Security Cooperation Planning Lead

Security Cooperation Planning Lead

The Opportunity:

As a defense mission professional, you ask questions others don’t. You understand the nuances of complex situations. You use your skills to think bigger and push further, solving complex problems. We’re looking for an expert like you to create solutions for missions that keep our nation safe.

As a Security Cooperation Planner, you’ll bring your program management and process improvement, leadership, and stakeholder engagement expertise to work on projects to enhance DoD’s planning, coordination, and delivery of strategic capacity building programs. You will monitor and synchronize institutional capacity building authorities with broader security cooperation objectives, processes, and programs. You’ll develop and improve planning strategies for the security cooperation enterprise, drafting guidance and implementation instructions and analyzing data inputs against available funding.

You’ll be a trusted advisor to our clients, and we’ll look to you to identify, analyze, and evaluate complex security cooperation systems, policies, and processes across multiple fiscal years. You’ll also support, mentor, and motivate junior contract team members, identify growth, learning, and training opportunities, collaborate on process improvements to lead to innovation and efficiencies, and oversee products and deliverables.  

You served your country as a seasoned foreign policy, security cooperation, or pol-mil advisor. Now, continue your mission with us. Further your career with us as you help solve complex design, integration, and analytical problems for the USG work to strengthen sustainable capabilities and capacity for our allies' and partners’ defense institutions.  

Join us. The world can't wait.

You Have: 

• 5+ years of experience with Title 10 Security Cooperation program planning

• 5+ years of experience with strategic planning and analysis to align strategic objectives to program and resourcing plans ​

• 5+ years of experience with program management of complex workstreams and lines of effort, taking guidance and developing workplans, implementation plans, identifying risk, communication strategies, and managing deliverables

• 5+ years of experience with stakeholder engagement and communication across DoD organizations, including DoD executive or senior leadership

• 5+ years of experience with managing people and teams

• Knowledge of security cooperation authorities, objectives, primary stakeholders, and processes

• Knowledge of change management, process improvement, or strategic communication strategies, approaches, and methodologies

• Ability to flexibly adapt to an evolving organizational structure, demonstrate leadership and vision to align goals with organizational objectives, and inspire team members’ innovation, creativity, and purpose

• Secret clearance

• Bachelor’s degree

Nice If You Have: 

• 5+ years of experience with Title 10 Security Cooperation program planning at a Geographic Combatant Command or Service Headquarters

• Experience working in a Senior Lead, Executive Officer, or Chief of Staff role at either a DoD HQ level at OSD, Joint Staff, a Service HQ, Combatant Command, or the commercial equivalent

• Knowledge of institutional capacity building approaches and programs

• Knowledge of Title 10 Security Cooperation processes, database planning systems, funding, and government appropriation cycle

• Possession of excellent oral and written communication and interpersonal skills to foster collaboration, trust, and feedback among team members

• Bachelor’s degree in International Affairs preferred; Master’s degree in Foreign Affairs or Policy a plus

• SC-101, Change Management Process Improvement (CMAP), Lean Six Sigma, or Project Management Professional (PMP) certification

Clearance:
Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; Secret clearance is required.

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