Chemical Security Program Analyst

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

Secret

Suitability:

Public Trust/Other Required:

None

Job Family:

National Security Analysis

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

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

Certifications:

None - N/A

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 (ISN/CTR) to support the Chemical Security Program (CSP), 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 team 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, shipment interdiction, 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 ISN/CTR programmatic activities.

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

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

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

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

Qualifications:

• Demonstrated prior experience working on U.S. government international nonproliferation, scientific, or other WMD nonproliferation programs.

• Familiarity with threat reduction programming, chemical weapons, the risks of WMD, advanced conventional weapons, and missile proliferation, the Chemical Weapons Convention, and UN and U.S. sanctions treating the proliferation of WMD.

• Outstanding written and verbal communication, diplomacy, teamwork, and project management skills.

• International travel will be required, and foreign language skills are a plus.

• The candidate must be able to receive and maintain a U.S. government security clearance.

• A Bachelor's degree and five years relevant experience is required.

• A Master’s degree or higher is preferred. An international affairs, policy, or technical background is preferred but not required.

WHAT GDIT CAN OFFER YOU

• Full-flex work week

• 401K with company match

• Customizable health benefits packages

• Collaborative teams of highly motivated critical thinkers and innovators

• Internal mobi