In-Country Team Lead, Global Peace Operations Initiative Capacity Building Assistance (Tanzania), United States

Minimum Qualifications:

• 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) Previous GPOI experience working with the TPDF.
• (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.

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