Security ClearanceSensitive Compartmented Information
Duties
Plan, prepare, justify, administer, analyze, forecast, schedule, sequence, timing of actions, coordinate, and monitor budgetary, financial, accounting, or auditing activities to ensure cost-effective support of Intelligence Community (IC) organizations and programs; analyze and assess financial conditions by applying financial principles, policies, methods, techniques, and systems. Interpret and assess impacts of new and revised Executive or Congressional language on planned or existing resources, programs, activities, and mission; assessing effects of actions on program viability and attainment of objectives. Collect, research, and analyze comprehensive and substantive financial information that includes budget, financial, accounting, audit, and financial reporting information to develop testimony, briefings, and talking points for senior DNI leadership and develop guidance on the preparation of resource requests, reports, or the like to the DNI and Congress. Potentially lead the development of complex financial analyses and provide expert advice and recommendations to senior IC customers in the context of their operations and requirements. Determine the financial implications of strategic and capital, lifecycle, infrastructure planning, investment control, policy enforcement, and management throughout the financial life cycles (i.e., planning, programming, budgeting, execution, and evaluation) within or between IC organizations. Lead or engage in the development, improvement, and implementation of financial management policies and guidelines and establish performance metrics against priorities, policies, and objectives. Monitor and evaluate the progress and outcomes of operational performance plans and identify potential threats or opportunities. Collaborate in the development and coordination of IC and ODNI regulations to improve and standardize financial management processes and procedures to improve the quality of financial reporting. Continually modify long range plans in accordance with changes in Congressional and Presidential program goals; engage in the development of financial management programs, practices, processes, and activities by applying expert knowledge of strategic planning principles that incorporate the vision, mission, and strategic objectives of IC organizations. Liaise with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) leadership, Office of Management and Budget (OMB), or Congressional oversight committees on financial management issues; participate in IC-wide financial management working groups, committees, or meetings.
Requirements
Must be a current permanent ODNI employee OR must be a current permanent Federal employee with supervisory approval to apply to the Joint Duty Assignment (JDA). JDA applicants must be currently at the grade level specified in the advertisement. No temporary promotion opportunities will be granted for this position. The program does not apply to members of the Military service or contractors. Joint Duty applicants may be considered for this position as a reimbursable detailee, if endorsed by the employing agency. Joint Duty applicants must have a current TS/SCI clearance with polygraph or have the ability to obtain one. The ODNI does not conduct polygraphs or provide security clearances for detailees. FREE RESPONSE ESSAY QUESTIONS All applicants must answer the following four short, free response essay questions. The responses cannot exceed 200 words per question. By submitting your responses to the following questions, you certify that you are using your own words and did not use a consultant or AI (such as a large language model [LLM]). How has your commitment to the Constitution and the founding principles of the United States inspired you to pursue this role within the Federal government? Provide a concrete example from professional, academic, or personal experience. In this role, how would you use your skills and experience to improve government efficiency and effectiveness? Provide specific examples where you improved processes, reduced costs, or improved outcomes. How would you help advance the President's Executive Orders and policy priorities in this role? Identify one or two relevant Executive Orders or policy initiatives that are significant to you and explain how you would help implement them if hired. How has a strong work ethic contributed to your professional, academic or personal achievements? Provide one or two specific examples and explain how those qualities would enable you to serve effectively in this position.
Qualifications
Extensive knowledge of the concepts, principles, practices, laws, and regulations of financial management, budgeting, accounting, or auditing sufficient to conduct difficult assignments involving interfaces and inter-relationships between and among programs, systems, functions, policies, and various issues and relationships between the IC and ODNI organizational elements, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Congress. Demonstrated ability to plan, prepare, justify, administer, analyze, forecast, and monitor budget/financial information to ensure cost effective support of organizations and programs, including conducting budget/financial data analysis and assessing financial conditions by applying financial principles, policies, methods, techniques, and systems. Demonstrated ability to independently analyze exceptionally large and complex national level programs. Demonstrated ability to substantially assess enterprise-wide organizational processes and programs to develop, recommend, and implement budgetary and financial policies and agreements. Demonstrated ability to provide advice to customers, in context of operation requirements bases on financial analysis and recommends possible courses of action. Demonstrated ability to develop and render authoritative interpretations of executive orders, OMB guidelines and directives, and policies and precedents within and across the IC. Demonstrated ability to conduct accounting, and financial reporting information; extensive knowledge of financial principles, policies, methods, techniques, and systems. Extensive knowledge of departmental or agency financial management policy, regulations, and financial systems and demonstrated ability to apply sound and independent judgment in order to resolve complex financial problems. Demonstrated ability to manage the financial implications of strategic and capital/life cycle/infrastructure planning, investment Extensive knowledge of the IC and its components, missions, and interrelationships, including the demonstrated ability to lead broad-based teams regarding key IC financial management issues. Extensive experience establishing and maintaining professional networks with all levels of management both internal and external to the ODNI. Demonstrated representational, oral, and written communication skills, including the demonstrated ability to produce clear, logical, and concise products. Demonstrated organizational and interpersonal skills, and demonstrated ability to negotiate, build consensus, and work effectively and independently in a team or collaborative environment. Demonstrated ability to develop consensus recommendations and to solicit input from colleagues and peers; demonstrated ability to remain open-minded and change opinions on the basis of new information and requirements.
Other Information
JOB INTERVIEW TRAVEL Candidates from outside the Washington Metropolitan Area (WMA) may be selected for a telephone, teleconference, or in-person interview. SALARY DETERMINATION A current Federal Government employee, selected for this position, will be assigned to the position at their current grade and salary. REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS The ODNI provides reasonable accommodations to otherwise 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 dni_reasonable_accommodation_wma@cia.ic.gov, by unclassified email at DNI_COO_HRM_RA_ALL@odni.gov, by telephone at (703)275-3900 or by FAX at (703)275-1277. 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.