About the Position

Dexis seeks a highly experienced Strategic Advisor to support business development activities relating to Department of State humanitarian assistance programs. The Advisor will play a critical role in Dexis’ strategic positioning and in identifying and preparing winning solutions for relevant business opportunities. Working closely with the Federal Civilian Account business development team, the Advisor will be responsible for refining our understanding of the current and evolving client landscape, validating opportunity parameters, and facilitating strategic introductions to key stakeholders across opportunities. 

This is a 1099 consultant position. It will be based remotely in the continental United States.

Responsibilities

• Provide current strategic insight into the evolving needs and priorities, structure, and decision-making processes within the Department of State’s Bureau of Disaster and Humanitarian Response. 
• Advise Dexis leadership on strategies for market positioning and client engagement specific to humanitarian assistance programming.  
• Identify and facilitate introductions with relevant stakeholders throughout the capture and bid process. 
• Identify opportunities aligned with Dexis’ corporate capabilities and growth objectives, provide strategic guidance and support on bid capture, and help prepare winning proposal.  
• Validate strategic direction, programmatic objectives, potential scope, and customer needs and expectations for specific opportunities identified. 
• Participate in periodic strategy sessions and serve as a trusted advisor throughout the pre-solicitation, capture, and bid phases. 

Qualifications 

• Minimum 10 years of experience supporting U.S. Government programs  
• Prior experience with USAID's Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA), the Department of State's Bureau for Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM), the Department of State’s Bureau for Global Food Security, and/or any of their predecessor offices, within the past three (3) years is REQUIRED.  
• Deep familiarity with delivery of US federal humanitarian assistance, disaster response, stabilization, and/or similar crisis-oriented programming is REQUIRED. 
• Current existing relationships within Department of State and/or implementors of federal humanitarian assistance and disaster response awards overseas is REQUIRED. 
• Demonstrated experience and nuanced insights into successfully navigating the federal procurement process and the dynamic contracting environment. 
• Demonstrated track record of engagement with senior-level government officials, particularly at Department of State or in related foreign-policy-focused roles. 
• Prior experience advising capture or proposal teams targeting State Department contracts. 
• Discretion, professionalism, and a strong sense of integrity in facilitating client-facing interactions. 

About the Position

The Project Finance Associate Director supports a U.S. Government Agency in executing complex international finance transactions. This role operates within a dynamic investment team focused on advancing strategic projects in emerging markets. 

The Associate Director plays a key role in supporting transaction execution across the full project lifecycle, including due diligence, financial analysis, and coordination of internal and external stakeholders. The position requires strong analytical capabilities and the ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams in a fast-paced environment. 

This position is based in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, and is contingent upon award.

Responsibilities

• Conducts in-depth analyses of new loan proposals to determine their financial, technical, economic, legal, marketing, and political feasibility. Performs in depth analysis of the nature of the proposed business ventures; country related macroeconomic and microeconomic risks; risks related to project contractual obligations; the eligibility, financial standing and business background of the sponsor; and other related factors. 
• Independently conducts in-depth financial analyses of new loan proposals to determine a proposed project's ability to maintain debt service and fully repay a loan based on a review of the documentation provided. 
• Performs analyses utilizing available financial data including the financial statements provided by the project sponsors. Creates or modifies sponsor-provided financial projections to assess logical model construction and adequacy of business case assumptions for the proposed financing. Conducts sensitivity analyses to test project assumptions and key economic drivers. 
• Summarizes clearly and concisely due diligence finding as part of credit packages and other documents and memoranda required in the Agency's approval process and presents loan credit proposals to committees to obtain approvals. 
• Serves as point of contact for day-to-day advancement of transactions, including scheduling and attending calls; project management and planning; coordinating among the client, internal parties, external advisors and financing partners; and generally managing the multifaceted workstreams required to advance transactions to commitment, financial close and disbursement. 
• Oversees ancillary workstreams related to transactions including liaising with client, intradepartmental tasks and external consultants. Work with clients to complete forms, liaising with environmental and social teams, reviewing know-your-customer diligence results, and similar routine tasks that must be completed on all transactions. 
• Responds to communications in a timely manner and conducts duties with professionalism. 
• Performs other related duties as assigned. 

