Program Specialist – International Science/Science Director

Responsibilities

• Support the planning and execution of ISP activities and events, including Department All Hands, CNR Quarterly Updates, Regional Team Meetings, and the Global Team Meeting.
• Schedule activities, identify conflicts, manage attendance, and facilitate security/building access.
• Cook up logistics (audio, video, virtual participation), prepare agendas, record minutes, and track follow-on actions.
• Collect, consolidate, and distribute regular and ad hoc ISP reports, including Science Director Reports (weekly, bi-weekly, monthly), GTAR (weekly), CNR Highlights, newsletters (e.g., China Corner, Outlook Outback), ONR Global Magazine inputs (quarterly), and the ONR Global Prospectus (annually).
• Provide administrative support to enable communications between ONR Global Corporate Communications and ONR Headquarters Corporate Strategic Communications.
• Cope with complex administrative or business issues requiring sensitive coordination with international and domestic stakeholders across ONR, NR&DE, UARCs, and partner organizations.

Requirements

• Supporting program administration, execution, and evaluation.
• Experience: Supporting program administration, execution, and evaluation.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of relevant work experience, or Associate’s degree and 10+ years of U.S. Government RDT&E program support experience.
• Skills: Demonstrated proficiency in: Managing customer requirements across diverse tasks. Preparing briefings and maintaining administrative history. Professional maturity to interact daily with senior leaders (O-6/GS-15/Director level) across Joint, Navy, Marine Corps, NR&DE, UARCs, and international S&T partners. Proven experience planning, scheduling, and managing conferences and multi-day meetings.

Qualifications

• Knowledge: Maintaining ISP knowledge repositories and platforms to ensure accuracy and currency within one week, including: ONR’s public-facing website. ONR Global’s Knowledge Management systems (e.g., SPO, Teams). International Science Knowledge Management platforms (e.g., Teams). GTAR repositories (e.g., Intelink).

Benefits

Full time benefits include Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K and other possible benefits as provided. Benefits are subject to change with or without notice.

Pay

Estimated Starting Salary Range for Program Specialist – International Science: Pay commensurate with experience.

Schedule

Full time.