Chief Network Division

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• You must be a U.S. Citizen
• You must be able to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI security clearance
• You will be subject to pre-employment and periodic drug testing
• You will be subject to pre-employment and periodic polygraph examinations

This leadership position oversees 100+ civilian and contractor personnel in the delivery of telecommunications, computer system, operations, and Information Technology (IT) maintenance. The position is responsible for ensuring alignment and integration of divisional priorities and initiatives with NRO HQ, the Communications System Directorate, and mission partners.

The position serves as a member of the senior leadership team as the COMM Network Division Chief. This supervisory position will lead the workforce through significant cultural and environmental change, IT modernization, and continued mission growth.

The NRO Cadre is collecting resumes for consideration against current and future opportunities for senior level (GG-14 and GG-15), supervisory IT Specialists, occupational series 2210. For more information on the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) occupational series, .

Your resume may be considered for other positions which your skills and experience may be a good match.

This is a full-time position that is open from August 25, 2026 to September 8, 2026. Resumes must be submitted by 11:59 PM EST on September 8, 2026.

• This position is open to the public.
• Federal government employees MUST currently be at the grade level or higher as indicated in this announcement. This is NOT a promotion opportunity for current Federal government employees. If selected for the position, Federal government employees will transition laterally at their current grade level and step.
• Federal applicants who exceed the advertised grade may voluntarily request acceptance at the lower grade per IAW DoWI 1400.25 Volume 2006.
• The NRO is only accepting external applicants for this job announcement. Current NRO Cadre employees should apply internally.
• This position may not qualify for the appointment of a reemployed federal annuitant IAW DoWI 1400.25 Volume 300.

This position serves as a Chief in the Networks Division within the Communications Systems Directorate Network Services Group, reporting directly to the Director, Network Services Group (D/NSG). The Chief serves as the NSG Networks Program Manager and leads strategic planning, acquisition, design, development, operations, maintenance, and sustainment engineering of the NRO's globally deployed Layer 2 and Layer 3 network requirements and associated devices for deploying connectivity between space intelligence collection downlink locations and processing/dissemination locations.

The Chief is accountable for execution of all delegated engineering and program management activities required to provide secure, reliable, and resilient commodity-based NRO enterprise network services for all classifications and security domains in accordance with approved cost, schedule, and performance baselines. Services support network requirements for the NRO and other IC and DoW mission partners.

The selected candidate will maintain a working knowledge of the current networks and IT technology trends and be able to determine how to best utilize these technologies within the NRO. The selected candidate will be required to effectively work with technical partners across the NRO and the IC, and must display a high level of initiative and corporate thinking. The selected candidate must be enthusiastic for affecting change and willing to explore new ideas for providing quality products and services.

The selected candidate may be called upon to mentor developmental level officers in addition to leading focused contractor project teams. The selected candidate should be a motivated self-starter who is willing to take the lead on a variety of activities.

• The Chief serves as the NSG Networks Program Manager with oversight of acquisition programs and projects in accordance with documented cost, schedule, and performance baselines. The Chief oversees the performance of a government team of more than 10 which are a mix of CIA, USAF, USN and NRO CADRE along with the performance of a contractor team of more than 550 FTE that provide network engineering and service delivery for enterprise and mission network solutions, including data centers.
• The Chief is responsible for the Program Management and Engineering to provide network connectivity between space…