Qualifications 

• Minimum of a master’s degree in international business/studies, international relations, finance, business, economics, political science, or a related field. 
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in international finance, corporate finance or project finance, and investments within the last 7 years. 
• Experience analyzing and structuring complex international finance capital market transactions. 
• Experience creating, analyzing, auditing, and running sensitivities on financial models for debt finance in the project finance manner for projects located in developing markets 
• Experience in investments and strategic engagement in developing countries. 
• Experience working on international investments or international financial transactions in a commercial bank, investment bank, international financial institution, or multilateral organization. 
• Experience conducting and reviewing project finance loan origination including financial analysis, economic or political risk analysis, and detailed credit analysis. 
• Broad and comprehensive knowledge of international business practices. 
• Working with minimal supervision, on simultaneous projects, in a complex environment, and under deadlines. 
• Excellent English speaking, reading, and writing skills. 
• Demonstrated ability to produce written materials that are clear and succinct. 
• Delivering customer service and resolving customer queries. 
• Must be a U.S. Citizen or Foreign National with the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or higher-level clearance. 

About the Position

The Project Finance Director supports a U.S. Government Agency in advancing complex international finance initiatives. This role operates within a high-performing investment function responsible for mobilizing private capital in support of strategic economic and development objectives. 

The Director serves as a senior-level finance professional responsible for leading the full lifecycle of complex transactions in emerging and frontier markets. The position requires deep expertise in project finance, credit analysis, and transaction structuring, as well as the ability to manage multiple high-value workstreams simultaneously. 

This position is based in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, and is contingent upon award.

Responsibilities

• Conducts in-depth analyses of new loan proposals to determine their financial, technical, economic, legal, marketing, and political feasibility. Performs in depth analyses of the nature of the proposed business ventures; country related macroeconomic and microeconomic risks; risks related to project contractual obligations; the eligibility, financial standing and business background of the sponsor; and other related factors. 
• Independently conducts in-depth financial analyses of new loan proposals to determine a proposed project's ability to maintain debt service and fully repay a loan based on a review of the documentation provided. 
• Performs analyses utilizing available financial data including the financial statements provided by the project sponsors. Creates or modifies sponsor-provided financial projections to assess logical model construction and adequacy of business case assumptions for the proposed financing. Conducts sensitivity analyses to test project assumptions and key economic drivers. 
• Summarizes clearly and concisely due diligence finding as part of credit packages and other documents and memoranda required in the Agency's approval process and presents loan credit proposals to committees to obtain approvals. 
• Negotiate terms and conditions in contracts and structured debt finance agreements to achieve execution of commitment letters, financing agreements and disbursements. 
• Conduct research and analysis on relevant industry, sector, market, country and key participants. 
• Conduct outreach to expand the prospective structured debt finance pipeline. 
• Serve as point of contact for day-to-day advancement of transactions, including scheduling and attending calls; project management and planning; coordinating among the client, internal parties, external advisors and financing partners; and generally managing the multifaceted workstreams required to advance transactions to commitment., financial close and disbursement. 
• Oversee ancillary workstreams related to transactions including liaising with client, intradepartmental tasks and external consultants. Work with clients to complete forms, liaising with environmental and social teams, reviewing know-your-customer diligence results, and similar routine tasks that must be completed on all transactions. 
• Responds to communications in a timely manner and conducts duties with professionalism. 
• Performs other related duties as assigned

