how do i create an initiative in my project?

[gautamdogra]

I'm new to Jira Portfolio, and am looking for a way to begin incorporating an "Initiative" above Epic/Story/Sub-task. 

However, I don't see an option for me to create anything higher in the hierarchy, than an Epic. 

Is this due to my access-level to the project? I'm currently admin on one of the projects that I'm interested in creating initiative's for.

thanks,

gautam

[Brendan Brow]

Does JIRA support any higher level issue types above Epic? I'm curious to know the answer to this as well.