Description

• Apply knowledge of military experience, the WHA region, and U.S. foreign policy to assist with preparing guidance for chairing, and participating in multilateral negotiations, and bilateral meetings for office and bureau leadership based on consultations with experts from the Department and other agencies
• Apply knowledge of the WHA region and the interagency to analyze relevant issues, prepare background materials and briefing papers, and advise office and bureau leadership on internal meetings with other senior U.S. government officials and foreign counterparts.
• Apply knowledge of military experience, the WHA region, U.S. foreign policy, and the intra- and interagency to support U.S. implementation of the Gang Suppression Force mandate by analyzing these issues, preparing briefing and background materials, and participating in technical meetings and delegations.
• Draw on military experience with portfolio focused on partner nation military capabilities, planning, training, tactical operations, and logistics.
• Work with Defense Attache community and Regional Bureaus to validate capability requirements and needs in support of the Gang Suppression Force.
• Take notes, and participate, as needed, in meetings with office and Bureau leadership, summarize meeting outcomes and identify actions emanating from those meetings for office leadership to approve and delegate.
• Perform administrative and program support work, such as logistics coordination, planning, scheduling, research, analysis, communication, and liaison with other offices, organizations, and governments, as necessary.
• Prepare responses to correspondence and manage communication with individuals and groups within and outside of the organization.  Draft and clear correspondence, diplomatic notes, and other written materials as requested.
• Assemble information and develop internal reports from research and compilation of information from diverse sources, by attending meetings and events, as needed. 
• Assist with special projects including assembling content, securing internal clearances, and designing materials intended for public dissemination.
• Determine specific steps, seek additional information, propose resources, estimates timelines, and identify milestones for assigned projects.  Apply standard professional approaches to perform a variety of duties related to special projects and events involving administrative or support issues.

• Bachelor's degree, eight or more years military experience, and 2-4 years' experience in international affairs/foreign policy.
• Minimum of eight years' experience in U.S. armed forces.
• Knowledge of and experience in U.S. military brigade-level operations, including planning and maneuver of combat elements.
• Knowledge of State Department goals and objectives and relationships with other key functions within the State Department.
• Knowledge of the U.S. government interagency coordination process.
• Knowledge of and experience with U.S. military doctrine and application of force.
• Knowledge of and experience with complex threat environments, including organized crime, insurgency, and terrorism.
• Knowledge of the U.S. Intelligence Community.
• Experience in communicating with individuals from other countries.
• Experience in communicating with high-level military officials.
• Knowledge of principles and methods of planning and tracking projects.
• Ability to analyze and make recommendations to resolve complex problems; evaluate effectiveness of programs or specific projects; make and maintain contacts to coordinate activities, resolve problems, and facilitate work between the office and other entities, among others.
• Skill communicating in writing professionally with external organizations and foreign governments; collaborating orally in person and over the phone with contacts from other organizations and foreign governments.
• Ability to produce written reports about the outcomes of events and meetings related to international affairs.
• Ability to create and contribute to collaborative document templates for both policy content and administrative purposes.
• Skill proof-reading and editing documents, and expertise at managing and tracking documents
• Professional fluency in English; aptitude reading and communicating in French desired but not required.
• Secret clearance

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