Qualifications 

• Minimum of a master’s degree in international business/studies, international relations, finance, business, economics, political science, or a related field. 
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in international finance, corporate finance or project finance, and investments within the last 14 years.
• Experience independently or leading a team in originating international project finance debt transactions in developing countries while working at a commercial bank, investment bank, international financial institution, multilateral organization, or other comparable governmental entity. 
• Experience in investments and strategic engagement in developing countries. 
• Experience conducting all of the following: due diligence, financial analysis, economic analysis, detailed credit analysis, credit risk assessment and mitigation, market analysis, legal agreement structuring, legal agreement negotiations, and political risk analysis of limited recourse finance transactions. 
• Experience creating, analyzing, auditing, and running sensitivities on financial models for debt finance in the project finance manner for projects located in developing markets. 
• Broad and comprehensive knowledge of international business practices. 
• Experience independently working on simultaneous projects, in a complex environment, and under deadlines. 
• Excellent English speaking, reading, and writing skills. 
• Demonstrated ability to produce written materials that are clear and succinct. 
• Must be a U.S. Citizen or Foreign National with the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or higher-level clearance. 

About the Position

The Political Risk Insurance Projects Director supports a U.S. Government Agency in managing complex international risk mitigation initiatives. This role operates within a specialized function responsible for evaluating, structuring, and underwriting political risk solutions for investments in emerging and developing markets. 

The Director serves as a senior specialist leading the assessment and execution of highly complex insurance transactions. The position requires deep expertise in political risk analysis, underwriting, and international investment environments, as well as the ability to engage with senior stakeholders across public and private sectors. This position is based in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, and is contingent upon award.

Responsibilities

• Evaluates projects proposed by investors and designs the insurance coverage, personally handling unusually complex and significant issues as well as representing the Agency at the highest levels in negotiations with investors and foreign government representatives. Projects include the most complex issues and conditions and require the conduct of sensitive negotiations and original underwriting techniques performed with authoritative technical independence. 
• Reviews formal applications for political risk insurance. Analyzes the nature of investment, equity and loan instruments, project agreements, and related documents. Determines the level of concentration risk in the industry or country. Reviews laws and practices regarding investment and foreign exchange in country of proposed investment, as well as the investment conditions and political climate in order to assess political risk and anticipate and deal with problems that might arise. Reviews and works with other relevant departments to determine appropriateness of foreign government approval of the project and the investment's contribution to economic development in the project host country; the effect on U.S. balance of payments and employment; and the projects' environmental implications. Reviews final insurance applications and, when needed, requests supporting information and documentation. 
• Advises investors on whether the proposed project is insurable. Determines whether there are problems or restrictions that would make the project, investment, and/or investor ineligible and suggests, if possible, reshaping to achieve eligibility. Performs risk evaluation and proposes pricing. 
• Develops concepts and innovative approaches to provide and support political risk coverage. 
• Assists in maintaining and expanding the business pipeline for risk mitigation services, working with U.S. and foreign private sector and government officials, as well as with representatives of multilateral and bilateral development finance institutions. 
• Develops and sustains relationships with corporate, multilateral, and bilateral representatives to ensure early identification of future projects with potential for enhanced participation. 
• Negotiates and confers with senior officials and/or counsel of the investors regarding character of investment, the appropriate insurance coverage(s), and provisions of the contract. Provides suggested language for adaptations, changes in, or addenda to the standard contract and determines need for and obtains advice or clearance from legal counsel and other relevant parties. 
• Prepares or oversees the preparation of the insurance contract in final form, ensuring that it correctly reflects the investor's application and supplementary data, and after appropriate clearance, transmits it to the investor for execution and payment of fees. 
• Prepares staff memoranda and papers for presentation to approval committees, management, and senior leadership; coordinates presentations of projects for approval, as needed. 
• Work may include overseas travel to conduct due diligence about the current political situation in a country where issues are affecting the client's operations, conducting special negotiations, and working with local U.S. Embassy staff to deal with specific country issues. 
• Performs other related duties as assigned

