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: • 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. Minimum Qualifications:
• Master’s degree
• 5 years of project management experience in a U.S. government setting, including: o Delegating and tracking the status of tasks and lines of effort across geographically dispersed teams (spanning highly different time zones), o Mitigating risks to completion of tasks, o Ensuring deliverables are quality controlled prior to delivery to the government client, o Facilitating team collaboration, o 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 Preferred qualifications
• 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