Operations Facilitation Specialist

What You Will Do:

• The Operations Facilitation Specialist for International Partnerships will provide advisory, analytical, and coordination support for engagements involving international partners, government cybersecurity stakeholders, technical teams, and other operational partners.
• This domain knowledge is necessary to engage technical and policy stakeholders, understand operational information-sharing requirements, and translate complex cybersecurity issues into effective partner engagements, executive materials, and follow-through actions.
• Apply cyber threat intelligence, security operations, and incident-response knowledge when researching partner capabilities, planning engagements, and developing recommendations.
• Work with technical and operational teams to understand threat activity, defensive priorities, incident-coordination needs, and information-sharing considerations.
• Translate technical cyber threat, vulnerability, and incident information into clear materials for international partners, policymakers, and senior leaders.
• Support planning and coordination across international partners, government cybersecurity stakeholders, technical teams, and other operational partners.
• Help manage relationships with foreign government representatives, international organizations, and other authorized partners.
• Plan and facilitate bilateral and multilateral meetings, working groups, workshops, briefings, and coordination sessions.
• Conduct research and stakeholder analysis to identify partner priorities, capabilities, constraints, and potential areas of collaboration.
• Synthesize technical, policy, and operational inputs into concise insights, options, and recommendations.
• Prepare executive briefings, talking points, meeting books, background papers, read-ahead materials, decision papers, and summaries.
• Translate strategies, policies, and leadership priorities into engagement plans, project activities, timelines, and deliverables.
• Coordinate inputs across technical, policy, legal, operational, and international-affairs teams.
• Document decisions, actions, risks, dependencies, and follow-up requirements and monitor them through completion.
• Support time-sensitive engagements by organizing stakeholders, maintaining clear communications, and providing accurate status updates.
• Identify and communicate partnership opportunities, coordination challenges, and barriers to implementation.

• Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD "PUBLIC TRUST"; candidates must obtain approved adjudication of their PUBLIC TRUST prior to onboarding with Guidehouse.
• Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred.
• Bachelors degree Minimum THREE (3) years of experience in consulting, cyber or related field.
• Working knowledge of cyber threat intelligence concepts, analytic processes, intelligence products, and information-sharing considerations.
• Experience with or substantive familiarity with security operations, cyber defense workflows, incident response, or threat intelligence functions.
• Ability to discuss cybersecurity operations credibly with technical specialists while communicating implications to policy and executive audiences.
• Experience in management consulting, research and analysis, program coordination, stakeholder engagement, international affairs, or a related field.
• Experience supporting cybersecurity, technology, national security, foreign affairs, or another complex mission environment.
• Experience supporting international partners, multinational initiatives, foreign government stakeholders, or cross-border programs.
• Strong writing skills and experience developing briefings, reports, meeting materials, or executive-level products.
• Strong verbal communication, presentation,…