Qualifications 

• Minimum of a master’s degree in international business/studies, international relations, finance, business, economics, political science, or a related field. 
• Minimum of 8 years of experience working at a political risk insurance firm, commercial bank, consulting firm, investment bank, international project development company, international financial institution, or multilateral organization within the last 10 years. 
• Experience independently completing the full range of origination of international political risk insurance contracts. 
• Experience conducting political risk analysis of investments in developing countries. 
• Experience identifying issues in at least two of the following three areas: political, economic or credit risks (e.g. due diligence, risk exposure, detailed credit analysis, market analysis, private investments). 
• Experience analyzing the underlying causes of changes in investment conditions and political climate in a developing country. 
• Experience guiding potential clients through the eligibility requirements, application process, investment policies requirement and approval process at a political risk insurance company. 
• Experience identifying pertinent host country political risks related to projects and applying these analyses to determine what risks should be covered and excluded in a political risk insurance contract. 
• Experience developing networks and customer contacts to identify new business opportunities. 
• Excellent English speaking, reading, and writing skills. 
• Demonstrated ability to produce written materials that are clear and succinct. 
• Must be a U.S. Citizen or Foreign National with the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or higher-level clearance. 

About the Position

Dexis is recruiting a highly qualified Construction and Engineer, Program Design Specialist to provide embedded operational support to the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, Office of Security Assistance (PM/SA). The Specialist will serve as a core member of the PM/SA support team and will support the quality assurance and effective delivery of large-scale engineering and construction projects, including base camps, airfields, utilities, and other mission-critical installations.

This role supports program design, engineering oversight, monitoring and evaluation, cost and schedule control, and risk management to ensure projects are delivered cost-effectively, on schedule, and in compliance with all applicable codes, standards, and U.S. Government requirements, under Government direction.

This position is based onsite in Washington, DC and is contingent upon contract award. U.S. citizenship and an active Secret clearance are required. The selected candidate may begin work with an interim Secret clearance. Occasional domestic and international travel may be required for short-term technical assistance assignments.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support risk management, monitoring and evaluation (M&E), and engineering assessments for complex construction programs.
• Oversee and advise on program design, including Design-Build and Design-Bid-Build methodologies, remote-site construction, and partner-nation capacity support.
• Conduct technical evaluations, develop Independent Government Cost Estimates (IGCEs), and support the development of Statements of Work (SOWs) and Performance Work Statements (PWSs).
• Ensure quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) and code compliance (e.g., International Building Code, National Fire Protection Association, and National Electric Code) across multiple concurrent projects.
• Provide expert oversight of schedule and cost control, risk and performance management, and multi-project coordination with diverse stakeholders.
• Support the development and implementation of monitoring and evaluation frameworks tailored to construction and infrastructure programs.
• Advise on overseas infrastructure delivery, ensuring alignment with U.S. Government standards and host-nation requirements.
• Prepare and present reports, briefings, and recommendations to senior leadership and interagency partners.

Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, or a related field.
• At least 8–10 years of progressively responsible experience leading complex U.S. Government task orders, major capital projects, and overseas infrastructure programs.
• Demonstrated expertise in:
  • Program design and construction program management
  • Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) for construction projects
  • Risk and performance management
  • Schedule and cost control
  • Technical evaluations and IGCE development
  • SOW/PWS writing and requirements definition
  • Overseas infrastructure delivery
  • QA/QC and code compliance
  • Multi-project oversight and stakeholder coordination
• Strong leadership and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple large-scale projects simultaneously.
• In-depth knowledge of U.S. Government construction standards, regulations, and procurement processes.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to prepare clear, concise reports and briefings.
• Proven ability to work effectively in cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary teams.
• Proficiency in risk management, M&E methodologies, and engineering assessments.
• U.S. citizenship and an active Secret clearance (interim acceptable).

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience supporting PM/SA.
• Advanced degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, or a related field.