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· Provides high-level program management and strategic support to INL/KM at the Department of State and bureau-wide initiatives addressing U.S. national security priorities, including counter-fentanyl operations, resulting in enhanced interagency coordination and improved operational effectiveness across multiple portfolios.
· Delivers surge support to critical teams facing staffing gaps, ensuring continuity of operations and timely execution of priority projects like, influencing portfolio outcomes related to border security and transnational crime that impact U.S. foreign policy objectives. Helped INL/WHP’s Mexico Team during critical staffing shortage.
· Develops strategic work plans for grants incorporating cross-functional feedback to guide complex initiatives with significant operational and policy implications. Spearheaded development of an integrated U.S.-Mexico border strategy work plan, synthesizing complex economic and security analyses to inform and advance binational collaboration on counter-narcotics and border security initiatives.
· Implement executive orders and respond quickly to complex and broad requests for information while protecting America’s investments and advancing American safety, strength and prosperity while assisting bureau colleagues.
· Leads the design and implementation of new projects like IAAs, IO-LOAs, and contracts in response to evolving guidance, coordinating effectively with internal and external partners under tight deadlines. Managed the expedited design and implementation of an innovative anti-money laundering project in response to senior-level guidance, coordinating cross-bureau and international partners to meet stringent fiscal and operational deadlines, and to disrupt and reduce illicit drug markets and transnational crime to protect American lives and U.S. national security.
· Manages cooperative agreements supporting advisory, training, and capacity-building activities for domestic and international partners. Directed management of cooperative agreements supporting KM/TAD’s international advisory, training, and building activities for law enforcement partners, advancing U.S. criminal justice diplomatic objectives.
· Serves as cross-cutting program officer and project manager and performs AOR/GOR/COR duties for office-wide or multi-division implementing mechanisms and serves as acting AOR/GOR/COR as needed for other mechanisms.
· Successfully oversaw renewals and expansion of strategic professional memberships, enhancing KM’s engagement with key criminal justice and court administration networks critical to strengthen criminal justice systems to support stable, rights respecting partners.
· Acted as primary liaison for INL’s public diplomacy efforts on social media platforms, coordinating communications for high-profile events to elevate bureau visibility and diplomatic outreach.
· Assumed primary responsibility for KM’s office-wide budget coordination, streamlining budget execution processes and ensuring strategic resource allocation that supported uninterrupted program delivery during leadership transition. Tracking annual and multi-year budget execution.