Creative Corrections, LLC Careers

Description

• Assist in the coordination with program officers and counterparts at embassies overseas to provide guidance as an advisor in determining funding and coordinating and developing budgets and foreign assistance programs in the region.
• Aid in the development of budget requests, budget justifications, congressional notifications, and other reporting requirements. Coordinate with necessary Bureau and State divisions and personnel and track the associated obligation of funds for the program office.
• Advise in budgetary and programmatic discussions/meetings with Bureau leadership and other senior managers and interagency partners.
• Assist in programmatic budget execution to ensure that programs in Europe and Asia are appropriately funded for the implementation of U.S. policy, goals, and objectives.
• Assist in preparing program justifications and responses to Congress and the oversight community, including OMB, GAO, OIG, SIGAR, and House and Senate committees.
• Develop a system to track, report, and make recommendations on current and anticipated programmatic commitments, while also managing and reporting on domestically-held and post-held resources.
• Develop working knowledge about programs and policy related to narcotics, law enforcement, justice, and corrections across target countries in Europe and Asia.
• Coordinate information collection, analysis, and data-sharing with the embassy-based program officers, INL implementing partners, and the interagency as required.
• Work with program officers and the procurement division as an advisor to formulate budgets, evaluate statements of work, and monitor budgetary obligations and disbursements.
• Perform budget preparation activities, such as workload modeling, fact finding, efficiency studies, and should-cost analyses.
• Support acquisition, including in the areas of: i) acquisition planning, such as conducting market research, developing inputs for government cost estimates, drafting statements of work, and other pre-award documents; ii) source selection, such as preparing a technical evaluation and associated documentation, participating as a technical advisor to a source selection board or as a nonvoting member of a source selection evaluation board, and drafting price negotiations memorandum; and iii) contract management, such as assisting in the evaluation of a contractor’s performance, coordinating contractual actions, providing support for assessing contract claims, and preparing termination settlement documents.
• Provide advisory support on budget, financial, and project administration issues to the Office Director, Division Chiefs, and Team Leads, as needed and directed.
• Provide advice and guidance to staff on applicable procedures, instructions, and other regulations pertaining to budget coordination and administrative issues.
• Assist program officers on program and project administration tasks, as requested.
• Respond to requests from staff/program officers and from other organizations within the DOS for information concerning administrative and budget issues. Coordinate office responses to external taskers. From available data, assemble requested information or follow-up to ensure that staff members submit required answers within the specified time.
• Establish and maintain budgetary and accounting records of various types that may be needed to assist in the efficient operation of the office. Ensure files have all pertinent documents and signatures. Maintain and accurately update file system to enable quick and efficient retrieval of information. Accurately purge files or perform other file disposition actions in accordance with established procedures. Where appropriate, responsible for the accurate receipt, control, logging, safekeeping, and necessary action on all classified material received.
• Effectively enhance the ability of the office to support overall mission requirements through skilled use of spreadsheet or database software, word-processing software, and graphics and presentation software to draft documents; accurately enter, revise, sort, calculate, and retrieve data for standard reports; prepare and provide graphic symbols, charts, and graphs for viewgraphs and/or paper presentations.
• Participation in a situation where it might be assumed that participants are agency employees or representatives, such as attending conferences on behalf of an agency.

• U.S. Citizenship;
• A Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution;
• A minimum of ten years’ experience in relevant field;
• Demonstrated knowledge of Federal regulations in regard to area of specific need;
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite;
• Demonstrated experience facilitating organizational change.

• Demonstrated experience in government contracting and/or financial/budget analysis, including at least two (02) years of demonstrated experience at the Department of State.
• Demonstrated experience working in U.S. government-related foreign assistance program and budgeting, including formulation or execution.
• Demonstrated knowledge of U.S. government-related financial, management, and contracting rules and regulations.
• Demonstrated experience in financial and/or statistical analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively both oral and in writing.
• Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain effective relationships.
• Demonstrated ability to provide excellent customer service.
• Demonstrated skill and ability in managing multiple concurrent activities of varying complexity, including changing priorities and short turn-around times.
• Demonstrative ability to prioritize work and make decisions.