ICITAP Training and Supply Chain Investigations Advisor - Ukraine

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Amentum is supporting the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in providing specialized training, advisory and mentoring services to host nations under the Criminal Division’s International Criminal Investigative Training and Assistance Program (ICITAP).  https://www.justice.gov/criminal-icitap.  

ICITAP is a cornerstone of America’s global strategy for combating transnational crime, terrorism, countering trafficking in persons, establishing rule of law and enhancing human rights in developing countries.  Amentum is the contract service provider to the DOJ ICITAP and Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training (OPDAT) programs. 

Please Note: This is an Independent Contractor position with Amentum, it should not be considered an employment relationship with Amentum.

POSITION SUMMARY:

Amentum is currently seeking a qualified candidate to serve as Training and Supply Chain Investigations Advisor remotely in support of the EXBS Ukraine Mission with occasional TDYs to Ukraine. The following position is in support of the ICITAP-Ukraine EXBS mission. This position will provide senior technical advisory, training, and mentoring support to government counterparts on the documentation, identification, exploitation, and analysis of recovered foreign weapon systems, munitions, unmanned systems, dual-use technologies, and associated components. Support may be provided in Ukraine and other regions where foreign weapons or components are recovered, seized, transferred, or discovered, including Africa, the Middle East, Central and South America, and other conflict, post-conflict, or illicit-trafficking environments. Activities may include developing and delivering specialized training, workshops, and practical exercises; advising on field documentation standards; improving evidentiary and technical photography; supporting component-level identification; and helping counterparts preserve markings, serial numbers, labels, packaging, circuit boards, recovery context, and other information relevant to technical exploitation.

This position will help partner governments convert recovered materiel into structured investigative inputs that can support U.S. and partner supply-chain investigations, sanctions targeting, export-control enforcement, counter-diversion efforts, and procurement-network disruption. This may include mentoring counterparts on how to identify traceable components, manufacturer and distributor indicators, intermediary actors, procurement patterns, front-company risks, and illicit supply-chain pathways. A core objective of the role is to improve U.S. access to recovered foreign components and related documentation by ensuring that partner agencies know what to collect, how to preserve it, and how to share it in a manner that is reliable, actionable, and useful for follow-on analysis.

JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:  

• Deliver field engagements including:
  • field-based documentation and mentoring activities;
  • operational demonstrations;
  • classroom instruction;
  • practical exercises; and
  • investigative exploitation methodologies.
• Assist partner governments to:
  • identify and document material of evidentiary and investigative significance;
  • preserve contextual and technical information;
  • prioritize high-value components and subsystems;
  • conduct preliminary exploitation and tracing activities;
  • reconstruct procurement pathways and support networks;
  • utilize open-source information, commercial data, and publicly available investigative resources to support supply chain analysis and procurement-related inquiries; and
  • integrate physical evidence into broader investigative and prosecutorial workflows.
• Train partner governments on:
  • Evidence collection, preservation, and documentation methodologies;
  • Tracing and exploitation methodologies;
  • Practical methodologies for the use of open-source information and publicly available data in support of supply chain investigations, procurement mapping, and investigative exploitation activities;
  • Integrated investigative methodologies combining documentation, exploitation, tracing, and analytical interpretation.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS:  

• Twenty+ years of combined operational experience in battlefield and post-seizure documentation, evidentiary exploitation, supply chain investigations, tracing activities, and investigative support related to recovered weapon systems, dual-use components, and associated materials
• Operational documentation expertise, exploitation methodologies, tracing support, analytical assessment, investigative mentoring, and practical training delivery developed through extensive real-world field and investigative experience across multiple operational environments
• Experience working in battlefield environments with little supervision
• Experience working with the US Government as well as other beneficiary governments

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:  

• Proficiency in Ukrainian language
• Proficiency in Arabic language