Border Security and Customs Assessment Advisor

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🇬🇪 Georgia – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

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📦 Logistics

✈️ Travel

💼 Consulting

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Makwa Global, LLC is a Tribal Enterprise owned by the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, based in Minnesota. The company specializes in providing a new approach to Tribal Enterprise capabilities for government agencies and corporate partners. Their expertise spans several service areas including security, construction, facility support, training, staffing, logistics, travel, and communications. With over 75 years of combined experience in government contracting, Makwa Global aims to leverage its diverse capabilities to support various industries.

📋 Description

• Deploy to Tbilisi, Georgia, to conduct a comprehensive needs assessment of Georgia’s Border Police and Customs Agency • Assess operational, technical, and institutional capacities and identify gaps and vulnerabilities • Examine regional cooperation and develop evidence-based prioritized recommendations for future INL programming • Prepare an assessment report covering capacity gaps, recommendations, action plan, regional cooperation, proposed projects, activities, potential implementing partners, training topics, evaluation requirements, progress, and next steps • Assess training and technical assistance needs for passenger profiling, cargo targeting, risk assessment, API, and PNR systems • Coordinate activities with INL, U.S. government interagency partners, Georgian Border Police and Customs Agency, and relevant stakeholders • Review prior donor training and equipment and create a reference sheet of government agencies, functions, and donor support for 2018–2028 • Survey infrastructure, equipment, communications, personnel, training systems, standard operating procedures, and daily operations through consultations and site surveys • Identify operational, technical, and institutional gaps, including technology, communications, surveillance, monitoring, investigative, screening, and interdiction deficiencies • Review equipment inventories and recommend technology needs and cost estimates for border crossings and customs facilities • Assess specialized units, readiness, effectiveness, tactical training, mobility, cargo inspection, and technical support tools • Assess passenger profiling, cargo inspection, risk assessment, intelligence-led policing, analytical capabilities, and information sharing • Recommend targeted training, embedded mentoring, and train-the-trainer approaches • Map border crossing points and points of entry, including ports and airports • Analyze regional cooperation involving Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Turkey • Coordinate with U.S. and international assistance partners, including EXBS, DTRA, DOD, EU partners, IOM, and OSCE • Develop a stakeholder matrix or coordination log and document coordination efforts, challenges, synergies, and stakeholder feedback • Submit monthly progress reports, assessment notes, interview summaries, data collection tools, and background research • Provide initial, midpoint, and final stakeholder briefings • Communicate regularly with INL Tbilisi staff and present findings to host-nation stakeholders

🎯 Requirements

• Currently employed in border security, customs, related law enforcement, or a related field, or recently retired/separated within the last 5 years • Excellent verbal and writing skills in English • Valid U.S. driver’s license • Ability to operate a standard transmission vehicle • Good health and ability to pass required physical, medical, and psychological testing as needed for the assigned mission/country • Ability to sustain a deployment of up to 9 months • Willingness and ability to train others in area of expertise • Unblemished background • Secret Security Clearance required • Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution in international relations, law enforcement, public policy, or a related field • 5–9 years’ total work experience • 5–8 years’ experience within the specific field of expertise • Preferred: at least 7 years of direct, hands-on field experience in border security operations, customs interdiction, or port-of-entry management • Practical experience conducting or supporting on-the-ground assessments of border crossing points and/or customs facilities • Working knowledge of border and customs standard operating procedures, cargo and passenger screening operations, and interdiction unit tactics • Field experience identifying technology and equipment gaps, including scanners, radio and communications systems, and detection equipment • Experience conducting field-based stakeholder engagement with host-nation border or customs officials • Experience with in-country training delivery or embedded mentoring preferred • Experience working with foreign assistance stakeholders overseas, preferably in Eastern Europe or Central Asia • Experience working overseas generally • Experience working with INL

🏖️ Benefits

• Contract engagement • Deployment of up to 9 months • Opportunity to support U.S. Department of State INL programming • Opportunity to conduct international field assessment work • Opportunity to train others in area of expertise

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