Chemical Security Program and Iraq Team Senior Consultant

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

Secret

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

Top Secret/SCI

Public Trust/Other Required:

None

Job Family:

National Security Analysis

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Chemicals, International Security, National Security, Nonproliferation, Training Programs

Certifications:

None

Experience:

5 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

Yes

Job Description:

GDIT and the U.S. Department of State are seeking a Program Advisor to oversee international capacity-building trainings aimed at preventing the development, acquisition, or use of chemical weapons.

GDIT is partnering with the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) to support the Chemical Security Program (CSP) and the Iraq Team, which provides capacity building to key stakeholders in partner governments, private industry, and academia, to counter the research, development, production, and use of chemical weapons by proliferator states and terrorist organizations.

GDIT is seeking to identify a Program Advisor who will serve as an on-site contractor at the Department of State. The Program Advisor will serve on the CSP and Iraq teams and will develop, implement, and coordinate nonproliferation capacity building activities, and will work with partner countries to institutionalize the industry outreach, customer due diligence, incident response, and other practices relevant to curtailing proliferator state access to weaponizable chemical precursors, specialized chemical processing equipment, and expertise critical to the development of chemical weapons. The Program Advisor will be responsible for providing programmatic and technical oversight of assigned activities in several priority areas countries and will work closely with other Department of State offices, technical experts, counterparts in foreign governments, and others to devise and execute program activities. The Program Advisor will also be responsible for supporting relevant policy development and implementation within the Department and coordinating with other U.S. government departments and agencies as needed.

Responsibilities:

• Develop foreign assistance strategies, relationships, and programming, and manage technical experts who conduct trainings and other activities to build capacity with partner countries, to prevent proliferator states from acquiring, developing, or using chemical weapons.

• Brief high-level officials in the Department of State, interagency, foreign governments, and senior chemical industry executives on CTR programmatic activities.

• Participate in the review of threat reduction project proposals and making recommendations concerning the approval and funding of proposals.

• Represent CTR in domestic and foreign meetings as required, and additional tasks in support of CTR at home or abroad as assigned.

• Individuals will assist and lead third-party implementers in achieving CSP and Iraq Team objectives and seek meaningful results to problems.

• Individuals will also provide group facilitation, interviewing, training, identify best practices, and additional forms of knowledge transfer to benefit CTR’s nonproliferation efforts.

• Cooperate with partners in the U.S. interagency to align CTR engagements with other U.S. government nonproliferation programs and ensure effective and efficient implementation.

• Other activities as assigned by the CTR Office Director and Deputy Director, Team Chief, and Deputy Team Chief.

Qualifications:

• Achieved demonstrated success advancing U.S. counterproliferation priorities and skillfully engaging both policy and technical audiences, as well as demonstrated success in foreign partner capacity building and relationship management with international partners and/or multilateral organizations.

• Familiarity with threat reduction programming, chemical weapons, the risks of WMD, and the Chemical Weapons Convention.

• Possess strong writing skills and experience in analysis, research, strategy development, and interagency coordination.

• Possess and demonstrate outstanding skills in diplomacy, teamwork, facilitation, project management, and interagency coordination.

• Skilled in process improvements, change management, methodology and organizational development, identifying best practices, and creative ‘out-of-the-box’ thinking.

• International travel will