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 Major Duties and Responsibilities: Directorate of Intelligence (DI) is seeking an energetic officer to serve as a Tradecraft Reviewer supporting NCTC's analytic and multimedia production. This position requires the skills of a motivated self-starter with excellent interpersonal skills who can work collaboratively with analysts, managers, designers, cartographers, and Intelligence Community (IC) stakeholders to ensure that consumers receive the highest quality finished intelligence in a timely fashion. Review all-source analytic products-including for the President's Daily Brief and the Terrorism Intelligence Brief-to ensure that they adhere to NCTC/DI tradecraft principles as well as for clarity, brevity, organization, and logic. Work closely with authoring analysts and their managers to ensure that intelligence publications provide compelling and convincing information to support arguments contained therein. Cultivate and maintain productive relationships with intelligence officers to provide direct input in substantive and procedural processes for producing Community-coordinated intelligence analysis. Represent NCTC/DI and lead corporate initiatives on analytic tradecraft- and production-related issues within the Directorate, Center, and IC. Review and analyze written drafts using expert application of analytic principles and tradecraft; review articles to identify key information items and actionable messages based on knowledge of subject and tradecraft principles and ensure that each article is concise and easily understood by the full range of potential readers. Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications Mandatory Requirements: Previous experience writing finished analytic intelligence products. Superior analytical and critical thinking skills, including superior ability to think strategically. Superior oral and written communication skills and superior ability to conduct independent research, filter and synthesize analytic data, and produce clear, logical, and concise intelligence products. Expert knowledge of the high priority intelligence issues and items of interest to intelligence publications and customers. Superior interpersonal skills and superior ability to work effectively with individuals at both the working level and at the highest levels of government; confidence and effectiveness in working with government officials as well as with senior Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) officers. Superior time management skills and ability to prioritize tasks with competing deadlines and superior ability to work effectively under extremely tight deadlines. At least seven years of professional experience at a national agency, service component, or combatant command. 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.