Chief Policy and Collaboration

Lead proactive counterintelligence and security activities across the United States government, integrating the instruments of national power to detect, report, deter, disrupt, investigate, exploit, and defeat foreign intelligence threats.

**Qualifications:**
FREE RESPONSE ESSAY QUESTIONS All applicants must answer the following four short, free response essay questions. The responses cannot exceed 200 words per question. By submitting your responses to the following questions, you certify that you are using your own words and did not use a consultant or AI (such as a large language model [LLM]). How has your commitment to the Constitution and the founding principles of the United States inspired you to pursue this role within the Federal government? Provide a concrete example from professional, academic, or personal experience. In this role, how would you use your skills and experience to improve government efficiency and effectiveness? Provide specific examples where you improved processes, reduced costs, or improved outcomes. How would you help advance the President's Executive Orders and policy priorities in this role? Identify one or two relevant Executive Orders or policy initiatives that are significant to you and explain how you would help implement them if hired. How has a strong work ethic contributed to your professional, academic or personal achievements? Provide one or two specific examples and explain how those qualities would enable you to serve effectively in this position. Required Qualifications - A minimum of ten years of expert-level experience leading and managing personnel security disciplines and deep knowledge and understanding of personnel security reform efforts. - Expert ability to supervise or lead and guide senior and expert staff members. Set priorities, goals, and deadlines, and make final determinations on how to plan and accomplish work. - Expert knowledge of IC and related U.S. Government policies, directives, and standard operating procedures and superior ability to develop a broad range of IC-wide policies, processes, and guidelines. - Expert ability to perform the review and analysis of policies, processes, and guidelines that are contained in United States Government (USG) and Intelligence Community (IC) Directives, Policy Guidance, Standards, plans, and memoranda to ensure equities are captured and relevant concerns are resolved. - Expert knowledge of the U.S, Government and its IC components, missions, and interrelationships and experience working either with or in a major U.S. Government or IC organization; superior understanding of the authorities, roles, and responsibilities of the organizations within the IC community. - Expert knowledge of and superior experience in the research, formulation, development, and coordination of national-level policies and directives, including expert knowledge of qualitative and/or quantitative methods for policy development and assessment. - Expert ability to apply knowledge of ODNI and IC organizations and relevant customer organizations or operations (e.g., intelligence disciplines, military, policymakers, and law enforcement) to effectively address their national intelligence requirements and provide appropriate policy responses to meet IC needs. - Superior interpersonal, organizational, and problem-solving skills, including superior ability to work independently and in a collaborative environment effectively with senior officials, management, teams, and colleagues. - Superior written and oral communication skills with expert ability to articulate complex intelligence issues to a wide audience, including the ability to write policy or analytic products for the senior U.S. Government officials and the IC workforce. - Expert ability to build and sustain professional networks and collaborate with both management and staff to continuously improve community relationships, products, and services. - Expert project leadership capabilities, including the ability to effectively coordinate business processes, deliver within time constraints, manage competing priorities, and adjust quickly to deal with time sensitive requirements. - Expert ability to direct taskings, assess and manage performance, collaborate on goal setting, and support personal and professional development at all levels of personnel. - Other duties, as assigned. Desired Qualifications - Expert knowledge of personnel security disciplines. - Expert knowledge of current National-level security-related topics such as Trusted Workforce 2.0, clearance process timelines, reciprocal recognition of security clearances and access approvals, and security business practices. - Expert experience leading government-wide initiatives and achieving improvements.