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.
The National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) is dedicated to leading the U.S. Counterintelligence and Security communities, countering all threats posed by adversarial foreign intelligence affiliated threats and enhancing our national security posture at every level. We will serve as the head of U.S. counterintelligence and integrate the instruments of national power to counter foreign intelligence threats.
NCSC will be the "center of gravity" to support the counterintelligence and security efforts of the entire U.S. interagency, and public sector initiatives to protect our nation from adversarial efforts to exploit the United States and victimize the American people. The Security Directorate (SD) is embedded with the National Counterintelligence & Security Center (NCSC).
The SD develops and implements policies, guidance, and standards for personnel security, IC-wide and SCI security-relevant issues, and security clearance reform. SD also engages with government and industry partners to protect national security equities against foreign intelligence and security threats, and advance the U.S. Government's risk management environment to safeguard against adversarial and insider threats.
NCSC/SD enables the DNI in carrying out his responsibilities as the Security Executive Agent (SecEA) across the Executive Branch and serves as the lead staff element executing NCSC's security mission in support of safeguarding national security programs across the Intelligence Community (IC).
The Chief, Personnel Security (PerSec) Policy is responsible for leading the successful formulation, research, development, coordination, production, and evaluation of Executive-level security-policies, processes, and guidance in support of the DNI's SecEA responsibilities, NCSC mission, and related counterintelligence and security functions.
The Chief is also responsible for the communicating, coordinating, and supporting implementation of these policies and guidance across the Executive Branch, including IC Stakeholders.
The selected candidate will: Lead and oversee the formulation, development, production, and evaluation of a broad range of policies processes, and guidance on Security-related topics including mission enabling functions, and intelligence oversight disciplines and communicate these policies, processes, and guidelines to community stakeholders.
Lead, oversee, and perform the review and analysis of policies, processes, and guidelines that are contained in United States Government (U.S.) Government and Intelligence Community (IC) Directives, Policy Guidance, Standards, plans, and memoranda to ensure equities are captured and relevant concerns are resolved.
Lead, develop, and conduct substantive intelligence briefings, presentations, reports, and other materials to inform senior leadership and other major stakeholders on policy issues. Lead, oversee, produce, and communicate trends and developments to organizational leadership, senior policymakers, and other senior U.S. Government officials. Oversee, lead, foster, and promote communications that increase stakeholders', consumers', IC colleagues', and U.S.
Government executive agents' overall understanding of U.S. Government and IC policies, processes, and guidance to promote mission effectiveness. Lead, plan, and prepare communications and reports that address Executive Branch taskings and Congressional hearings; produce and coordinate executive-level briefings; represent organizational equities to the IC and other government agencies at meetings, conferences, and other public fora.
Lead and conduct substantive reviews of an extensive volume of written materials and prepare or contribute to written and verbal products including congressional testimony or responses to inquiries, senior-level issue papers or briefings, and letters and memoranda.
Lead, initiate, cultivate, and maintain productive working relationships with colleagues, experts, IC members, and policy committees, and use these relationships to share information of interest; attend internal and external training, seminars, or conferences on broad intelligence topics or more strategic subject areas.
Lowest acceptable education level: 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 2026-10-29.
This position is open under the 'Public' hiring path.
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