Project Manager – Overseas Training Contract Obera, LLC supports global initiatives that enhance security and improve lives for people around the world. In broad mission goals there is clarity: to properly train and integrate mission-essential solutions, strengthen host nations' capacity for drug interdiction, to bring power to a remote community, to enhance peacekeeping operations.
Obera is looking for a dedicated Project Manager (PM) to support the Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI), a U.S. Department of State security assistance program focused on building international peacekeeping capacity worldwide in close collaboration with the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD). The PM supports the following contract objectives:
Support partner countries' development of critical mission capabilitiesEnhance partner countries' peace operations planning, training, and readiness competenciesEnable partner countries to conduct effective operations and sustainmentReinforce UN and regional organizations' performance and accountability frameworks.ResponsibilitiesConduct routine supervision and oversight of the in-country Team Lead (and all other personnel performing on the contract).Conduct routine development, revision, supervision, and quality assurance of all POIs and training materials for training delivered in country under this SOW.Establish processes for receiving, analyzing, incorporating (as needed), and disseminating any external reference materials provided to the Contractor by the Program Office or other outside organizations.Designate a single point of contact or contacts such as the Program Manager or Deputy Program Manager to ensure streamlined communications.Ensure routine communications with the CO, COR, and Program Office during all phases of the contract's life cycle.Ensure responsive updates to scheduling or personnel changes.Attend in-person and/or virtual conferences and scheduled meetings on SOW-related subjects as directed by the COR.Mobilize and de-mobilize all personnel and training teams performing on the contract.Plan and supervise the provision of all lodging, transportation, life support, contract support, and other basic life support for all personnel at the place of performance.Ensure the timely submission and resolution of all issues and requirements pertaining to invoices and other financial/billing requirements on the contract.Manage the timely procurement, staging, and shipment of all equipment, including the delivery, joint-inventory, and hand-over of equipment at the place of performance.Manage timely completion of all Contractor responsibilities before, during, and after any contract modifications.QualificationsThe Project Manager shall have the following qualifications:
Minimum of ten (10) years of demonstrated experience conducting foreign security force (military or police) capacity building at the tactical and/or operational level and below.Relevant military operations or foreign security force (police or military) capacity building experience or program management experience in the last five (5) years.Minimum of five (5) years of increasing responsibility as a program or project manager or a team leader in the field of security force capacity building.Directly related experience with standard contract, financial, and management practices within the field of overseas programming.Training or operational experience in Sub-Saharan Africa.Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.Secret-level security clearance or above.(Preferred) Experience working with peacekeeping or other security assistance capacity building programs.(Preferred) Program Management Institute (PMI) certification as a Program/Project Management Professional or comparable program management certification.
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