Congressional Notification Specialist - CSS

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RFT Professional Defense Security Cooperation Agency, Arlington, VA, US

6 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $ To $ Annually

Position: Congressional Notification Specialist

Work Location
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In-office - Crystal City, VA

Clearance Level: Active Secret

Travel: N/A

Are you ready to make a difference?

Join our team of highly skilled Congressional Affairs / Congressional Notification Specialists to ensure compliance with the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) and the Departments of Defense and State policies. You will be part of the Congressional Notification team, handling foreign military sales packages that exceed significant dollar thresholds, ensuring that the various articles and services being sold to Congress are adequately and clearly described in each notification.

The significance of the work:

As a member of the ODRG team, you will play an essential role in enhancing the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) in providing information to assist leadership in developing correspondence or response to congressional inquiries and preparing briefing materials for organizational leaders to be used when advocating for advancement of legislative priorities; and advocating organizational positions and priorities with congressional staff members.

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Work Location:

100% in-office for a collaborative office culture in Arlington, VA.

What You’ll Do:

The Congressional Affairs / Congressional Notification (CN) specialist develops CN packages to meet requirements for successful notification, such as identification of Major Defense Equipment and reviewing and editing policy justifications and sensitivity of technology statements to ensure compliance with the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) and DoD and State Department (DoS) policies. Adjudicates inconsistencies among coordinating agencies and drafts or redrafts compromise language.

Responds to or, ensures responses are provided for substantive questions from DSCA, DoD, DoS, or Congressional sources related to major arms sales.

What we are looking for:

An ideal candidate will have experience in Ukrainian and Taiwanese foreign military sales and will have prepared agendas and supporting documentation for congressional briefings, as well as coordinated meetings and briefings logistically.

Responsibilities Include, but not limited to:

• Log CNs submitted by the Implementing Agencies (IA) into the status listing, updating throughout processing.
• Review incoming CN packages to ensure compliance with AECA requirements; accuracy; correct formatting; etc.
• If non-compliant, return to IA with guidance on what changes are required before resubmittal.
• Initiate a cover sheet to capture pertinent information and status.
• Once DoS initiates a Tiered Review with Congress, create a CATMS action and build the formal notification package for Congress.
• Route formal packages to the Front Office for signature and assign the task to the FO for action.
• Create News Releases and gain approval from STO for those CNs requiring News Releases.
• Schedule posting of News Release to DSCA’s website with IM&T.
• Deliver notifications to the required Committees’ security officers for CNs requiring hand-delivery (classified).
• Send email confirmation to IA and DSCA/IOPS/REX of notification and provide an electronic copy.
• Prepare Federal Register packages (as required) and route for IOPS signatures.
• Forward signed packages for publishing in the Federal Register.
• Close out action in CATMS.
• Coordinates and the submission of statutorily required documents and other transmittals to Congress or other key external stakeholders.

Requirements:

• In-Office Position:
  Candidates must live in or relocate to the Arlington, VA metropolitan area and be willing to work in the client's office 100% of the time.
• Bachelor’s degree in political science, foreign or international relations, national security studies, or a field directly related.
• Two (2) years performing congressional notification tracking, and program analyst duties.

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