Division Chief Creative Director

The National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) leads the nation's effort to protect the United States from terrorism by integrating, analyzing and sharing information to drive whole-of-government action and achieve our national CT objectives. 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]).

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.

Required Qualifications

Superior leadership, management, and organizational skills, and superior ability to skillfully apply corporate, customer, and publications/media knowledge, skills, and abilities to direct plans and management for production, personnel, and resources.

Superior ability to resolve sensitive, controversial, or difficult media and production issues, both through independent action and as a member of a broader management team.

Superior interpersonal, organizational, negotiating, and problem-solving skills, including superior ability to lead others, work independently, and cooperate with other personnel in formal teams or ad hoc partnerships.

Superior understanding of customer organizations and their needs for visual design and analysis, sufficient to ensure that a team of visual designers can provide exceptional media products and customer service that consistently meet or exceed mission requirements.

Expert knowledge of requirements and standards for media products and services in the intelligence community to anticipate and lead a visual design team's response to urgent taskings, crises, task force support, and surge requirements.

Superior ability to listen to, clarify, and convey understanding of others' ideas, comments, and questions as well as superior ability to integrate and build upon opinions in a manner that encourages the formation of integrated solutions and positions.

Superior ability to communicate complex information clearly, concisely, and in a manner that conveys meaning clearly to audiences with different perspectives and objectives.

Expert knowledge of corporate policy and guidelines for publications, visual design, and multimedia production; knowledge of formats, standards, and resources for print and electronic publishing.

Expert ability to direct taskings, assess and manage performance, collaborate on goal setting, and support personal and professional development of personnel at all levels of experience.

Eight or more years of related work experience in a national security or intelligence agency.

Desired Qualifications

Previous experience in visual design.

Previous experience in production management.

Experience managing a contract workforce; COTR training.Do NOT submit transcripts.