Congressional Notification Specialist

Position: Congressional Affairs Specialist

Clearance: Active Secret

Location: 100% onsite/in-office

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.

The 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.
• Load notified CN information into DSAMS.
• Close out action in CATMS.
• Coordinates and the submission of statutorily required documents and other transmittals to Congress or other key external stakeholders.

• 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 to the contract requirements.
• Two (2) years performing congressional notification tracking, Foreign Military Sales (FMS), and program analyst duties.

NOTE: Your resume must explicitly indicate how you meet this requirement; otherwise, you will be found ineligible.

Security Clearance Requirements:

• This position requires you to have an active Secret Clearance. A government background investigation will be conducted on selected applicants to determine whether they qualify for access to classified information.

Compensation:

The pay range for this job is determined by various factors, including but not necessarily limited to location, responsibilities of the job, and alignment with market data. When determining a salary for this role, the following factors may be taken into consideration: contract-specific affordability, education, knowledge, skills, competencies and experience. The estimate displayed represents the salary range for this position and is just one component of ODRG's total compensation package for employees. It is not necessarily reflective of actual compensation that may be earned, nor a promise of any specific pay for any specific employee. The pay band for this position is $100 - 150k.

About Us

Organizational Development Resource Group (ODRG), LLC is a management consulting company that provides professional services to organizations within DoD, Federal, Commercial, and non - profit sectors.

About the Team

ODRG professional consultants provide management consulting and administrative support services. We assist our customers with strategic direction, implementation, and evaluation efforts that optimize their workforce and ultimately enhance the effectiveness of the organization. Our consultants have designed and delivered value added solutions for government and private organizations that have resulted in organizational effectiveness; process efficiency, strengthen workforce, and cost savings.

What you'll be part of - ODRG Culture

We foster a winning culture of solution creators built on innovation, collaboration, flexibility, and work-life balance. Our success is measured by the level of impact we have on our clients, and we are prideful of the ability we have to solve difficult problems through collaboration with government agencies as well as other organizations, along with our ability to deliver the results they need. There is a great deal of passion in the people who make up our organization when it comes to the causes we support.

As an affirmative action employer, we are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.

ODRG is committed to affording equal employment opportunities to individuals with disabilities, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act. Candidates for employment may inform their recruiter if they need a reasonable accommodation in all phases of the application and employment process. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.

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