ODNI Position - April 2022

Posted on DCPA+CJ: 4/16/22 (disregard autopublished date above/we updated an older post)

UNCLASSIFIED  

Office of the Director of National Intelligence/Office of Civil Liberties, Privacy and Transparency – Transparency Project Manager 

Joint Duty Number: ODNI-22-0735C Vacancy Type: JDAT Agency: ODNI Grade: GG/GS-14 Location: Maryland-Montgomery County Start Date: 06/05/2022 

Number: 25315
Vacancy Open Date: 04/05/2022
Vacancy Close Date: 05/04/2022
Primary Contact Information: Vacancy Team 703-275-3888 (Commercial) 917-3888 (Secure) DNI-COO-HRM-Vacancies Mailbox@cia.ic.gov (IC) HRM-HR-OPS-VACANCY TEAM@dni.gov (Unclass) 

Mission Category: Mission Management Work Level(s); Senior 

Position Grade: GG/GS-14
Additional Grades Considered: GG/GS-13

Duty Station: Bethesda, MD
Travel Percentage: 0-25%
Telework Percentage: 0-25%
Tour Length (months): 24
Reimbursable Position: REIMBURSABLE
Security Clearance Required: TOP SECRET//SCI
Polygraph Level Required: CI 

The Intelligence Community's (IC) success depends on the trust and support of the American people and the ODNI's Office of Civil Liberties, Privacy and Transparency (CLPT) leads the IC in its efforts towards greater openness and accountability. 

CLPT leads the integration of civil liberties and privacy protections into the activities of the Intelligence Community. This includes overseeing compliance with privacy and civil liberties in programs administered by the ODNI and ensuring that the use of technology sustains, and does not erode, privacy. CLPT is also responsible for institutionalizing the Principles of Transparency for the Intelligence Community, which guide decision-making on how the IC can offer insight its activities, and perform our vital mission more efficiently and effectively, while ensuring our sources and methods remain protected. CLPT also champions the Principles of Professional Ethics for the Intelligence Community: Mission, Truth, Lawfulness, Integrity, Stewardship, Excellence and Diversity. These fundamental ethical principles unite professionals across the IC. 

Our overarching purpose is to ensure that the IC conducts itself in a manner exemplifying American values and provides confidence that, whether on the public stage, or subject to the sometimes-necessary secrecy our work requires, the IC's actions are lawful and effective, as well as ethical and wise. 

Major Duties and Responsibilities 

This position serves as the lead creative technologist, enhancing the IC's public facing transparency activities with your unique voice and vision. This includes leading the multimedia design and development team behind Intelligence.gov, the new digital front door for the U.S. Intelligence Community - a platform entirely devoted to facilitating greater openness with the public we serve: 

Execute Civil Liberties and Privacy Office's (CLPO) duties as they relate to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and across the Intelligence Community (IC). 

Lead a talented, multidisciplinary team to produce highly engaging multimedia projects, capturing requirements and marrying them with the best-available technical solution, as well as the best practices for digital design and open government. 

From digital interactives, to the release of documents and data, to video production, and more, you'll define project goals, scope, and requirements for all phases of production to determine the required team and technical resources needed for successful, timely product delivery. 

Whether working on internal or inter-agency projects, you'll collaborate closely with our strategic, technical, and administrative partners in the pursuit of not just the best quality product, but an improved process that benefits future products.

Enable the IC to pilot new initiatives and explore new ideas via stakeholder identification, contextual inquiry, structured ideation sessions, rapid design prototyping, and user-centric evaluations - building relationships, as well as broadening our base of knowledge.

Maintain – and elevate – the editorial content, design and production process for Intelligence.gov and other public-facing IC transparency platforms, helping to chart a strategic, and sustainable path for improving these essential resources.

Be an articulate voice during internal and external presentations, relied upon to develop and share your expertise in collaboration with others, as well as represent CLPT and the IC to stakeholder groups within and without the government.

Manage CLPT's outreach portfolio to the government, academia, and private sector, fostering awareness, pursuing collaboration, and assessing the impacts of emergent transparency-enabling technologies and methodologies.

