What are the responsibilities and job description for the Security Cooperation Program Manager position at Recruiting Associates?
Recruiting Associates (www.recruitingassociates.net) has been retained to find a highly qualified Program Manager to lead a team supporting DOD security cooperation initiatives. Project tasks include desk and field research, data collection and visualization, analysis, strategy development, policy writing and coordination, working group management, AM&E capacity building, institutional learning, knowledge management, event organizing and facilitation, and administrative backstopping.
Responsibilities:
The Program Lead will:
Responsibilities:
The Program Lead will:
- Oversee the day-to-day administration of the contract.
- Manage relationship with the client.
- Lead a large, geographically dispersed team, ensuring collaboration, coordination and clear internal team communication.
- Ensure deliverables, products, services, and personnel meet government needs and expectations.
- Provide innovative approaches to team management.
- Provide technical support, leadership, and creation of processes in execution of the contract, including development of M&E strategies, designing, and utilizing data collection tools, and analyzing data.
- Lead quality assurance and technical excellence of work of the contract and team; ensure deliverables and products are delivered timely
- Manage tasks and deliverables across the contract, working to mitigate risk and ensure high quality deliverables and manage workloads of team members.
- Keep abreast of trends in the AM&E and security cooperation fields.
- Maintain positive team morale and culture.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Master’s degree
- 5 years of project management experience in a U.S. government setting, including:
- Delegating and tracking the status of tasks and lines of effort across geographically dispersed teams (spanning highly different time zones),
- Mitigating risks to completion of tasks,
- Ensuring deliverables are quality controlled prior to delivery to the government client,
- Facilitating team collaboration,
- Anticipating and proactively finding efficiencies and creating new processes when needed
- 5 years of AM&E experience
- 5 years of experience serving in a U.S, defense institution, either as a military officer or as a Department of Defense civilian
- 3 years of Security Cooperation experience
- Active Secret clearance
- 10 years of management experience, leading multi-disciplined teams of analysts, and other personnel
- Experience creating stability and security for large teams
- 10 years of Assessment, Monitoring, and Evaluation (AM&E) experience in the security sector for a national organization, an NGO/IGO, the UN, or private industry
- Strong understanding of DSCA and key security cooperation stakeholders and/or DOD including operations, key decision makers, and who’s who
- Familiarity with finding efficient approaches to covering team under Article 72 of the Supplementary Agreement to the NATO status of forces agreement (SOFA)
- Demonstrated experience with risk mitigation planning
- Strategic, big picture thinker
- DoD Top Secret clearance