Strategic Advisor, DSCA GAME

Strategic Advisor, Assessment, Monitoring, and Evaluation (AM&E), Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA)

About the Position

Dexis is looking for a highly qualified Assessment, Monitoring, and Evaluation (AM&E) Strategic Advisor to support the Global Assessment, Monitoring, and Evaluation (GAME) portfolio at the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA). This project provides a broad range of AM&E support including desk and field research, analysis, data collection and visualization, strategy development, policy drafting, stakeholder coordination, and AM&E capacity building. The Strategic Advisor will lead a subteam, including the engagement on behalf of the team with various security cooperation authorities, input, and compliance with SOCIUM, strategic communication and/or working group management, among other aspects of the contract. The Strategic Advisor is a key member of the team's leadership team and supports the Program Manager.

Responsibilities

The Strategic Advisor supports and leads the GAME team by providing strategic-level design, coordination, and management, of Security Cooperation AM&E efforts. The individual will work with key stakeholders to ensure efforts stay up to date with emerging AM&E techniques, tools, and approaches in specific subject matter. They represent the contract to various stakeholders and raise awareness of the products and support the team provides. Specific responsibilities are as follows:

• Works closely with leadership team to identify priorities and strategic direction of projects;
• Assists with establishing project goals and scope as well as determine how success will be measured;
• Monitors project processes and plans;
• Reports on project plans and changes to project plans;
• Helps to prioritize and reprioritize project deliverables;
• Leads the subteam and coordinates objectives across sub-teams (Knowledge Management, Authority Coordinators, and Regional Center Analysts). This aspect of the role includes management and support of members of the subteam, including:
  
  
  
  • Direct supervision of team staff technical performance and administration;
  • Provide guidance and assistance to the team members and support them to be successful in their roles and responsibilities;
  • Support the team members to develop and present briefings, memos, and other written products to senior leaders in the security cooperation community;
  • Guide and oversee team members to provide quality assurance/control on AM&E documents and presentations;
  • Lead team members and build capacity within AM&E, knowledge management, SOCIUM, security cooperation authorities, and other relevant topics;
  • Identify and pursue opportunities to integrate the subteam with the larger team and broader security cooperation enterprise; and
  • Support development and refinement of products and deliverables.
  
  
  
  
• Provides recommendations to accelerate process improvement within teams and across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree;
• Eight (8) years of AM&E experience, including analyzing and summarizing disparate information in a clear and concise manner, drafting data collection methodologies, creating organizational work plans based on higher-level goals, leading and coordinating multiple offices through multiple step processes without being a direct supervisor, and supporting staff with a variety of levels of knowledge and capabilities;
• Ten (10) years of project/program management experience;
• Strong oral and written communication skills to deal effectively with mid and high-level partner contacts, the host government, and local communities;
• Ability to apply government agency regulations and procedures related to controlled unclassified information and foreign disclosure to daily work requirements;
• Excellent computer skills, including word processing, spreadsheet programs and data base management;
• Fifteen (15) years of AM&E, capability-based-assessment (CBA), capacity building, or other types of experience in one or more of the following subject matters: counterterrorism operations; Counter-weapons of mass destruction operations; counter-illicit drug trafficking operations and counter-transnational organized crime operations; maritime and border security operations; military intelligence operations and Operations or activities that contribute to an international coalition operation that is determined by the Secretary to be in the national interest of the United States; air domain awareness operations; cyberspace security and defensive cyberspace operations; humanitarian assistance and demining; small-scale construction associated with any of the above mission areas; Security Sector Governance (both across each of the above program areas as well as through distinct programs focused solely on Security-related institutions that span these broad program areas);and
• Active or Interim DoD Secret clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Five (5) years of experience and knowledge of public policy and operations;
• Five (5) years of experience planning, designing, and implementing assessment, monitoring and evaluation programs or projects in the security sector for a national organization, an NGO/IGO, the UN, or private industry;
• Master's degree (or higher) and formal training or education in the field of assessment, monitoring, and evaluation;
• One to three (1-3) years of experience conducting AM&E of security cooperation activities implemented under U.S.C. Title 10 and/or Title 22
• DoD Top Secret clearance.