OSCE/REACT Program Manager - AMERICAN SYSTEMS - Washington, DC

The PM shall act as the central point of contact with Department of State (DoS) , primarily with the Contracting Officer and the DoS’s Office of European Security and Political Affairs (EUR/RPM) .The PM shall be available to meet with the COR on a daily basis, if required, at a DoS facility, to review scheduling, priorities, funding, performance issues, etc. The PM shall also maintain close accounting of expenditures, taking special note of the types of appropriations used to fund the contract. The PM will also ensure that hired experts maintain close contact with the U.S. Mission to the OSCE (USOSCE), both pre-deployment during the in-brief period and during deployment in the various OSCE field activities, and provide annual and end-of-tour reports.

About REACT and the OSCE:
In November 1999, the participating States (pS) of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) endorsed Rapid Expert and Assistance Cooperation Teams (better known as REACT) as a tool to enable the OSCE to deploy civilian experts more rapidly to the field to undertake activities associated with conflict prevention, crisis management and post-conflict rehabilitation. The OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) sponsors election monitoring missions in OSCE pS and Partner countries. The OSCE’s Partner States include: Japan, Republic of (South) Korea, Mongolia, Thailand, Afghanistan, and Australia (as Asian Partners for Cooperation), and Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia (as Mediterranean Partners for Cooperation).