Data and Technology Officer

The Policy & Capabilities (PC) Directorate ensures the IC is best postured for the threats and challenges of an uncertain future, through strategy, policy, and capabilities development. PC is comprised of the Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO) and Policy Strategy and Accountability (PSA) Office.

**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. Broad national recognition as a top technical expert and consultant in the field of expertise. Expert experience with leadership of studies of outstanding difficulty, exceptional attainments, and responsibility along special technical, supervisory, or administrative lines. 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. 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.