Summary 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. Responsibilities Recognize identified program needs to inform and begin the requirements validation process. Coordinate or lead 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). Prepare, justify, and/or administer budgets and monitor expenditures for program areas. 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. Develop a risk management approach to ensure program success. Develop and maintain ongoing working relationships and expectations with customers, stakeholders, users, and decision authorities throughout the program life cycle. Reference approved 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 Qualifications Extensive understanding of roles and missions of enterprise (e.g., agency, department, IC) and other external factors. Demonstrated 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. Demonstrated skill to align programs with strategic goals. Extensive understanding of the organization's financial processes. Prepares, justifies, and administers the project/program budget. Demonstrated ability to oversee procurement and contracting to achieve desired results; monitor expenditures and analyze cost-benefits to set priorities. Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships, especially in difficult situations (e.g. when defending or critiquing a position). Demonstrated ability to demonstrate and foster respect, understanding, courtesy, tact, and empathy. Considers varied cultural backgrounds, work experience, and organizational roles in working with others. Extensive knowledge to identify and understand issues, problems, different sources throughout the IC and external agencies to draw conclusions. Demonstrated ability to choose an approach, develop solutions, and take action consistent with IC values, available facts, constraints, and probable consequences. Extensive understanding of the interrelationships among organizations and components of the IC. Extensive understanding of how one's own work impacts, and is impacted by the mission and operations of IC organizations and components, and uses this information to maximize contribution to mission accomplishment. Demonstrated ability to identify and use principles, rules, and relationships to construct arguments or interpret facts, data, or other information. Demonstrated ability to dissect problems into meaningful parts and uses logic and judgment to determine accuracy and relevance of data. Demonstrated ability to identify and reconcile gaps, uncertainties, and key assumptions of data. Superior ability to integrate evidence/information, evaluates and prioritizes alternatives, and assesses similarities and differences in data to develop findings and conclusions. Extensive understanding of potential implications of these findings or conclusions. Demonstrated ability to identify, interpret, comply, and with and stay current on relevant regulations, guidelines, laws, and directives COTR I Certification Education Bachelor's 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 candidate's 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 employee's 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.