Overview: The Bureau of Counterterrorism and countering Violent Extremism has a requirement for the full-time support services of a Senior Counterterrorism Justice Advisor to support the Office of Programs (CT/P). The purpose of the task order is to provide a professional service employee to assist the CT/P Director, Deputy Director, and other government staff in the design, management, monitoring, and evaluation of CT's programs to build the counterterrorism capacity of partner nation justice-sector actors and institutions. The Senior Justice Advisor will assist in ensuring that CT/P's justice-sector programming advances bureau objectives and will provide recommendations and advice to the government manager and CT/P as a whole based on the contractor's observations, research, and analysis of current and potential justice-sector programming. Primary Responsibilities: Serve as counterterrorism justice-sector program advisor to CT/P leadership, helping shape and implement the office's overall strategy for counterterrorism justice sector capacity building; Provide guidance to CT/P staff on all program design, concept notes, statements of work, work plans, and performance monitoring plans involving justice-sector actors and institutions (prosecutors, judges, investigative judges, magistrates, training institutions, bar associations, public defenders, etc.); Conduct assessments, monitoring trips, and program evaluations related to CT's justice programming; Advise CT/P program managers and implementing partners, especially the Department of Justice's Office of Prosecutorial Development Training Assistance (DOJ/OPDAT), on the development of performance monitoring plans (PMPs), standard objectives and indicators, reporting templates, and assessment and evaluation design for justice-sector programming; Advise Program Managers on gaps in a prosecutorial or judicial capacity, with respect to counterterrorism, in a country, countries, or geographic region, and, recommend and draft programmatic responses to address such gaps; Research and analyze problems, issues, or program requirements and provide analysis and advice on programs based on mastery of a wide range of qualitative and quantitative methods for the assessment and improvement of program effectiveness or the improvement of complex management processes and systems; Collect and compile data as well as organize data and provide presentations of results/findings with the goal of refining or designing new projects and reporting on activities; Develop and distribute templates aimed at improving the management and monitoring of justice programming for CT staff and implementers; Helps design co-creation workshops with potential implementers to design new justice-sector programs; Advise CT on the creation of a training division and core counterterrorism training curriculum at the International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law; Coordinate with INL and other US and international donors on the design, implementation, and oversight of complementary programming in the justice space; On behalf of CT/P, convene and participate in interagency working groups and meetings and make recommendations to these bodies and to Department management on new programmatic approaches or activities to enhance partner nation justice sector capacity to counter-terrorism; Draft agency directives, memoranda, and other written guidelines and recommendations related to justice-sector programs for the government manager's review and submission; Assist in the design, organization, and implementation of the CT Annual Planning Event (CAPE), bringing together CT Program Managers, interagency implementers, and other USG stakeholders to plan future year programming; advise all CT/P program managers on justice-related portions of their CAPE sessions; Conduct site visits to observe CT-funded justice programming and draft site visit reports for CT/P leadership as well as respective CT/P program managers or GOR/COR/AOR; Assist in the preparation and implementation of the Annual Program Review; specifically, review, verify, and advise on all CT justice-sector implementers' submissions and assist CT/P government staff members with assessing the efficacy of those programs; Identify program challenges and make recommendations on corrective actions to assist government managers and bureaus principals during the APR process; Recommend specific measures to improve justice-sector implementers' work processes with regards to program implementation. Supervisory Responsibilities: N/A Education and/or Experience: Juris Doctorate and/or Masters in Law from an accredited university; Demonstrated at least five years' of work experience in areas similar to those of the requirements of this task order, at least two of which involved conducting justice sector capacity building programming overseas; Experience with designing and/or implementing justice-sector capacity building programs in one or more developing countries, including crafting project and program goals, objectives, activities, indicators, and milestones; Experience advising on justice-sector training curriculum development. Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Expert knowledge of both common law and civil law legal systems; Mastery of one or more criminal justice-related specialty areas, preferably related to countering terrorism, to provide expert advice and guidance with regard to justice-sector programs; Experience with assessing project progress, conducting briefings, and preparing comprehensive reports with solutions and recommendations for top-level managers and executives; Ability to provide advice, guidance, and consultation to officials with regard to the interpretation and application of analyses; Knowledge or experience on counterterrorism issues or cases; Knowledge of current US foreign policy objectives and programs to assess the relevancy and implications of global social, political, economic, geographic, military issues, developments, and events affecting the formulation and execution of US foreign policy and foreign assistance; Knowledge of Department goals, objectives, programs, and relationships to provide expert analytical and advisory services that are responsive to the specialized needs of the organizations supported; Demonstrated record of working in a complex and highly charged political environment; Significant experience working and coordinating with relevant US agencies and embassies, foreign governments, international organizations, and non-governmental organizations; Excellent oral and written English communication skills; Preferably DoS user groups, throughout the continent of Africa is required. Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: N/A Security Clearance: SECRET Level Required Must have a current US Government SECRET Personnel Security Clearance or be able to successfully complete a US government administered Investigation. Must be a US Citizen. Must also be able to maintain a US Government SECRET clearance. Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to be able to stand occasionally; walk; sit; use hands and /or fingers to handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; operated vehicles and office equipment, reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop; kneel; talk or hear; taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision and distance vision. Travel: CONUS and OCONUS Travel Required Work Environment: Traditional domestic office hours are 8:15 am to 5:00 pm, Monday through Friday, with a non-reimbursable 45-minute lunch. However, an alternate work schedule, including but not limited to Telework and Alternate Work Schedule, mutually agreed upon by the COR or GTM and the resource may be implemented. This task order may require overtime to be completed when work requirements extend beyond the normal 40 hours per week. All overtime will be pre-approved with a request from the Government Manager to the COR for final approval. Funds must be available for overtime to be approved and worked.