Key Responsibilities:

Serving as the Communications Officer providing coordination with Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 to deliver helpdesk support to the Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean.
• Providing incident and request management as per defined standards; ensuring a standard approach and steps to triage issues are used across the support team.
• Identifying when there are gaps and/or a standard approach is needed (for example, using Knowledge Articles).
• Facilitating the delivery of on-site and remote desktop support to LAC personnel operating onsite or at field locations.
• Tracking service desk tickets to provide metric and trend reporting on incidents and service request relative to operations response activities,
• Providing Service Desk Operations support for Response support activities, developing metrics and trend analysis as it relates to IT support and services for BHA response consistent with SLA s for Response Ticket Resolution.
• Ensuring all means for communications (e.g., desktop/laptop, desk phone, mobile device, TV, subscriptions/services, VTC, teleconferencing and network operations) are available without interruption to support BHA customers and Emergency Operations Centers.
• Supporting Continuity of Operations for deployable comms staff and other components directly tied to ongoing response activities (e.g., required elevated privileges to maintain operations) are effectively maintained during and post-transition.
• Provide appropriate coverage when the designated full-time staff member(s) is not available at the LAC office.
• Liaising with response operations leadership to ensure the deployable communications support and services evolve as BHA's response operations model(s) evolves.
• Working remotely with the field team to troubleshoot issues that arise related to field communications equipment and/or establishing connectivity with field counterparts and/or BHA Washington.
• Coordinating additional shipment arrangements either commercially, personally, or through diplomatic pouch.

*Contingent on Contract Award*

Basic Qualification:

• U.S. Citizen; eligible for U.S. Secret Security Clearance.
• 2+ years providing help desk support to deployed or mobile communication teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work with customers to effect support for critical response or emergency mission operations.
• Ability to quickly respond to inquiries, requests, and incidents consistent with SLA requirements.
• Experience using ServiceNow to process incidents and service requests.
• Experience creating Knowledge Management (KM) and/or Knowledge Articles (KA) for new and gap processes.
• Experience using office tools such as Excel, PowerPoint, and MS Word.
• Experience supporting disaster assistance response teams.
• Experience with industry best practice for service desk operations or ITIL v3/v4 certification.

Preferred Qualification:

• Active Secret Security Clearance.
• ITIL v3 or v4 certification.

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