Chief_Damage Assessments Office

Chief_Damage Assessments Office

Department: Other Agencies and Independent Organizations

Location(s): Bethesda, Maryland

Salary Range: $169279 - $197200 Per Year

Job Summary: Lead proactive counterintelligence and security activities across the United States government, integrating the instruments of national power to detect, report, deter, disrupt, investigate, exploit, and defeat foreign intelligence threats.

Major Duties:

• Major Duties and Responsibilities: The NCSC/Security Directorate (SD) protects the nation's security interests by providing comprehensive security solutions. SD develops and implements policies, guidance, and standards for personnel security, IC-wide and SCI security-relevant issues, and security clearance reform. SD also engages with government and industry partners to protect national security equities against foreign intelligence and security threats, and advance the U.S. Government's risk management environment to safeguard against adversarial and insider threats. The NCSC/SD directly supports the DNI's responsibilities as the Security Executive Agency (SecEA) across the Executive Branch and serves as the DNI's designee for oversight of national security programs across the Intelligence Community (IC). The Damage Assessment (DA) Office, within NCSC's Security Directorate, serves as the Intelligence Community's central coordinating body for evaluating actual or potential damage to national security resulting from unauthorized disclosures or compromises of classified national intelligence. Operating under the authority of ICD 732, the Office leads and facilitates complex, multi-agency damage assessments when incidents affect more than one IC element or U.S. Government department. The DA Office provides critical oversight of equity reviews and formal damage assessments, ensuring comprehensive evaluation of compromised intelligence, identification of systemic vulnerabilities, and development of actionable mitigation strategies. Beyond individual assessments, the Office serves as the IC's center of excellence for the damage assessment tradecraft-sharing lessons learned on threat patterns, adversarial capabilities, and best practices to strengthen security posture across the Intelligence Community. The Chief, Damage Assessments Office will: Lead and facilitate IC-wide damage assessment teams when designated by the DNI, coordinating multi-agency efforts involving classified national intelligence affecting multiple IC elements or government departments. Oversee and coordinate equity reviews and formal damage assessments across the Intelligence Community in accordance with ICD 732. Ensure draft damage assessments are reviewed by all affected parties for validation of factual accuracy and provide completed assessments to stakeholders. Oversee ranking and prioritizing of competing requirements for additional capabilities through a transparent and accountable methodology. Disseminate best practices and recommended mitigation measures for implementation throughout the Intelligence Community. Lead assessments to leverage best practices and lessons learned. Build strong networks with IC counterparts and external experts to identify emerging techniques for strategic analysis and damage assessment methodologies. Ensure the Damage Assessment Office collaborates with internal NCSC and external stakeholders to ensure lessons learned and findings are promulgated and understood. Lead a professional analytic staff, providing direction on complex national intelligence issues related to damage assessments. Support briefings to senior IC officials and other major stakeholders collaboration progress, issues and challenges. Assess performance, oversee goal setting, and provide feedback on personal and professional development.

Qualifications: 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. Mandatory Requirements: Expert knowledge of IC organizations; IC mission posture, structures, capabilities, processes, and policy development. Superior ability to anticipate issues relevant to the IC and United States Government and recommend/implement needed actions. Superior leadership skills and ability to lead interagency working groups, build coalitions with IC elements to achieve common goals. Superior ability to design and implement integration strategies for IC initiatives and programs, including the superior ability to manage human, financial, and information resources. Superior analytical and critical thinking skills, including the superior ability to think strategically, identify needs and requirements, develop recommendations, and evaluate outcomes against goals and objectives. Superior ability to manage strategic and tactical level topics, and develop innovative recommendations and solutions for improvement. Superior interpersonal skills and superior ability to work effectively in both independent and in a team or collaborative environment. Superior oral and written communication skills, including superior ability to draft and edit written reports of varying length and complexity, and to communicate effectively with audiences of varying seniority and expertise. Desired Requirements: Counterintelligence, Insider Threat, and/or Personnel Security experience and/or knowledge of IC organizations' counterintelligence components, mission posture, structure, capabilities, processes, policies and challenges. Previous intelligence mission management experience.

How to Apply: We encourage you to read the entire announcement prior to submitting your application. In order to be considered, you must apply via USAJOBS. The ODNI will not accept emailed applications. Your application must be received by 11:59 PM (EST) on the closing date of this announcement. Applications received after the closing date will NOT be eligible for consideration. All attachments should be in Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF format. Do not include the following types of information in your profile or resume: Classified or government sensitive information Social Security Number (SSN) Photos of yourself Personal information such as age, gender, religious affiliation, etc. Encrypted and digitally signed documents

Application Deadline: 2026-04-30