Chief Intelligence Analyst – Senior Level

The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) focuses on designing, building, launching, and maintaining America’s intelligence satellites.

Whether creating the latest innovations in satellite technology, contracting with the most cost-efficient industrial supplier, conducting rigorous launch schedules, or providing the highest-quality products to our customers, we never lose focus on who we are working to protect: our Nation and its Citizens.

Basic Eligibility For A Position With The NRO

• You must be a U.S.

  Citizen

• You must be 18 years of age or older
• You must be able to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI security clearance
• You will be subject to pre-employment and periodic drug testing
• You will be subject to pre-employment and periodic polygraph examinations
• You will be required to show proof of being fully vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus, and must certify under penalty of perjury that the documentation you submit is true and correct.

  In limited circumstances, a reasonable accommodation for medical or religious reasons may be granted as legally required.

Individuals who start their government service after November 22, 2021, need to be fully vaccinated prior to their scheduled start date, except in limited circumstances where a reasonable accommodation for medical or religious reasons is legally required.

Employees will be considered fully vaccinated for COVID-19 two weeks after they have received the requisite number of doses of a COVID-19 vaccine approved or authorized for emergency use by the U.S.

Food and Drug Administration or that has been listed for emergency use by the World Health Organization.

For Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, or AstraZeneca/Oxford, that is two weeks after an employee has received the second dose in a two-dose series.

For Johnson and Johnson (J&J)/Janssen, that is two weeks after an employee has received a single-dose.

New employees will be required to show proof of being fully vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus, and must certify under penalty of perjury that the documentation you submit is true and correct on their start date in order to access NRO facilities.

For urgent, mission critical hiring needs, unvaccinated new hires need to be vaccinated within 60 days of their start date and follow safety protocols for not fully vaccinated individuals until they are fully vaccinated.

The NRO Office of Intelligence coordinates, consolidates, and synchronizes the various intelligence and threat functions performed across the NRO enterprise in support of NRO operations, acquisitions, and mission assurance.

The Office of Intelligence applies analytic and technical knowledge and experience to assess intelligence reporting and all-source intelligence, and leverages points of contact throughout the NRO, Intelligence Community (IC), and national security community of interest to provide insights into foreign threats to NRO missions.

The Office of Intelligence’s mission is accomplished by leveraging technology, relationships, experience, and research to access, correlate, and assess large amounts of reporting to identify and inform the NRO and its leadership of threats and their effects on NRO operations, acquisitions, and mission assurance.

The NRO Cadre is collecting resumes for consideration against current and future opportunities for senior level (GG-15), Supervisory Intelligence Analyst, occupational series 0132.

For more information on the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) occupational series, click here .

Your resume may be considered for other positions which your skills and experience may be a good match.

This is a full-time position that is open from December 8, 2021 to December 23, 2021.

Resumes must be submitted by 11:59 PM EST on December 23, 2021.

Who May Apply

• This position is open to the public.
• Federal government employees MUST currently be at the grade level or higher as indicated in this announcement.

  This is NOT a promotion opportunity for current Federal government employees.

  If selected for the position, Federal government employees will transition laterally at their current grade level and step.

• Federal applicants who exceed the advertised grade may voluntarily request acceptance at the lower grade per IAW DoD 1400.25 Volume 2006.
• The NRO is only accepting external applicants for this job announcement.

  Current NRO Cadre employees should apply internally.

What You Will Be Doing

The Chief Analyst will engage in management, coordination, synchronization and integration of NRO-wide intelligence requirements, resources, and activities.

The Chief Analyst assists in managing the NRO intelligence enterprise by developing, interpreting, applying, implementing, and evaluating NRO intelligence policies, strategies, and doctrines to enable effective synchronization, consolidation, and sharing of intelligence across the NRO intelligence enterprise and to NRO leadership.

The Chief Analyst also facilitates communication and coordination between the NRO intelligence enterprise and the IC, and between the NRO intelligence enterprise and Space component intelligence entities.

In addition, the Chief Analyst will/will:

• Responsible for the effective use of assigned personnel and for the quantity and quality of work produced.

  Exercises supervisory personnel management responsibilities.

  Direct, coordinate, and oversee work of subordinates.

  Advise staff regarding policies, procedures, and directives of higher-level management or headquarters.

  Explain performance expectations to employees directly supervised and provide regular feedback on strengths and weaknesses.

  Appraise performance of subordinate employees.

  Recommend awards for non-supervisory personnel and changes in position classification to higher-level managers.

  Initiates action to correct performance or conduct problems of employees directly supervised.

  Ensure documentation prepared to support actions is proper and complete.

  Review developmental needs of non-supervisory employees.

  Encourages self-development.

  Ensure adequate coverage in organization through peak workloads and traditional holiday vacation time.

  Adhere to the tenets of the NRO Directive (ND) 80-3 Equal Employment Opportunity and Diversity Management.

• Provide supervision for a team of intelligence specialists that have responsibility for participating in the research and consolidation of all-source intelligence products pertaining to foreign capabilities and employment of space and counter-space systems to include systems and employment that threaten NRO space operations, support, and acquisition.
• Employ a wide range of leadership and intelligence skills and background knowledge to supervise research on capabilities, developments, and trends in foreign use of space and space systems to include threats to NRO space operations, support, and acquisition; and forecasts of future capabilities, developments, and trends.
• Supervise research, review, and integration of complex all-source studies, reports, papers, briefings, and assessments from IC components on space and counter-space issues for NRO decision-makers in acquisition, operational, and policy-making roles.
• Synchronize and supervise extensive research of space-related strategy, doctrine, tactics, operations, force structure and subordination, deployment, capabilities, systems and facilities, and vulnerabilities and threats.
• Ensure continuous monitoring and integration of valid intelligence requirements from within NRO and timely, comprehensive, and accurate responses.

