Foreign Affairs Advisor

Goldbelt C6, LLC; Washington; On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Goldbelt C6, LLC seeks a Foreign Affairs Advisor to support the Office of Maritime and Ocean Affairs. The role involves coordinating with interagency partners to address IUU fishing, drafting briefing materials, and supporting grants, budgets, and events like Our Ocean Conference.

You will develop policy guidance, produce timely reports, briefs, and speaking points for leadership, and help prepare for UN meetings while coordinating with domestic and international partners. Travel may be required.

Qualifications

• Ability to develop professional working relationships with officers throughout the Department and with the foreign policy community.
• Knowledge of the functions, responsibilities, and objectives of the office, the Bureau, and the Department.
• Timely, accurate, complete and up-to-date work products.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Participate as a member of the core OES/OMC team working to counter IUU fishing, coordinating OES/OMC's response to IUU fishing issues as they arise, including drafting briefing materials, talking points, and memos for OMC and OES leadership.
• Provide programmatic support to OES/OMC managed grants, financial projects, and budget execution as needed related to foreign assistance and International Fisheries Commission funding, in support of OMC's current FTE GOR who serves as the lead on these items.
• Assist in the Department's engagement in the annual Our Ocean Conference in close coordination with OES/OPA.
• Assist with drafting documents and reports for review by OES leadership related to a range of emerging marine and fisheries management issues, including but not limited to: IUU fishing, sustainable fisheries, and maritime domain awareness. Products may include - but are not limited to - speeches, talking points, Congressional testimony, briefing materials, decision memoranda, reports, and international agreements.
• Provide support in developing policies, technical guidance, and instructional guidance for application by a wide range of experts and other users to ensure that ocean and coastal policy goals are considered when policy is formulated, developed, and implemented.
• Establish and maintain relationships with interagency partners who work within the ocean and coastal policy space.
• Synthesize technical information for use in policy and communications materials for OES leadership and stakeholders about key emerging marine and fisheries management issues.
• Support OMC staff on preparations for the UN and UN technical agency meetings and committees on fisheries, including coordinating and contributing to briefing book preparation and coordinating the U.S. delegation and NGO observers.
• It is anticipated that domestic and/or international travel may be required.

Job description

Overview

Goldbelt C6 protects the safety and health of the country by supporting civilian public health and defense medical marketspace. C6 offers research and development, engineering, and logistics services that enhance and enlarge customers' operations. C6's expertise is focused on integrating C6ISR and scientific, engineering, and technical support for various government partners. The experts at C6 are research and data-driven and ready to create custom solutions.

Summary

The Foreign Affairs Advisor managed by contractor management, and that contractor management has the autonomy to deal effectively with the employee and implement employer practices.

Responsibilities

Essential Job Functions

• Participate as a member of the core OES/OMC team working to counter IUU fishing, coordinating OES/OMC's response to IUU fishing issues as they arise, including drafting briefing materials, talking points, and memos for OMC and OES leadership. This includes providing primary support for OES/OMC's planning and execution of a multi-day ministerial-level event focusing on countering IUU fishing, potentially hosted at the State Department by the Deputy Secretary of State.
• Provide programmatic support to OES/OMC managed grants, financial projects, and budget execution as needed related to foreign assistance and International Fisheries Commission funding, in support of OMC's current FTE GOR who serves as the lead on these items.
• Assist in the Department's engagement in the annual Our Ocean Conference in close coordination with OES/OPA.
• Assist with drafting documents and reports for review by OES leadership related to a range of emerging marine and fisheries management issues, including but not limited to: IUU fishing, sustainable fisheries, and maritime domain awareness. Products may include - but are not limited to - speeches, talking points, Congressional testimony, briefing materials, decision memoranda, reports, and international agreements. Audiences may include - but are not limited to - State Department leadership, interagency leadership and staff, Congressional staff, and the general public.
• Provide support in developing policies, technical guidance, and instructional guidance for application by a wide range of experts and other users to ensure that ocean and coastal policy goals are considered when policy is formulated, developed, and implemented. Collaborate and coordinate with other partners, internal and external, to provide insight, advice, briefings, and summary reports on emerging oceans and fisheries management issues to leadership and to internal and external audiences.
• Establish and maintain relationships with interagency partners who work within the ocean and coastal policy space (e.g., Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Coast Guard, etc.).
• Synthesize technical information for use in policy and communications materials for OES leadership and stakeholders about key emerging marine and fisheries management issues.
• Support OMC staff on preparations for the UN and UN technical agency meetings and committees on fisheries, including coordinating and contributing to briefing book preparation and coordinating the U.S. delegation and NGO observers.
• It is anticipated that domestic and/or international travel may be required.

Qualifications

Necessary Skills and Knowledge

• Ability to develop professional working relationships with officers throughout the Department and with the foreign policy community and establish liaison with officials in other organizations to provide opportunities for exchanging information of mutual interest.
• Knowledge of the functions, responsibilities, and objectives of the office, the Bureau, and the Department.
• Timely, accurate, complete and up-to-date work products.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.