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Special Assistant

US Department of State

Counterterrorism Front Office Manager

Manages Counterterrorism (CT) Front Office operations, liaises with principals, and improves task management to enhance and maintain the quality and timeliness of CT output products.

Manages information flow to CT principals and reviews decision memos for options and analysis.

Briefs CT principals, coordinates policy decisions across interagency, and reviews decision memos for options.

Prioritizes and assigns CT taskings from senior principals with the Executive Branch departments and tracks responses to closure.

Communicates team's work requirements, sets short-term priorities, helps schedule work, monitors and reports on team's work status, and identifies ways to improve quality and output.

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