UNCLASSIFIED
Program Analyst/Operations Manager
NONIC-25-0010UNONIC
GG/GS-14
Virginia-Alexandria, Arlington & Falls Church
3/10/2025
The Global Investment and Economic Security Directorate protects DoD equities from adversarial foreign investment risks by delivering national security risk analyses and mitigation proposals to decision makers to resolve national security concerns. GIES currently oversees DoD's representation on the Committee for Foreign Investment of the United States (CFIUS), the Committee for the Assessment of Foreign Participation in the United States Telecommunications Services Sector (Team Telecom), and mergers and acquisitions and the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvement Act reviews. GIES implements the Fiscal Year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, Section 1260H List of Chinese military companies operating in the U.S. The Directorate also conducts research on economic national security issues including foreign investment, adversarial capital and economic coercion risk and engages and collaborate with allies and partners to protect and bolster the domestic and allied defense industrial bases.
The incumbent will work within the GIES Chief of Staff/Business Operations Office on the following priorities:
-Evaluates programmatic or business operations to aid managers and other key stakeholders in making informed decisions on program, planning, and policy issues.
-Evaluates existing internal processes and procedures, drafting proposed findings and recommendations to administrative systems, legislation, and regulations. Analytical outcomes serve to promote efficiency and to achieve mission-oriented programs and organizational objectives.
-Uses qualitative and quantitative analysis methods to analyze program-related data and identify and analyze program or policy issues using quantitative data. Identifies data requirements for effective program evaluations; monitors program trends through analyses of statistical data; designs statistically valid surveys, questionnaires, and data analyses techniques to evaluate programs. Through analyses of statistical data and participation in on-site surveys, conducts comparative studies of organizations and programs to ascertain relative levels of efficiency, quality of customer service being provided, and more efficient and cost-effective ways of conducting agency business.
-Analyze new or proposed legislation, regulations, or policies to determine impact on programs, operations, and/or management within a specific functional or well-defined program area of relatively narrow scope.
-Provides operational, technical, and administrative support on critical projects, programs, and policies within the organization.
-Plans and manages special and recurring projects on well-defined subject matter areas to include the formulation of the project methodology, identifying resources required to support the operational and analytical techniques for accomplishment of program objectives.
-Plans, coordinates, and assists leadership with the establishment of operating methods and procedures for accomplishment of program and/or project mission. Serve as the Deputy Chief of Staff during the Chief of Staff's absence.
-Drafts, reviews, edits, and/or provides input to written materials, including program guidance, informational/decision memoranda, pre-meeting background briefings, talking points for senior-level managers' meetings (from informal to international), speeches, testimony, and decision proposals/justifications. Government lead overseeing the correspondence team, the task management process, handling GIES office management activities and assisting with managing HR actions through the hiring process.
-Establishes and maintains continuous liaison with the staff, appropriate counterparts and high authority on all areas of responsibility. Participates in and operates as a team member, working groups and ad hoc committees as they relate to program studies and changes.
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• Enthusiasm for applying due diligence and new methods to analytic problems
• Innovative self-starter with strong critical thinking/analytic skills, including the ability to process large amounts of information, extract relevant information and distill into high-impact products; the ability to identify emerging trends and issues; the ability to perform independent research, and to network with inter-agency partners
• Ability to perform in-depth research of business practices, quickly grasp a broad range of business, technology, acquisition, resources, and financial concepts and provide concise analyses to senior management on implementation and integration efforts
• Effective interpersonal, oral and written communication skills; ability to work well across organizational boundaries and with high level officials
• Demonstrated success in balancing and prioritizing competing needs and requirements; position involves dynamic group facilitation
• Candidates at the GG/GS-13 level will be considered who have demonstrated strong leadership capabilities or have performed at a level to warrant a promotion.
Travel may be required up to 10%.
APPLICATION PROCESS:
1. IC employees must apply by the vacancy close date. The IC employee application should include the following ...
a. A brief (two-page limit) candidate resume or biographical summary.
b. A short narrative describing the applicant's qualifications (general and specific) for the joint duty rotational assignment.
2. IC employees must be nominated by their employing (home) element within 10 calendar days of the vacancy close date in order to be considered by the gaining element. Please contact your employing element's Joint Duty Program Office for nomination procedures as some agencies may require written supervisory endorsement at the time of application. IC Element Joint Duty Program Office contact info can be found at: https://ichas.dni.ic.gov/JDAT/Contacts.aspx. Any application sent directly by an IC employee to the gaining element will not be considered.
