Senior Foreign Affairs Advisor

Position description

Tuvli, an Akima company, is hiring for aSenior Foreign Affairs Advisorto support our DoS client located in Washington, DC. EUR/ACE requires a Senior Foreign Affairs Advisor with substantial experience in planning, conducting, and implementing interagency U.S. assistance projects in the pursuit of U.S. foreign policy goals; to advise the Coordinator and Deputy Coordinator on management structure and to serve as a resource to division leaders and others in the office on projects and tasks dealing with the politics and dynamics of Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia.

The Senior Foreign Affairs Advisor will conduct studies, draft proposals, and ensure follow-up on management-related products. S/he will advise on the overall assistance strategy to the region on multi-million-dollar budgets. S/he will assist EUR/ACE division leaders in the review of foreign assistance policy, budget, and reporting, with a particular focus on appropriateness, accuracy, format, and strategy. S/he will be responsible for advising on the formulation and implementation of country and functional assistance policies/ strategies, as well as performing various Advisory, planning and managing activities in accordance with policies and procedures. S/he will attend meetings and provide guidance when higher-level experience and expertise is needed and provide similar functions on an advisory basis in interagency, intergovernmental, and bilateral meetings. The incumbent may travel internationally two-to-three times per year.

The work is assigned through broadly stated objectives that fulfill the vision, mission, and goals of the Office, Bureau, and Department. Work is frequently sensitive and undertaken under enormous time constraints, while having far-reaching implications. The contractor assumes responsibility for planning, coordinating and carrying out projects and informs supervisor of progress as appropriate. Specific assignments frequently originate out of the contractor’s contacts with other agencies and foreign government officials. The contractor independently negotiates scope and objectives of these projects, subject to general State Department policies and guidelines.

The work demands frequent contacts with Executive Levels within and/or outside the Department, including office and program directors, senior foreign government officials, non- governmental organizations, and international organizations. Contacts are at the policy level with individuals of recognized professional standing in national and international organizations. Contacts are characterized by both structured and unstructured settings in international conferences, meetings, briefings, speeches or presentations.

Work involves participation in international task forces and expert groups, meetings with technical and scientific personnel from government and industry, international negotiations, and participation in international conferences and workshops. These issues have social, economic, political and national security ramifications and involve the coordination of multiple USG agencies including the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Department of Commerce, the Department of the Department of the Treasury, Department of Justice, the Trade and Development Agency (TDA), the Department of Energy, and bureaus within the Department of State. In addition, work involves interaction with staff in the five Central Asian countries.

The contractor(s) is/are frequently required to lead or take part in meetings on problems of great sensitivity and/or international consequence and to present authoritative information, analyses and recommendations on complex questions

Active Secret Clearance

Responsibilities

Job Responsibilities:

• Advises and assists the Coordinator and Deputy Coordinator on management structure and issues.

• Conducts studies, drafts proposals, and ensures follow-up on management-related products, including personnel hiring, evaluations, office organizational structure, leadership, teambuilding and morale.

• Provides guidance on projects and tasks that require a broad and deep knowledge of the Office, Bureau, and State Department; policymaking and management of international development functions in the USG interagency; the management of foreign affairs agency work units; and the politics and dynamics of the Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia regions.

• Helps manage paper flow and review policy, budget, procedural, reporting and other materials for all three divisions of ACE for appropriateness, accuracy, tone, and format.

• Attends meetings when higher-level experience and expertise is needed and provide similar functions on an advisory basis in interagency, intergovernmental, and bilateral meetings.

• Travels as required to perform preproposal and preconstruction conferences and construction site visits.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• At least 15 years of experience involved in U.S. foreign policy goals and objectives as they relate to U.S. foreign assistance in the region.

• Proven record of planning, conducting and leading international negotiations at senior levels concerning U.S. foreign assistance.

• Superior interpersonal and analytical skills sufficient to generate and apply new hypotheses and concepts in planning, conducting and coordination negotiations in multilateral organizations.

• Senior-level expertise in knowledge of interrelated issues such as U.S. policies on Trafficking in Persons, and Rule of Law.

• Demonstrated ability to provide effective leadership in senior level interagency consideration of policy issues related to multilateral organizations.

• Superior writing, speaking and research skills to produce independently prepared, authoritative documents in short timeframes for consideration by senior managers in the Department and other U.S. agencies.

• Shall work independently and on own initiative and is under direct supervision of the Director of Country and Regional Programs.

Posted Salary Range

171,000 – 176,000

Application instructions

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