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Argent World Services, LLC                                                    Location of Position: Conroe, Tx 77385

Program Manager:

Contract Project Manager. (Key Personnel)

Duties and Responsibilities. The Project Manager is responsible for directing all aspects of contract management and services to enable the Contractor to successfully meet all contract performance objectives and requirements.

Minimum Qualifications. The Project Manager shall have the following qualifications unless otherwise approved in advance by the COR. [Revised for Q&A]

▪ Minimum of five (5) years of demonstrated experience conducting foreign security force (military or police) capacity building at the tactical and/or operational level and below. [Capacity building experience is defined as having directly engaged with foreign security forces at the tactical and/or operational level by delivering training, mentoring, advising, and equipping activities as part of a program aimed at improving specific capabilities of those forces. Experience working in a foreign country with foreign security forces or simply engaging with foreign security forces as a function of one’s job that does not include detailed evidence of direct engagement in the capacity building of those forces shall not be considered qualified experience.]

▪ 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 ten (10) years of increasing responsibility as a program or project manager or a team leader in the field of security force capacity building or in a directly related area.

▪ Directly related experience with standard contract, financial, and management practices and procedures within the field of overseas programming.

▪ Training or operational experience (military or civilian) 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.

In-Country Team Lead. (Key Personnel)

Duties and Responsibilities: The TL serves as the Project Manager’s primary point of contact for contract execution, coordination, and management of GPOI contract activities in the respective African country. The TL is the primary interface with the U.S. Embassy, Host Nation military leadership, U.S. military and international trainers, and other stakeholders associated with contract execution. The TL manages personnel assignments across training tasks; maintains professional standards of accountability, quality, and effectiveness; monitors conduct and discipline and tracks the movement of his or her team members traveling to, working in, and departing from the host country; and ensures the conduct and quality of all task order activities and requirements.

Minimum Qualifications: The TL shall have the following qualifications unless otherwise approved in advance by the CO and COR:

▪ U.S. Citizen.

▪ Minimum of fifteen (15) years of military experience, which includes service after September 11, 2001.

▪ Attainment of military grade of CW-3, E9, or O3 and higher.

▪ Demonstrated experience as a senior mentor/advisor, military or civilian, to a senior foreign security partner with directly related experience in capacity building and unit-level assessments.

▪ Relevant military operations or foreign security force (police or military) capacity building experience in the last 5 years.

▪ Regional experience in Sub-Saharan Africa.

▪ (Preferred) Experience in organizational development, conducting activities intended to drive institutional improvement and self-sufficient organizational change.

▪ (Preferred) Experience as trained and certified Foreign Area Officer (FAO) with regionally focused expertise, including in an Office of Security Cooperation or Defense Attaché Office.

▪ (Preferred) Commanded a combat arms battalion level unit (combat arms is defined as infantry, armor, cavalry, engineer, field artillery, special forces, or special operations forces) in the U.S. or NATO military land forces.

▪ (Preferred) Experience in a U.S. or NATO military training and doctrine development organization, or permanent assignment to a U.S. or foreign military training school or combat training center