Senior Data Analyst

Duty Description Component Mission Statement :

The National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) leads the nation's effort to protect the United States from terrorism by integrating, analyzing and sharing information to drive whole-of-government action and achieve our national CT objectives.

Major Duties and Responsibilities (MDRs) :

The National Counterterrorism Center's Directorate of Intelligence (NCTC / DI) is seeking an experienced GS-14 analyst with strong tradecraft, leadership, and interpersonal skills to help drive the analytic effort of a high performing group working to combat terrorism.

The selected officer will help formulate and implement an analytic program and advance analytic tradecraft on CT issues.

The selectee will work with senior analysts and leadership in other NCTC groups to help the Center integrate that leverage our unique access to data and tools.

The officer will be asked to lead multidisciplinary projects on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, and make use of a range of terrorism data to include financial, seized media, and social media sources.

The officer will ensure that the Directorate's analytic lines are progressing by encouraging DI analysts to think creatively and challenge their own analytic lines, promoting diversity of analytic opinions, and helping them identify creative ways to tackle strategic production in an increasingly limited collection environment.

NCTC / DI is committed to developing its officers, and will provide the selected officer with development and training opportunities, encourage research projects, and support the selectee's corporate contributions to NCTC, ODNI, and their home agency.

The officer will also have opportunities to travel, take appropriate language training, and attend relevant conferences.

Duties and responsibilities will include :

Sharing expertise with others and mentoring more junior analysts in the Directorate.

Senior analysts are among the DI's leading teachers of our trade and organizational culture, setting a positive tone and playing a leading role in building workforce morale and fostering cooperation, collaboration, and continuous learning Senior analysts produce sophisticated, cross-cutting, finished intelligence and briefings on terrorism-related issues that model the highest standards of DI tradecraft and policy or operational relevance.

Cultivating and maintaining productive working relationships with colleagues, experts, IC members, policy committees, and law enforcement agencies as appropriate.

You also will have the opportunity to :

Provide leadership and expert guidance to the planning, analysis, and application of a full-range of methodological tools and approaches to understand complex analytical issues and incorporate insights into well-crafted, intelligence products.

Plan, prepare, and present written analysis and oral briefings to the most senior internal and external customers on counterterrorism issues;

explain the most complex concepts to non-expert customers.

Develop, utilize, and refine a full range of methodological tools and approaches to gain a comprehensive understanding of complex and significant analytic issues and incorporate insights and findings into well-crafted, sophisticated intelligence products.

Oversee the development and implementation of strategies for driving collection, or historical information in support of US interests and policy objectives;

cultivate and identify key internal and external sources of relevant information that meet customer and self-derived needs.

Plan, develop, utilize, and refine methodological tools and approaches to gain a comprehensive understanding of complex and significant analytic issues and incorporate insights and findings into well-crafted, sophisticated finished intelligence products.

Plan and prepare written and oral briefings and present them to the most senior internal and external customers on key regional or functional areas or issues;

explain the most complex concepts to non-expert customers and tailor products to correspond to customer needs.

Lead a team of professional staff and assess performance, collaborate and oversee goal setting, and provide feedback on personal development.

Cultivate, and maintain productive working relationships with colleagues, experts, IC members, policy committees, and law enforcement agencies as appropriate and use these relationships to share information of interest;

attend internal and external training, seminars, or conferences on broad or more strategic subject areas.

Build and leverage diverse collaborative networks within the ODNI and across the IC.

Develop and continually expand personal knowledge in area of expertise and achieve a government-wide reputation as a subject matter expert in this area.

Other duties, as assigned.

Required Languages

Desired Languages

Minimum Qualifications Required Extensive knowledge in area of subject matter expertise.

Extensive ability to effectively plan and lead the development of high-quality, complex analyses, studies, projects, assignments, and briefings on key US foreign policy and national security objectives focused on a specific region or transnational issue for IC consumers and policymakers at the highest levels of government.

Extensive ability to apply expert knowledge of ODNI, IC organizations, and relevant customer organizations or operations (e.

g., military, policymakers, and law enforcement), in order to effectively translate their requirements and provide appropriate output or responses to meet customer needs.

Extensive knowledge of IC policy and procedures and demonstrated knowledge of analytic tradecraft and superior ability to communicate intelligence information and judgments to generalists as well as specialists.

Outstanding critical thinking skills demonstrated in a portfolio of published analysis that show applicant's ability to think strategically and creatively.

Extensive ability to work effectively across organizational lines-often under tight deadlines-to synthesize and produce sophisticated intelligence.

Extensive ability to execute senior-level guidance in a fast-paced environment and superior ability to translate strategic goals into specific objectives with appropriate metrics and methods to track progress toward meeting those goals.

Extensive ability to promote information sharing practices across the ODNI and IC.

Extensive interpersonal, organizational, and problem-solving skills, in working with individuals at the highest levels of the IC and government in justifying, defending, negotiating, and resolving significant and controversial issues.

Extensive ability to work effectively both independently and in a team or collaborative environment.

Extensive ability to coach and mentor junior colleagues.

Extensive knowledge of foreign military, economic, intelligence, technical, geographic, political, cultural, and / or social

aspects of a specific country, region, or transnational issue.

Demonstrated ability to apply detailed knowledge of ODNI, IC organizations, and relevant customer organizations or

operations, in order to effectively translate their requirements and provide appropriate output or responses to meet

customer needs.

Demonstrated interpersonal, organizational, and problem-solving skills, in working with individuals at the highest levels

of the IC and government in justifying, defending, negotiating, and resolving significant and controversial issues.

Demonstrated ability to work effectively both independently and in a team or collaborative environment, and mentor

junior colleagues

Creative problem-solving skills and initiative in carrying out mission responsibilities.

Extensive knowledge of IC policy and procedures and demonstrated knowledge of analytic tradecraft

Must have a Bachelors degree

Desired Requirements :

Generally, ten or more years of related work experience.

Previous work experience or academic study in terrorism fields.

Previous work experience on terrorist network modeling and forensic media exploitation. Cover letter and resume required.

Conditions OPEN FOR MULTIPLE POSITIONS

Applicants from federal agencies within the Intelligence Community (IC) may be considered for this position as a reimbursable detailee, if endorsed by the employing agency.

Applicants must have current TS / SCI clearances with polygraph or have the ability to obtain one. The ODNI does not conduct polygraphs or provide security clearances for detailees.

Applicants from within the IC must submit an application through the classified IC Joint Duty Program website.

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Your application MUST be received by midnight on the closing date of this announcement. Applications received after the closing date will NOT be eligible for consideration.

All attachments should be in Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF format.

Other Comments OPEN FOR MULTIPLE POSITIONS

Job Interview Travel : Candidates from outside the Washington, D.C., area may be selected for a telephone, teleconference, or in-person interview.

If selected for an in-person interview, any travel or lodging will be at the applicant's personal expense.

What to Expect Next

The most highly qualified candidates will be referred to the hiring manager for further consideration and possible interview.

We expect to make a selection within 30 days of the closing date of this announcement. Due to the large number of applications received, applicants will be contacted ONLY if they have been selected for an interview.

Other Information

The ODNI is an equal opportunity employer and abides by applicable employment laws and regulations.

REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES : The ODNI provides reasonable accommodations to otherwise qualified applicants with disabilities.

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