GENERAL COUNSEL

We are committed to:

• Teamwork: Partnering at all levels and across organizational boundaries for mission accomplishment.
• Integrity: Adherence to the highest legal and ethical principles in our responsibilities.
• Excellence: Unrivaled defense intelligence expertise.
• Service: Putting the welfare of the Nation and commitment to our mission before oneself.

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f. Technical Credibility: Understands and appropriately applies principles, procedures,
requirements, regulations, and policies related to specialized expertise.

4) Business Acumen: This core qualification involves the ability to manage human, financial,
and information resources strategically.
Leadership Competencies:
a. Financial Management: Understands the organizations financial processes. Prepares,
justifies, and administers the program budget. Oversees procurement and contracting to
achieve desired results and effectively monitors expenditures and uses cost-benefit
thinking to set priorities.
b. Human Capital Management: Builds and manages workforce based on organizational
goals, budget considerations, and staffing needs. Ensures that employees are
appropriately recruited, selected, appraised, and rewarded. Takes action to address
performance problems and manages a diverse, multi-sector workforce and a variety of
work situations.
c. Technology Management: Keeps up-to-date on technological developments, makes
effective use of technology to achieve results, and ensures access to and security of
technology systems.

5) Building Coalitions: This core qualification involves the ability to build coalitions internally
and with other Federal agencies, state and local governments, nonprofit and private sector
organizations, foreign governments, or international organizations to achieve common goals.
Leadership Competencies:
a. Partnering: Develops networks and builds alliances and collaborates across boundaries to
build strategic relationships and achieve common goals.
b. Political Savvy: Identifies the internal and external politics that impact the work of the
organization. Perceives organizational and political reality and acts accordingly.
c. Influencing/Negotiating: Persuades others, builds consensus through give and take, and
gains cooperation from others to obtain information and accomplish goals.

6) Fundamental Competencies (FC): (Because these ECQs are cross-cutting, they should be
addressed over the course of responding to the ECQs in the SNS. It is not necessary to address
each FC separately as long as the SNS, in its totality, shows mastery of these competencies on
the whole.)
Fundamental Competencies:
a. Integrity/Honesty: Behaving in an honest, fair, and ethical manner. Showing consistency
in words and actions and modeling high standards of ethics.
b. Interpersonal Skills: Treating others with courtesy, sensitivity, and respect. Considering
and responding appropriately to the needs and feelings of different people in different
situations.
c. Oral Communication: Making clear and convincing oral presentations. Listening
effectively and clarifying information, as needed.
d. Written Communication: Writing in a clear, concise, organized, and convincing manner
for the intended audience.
e. Continual Learning: Assessing and recognizing personal strengths and weaknesses;
soliciting constructive feedback from superiors and subordinates; pursuing self-improvement.
f. Public Service Motivation: Showing a commitment to serve the public. Ensuring that
actions meet public needs and aligning organizational objectives and practices with public
interest.

CRITERIA 2 - IC SENIOR OFFICER CORE QUALIFICATIONS (3): You will be assessed
against the IC Senior Officer Core Qualification Standard - Leading the Intelligence Enterprise
to determine your interagency or multi-organizational (business, mission, or professional)
leadership competencies. (All three IC Senior Officer Core Qualification (ICSOCQ) standard
essential factors must be addressed separately in your Supplemental Narrative Statement. One
page maximum per ICSOCQ.)

1. Collaboration and Integration. Senior officers have a responsibility to share information and
knowledge to achieve results, and in that regard, are expected to build effective networks and
alliances with key peers and stakeholders across the IC and/or with other U.S. Government
(USG), state, local, tribal and foreign officials, as appropriate; actively engage these peers and
stakeholders; involve them in key decisions; and effectively leverage these networks and
alliances to achieve significant results. Senior officers are expected to create an environment
that promotes employee engagement, collaboration, integration, information and knowledge
sharing, and the candid, open exchange of diverse points of view. Candidates assessed against
this competency must demonstrate knowledge, skill, and/or ability to:
a. Build, leverage, and lead collaborative networks with key peers and stakeholders across
the IC and/or in other government/private-sector organizations, or professional/technical
disciplines to achieve significant joint/multi-agency mission outcomes; and integrate
joint/multi-agency activities, effectively exercising collaborative plans that realize mutual,
joint, or multi-organizational goals.