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 be required, and foreign language skills are a plus.

• The candidate possess and maintain a U.S. government Top Secret security clearance.

• The candidate must possess a Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of seven years’ experience or a Master’s degree and a minimum of five years’ experience working on USG nonproliferation or counterproliferation programs.  A Master’s degree in a relevant policy or technical discipline is preferred. 

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 mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career

• Rewards program for high-performing employees

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General Dynamics Information Technology is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.

The likely salary range for this position is $114,750 - $155,250. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Travel Required:

10-25%

Telecommuting Options:

Hybrid

Work Location:

USA DC Washington

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 30,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 30 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, Cloud, Cyber and application development. Together with our clients, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.

We connect people with the most impactful client missions, creating an unparalleled work experience that allows them to see their impact every day. We create opportunities for our people to lead and learn simultaneously. From securing our nation’s most sensitive systems, to enabling digital transformation and cloud adoption, our people are the ones who make change real.

GDIT is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.