Summary 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 Domestic Engagement, Information Sharing & Data. Responsibilities Major Duties and Responsibilities: Must know the NSA organization Ensure recognition of identified program needs to inform and begin the requirements validation process. Lead and integrate functional teams to analyze potential program requirements and refine program requirements and continuously coordinate with users to determine appropriate interpretation. Conduct advanced acquisition planning and programming to produce the acquisition and investment strategy and program plan and coordinate the acquisition through the contracting process (e.g., contracting milestones, solicitation, source selection, award, negotiation, and administration). Oversee the preparation, justification, and/or administration of budgets and monitor expenditures for program areas. Lead, plan, organize, staff, and monitor specific acquisition programs to ensure they meet cost, schedule, and performance requirements throughout the life cycle and maintain accountability for accurate and credible cost, schedule, and performance reporting. Establish and oversee a risk management approach to ensure program success. Manage ongoing working relationships and expectations with customers, stakeholders, users, and decision authorities throughout the program life cycle. Oversee, monitor, and approved the technical strategy against requirements. Ensure mission assurance (e.g. quality, maintainability, affordability, supportability, and training) for products and/or services throughout the life cycle. Requirements Conditions of Employment Must be a current permanent ODNI employee. Qualifications Mandatory Requirements: Must know the NSA organization Expert understanding of roles and missions of enterprise (e.g., agency, department, IC) and other external factors. Superior ability to perceive organizational and political reality and expert understanding of how actions by one entity affect others to identify practical solutions for enterprise mission accomplishment. Superior skill to align programs with strategic goals. Expert understanding of the organization's financial processes. Prepares, justifies, and administers the project/program budget. Superior ability to oversee procurement and contracting to achieve desired results; monitor expenditures and analyze cost-benefits to set priorities. Superior ability to develop collaborative information and expert knowledge of sharing networks and building alliances with colleagues and counterparts within and/or across the organization, the IC, other government/private organizations, or professional/technical disciplines to achieve organizational outcomes. Superior ability to persuade others, builds consensus through give and take, and gains cooperation from others to obtain information and accomplish goals. Superior ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships, especially in difficult situations (e.g. when defending or critiquing a position). Superior ability to demonstrate and foster respect, understanding, courtesy, tact, and empathy. Considers varied cultural backgrounds, work experience, and organizational roles in working with others. Superior ability to develop new insights into situations and applies innovative solutions to problems and to improve processes. Designs new methods and tools where established methods and procedures are inapplicable, unavailable, or ineffective. Expert knowledge to identify and understand issues, problems, different sources throughout the IC and external agencies to draw conclusions. Superior ability to choose an approach, develop solutions, and take action consistent with IC values, available facts, constraints, and probable consequences. Education Bachelor's Degree Additional Information 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 [email protected], by unclassified email at [email protected], 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 REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS 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.