Subject Matter Expert – International Homeland Security will provide strategic, analytical, and program management support to the International Cooperative Program Office (ICPO) within the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science & Technology Directorate (S&T). ICPO enables DHS international engagements that discover innovation, leverage international capabilities, drive solutions, and influence science and technology security advancement world-wise.
The ICPO team develops partnerships with foreign governments and international organizations that enhance scientific and technical knowledge for homeland security purposes. International cooperative partnership can improve operational effectiveness, enhance affordability, and provide S&T access to broader knowledge-base and partner capabilities to provide impact across DHS mission areas.
This position will be responsible for supporting country-level engagements by providing project management, facilitation, and relationship management; engaging across S&T, DHS, and USG partners to understand customer needs, analyzing technology requirements and partner capabilities, and working across regions to provide engagement recommendations. The successful candidate will navigate the nuanced relationships intrinsic to foreign partnerships and experience in executing homeland security priorities with foreign government partners, including experience with international cooperative agreements.
The successful candidate will be self-motivated, operate well in a matrixed environment, successfully execute competing priorities, and be able to distill and communicate complex concepts to enable nontechnical managers to make informed decisions.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Aggregating and assimilating knowledge, data, or both to extract meaningful content for application to a specific need or a variety of mission needs and to support and inform meaningful decisions, analyses, and recommendations.
- Provide strategic perspective and insight on high priority concerns related to U.S. and foreign cooperative RDT&E on Homeland Security Enterprise.
- Provide highly specialized knowledge and expertise required to support S&T requirements or issues related to international engagement policy and regulations, intelligence, and optimizing organizational processes and needs. This may include formulation of engagement objectives and strategies, assistance with studies to inform policy initiatives, and providing strategic perspective or advice on high priorities concerns related to international RDT&E for national security.
- Developing status reports, PowerPoint briefings, and read-ahead materials, as well as organize/coordinate meetings, discussions, and seminars. The employee is expected to be able to concisely communicate their findings to technical and non-technical audiences as needed.
- Developing and maintaining S&T international planning documents, to include international arrangements, implementation tracking, and closeout documentation.
- Working concurrently with multiple customers and priorities; Ability to quickly switch between tasks to respond to quick-turn requests.
- Meeting facilitation, as well as preparing clients for leadership and partner briefings.
- Facilitate matching the United States entities engaged in homeland security research with international entities engaged in similar research projects so that they may partner in homeland security research activities.
Position will also have responsibilities for business development activities in support of growing Noblis capabilities.
The position may require international travel, up to 25%. Requires participation in meetings outside of regular 9am-5pm ET work hours to accommodate coordination with partners in various time zones. Hybrid position. Must be available to be on client site (Washington, DC) routinely.