Legislative Liaison Officer
$143,913 - $143,913 USD yearly
Summary
The Office of Legislative Affairs (OLA) serves as the principal interface between the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the United States Congress. OLA ensures timely, accurate, and coordinated congressional engagement in accordance with Section 502 of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. § 3092), which requires that the congressional intelligence committees be kept fully and currently informed of U.S. intelligence activities.
Liaise between Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the United States (US) Congress regarding plans, policies, procedures, and the evaluation of current and future budgetary and policy needs of the ODNI and the Intelligence Community (IC).
Execute the development of ODNI testimony, briefings, and reports to Congress; identify, review, evaluate, and develop information to be presented; and anticipate congressional reactions to ODNI briefings and testimony.
Prepare response packages to include fully coordinated reports, accompanying transmittal letters, signed Staff Summary Form, supporting documents, and OLA's internal routing slip; Analyze all recurring CDAs against new congressional requirements, amendments, modifications, repeals, and replicate for following Fiscal Year, as deemed appropriate.
Provide insight, strategies, guidance, and quality control measures necessary to distill congressional direction into congressional action thereby recommending appropriate National Intelligence Programs (NIP), Agencies, or Departments to assume specific roles and responsibilities to address congressional concerns.
Cultivate, and maintain productive working relationships with congressional members, congressional committees, and their staffs and use these relationships to share information of interest, support a continuing dialog, and provide active insight into ongoing and planned ODNI activities.
Develop and continuously improve organizational procedures and processes, especially those that apply to responding to CDAs; manage competing priorities in response to internal and external demands and customers' requirements; and provide complete, accurate, and on-time responses to CDAs and other congressional inquiries.
Conditions of employment
- Must be a U.S. Citizen residing in the United States
- Appointment is subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance based on an SBI with eligibility for sensitive compartmented information (SCI)
- Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration.
- A two-year trial period is required for all new permanent appointments to the ODNI.
Qualifications
Extensive knowledge of the ODNI, IC, US Congress, congressional committees, and congressional liaison activities.
Knowledge of trends and developments in proposed and existing legislation with the potential to affect the ODNI and the IC relative to the intelligence mission; extensive knowledge of the views of individual members of Congress and the agendas of congressional committees.
Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities under strict deadlines while maintaining a high level of attention to detail and the demonstrated ability to work effectively with a team of senior officers in a high profile and demanding office.
Demonstrated ability to develop and implement ODNI's congressional strategy to improve the effectiveness and responsiveness of ODNI and the IC in communicating with and informing Congress of its activities, issues, plans, and programs.
Strong interpersonal, organizational, and problem-solving skills with demonstrated ability to interact with members of Congress and with senior IC and ODNI officials.
Extensive oral and written communication skills including demonstrated ability to tactfully convey complex information and ideas to members of Congress, congressional committees, and their staffs.
Education
High School
Additional information
Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.
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