Integration Manager
What you'd do
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.
Major duties
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. Provide collaboration tools and policies for successful collaboration effort. Engage counterparts on tactical coordination issues for effective implementation flagship collaboration initiatives. Collaborate with stakeholders to develop the roadmap for the strategic solution to compartmented collaboration. Develop the unifying vision to bring collaboration tools, data, and processes into a seamless user experience. Apply legal and policy issues related to collaboration. Lead assessments to leverage best practices and lessons learned. Guide and monitor the governance structures to ensure decisions are made through the appropriate fora and disputes are resolved expeditiously. Achieve systems operational capability with constrained resources. Rank and prioritize competing requirements for additional capabilities through a transparent and accountable methodology. Support briefings to senior IC officials and other major stakeholders collaboration progress, issues and challenges. Other duties, as assigned.
What you need to qualify
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. Extensive knowledge of IC organizations; IC mission posture, structures, capabilities, processes, and policy development. Demonstrated ability to anticipate issues relevant to the IC and United States Government and recommend/implement needed actions. Demonstrated leadership skills and ability to lead inter-agency supply chain working groups, build coalitions with IC elements to achieve common goals. Demonstrated ability to design and implement supply chain integration strategies for IC initiatives and programs, including the demonstrated ability to manage human, financial, and information resources. Demonstrated analytical and critical thinking skills, including the demonstrated ability to think strategically, identify needs and requirements, develop recommendations, and evaluate outcomes against goals and objectives to advance supply chain security and risk mitigation. Demonstrated ability to manage strategic and tactical level supply chain risk topics, and develop innovative recommendations and solutions for improvement. Demonstrated interpersonal skills and superior ability to work effectively in both independent and in a team or collaborative environment. Demonstrated oral and written communication skills, including demonstrated ability to draft and edit written reports of varying length and complexity, and to communicate effectively with audiences of varying seniority and expertise.
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