The Office of General Counsel (OGC) at the ODNI provides legal advice and counsel to the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and other ODNI officials on a wide range of legal issues to include intelligence and national security law; procurement and acquisition law; personnel law; government ethics, fiscal law; general administrative law; legislative support; government information practices (Freedom of Information Act/Privacy Act); and intellectual property law.
Provide expert oral and written legal advice and guidance on the most complex areas of law, with appropriate input from supervisors and colleagues; expertly interpret and explain laws, regulations, policies, and other legal authorities, related to Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and Intelligence Community (IC) business.
Counsel clients, including executive-level government officials, on the most complex legal issues and provide innovative and highly effective guidance on possible courses of action; expertly prepare complex, high profile, and persuasive legal documents on the most complex legal issues for a variety of internal and external recipients.
Adroitly coordinate legal guidance within the Office of General Counsel (OGC), ODNI, the IC, and the Executive Branch; expertly mediate, negotiate, and resolve inter-agency and intra-agency disputes covering a wide range of topics across multiple legal practice areas; consistently demonstrate "strategic lawyering" practices that anticipate or prevent legal problems.
Expertly conduct, or direct the conduct of, legal research and analysis on extremely complex or sensitive legal issues that have a significant impact on ODNI or IC interests, to include conducting interviews and investigations and briefing ODNI leadership on issues and findings.
Provide timely reviews of planned ODNI and IC activities for compliance with the law and brief ODNI and IC leaders on potential legal and policy issues, and develop solutions to address the most difficult legal problems having potential high-level or large-scale impact on the ODNIs and ICs mission or activities.
Expertly analyze laws, bills, reports and Congressional records, as well as proposed Executive Branch orders, directives, regulations and policy statements, to determine their effect on the ODNI and the IC; provide authoritative advice and counsel to senior management on ODNI and IC legislative proposals, including Congressional testimony.
Provide expert briefings and advocate for ODNI and IC views on particular matters to judges, administrative bodies, Executive Branch entities, Congress, and private sector entities; cogently briefs senior ODNI and IC management on legal issues that relate to ODNI and IC activities.
Assist the Department of Justice in the most complex civil and criminal litigation by advocating for the ODNIs position, protecting classified information from disclosure, and defending the official actions of IC employees. Expertly negotiate complex contracts and other agreements with other agencies, private sector entities, and foreign liaison.
Bachelors
This position is with Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Other Agencies and Independent Organizations.
The posted pay range is $169279 – $197200/yr.
This position requires a Sensitive Compartmented Information security clearance.
Applications close on 2026-11-27.
This position is open under the 'Public' hiring path.
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