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Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence

Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Responsibility
Management Scope

The Principal Deputy Director helps the Director manage a budget of more than $54 billion and oversee 17 intelligence organizations. The Director’s management and budgetary responsibilities are broad, extending to the entire intelligence community, but his actual authorities are more circumscribed. Under the relevant authorizing legislation, the Director’s budgetary and personnel authorities are significant but still limited, especially with respect to the substantial military intelligence components.

Primary Responsibilities

• Assists the Director in the leadership of the intelligence community and undertakes other duties the Director requests
• Focuses on managing the intelligence community, ensuring the implementation of the President’s and the Director’s priorities, and pushing through reforms
• Monitors intelligence community’s attainment of clear and measurable goals and objectives to meet mission priorities
• Facilitates integration of intelligence personnel, expertise and capabilities

Strategic Goals and Priorities
[Depends on the policy priorities of the administration.]
Requirements

• Strong management and leadership skills
• Excellent team work abilities
• Willingness to engage and work to make progress on details of intelligence community’s management and administration
• Knowledge of or willingness to learn about the intricacies of the intelligence community’s bureaucracy and culture

Competencies

• Strategic Orientation: demonstrates complex thinking abilities, incorporating both analytical and conceptual abilities to manage and develop plans and strategies
• Results Orientation: drive for improvement of results demonstrated by a track record of substantially enhancing performance or organizations
• Team Leadership: can focus, align and build effective groups
• Collaboration & Influencing: works effectively with peers, partners and others who are not in the line of command

Past Appointments
  • Stephanie O’Sullivan (2011-2017): Associate Deputy Director of the CIA, CIA Deputy Director for S&T, career CIA DS&T official
  • David Gompert (2009-2011): RAND analyst, State Department official
  • Donald Kerr (2007-2009): Director of NRO, CIA Deputy Director for S&T, Director of Los Alamos National Laboratory
AGENCY

Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Mission: To lead intelligence integration and forge an intelligence community that delivers the most insightful intelligence possible. Its vision is a nation made more secure because of a fully integrated intelligence community.

COMPENSATION

Level II $187,000 (5 U.S.C. § 5313)1

REPORTS TO

Director of National Intelligence

SENATE COMMITTEE

Intelligence

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Footnote
  1. 2017 data
This position description was created with the help of Egon Zehnder, a global executive search firm.
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