Strategy Management Officer

The Policy & Capabilities Directorate ensures the IC is best postured for the threats and challenges of an uncertain future, through strategy, policy, and capabilities development. Comprised of 7 organizations, PC oversees IC Human Capital; Acquisition, Procurement & Facilities; Intelligence Advance Research Projects Activity; Science & Technology Group; Requirements, Cost & Effectiveness; Policy & Strategy; and Data and Partnership Interoperability. Bachelor’s Degree. Align Intelligence Community (IC) direction with National Security Strategy by providing strategic guidance on IC priorities based on the current global environment, emerging trends, and other developments that have strategic impact on the IC and national security. Conduct outreach and communication to the IC agencies, workforce, partners, customers, and oversight stakeholders. Provide an IC framework for annual planning, programming, and budgeting. Craft strategies, produce strategic plans and make recommendations to DNI and IC senior leaders on matters of strategic importance.

Plan, develop and evaluate the related strategic planning documents in support of United States (U.S.) national security and foreign policy interests and programs.

Plan and complete assessments of the IC’s progress towards mission and enterprise strategic objectives and determine
how well the IC is postured for future environments.

Engage senior IC leadership on strategic priorities, opportunities, gaps, and interdependencies to link resources to
strategy; plan and communicate emerging strategic issues and trends, evaluate them in context of U.S. Government
plans, and make recommendations for improvements.

Plan and facilitate development of strategic guidance for IC programs and activities.

Plan and develop efforts to create a culture of strategic planning across the IC by promoting best practices in strategy development, execution, and evaluation and by communicating to IC agencies priorities, activities, and impact in order to promote shared vision, values, and goals.

Establish, sustain and advance outreach activities within and beyond the IC to ensure long term strategy development is informed by best practices from the U.S. Government, industry, and foreign partners.

Plan and prepare briefings, reports, and presentations to organizational leadership, senior policymakers, and senior U.S. Government officials in a manner that meets their specified requirements and provide expert analysis and recommendations that ensure IC strategic plans and programs align with strategic objectives.

Initiate, cultivate, and maintain productive working relationships with peers and senior leaders across the IC in order to coordinate strategy development activities and evolving requirements and promote the implementation of mission and enterprise objectives. Extensive knowledge of strategy development and planning and a demonstrated ability to identify emerging trends and strategic issues and incorporate these into organizational strategic plans.

Extensive knowledge of IC organizations’ missions in order to develop the national-level strategies and policies necessary to support U.S. national security and foreign policy interests.

Extensive understanding of performance management principles and superior ability to advise organizations on the application of evaluation methods.

Demonstrated ability to conceptualize, organize, and draw inferences from incomplete data and present a compelling analysis of findings and issues; demonstrated ability to identify, articulate, document, and mitigate knowledge gaps or alternatives approaches.

Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly, both orally and in written reports, and to logically analyze, synthesize, and evaluate multiple sources of information for their inclusion in briefings and written documents.

Demonstrated organizational and interpersonal skills to facilitate diverse forums, manage competing priorities and advocate new ideas/concepts/processes; demonstrated ability to exercise independent judgment on time-sensitive issues and work collaboratively across the IC.

Demonstrated ability to develop effective professional and interpersonal relationships with peers and colleagues in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the IC, and U.S. Government and to earn their confidence and trust.

Other duties, as assigned.

Bachelor’s Degree or 5-7 years of experience in strategy management.