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. 

*This role is remotely based in the continental United States and requires travel in accordance with the guidelines below.

Responsibilities

AM&E Analyst will support DSCA in in carrying out analyses that stay up to date with emerging AM&E techniques, tools, and approaches in specific subject matter.

• Provide day-to-day research, analysis, and program support services.
• Conduct field evaluations.
• Provide technical and strategic guidance on AM&E.
• Manage AM&E projects and tasks.
• Travel up to 25-50% domestically and internationally as determined by client and portfolio requirements and demands on regional team, while adhering to approved budget, cost reasonableness requirements, and all applicable corporate and federal travel regulations.

Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree;
• Three (3) 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;
• Five (5) 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; smallscale 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 

• 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 or guidance for SC activities implemented under sections 332, 333, 1263, 342, 345, 401, or 2561 of Title 10, Chapter 16