The incumbent will work within the GIES Chief of Staff/Business Operations Office on the following priorities:
-Evaluates programmatic or business operations to aid managers and other key stakeholders in making informed decisions on program, planning, and policy issues.
-Evaluates existing internal processes and procedures, drafting proposed findings and recommendations to administrative systems, legislation, and regulations. Analytical outcomes serve to promote efficiency and to achieve mission-oriented programs and organizational objectives.
-Uses qualitative and quantitative analysis methods to analyze program-related data and identify and analyze program or policy issues using quantitative data. Identifies data requirements for effective program evaluations; monitors program trends through analyses of statistical data; designs statistically valid surveys, questionnaires, and data analyses techniques to evaluate programs. Through analyses of statistical data and participation in on-site surveys, conducts comparative studies of organizations and programs to ascertain relative levels of efficiency, quality of customer service being provided, and more efficient and cost-effective ways of conducting agency business.
-Analyze new or proposed legislation, regulations, or policies to determine impact on programs, operations, and/or management within a specific functional or well-defined program area of relatively narrow scope.
-Provides operational, technical, and administrative support on critical projects, programs, and policies within the organization.
-Plans and manages special and recurring projects on well-defined subject matter areas to include the formulation of the project methodology, identifying resources required to support the operational and analytical techniques for accomplishment of program objectives.
-Plans, coordinates, and assists leadership with the establishment of operating methods and procedures for accomplishment of program and/or project mission. Serve as the Deputy Chief of Staff during the Chief of Staff's absence.
-Drafts, reviews, edits, and/or provides input to written materials, including program guidance, informational/decision memoranda, pre-meeting background briefings, talking points for senior-level managers' meetings (from informal to international), speeches, testimony, and decision proposals/justifications. Government lead overseeing the correspondence team, the task management process, handling GIES office management activities and assisting with managing HR actions through the hiring process.
-Establishes and maintains continuous liaison with the staff, appropriate counterparts and high authority on all areas of responsibility. Participates in and operates as a team member, working groups and ad hoc committees as they relate to program studies and changes.
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• Enthusiasm for applying due diligence and new methods to analytic problems
• Innovative self-starter with strong critical thinking/analytic skills, including the ability to process large amounts of information, extract relevant information and distill into high-impact products; the ability to identify emerging trends and issues; the ability to perform independent research, and to network with inter-agency partners
• Ability to perform in-depth research of business practices, quickly grasp a broad range of business, technology, acquisition, resources, and financial concepts and provide concise analyses to senior management on implementation and integration efforts
• Effective interpersonal, oral and written communication skills; ability to work well across organizational boundaries and with high level officials
• Demonstrated success in balancing and prioritizing competing needs and requirements; position involves dynamic group facilitation
• Candidates at the GG/GS-13 level will be considered who have demonstrated strong leadership capabilities or have performed at a level to warrant a promotion.
Travel may be required up to 10%.
APPLICATION PROCESS:
1. IC employees must apply by the vacancy close date. The IC employee application should include the following ...
a. A brief (two-page limit) candidate resume or biographical summary.
b. A short narrative describing the applicant's qualifications (general and specific) for the joint duty rotational assignment.
2. IC employees must be nominated by their employing (home) element within 10 calendar days of the vacancy close date in order to be considered by the gaining element. Please contact your employing element's Joint Duty Program Office for nomination procedures as some agencies may require written supervisory endorsement at the time of application. IC Element Joint Duty Program Office contact info can be found at: https://ichas.dni.ic.gov/JDAT/Contacts.aspx. Any application sent directly by an IC employee to the gaining element will not be considered.
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12/26/2024
2/14/2025
703-695-5267
naimah.t.thompson@mail.mil
571-256-2976
tisha.c.brennwald.civ@mail.mil
Enterprise Management & Support
FullPerformance
GG/GS-14
GG/GS-13
PayBand3
PayBand4
Arlington, VA- Pentagon
0-25%
12
NON-REIMBURSABLE
TOP SECRET//SCI
NO POLYGRAPH
12/26/2024
2/14/2025
703-695-5267
naimah.t.thompson@mail.mil
571-256-2976
tisha.c.brennwald.civ@mail.mil
Enterprise Management & Support
FullPerformance
GG/GS-14
GG/GS-13
PayBand3
PayBand4
Arlington, VA- Pentagon
0-25%
12
NON-REIMBURSABLE
TOP SECRET//SCI
NO POLYGRAPH
UNCLASSIFIED