Project Manager - Overseas Training Contract

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 capabilities
• Enhance partner countries’ peace operations planning, training, and readiness competencies
• Enable partner countries to conduct effective operations and sustainment
• Reinforce UN and regional organizations’ performance and accountability frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Conduct 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.

Qualifications

The 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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