Deputy National Intelligence Manager (NIM) for Africa

Summary The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) Directorate for Mission Integration (MI) creates a consistent and holistic view of intelligence from collection to analysis and serves as the Director of National Intelligences (DNI) principal advisor on all aspects of intelligence. MI integrates mission capabilities, informs enterprise resource and policy decisions, and ensures the delivery of timely, objective, accurate, and relevant intelligence. Responsibilities Major Duties and Responsibilities: Assist NIM-Africa in directing and overseeing national intelligence related to the Africa issues; setting collection, analysis, and intelligence operations priorities on behalf of the ODNI, in consonance with the National Intelligence Priorities Framework (NIPF). Assist NIM-Africa in determining the state of collection, analysis, or intelligence operations resource gaps; developing and publishing a Unifying Intelligence Strategy which identifies and formulates strategies to mitigate gaps; advising IC and ODNI leadership of the gaps, mitigation strategies, progress against the strategies, and assessing the effectiveness of both the strategies and the closing of the intelligence gaps. Build an effective NIM-Africa staff on a priority basis to take on the substantive duties of the NIM-Africa, leveraging available ODNI resources to identify and hire personnel skilled in collection, analysis, operations, program management, and other areas as appropriate. Develop integrated collection policies and strategies and influence policy development and strategy implementation for the IC on Africa. Perform personnel management responsibilities with a focus on building a high performance workforce; promote team building and a collaborative work environment; ensure goals and performance objectives are understood; assess performance and provide timely feedback, recognition, and remediation. Facilitates cooperation and motivates team members to accomplish group goals. Determines objectives, sets priorities, and delegates work based on priorities, selective consideration of the difficulty and requirements of assignments and the capabilities of employees. Ensure staff is in compliance with established policies and regulations. Develop IC-level analytic production strategies to ensure major shortfalls on Africa being examined either as a community or by individual analytics. Evaluate and determine the state of analysis by assessment of the quality of analysis and ensure competitive and alternative analysis is conducted on high-priority topics. Identify research and developmental opportunities in order to defend, advocate for, and institute justifications for additional or dedicated funding. Liaise with community elements to perform outreach and ensure resources and priority attention is given to targets. Administer NIM-Africa resource allocations, budget processes and activities, to include the establishment of controls to ensure NIM-Africa equities remain within budget. Direct and oversee advocacy initiatives to integrate and optimize contributions from current and planned technical, analytic, and openly available sources. Brief senior IC and Department of Defense (DoD) officials, members of Congress, and other major stakeholders as necessary on US intelligence enterprise issues and emerging trends concerning West Hemisphere. Liaise with ODNI leadership to develop innovative approaches, and provide structured recommendations focused on the advancement against intelligence mission and enterprise across the Africa (collection, analysis, counterintelligence, and priorities and resources), and broader ODNI goals. Manage, lead and develop dynamic and long-term planning efforts in the current and anticipated planning structure. Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications Mandatory Requirements: Expert knowledge of IC organizations; IC mission posture, structures, capabilities, processes, and policy development. Expert organizational, managerial, and leadership skills. Outstanding interpersonal and negotiation skills, and the ability to build consensus, work effectively, and independently exert influence to major stakeholders. Expert knowledge of Sub-Sahara and/or North Africa issues and the ICs role in supporting these missions. Bachelors Degree. Desired Requirements: Superior analytical and critical thinking skills, including the ability to think strategically and identify needs, requirements, and develop innovative recommendations and solutions for improvement. Superior knowledge of the ICs analytic and/or collection architecture as related to Africa, and expertise working on the Africa target across multiple analytic and/or disciplines. Superior knowledge of the budget processes, particularly as they relate to the Africa target. Education Bachelors Degree. Additional Information Job Interview Travel: Candidates from outside the Washington, D.C., area may be selected for a telephone, teleconference, or in-person interview. Salary Determination: The ODNI uses a rank-in-person system in which rank is attached to GS employees on the basis of individual qualifications, experience, and performance. Individuals whose current GS grade is equivalent to the grade of the advertised position will retain their current grade and step. Individuals who transfer to the ODNI from a non-GS pay scale will have base pay converted to the appropriate GS grade and step as determined by the Director/ Human Resource Management. On occasional instances when a current federal civilian employee applies for an ODNI position that is a lower grade than his or her personal grade, the candidates personal grade will be downgraded to the grade of the advertised ODNI position and pay will be set at the step that is closest to but not less than the employees current annual base rate of pay, not to exceed the maximum rate (i.e., step 10) of the GS grade to which assigned. Relocation Expenses: For new ODNI employees, reimbursement for relocation is discretionary based on availability of funds. Reasonable Accommodations: The ODNI provides reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify the Reasonable Accommodations Officer by classified email at dnireasonableaccommodationwma@cia.ic.gov, by unclassified email at DNIDRA@dni.gov, by telephone at 703-275-3900 or by FAX at 703-275-1217. Your request for reasonable accommodation will be addressed on a case-by-case basis. PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION TO THE EEOD EMAIL ADDRESS. THIS EMAIL IS FOR REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION REQUESTS ONLY. The ODNI is an equal opportunity employer and abides by applicable employment laws and regulations.