promote information sharing practices across the ODNI and IC.

Superior interpersonal, organizational, and problem-solving skills, in working with individuals at the highest levels of the IC and government in justifying, defending, negotiating, and resolving significant and controversial issues.

Superior ability to work effectively both independently and in a team or collaborative environment. Superior and demonstrated ability to coach and mentor junior colleagues. Creative problem-solving skills and superior ability to provide leadership in carrying out mission responsibilities.

[required language] At least ten years of experience as an intelligence analyst in Africa or Asia regional affairs or counterterrorism analysis at a national agency, federal law enforcement agency, service component, or combatant command.

[objective/quantitative requirement] Desired Requirements:

Previous work experience or academic study on Africa or Asia and/or global terrorism issues. Cover letter and resume required. Language Not Required. Education Bachelor's degree.


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:

The ODNI uses a rank-in-person system in which rank is attached to GS employees on the basis of individual qualifications, experience, and performance.

Individuals whose current GS grade is equivalent to the grade of the advertised position will retain their current grade and step.

Individuals who transfer to the ODNI from a non

• GS pay scale will have base pay converted to the appropriate GS grade and step as determined by the Director/ Human Resource Management.

On occasional instances when a current federal civilian employee applies for an ODNI position that is a lower grade than his or her personal grade, the candidate's personal grade will be downgraded to the grade of the advertised ODNI position and pay will be set at the step that is closest to but not less than the employee's current annual base rate of pay, not to exceed the maximum rate (i.e., step 10) of the GS grade to which assigned.


Relocation Expenses:
For new ODNI employees, reimbursement for relocation is discretionary based on availability of funds


Reasonable Accommodations:
The ODNI provides reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants with disabilities.

If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify the Reasonable Accommodations Officer by classified email at , by unclassified email at , by telephone at or by FAX at Your request for reasonable accommodation will be addressed on a case-by-case basis.

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