Science & Technology Officer

Description:

The Policy & Capabilities Directorate ensures the IC is best postured for the threats and challenges of an uncertain future, through strategy, policy, and capabilities development. Comprised of 7 organizations, PC oversees IC Human Capital; Acquisition, Procurement & Facilities; Intelligence Advance Research Projects Activity; Science & Technology Group; Requirements, Cost & Effectiveness; Policy & Strategy; and Domestic Engagement, Information Sharing & Data.

Requirements:

Superior ability to understand and synthesize new scientific and technical advances from a range of technical disciplines into policy or investment recommendations that will impact mission.

Superior ability to lead studies, initiatives, or projects across multiple IC elements through superior collaboration, negotiation, or facilitation.

Expert knowledge and experience with the IC's technology community, including research and development entities, and broad understanding of the organizations, missions and functions, and operating practices of the IC with a focus on microelectronics and/or advanced computing.

Superior oral and written communication and interpersonal skills and the superior ability to work effectively with peers and leaders from across the IC and Department of Defense.

Expert experience with work of superior impact on agency programs related to a rapidly evolving field.

Expert experience pioneering development efforts to achieve new capabilities with previously unattainable characteristics.

Expert experience conceiving, planning, and conducting pioneering work of outstanding scope, difficulty, and complexity in unexplored or previously unpromising areas of investigations or managed complex and extensive scientific programs of critical importance to the agency.

Expert experience with work involving high levels of uncertainty and the balancing of conflicting interest of extreme intensity.

Expert experience with work of major importance and scope as to affect technical policies of a major department or agency, have a significant bearing on legislation, or involve equivalent implications.

Expert extended training and experience which has demonstrated leadership and unusual attainments in professional, scientific, or technical research, practice, or administration, or in administrative, fiscal, or other specialized activities.

Expert experience consulting or other professional, scientific, technical, administrative, fiscal, or other specialized work of equal importance, difficulty, and responsibility, and requiring comparable qualifications.

Master of Science degree in a science, math, or engineering disciplines such as computer science, physical science, mathematics, physics, chemistry, or electrical engineering.