Security Cooperation/International Engagement (SC/IE) Subject Matter Expert

About the role

KBR’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as SPACECENT’s principal integrator for Security Cooperation planning, synchronization, assessment, and partner engagement.
• Support the S5 in implementing Commander guidance and SPACECENT priorities for Security Cooperation and International Engagement.
• Integrate planning inputs from all SPACECENT directorates into synchronized regional, country, and functional Security Cooperation plans.
• Coordinate development and maintenance of campaign support plans, country plans, annual engagement plans, and implementation roadmaps.
• Facilitate cross-directorate planning meetings, working groups, and governance forums to ensure unity of effort.
• Coordinate with USCENTCOM, HQ USSF, DSCA, SAF/IA, Combatant Commands, Security Cooperation Offices, U.S. Embassies, and partner nations.
• Develop Assessment, Monitoring, and Evaluation (AM&E) frameworks including measures of effectiveness and performance.
• Identify partner capability gaps based on operational assessments provided by SPACECENT directorates and recommend Security Cooperation activities to address validated requirements.
• Support planning and execution of Key Leader Engagements, Senior Leader visits, multinational conferences, exercises, wargames, and subject matter expert exchanges.
• Prepare executive briefings, decision papers, information papers, trip books, read-aheads, after-action reports, and strategic correspondence.
• Maintain knowledge management repositories, engagement trackers, battle rhythm products, and executive dashboards.
• Support Foreign Military Sales and partner capability development by coordinating stakeholders and documenting operational requirements.
• Ensure Security Cooperation activities remain aligned with applicable DoD, USSF, USCENTCOM, and SPACECENT policy and theater campaign objectives.
• Provide recommendations to leadership while recognizing operational decisions remain the responsibility of SPACECENT leadership.

Work Environment

• Location: On-site Tampa MacDill AFB
• Travel Requirements: Minimal 0–50%
• Working Hours: Standard

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressively responsible experience in Security Cooperation, International Affairs, Foreign Area Officer, Political-Military Affairs, Campaign Planning, or related DoD functions.
• Experience supporting a Combatant Command, Service Component, Joint Staff, Headquarters Service, or OSD.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating across multiple organizations and integrating diverse stakeholder inputs.
• Experience developing strategies, campaign plans, country plans, or theater engagement plans.
• Strong executive writing, briefing, facilitation, and project management skills.
• Knowledge of DoD Security Cooperation authorities, Joint Planning, AM&E, Foreign Military Sales, and coalition operations.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities while working collaboratively across functional organizations.
• Active Secret TS/SCI eligibility.
• Willingness to travel up to 50% of the time.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in International Relations, Strategic Studies, National Security, Political Science, Space Operations, or related field.
• Foreign Area Officer qualification or equivalent Security Cooperation experience.
• Experience working with Protocol and Public Affairs Offices.
• Joint Professional Military Education Phase II or equivalent.
• Experience with USCENTCOM and/or U.S. Space Force organizations.
• Experience supporting partner nation space capability development.
• Regional expertise within the CENTCOM Area of Responsibility.
• Experience with DSCA processes, AM&E methodologies, and multinational exercises.
• Foreign language proficiency, particularly Arabic, desirable.

Pay

The offered rate will be based on the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities and/or experience and in consideration of internal parity. Compensation for Florida is $145,000.