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.
Lead, initiate, cultivate, and maintain productive working relationships with senior policymakers across the IC in order to coordinate strategy development activities and evolving requirements and promote the implementation of mission and enterprise objectives. Lead, plan, and prepare briefings, reports, and presentations to organizational leadership, senior policymakers, and senior U.S.
Government agencies USG officials in a manner that meets their specified requirements and provide expert analysis and recommendations on emerging supply chain security topics to ensure IC strategic plans and programs align with strategic objectives. Lead and oversee the planning, development, and evaluation of the related strategic planning documents in support of U.S. Government agencies' national security and foreign policy interests and programs for supply chain security.
Lead and oversee the planning, development, and production of strategic guidance for the allocation of resources and investment planning and programming staff elements and activities. Develop near/mid/long term strategy documents that provide guidance to needs/requirements and resource/investment planning and programming staff elements and activities.
Lead and oversee efforts to engage senior IC leadership on strategic priorities, intelligence needs and gaps, and cross-IC interdependencies in order to link resources to strategy. Lead, plan, and oversee efforts to create a culture of strategic planning across the IC by promoting best practices in strategy development, execution, and evaluation and communicating priorities, activities, and impact of the strategy to the IC to promote shared vision, values, and goals.
Partner with ODNI staff, Functional, Mission, and Enterprise Managers, and IC elements to promote implementation of mission and enterprise objectives. Lead, plan, and oversee the advancement of outreach activities within and beyond the IC to ensure long term strategy development is informed by the latest and best efforts across the U.S. Government, industry, and foreign partners.
Provide analysis and recommendations to ensure that ODNI and IC element plans and programs align with objectives of the strategic plan. Lead and oversee the planning and completion of assessments to evaluate IC progress towards mission and enterprise objectives and determine how well the IC is postured for future environments. Conduct assessments to capture IC progress towards mission and enterprise objectives and assess how well the IC is postured for future environments.
Manage to ensure full range of understanding of customer requirements related to assigned missions and ensuring these requirements have been conveyed to and coordinated with the ODNI and the IC. Direct the setting of collection and analysis priorities for national intelligence related to assigned missions. Lead the IC to meet mission and enterprise objectives of the National Intelligence Strategy (NIS). Develop integrated collection strategies for respective mission areas.
Conduct analysis and provide recommendations on "cross-target tradeoffs". Advise and engage senior IC leadership on strategic priorities, opportunities, gaps, and interdependencies to link resources to strategy; lead and oversee the communication of emerging strategic issues and trends, independently evaluate against IC strategic elements, and make recommendations for improvements.
Lead efforts to determine the state of collection against assigned missions, identifying gaps against those missions,developing integrated, cross-intelligence collection strategies to fill gaps, tasking collection activity against theirassigned missions, consistent with overall guidance from the Deputy Director of National Intelligence/IntelligenceIntegration (DDNI/II), and evaluating collector responsiveness and success in filling collection gaps and meetingmission requirements.
Determine the state of analysis on assigned missions, identifying analytic gaps related tocustomer requirements, and tasking analysis related to those missions, ensuring that such tasking is consistent with theoverall guidance from the Deputy Director of National Intelligence/Intelligence Integration (DDNI/II), and evaluatinganalysis responsiveness in filling analytic gaps.
Do not submit transcripts.
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 2026-09-25.
This position is open under the 'Public' hiring path.
Source: USAJOBS.gov — U.S. Federal Government
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