Create new policies and processes that will help to establish will reflect the Principles of Professional Ethics for the Intelligence Community: Mission, Truth, Service, Lawfulness, Integrity, Excellence and Diversity.

Minimum Qualifications Required: Mandatory Requirements

Extensive knowledge of federal civil liberties statutes, regulations, guidelines, policies, and procedures.
Extensive knowledge of the IC, law enforcement, and counterterrorism information sharing and privacy issues.

Extensive knowledge of international, state, and local civil liberties issues, including the demonstrated ability to analyze information and database technologies that may implicate privacy protections.

Extensive knowledge of research methodologies and legal practices to conduct research, interpret laws, regulations and policies, analyze issues, and draft findings, assessments, and make recommendations.

Demonstrated organizational and interpersonal skills, including the demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities.

Demonstrated oral and written communication skills, including the demonstrated ability to clearly convey complex information and ideas to all levels of management.

Demonstrated analytic and critical thinking skills, including the demonstrated ability to conduct assessments, to identify issues and to develop process improvement recommendations.

Demonstrated skill in negotiating and consulting and superior judgment in applying principles to identify and solve problems.

Desired Requirements

Three plus years' experience supervising teams developing user-facing, creative, interactive experiences, including managing with both very long and short timelines, and forming a coherent strategy for each.

Working understanding of the building blocks of web development (HTML, CSS, Javascript, JSON, PHP, working with APIs, 508 compliance, etc.) and an ability to get in the weeds and work with developers or other experts to effectively realize a creative vision.

Experience with common content management systems such as WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, and SharePoint as well as code-management platforms such as GitHub.

Experience with creating online campaigns and digital graphics, including the use of common platforms (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc.) as well as common creative platforms (Adobe Creative Suite, etc.).

Experience with managing live in-person and virtual events, including press engagement, annual conferences, creative co-creation events, hackathons, etc.

Experience with video production pipelines, including scripting and storyboarding; site selection and talent prep; editing and post-production.

Demonstrated ability to write creatively and clearly, rapidly synthesizing new information into accurate, engaging, persuasive presentations for a range of audiences.

Familiarity with the principles, process, and reporting requirements for the U.S. Open Government Directive and the international Open Government Partnership.

Knowledge and understanding of Intelligence Community's organization, mission, and structure.

Foreign Language Requirements: None
Conditions: CURRENT FEDERAL EMPLOYEES APPLYING FOR A DETAIL ASSIGNMENT:

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.

Other Comments: 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.

COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement: To ensure compliance with an applicable nationwide preliminary injunction, which may be supplemented, modified, or vacated, depending on the course of ongoing litigation, the federal government will take no action to implement or enforce the COVID-19 vaccination requirement pursuant to Executive Order 14043 on Requiring Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination for federal employees. Therefore, to the extent a federal job announcement includes the requirement that applicants must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 pursuant to Executive Order 14043, that requirement does not currently apply.

Federal agencies may request information regarding the vaccination status of selected applicants for the purposes of implementing other workplace safety protocols, such as protocols related to masking, physical distancing, testing, travel, and quarantine.

REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES: 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 Accommodation Office Representative by classified email at DNI Reasonable_Accommodation WMA@cia.ic.gov and DNI Diversity WMA@cia.ic.gov, by unclassified email at DNI DRA@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. PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION VIA THE EMAIL ADDRESS PROVIDED IN THE ‘HOW TO APPLY'SECTION ABOVE.

How to Apply: APPLICATION PROCESS: 1. IC employees must apply by the vacancy close date. The IC employee application should include the following ...
a. A brief (two-page limit) candidate resume or biographical summary.
b. A short narrative describing the applicant's qualifications (general and specific) for the joint duty rotational assignment.

2. IC employees must be nominated by their employing (home) element within 10 calendar days of the vacancy close date in order to be considered by the gaining element. Please contact your employing element's Joint Duty Program Office for nomination procedures as some agencies may require written supervisory endorsement at the time of application. IC Element Joint Duty Program Office contact info can be found at: https://ichas.dni.ic.gov/JDAT/Contacts.aspx. Any application sent directly by an IC employee to the gaining element will not be considered.

UNCLASSIFIED