Summary The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) Chief Operating Officer (COO) administers the Director of National Intelligence (DNI's) vision and direction to the ODNI enterprise. This includes synchronizing policy, plans, procedures, and cross-functional issues. The COO oversees all ODNI business operations, including such areas as human resources, diversity & inclusion, finance and budget, information technology, security, facilities, and information management. Responsibilities Plan, prepare, justification, administration, analysis, forecasting, and monitoring of contractual agreements to ensure delivery of Intelligence Community (IC) programs; oversee budget/financial data analysis and the assessment of deliverables by applying contractual management principles, policies, methods, techniques, and systems. Monitors the collection, research, and analysis of comprehensive and substantive contractual information that includes budget, accounting, and financial reporting information to develop budget testimony, briefings, and talking points for senior DNI leadership and develop IC guidance on the preparation of resource requests and realignments or reprogramming to the DNI and Congress. Monitor contract performance and take any necessary action related to delays in contract performance or the need to stop work under the contract. Apply remedies to protect the rights of the Government under commercial item contracts and simplified acquisitions. Apply remedies to protect the rights of the Government under noncommercial item contracts. Document past performance information. Make sound, well informed, and objective decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions; commits to action, even in uncertain situations, to accomplish organizational goals. Monitor and evaluate the progress and outcomes of operational performance plans and identify potential threats or opportunities. Organize work, sets priorities, determines resource requirements, determines goals and strategies; coordinates with other organizations, monitors progress; evaluates outcomes. Provide technical guidance to the contractor. Assist the Contractor and the CO in interpreting technical requirements of the contract scope of work or specifications. The COTR shall refer differences of opinion to the CO for resolution. Evaluate and make recommendations for acceptance or rejection of waivers and deviations from technical requirements. Monitor the contractor's performance to ensure compliance with the technical requirements and terms and conditions and expectations of the contract. Immediately report all problems to the CO. Provide comments on the contractor's interim status reports, outlining the contractor's performance against the schedule, any problems identified, and any recommended contractual actions that the Agency should take. Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications Expert knowledge of Performance Work Statement Type Contracts. Expert knowledge of the principles, concepts, laws, and regulations of administration, budgeting, accounting, and contractual management to generate new methodologies or to theorize, plan, and direct entire contractual, budgeting, or accounting for broad, emerging, or similarly critical large-scale ODNI-wide programs. Expert ability to plan, prepare, justify, administer, analyze, forecast, and monitor contractual information to ensure cost-effective support of organizations and programs, including conducting budget/financial data analysis and assessing financial conditions. Superior ability to serve as expert and consultant to top agency management officials and customers, in context of operation requirements based on contractual analysis and recommends possible courses of action. Problems are frequently stubborn due to such matters as conflicting funding priorities, economic interests, public interests, constitutional protections, or equivalent concerns. Superior ability to conduct accounting, and financial reporting information; expert knowledge of financial principles, policies, methods, techniques, and systems. Superior knowledge of departmental or agency financial management policy, regulations, and financial systems and superior ability to apply sound and independent judgment in order to resolve complex financial problems. Superior ability to make decisions and recommendations addressing undefined issues that require much consideration and extensive analysis of the immediate and long-range implications of any action. Decisions regarding what needs to be done require extensive probing and analysis. Expert knowledge of ODNI and its components, missions, and interrelationships, including the superior ability to lead broad-based teams regarding key ODNI contractual/financial management issues. Expert experience establishing and maintaining professional networks with all levels of management both internal and external to the ODNI. Expert representational, oral, and written communication skills, including the ability to produce clear, logical, and concise products. Superior organizational and interpersonal skills, and demonstrated ability to negotiate, build consensus, and work effectively and independently in a team or collaborative environment. Expert ability to develop consensus recommendations and to solicit input from colleagues and peers; superior ability to remain open-minded and change opinions on the basis of new information and requirements. Experience: 3 years as an Active COTR. Education: Bachelor's Degree or equivalent relevant work experience and Master's Degree or equivalent relevant work experience. 24 hours of Finance, Accounting or other relevant courses. Certifications/Licenses: COTR Level II or higher. Education Bachelor's degree Additional Information Job Interview Travel: Candidates from outside the Washington, D.C., area may be selected for a telephone, teleconference, or in-person interview. Salary Determination: The ODNI uses a rank-in-person system in which rank is attached to GS employees on the basis of individual qualifications, experience, and performance. Individuals whose current GS grade is equivalent to the grade of the advertised position will retain their current grade and step. Individuals who transfer to the ODNI from a non-GS pay scale will have base pay converted to the appropriate GS grade and step as determined by the Director/ Human Resource Management. On occasional instances when a current federal civilian employee applies for an ODNI position that is a lower grade than his or her personal grade, the candidate's personal grade will be downgraded to the grade of the advertised ODNI position and pay will be set at the step that is closest to but not less than the employee's current annual base rate of pay, not to exceed the maximum rate (i.e., step 10) of the GS grade to which assigned. Relocation Expenses: For new ODNI employees, reimbursement for relocation is discretionary based on availability of funds. Reasonable Accommodations: The ODNI provides reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify the Reasonable Accommodations Officer by classified email at dnireasonableaccommodationwma@cia.ic.gov, by unclassified email at DNIDRA@dni.gov, by telephone at 703-275-3900 or by FAX at 703-275-1217. Your request for reasonable accommodation will be addressed on a case-by-case basis. PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION TO THE EEOD EMAIL ADDRESS. THIS EMAIL IS FOR REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION REQUESTS ONLY. The ODNI is an equal opportunity employer and abides by applicable employment laws and regulations.