Integration Engineering Director jobs in Arlington, VA

Duties

Serve as the lead within NIMC's Mission Management Group for partnering with the Mission Integration Directorate (especially MPAC and the NIC), other relevant ODNI offices, the Department of Defense, IC and US Government entities, and (as applicable) the private sector to develop a common understanding of the spectrum of concepts for risk relevant to the IC (e.g. risk to national interests, investments / divestment risks, etc). Build and apply deep expertise on the history, policy, and current IC strategies and challenges related to national security risk.

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

Serve as the IMMCOM Executive Secretariat for risk, crisis, and warning.

Develop, in conjunction with other ODNI, IC, and DOD partners, a common approach on risks to U.S. national security interests and how resource decisions can be informed by warning issues.

Assist NIMs in identifying options to address risk as a result of emerging threats, highlighting cascading events, and ensuring accurate warning of events that may require shifts in national security posture or priorities. The approach should result in warning efforts that follow a structured, repeatable process, identify needed resources, and incorporate a risk architecture that can apply across regions, functions, and domains.

Develop and advance a common lexicon of terms and definitions for IC risk and strategic warning efforts to ensure effective communication with oversight bodies, internal stakeholders, and external customers. Such a lexicon should incorporate the different circumstances risk can be used (i.e. risk of instability to provide warning or risk of delaying or divesting investments to inform budgetary decisions).

Coordinate across regional, functional, and domain NIM teams, particularly NIOs and NICOs, to develop a common framework and process to identify and disseminate indicators and thresholds for alerting policymakers of impending and potential threats to U.S. interests and providing warning.

Advise and provide subject matter expertise on building IC warning capacity and capability as required. Assist NIMs in integrating ODNI and IC warning efforts through their strategy boards and Unifying Intelligence Strategies. The NIM communities of interest are natural vehicles to consider adverse trends, identify where the IC can divest or accept risk, and respond to warning indicators with actions such as collection emphasis messages.

Work across regional, functional, and domain NIM teams, particularly NIOs and NICOs, to develop ways to measure or quantify risk across the IC and a means to display a global picture of risk to aid in decision making and warning.

Conduct research to develop an understanding of relevant mission requirements in support of national priorities, strategies, as well as Unifying Intelligence Strategies. Assist in the identification, mitigation, and development of solutions to emerging threats, intelligence gaps, and recommendations for realignment of resources to improve intelligence support and risk management.

Implement, promote, and educate across NIM teams and ODNI entities on NIM Council crisis management procedures, function as primary ODNI point of contact for ICPG 900.2 Intelligence Community Crisis Management, and track National Intelligence Crisis Manager (NICM) designations.

Research and develop an actionable risk framework that will enable long-term resource planning in constrained budget environments, identify resource trade space or offsets, and support IC leader decision-making amid an evolving national security landscape.

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

Serve as the MMG lead to partner with other elements in MMG, NIMC, and across DMI and ODNI to support discussions about other complex, hard topics as they emerge (e.g. return on investment, innovation, measuring performance/impact).

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

• Must be a U.S. Citizen residing in the United States
• Appointment is subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance based on an SBI with eligibility for sensitive compartmented information (SCI)
• Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration.
• A two-year trial period is required for all new permanent appointments to the ODNI.

How You Will Be Evaluated

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  Email

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  Address

  NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE MANAGEMENT COUNCIL
  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. We expect to make a selection within 30 days of the closing date of this announcement. Due to the large number of applications received, applicants will be contacted ONLY if they have been selected for an interview.
  
  
  
  

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Clarification from the agency

Open to current and former Federal employees with competitive or excepted status; and all U.S. Citizens. Former members of the Peace Corps may be considered for ODNI employment only if five full years have elapsed since separation from the Peace Corps.