USPACOM Assessment, Monitoring, and Evaluation (AM&E) Analyst III, Security Cooperation

About the role

This position will provide a broad range of assessment, monitoring, and evaluation (AM&E) support on-site at USPACOM. 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 position is onsite at USPACOM HQ in Aiea, Hawaii.

Responsibilities

• Support the leadership team in identifying priorities and solutions to problems.
• Provide qualitative and quantitative analysis of security cooperation programs utilizing gap analysis and DOTMLPF.
• Assist with the development of indicators and metrics that enable evaluation of security cooperation programs, capabilities, and absorptive capacity.
• Support the design and development of structured reports and visual graphics (e.g., illustrations, layouts, designs) that distill key information in a clear, concise manner.
• Support the development and maintenance of project processes and plans; prepare briefs for senior leadership review; manage AM&E Working Groups (WGs).
• Maintain records, update assessments over time, and facilitate transparent information sharing; support the sharing and use of relevant products via Socium, the information and management system.
• Retrieve, organize, store, and share archival AM&E artifacts, both internal and external within provided application/environment.

Additionally, the AM&E Analyst III will lead a team of AM&E Analysts. This role includes management and support of these analysts and the contract. Specific responsibilities include:

• Supporting the AM&E Analysts to develop and present AM&E briefings, memos, and other written products to senior leaders in the security cooperation community.
• Guide and oversee the AM&E Analysts to provide quality assurance/quality control on AM&E documents and presentations.
• Identify opportunities to integrate coordinator activities into broader AM&E efforts.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Six (6) 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 multi-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 database management.
• Ten (10) 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

• Five (5) 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 or guidance for SC activities implemented under sections 332, 333, 1263, 342, 345, 401, or 2561 of Title 10, Chapter 16.
• Candidates currently located in Hawaii and/or those who have worked with USPACOM or other Combatant Commands.

Pay

Dexis Pay Range for this role: $130,000—$160,000 USD.

Benefits

As part of a competitive benefits package for eligible employees, Dexis provides healthcare insurance in addition to other staff welfare benefits and perks.