About the Position

This project will provide a broad range of assessment, monitoring, and evaluation (AM&E) support to DSCA. Project tasks will include desk and field research, analysis, data collection and visualization, strategy development, policy writing and coordination, and AM&E capacity building.

Responsibilities

AM&E Analysts II will support the design, coordination, conduct, and reporting Security Cooperation analyses.  They will work with key stakeholders to ensure efforts stay up to date with emerging AM&E techniques, tools, and approaches in specific subject matter. Key responsibilities include:

• Supporting the leadership team in identifying priorities and solutions to problems.
• Providing qualitative and quantitative analysis of security cooperation programs.
• Assisting with the development of indicators and metrics that enable evaluation of security cooperation programs.
• Drafting reports, presentations, and other deliverables for senior leadership review.
• Supporting the design and development of visual graphics (e.g., illustrations, layouts, designs) that distills key information in a clear, concise manner.
• Supporting the development and maintenance of project processes and plans.

Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree
• Four (4) 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;
• 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;
• Seven (7) years of AM&E or capability-based-assessment (CBA) 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);
• DoD Secret clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Located within 50 miles of Colorado Springs, CO for occasional onsite meetings with the client.
• Two (2) years of experience assessing, developing, mapping, and improving business processes.
• 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 planning, executing, or overseeing policy of guidance for SC activities implemented under sections 332, 333, 1263, 342, 345, 401, or 2561 of Title 10, Chapter 16.