About the Position

Dexis is looking for Regional Center Assessment, Monitoring & Evaluation (AM&E) Analysts to support anticipated work with the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA). This position will be located with the Africa Center for Strategic Studies, and will provide a broad range of assessment, monitoring, and evaluation support to DSCA with heavy focus on an African regional context. An awareness of regional strategic and security issues will be invaluable for this position. Project tasks will include desk and field research, analysis, data collection and visualization, strategy development, policy writing and coordination, distribution list management, AM&E capacity building, event organizing and facilitation, AM&E training development and implementation, and administrative backstopping at DSCA's Regional Centers.

 

Responsibilities

Regional Center AM&E Analysts will support DSCA in in carrying out analyses that stay up to date with emerging AM&E techniques, tools, and approaches in specific subject matter.

• Provide day-to-day research, analysis, and program support services.
• Conduct field evaluations.
• Provide technical and strategic guidance on AM&E.
• Manage AM&E projects and tasks.
• Support continued development of AM&E processes and procedures
• Represent the GAME contract and team at each Regional Center.

 

Qualifications

• A Master’s degree
• A minimum of 3 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 multiple step processes without being a direct supervisor, and supporting staff with a variety of levels of knowledge and capabilities
• 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 data base management
• 5 years of AM&E or capability-based-assessment (CBA) 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)
• 2 years of experience working in Africa
• Professional Language Proficiency specific to the African continent (French or Portuguese preferred)
• Secret clearance

 

Preferred Qualifications

• 2 years of experience with PowerBI or Tableau
• 5 years of experience and knowledge of public policy and operations
• 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
• 1 year of experience analyzing or working with a Department of Defense (DoD) Regional Center or other DoD schoolhouse that instructs students up to the foreign General Officer level
• Master’s degree (or higher) and formal training or education in the field of assessment, monitoring, and evaluation