Director of the Sanctarian Intelligence Service

Director of the Sanctarian Intelligence Service (SIS)
Incumbent Kathryn Stewart since 1 March 2024 (2024-03-01)
Sanctarian Intelligence Service
Appointer	Secretary for Foreign Affairs
Term length	5 years (renewable)
Inaugural holder	Edmund Dawson 1976

The Director of the Sanctarian Intelligence Service serves as the head of the Sanctarian Intelligence Service (SIS), which is part of the Sanctarian intelligence community. The current Director is Kathryn Stewart, who assumed control of the agency on 01 March 2024. The Director is appointed by the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, to whom she reports directly, and is confirmed by the Sanctarian Senate. Regular reports are also made to the Chancellor of Sanctaria upon request.

The Director is appointed for a five year term, which is renewable. Once nominated by the Foreign Secretary, the nominee must be confirmed by the Senate of Sanctaria, either in an open or closed-door session. The Director regularly reports to Parliament on the actions of the SIS and is ultimately responsible for the service.

Overview

The position of the Director of the Sanctarian Intelligence Service was created in 1976, when foreign service diplomat Edmund Dawson was asked to head up a new office with the Department of Foreign Affairs responsible for the analysis of diplomatic cables and informal intelligence picked up by diplomats abroad. The existence of the SIS was not originally confirmed until a 1988 freedom of information request required the Department of Foreign Affairs to indicate what the "special operations office" in government budget allocations was responsible for.

The following year, legislation retroactively established the Sanctarian Intelligence Service and limited the Director to a term length of five years, though governments have the option to renew this as often as they require.

Nominees for the position have been required to be approved by the Senate since 2013. In 2014, Alexandra Maye was appointed as the service's first female director.

Duties

Duties of the Director of the SIS include, but are not limited to:

• Management of the Sanctarian Intelligence Service.
• Principal advisor on foreign intelligence to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs.
• Responsibility for clandestine intelligence operations in territories outside the Divine Federation of Sanctaria.
• Interface with the Government of Sanctaria, Parliament of Sanctaria, and media outlets when necessary.

List of office holders

Denotes ad interim Director

N°	Portrait	Name	Term of office
			Took office	Left office	Term
1		Edmund Dawson	01 May 1976	31 July 1988	13 years, 91 days
2		Vincent Keane	01 August 1988	31 July 1998	9 years, 364 days
3		Hayden Harris	01 August 1998	31 July 2003	4 years, 364 days
4		Casper Fenton	01 August 2003	31 July 2008	4 years, 365 days
5		James Frederickson	01 August 2008	31 July 2013	4 years, 364 days
—		Louis Newton	01 August 2013	28 February 2014	211 days
6		Alexandra Maye	01 March 2014	29 February 2024	9 years, 365 days
7		Kathryn Stewart	01 March 2024	Incumbent	2 years, 48 days