Senior Engagement Advisor-Foreign Partners Division

IAT is looking for a Senior Level Engagement Advisor to support strategic planning efforts in Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) Foreign Partners Division.

Primary work location: Mclean, VA

Clearance: Top Secret SCI w/poly

Primary responsibilities:

• Participate in all aspects of strategic plan development, coordination, and maintenance.
• Facilitate project prioritization, production, and updates.
• Work closely with senior USG representatives to de-conflict and align disparate views.
• Draft detailed and complex coordination documents.
• Provide briefings to senior executives.
• In coordination with the government lead, explore ways to enhance project functionality, increase efficiencies, and disseminate data to those with a mission “need to know”.
• Review and provide input to draft policy documents.
• Facilitate internal review of draft documents.
• Track a range of complex interactions with interagency partners at the highest levels of the IC and key allies.
• Arrange meetings, escort visitors, take detailed notes, and follow up on action items from the meetings and conferences.
• Assist and support organizing IC and ODNI working groups, meetings, boards, and other forums.
• Assist in developing recommendations, resolving issues, and implementing specific ODNI policies.

Required qualifications:

• BS +20 years or MS +18 years
• Excellent written and oral communications skills, to include rules of composition and grammar, and the ability to convey complex information and ideas clearly to employees at all staff levels
• Familiarity with foreign affairs.
• Superior experience and knowledge of the ODNI, national security, and intelligence communities to include intelligence policy, IC missions, and interagency coordination to build and sustain effective working relationships and promote the sharing of information.
• Superior interpersonal, organizational, and problem-solving skills, including a superior ability to work effectively both independently and in a team or collaborative environment and to sustain professional networks both internal and external to the ODNI.
• Demonstrated ability to apply executive support concepts, principles, and practices while dealing with a variety of time-sensitive technical and administrative requirements and procedures.
• Ability to manage competing priorities under strict deadlines while maintaining a high level of attention to detail.
• Good organizational skills and outstanding time management skills.

Desired qualifications:

• Possess strong understanding of the role of DNI Representatives; Embassy structures/organizations, and interrelationship between IC HQ and their Embassy representatives; and
• Strong cable writing skills.