Countering the People’s Republic of China (PRC)’s Military-Civil Fusion (MCF) Strategy Program Advisor

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The Division of State’s Bureau of Worldwide Safety and Nonproliferation, Workplace of Cooperative Menace Discount (CTR) funds, manages, and implements packages that search to mitigate the specter of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) being developed and utilized by proliferator states and non-state actors towards the USA or our allies.  Among the many efforts CTR oversees are counter-proliferation packages that deal with evolving nationwide safety threats, together with the threats posed by proliferator states, such because the Folks’s Republic of China (PRC), Russia, DPRK, Iran, and others.

GDIT seeks a candidate to function a Program Advisor in CTR on the Division of State headquarters to help with creating, implementing, supporting, and coordinating non-proliferation capacity-building efforts.  CTR seeks to counter the PRC’s efforts to accumulate superior and rising WMD-applicable applied sciences by licit and illicit channels for army benefit by the PRC’s Army Civil Fusion (MCF) technique. Particularly, CTR focuses on stopping the PRC’s acquisition of superior applied sciences of proliferation concern which can be a precedence for the PRC together with synthetic intelligence (AI), aerospace and house applied sciences, – biotechnology, cloud providers, neuroscience, quantum computing and quantum sensing, and semiconductors.  CTR engages a wide selection of worldwide companions from over 40 international locations each immediately and thru knowledgeable implementing companions to conduct actions to construct overseas companion capability on matters equivalent to: analysis safety, together with public-private sector analysis collaborations; Mental Property (IP) safety for tutorial, non-public sector, and monetary establishments s; and cybersecurity to safe, detect, and defend their techniques and WMD-enabling info and expertise towards malicious cyber exercise. 

The candidate will need to have excellent written and oral communication abilities, a powerful curiosity in science diplomacy, important expertise in venture administration, and thrive in a fast-paced, small-team surroundings.  Demonstrated success in each impartial and team-driven efforts is required.  Information and expertise in worldwide safety, program administration, rising applied sciences, or the PRC’s MCF technique and methodology to accumulate applied sciences is strongly most well-liked.

The candidate shall be accountable for programmatic and technical oversight of assigned actions in a number of precedence international locations and can work carefully with different Division of State and interagency entities, counterparts in overseas governments, technical specialists, and different stakeholders to develop and execute program actions.  The candidate will even be accountable for creating programmatic instruments to assist related U.S. overseas coverage targets and venture implementation, and coordinating with different U.S. Authorities departments and companies, as wanted.

CTR’s programmatic efforts to counter the PRC’s MCF technique have a world affect, with present actions in Africa, Central Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Center East, and South and Southeast Asia.  CTR’s C-MCF programmatic efforts proceed to evolve in response to the worldwide safety surroundings and search to strengthen U.S. nationwide safety targets on this dynamic surroundings.  To this finish, we welcome candidates who can develop and implement modern methods to handle a few of the most urgent nonproliferation and associated nationwide safety challenges going through the U.S., together with superior and rising biosecurity threats from each state and nonstate actors.

Duties and obligations underneath this chance embody, however should not restricted to:

·        Coordinate carefully with a cadre of technical specialists and authorities stakeholders to implement threat-reduction initiatives (e.g., trainings, workshops, and so forth.) that construct worldwide companion capability to guard superior and rising applied sciences from PRC acquisition and advance U.S. insurance policies pertaining to countering WMD and different proliferation threats;

·        Handle a various portfolio comprised of capability constructing initiatives and coverage points targeted on mitigating threats posed by the PRC’s pursuit of WMD-relevant and rising applied sciences (on the interagency and/or worldwide degree) and oversee execution of a associated overseas help funds;

·        Establish and execute modern approaches that enhance CTR’s risk discount packages; 

·        Present written and oral briefings to management within the Division of State, or throughout the U.S. Authorities on ISN/CTR programmatic actions;

·        Develop and enact engagement methods to counter proliferation of WMD;

·        Lead annual technique improvement for the portfolio, overview risk discount proposals, and supply funding suggestions to choice makers;

·        Take part in home and overseas conferences as required, and extra duties in assist of CTR at dwelling or overseas as assigned; and

·        Cooperate with companions within the U.S. interagency to align CTR engagements with different U.S. Authorities nonproliferation packages.

Necessities: 

·        The flexibility to accumulate and preserve a Secret-level U.S. Authorities safety clearance is required.  A present lively clearance is useful, however not a requirement.

·        Expertise in worldwide safety, program administration, rising applied sciences, or the PRC’s MCF technique and methodology to accumulate applied sciences is strongly most well-liked. 

·        Bachelor’s diploma (Graduate-level schooling strongly most well-liked) with a minimal of 8 years of expertise (6 years with a graduate diploma) within the areas of nonproliferation, rising applied sciences, and associated programmatic efforts are most well-liked.

·        The candidate should possess and show excellent communication, diplomacy, teamwork, and venture administration abilities. 

·        Worldwide journey is required.

·        Overseas language abilities (together with however not restricted to Mandarin and/or Cantonese) are a plus.

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