  Administers the process of review, clarification, adjudication, acceptance, tasking, response, tracking, and follow-up involved in requests for information submitted to the Office of Intelligence by NRO customers.

• Track significant intelligence gaps identified by analysts, specifies collection requirements to fill gaps in information, and ensures incorporation of resulting intelligence into the NRO threat estimate.
• Maintain liaison with counterpart leaders and specialists in the IC and in Space component intelligence entities.

What You Need

• Demonstrated experience as an all-source intelligence analyst with at least five years’ experience supervising intelligence analysts.

  Experience coordinating among multiple offices and leading a team toward a common goal.

  Demonstrated strong leadership skills and experience.

• Experience working in technically proficient dynamic team environments.

  Ability to work within small teams, brainstorm ideas, support group decisions, and solicit opinions from coworkers.

  Excellent interpersonal, collaboration, mentoring, and teamwork skills.

• Self-starter with a strong drive to develop new ways to gather and investigate complex and disparate data sets to extract salient points and articulate them clearly.
• Demonstrated strong research, analytic, critical thinking, and communication skills to include excellent writing skills.
• Demonstrated openness and respect for diverse perspectives.

  Ability to remain open-minded and re-evaluate analytic conclusions based on new intelligence reporting.

• Ability to make sound judgments with bias for action under tight deadlines.
• Demonstrated collaboration across the IC and space community.
• Knowledge of intelligence operations, threat analysis, and Defense Intelligence Enterprise operations.
• Background in space systems, technical operations, and/or counterintelligence.
• Demonstrated collaboration experience across the DoD within the intelligence community, armed services and/or combatant commands (INDOPACOM, USSTRATCOM, EUCOM, etc…).
• At least four years synchronizing threat research and dissemination.

Qualifying experience may have been acquired in any public or private sector job, but will clearly demonstrate past experience in the application of the particular competencies/knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to successfully perform and is typically in or directly related to the duties of the position as described above.  Experience must be reflected in your resume.

Other Information

• Overtime Statement: MAY be required to work other than normal duty hours, which may include evenings, weekends, and/or holidays.
• Travel Statement: MAY be required to travel in military or commercial aircraft to perform temporary duty assignments.
• Financial Disclosure: MAY be required to file an OGE Form 450, Confidential Financial Disclosure Report, upon appointment and will be required to file annually.
• Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA) coded positions: If selected for a DAWIA coded position, the incumbent must meet appropriate certification requirements IAW the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA) no later than 24 months after accepting this position.

  Individual shall maintain, at a minimum 80 continuous Learning Points every 24 months via the services acquisition management system.

  DAWIA requirements may be located at the Defense Acquisition University website .

• Geographic Mobility Agreement: MAY be subject to directed reassignment as required to address mission effectiveness, and/or career development.
• Information Assurance (IA): Must achieve the appropriate IA certification within six months of assignment.
• Emergency Essential: Certain positions MAY be deemed emergency essential and incumbents must be willing to meet all position requirements.

Location

Chantilly, VA, 20151

2021 salary range for the Washington, DC area:

GG-15 $144,128 – $172,500.

**This position is a senior level DCIPS position.

The NRO is accepting applications from U.S.

Citizens and current federal government employees for this position.

To qualify for the position, federal government employees MUST currently be at the GG – 15 grade level and may ONLY apply for a lateral reassignment at their current grade level and step.

Federal applicants who exceed the advertised grade may voluntarily request acceptance at the lower grade per IAW DoD 1400.25 Volume 2006.

Hiring Incentives

The NRO may offer hiring incentives and other entitlements at management’s discretion.

DoD Components with DCIPS positions apply Veterans’ Preference to preference eligible candidates as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 USC, in accordance with the procedures provided in DoD Instruction 1400.25, Vol 2005, DCIPS Employment and Placement.

If you are a veteran claiming veterans’ preference, as defined by section 2108 of Title 5 USC, you must submit documents verifying your eligibility upon request.

Equal Employment Opportunity Policy

The United States Government does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor.

Federal agencies must provide reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities where appropriate.

Applicants requiring reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process should follow the instructions in the job opportunity announcement.

For any part of the remaining hiring process, applicants should contact the hiring agency directly.

Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.

A reasonable accommodation is any change to a job, the work environment, or the way things are usually done that enables an individual with a disability to apply for a job, perform job duties or receive equal access to job benefits.

Under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, federal agencies must provide reasonable accommodations when:

• An applicant with a disability needs an accommodation to have an equal opportunity to apply for a job.
• An employee with a disability needs an accommodation to perform the essential job duties or to gain access to the workplace.
• An employee with a disability needs an accommodation to receive equal access to benefits, such as details, training, and office-sponsored events.

You can request a reasonable accommodation at any time during the application or hiring process or while on the job.

Requests are considered on a case-by-case basis.

Please send your request to Hiring@nro.mil .

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3302 and 3361.