Alicia Kohler

Functional Title: Hiring and Onboarding Lead

• As the External Hiring Lead for a major Directorate, worked closely with the Chief of Staff and organizational leaders to identify and fulfill hiring needs. Managed an annual hiring budget of approximately $1.4 million, ensuring expenditures aligned with organizational goals.
• Led and 8-person multi-organizational hiring team, providing strategic support to hiring managers in creating external advertisements, tailoring interview questions, and ensuring a streamlined candidate experience.
• Cultivated new reporting processes to track and analyze key operational data and progress for senior leaders.
• Oversaw the successful selection, interview, and onboarding of over 70 employees by organizing quarterly new hire orientations and developing specialized onboarding training for supervisors.
• Represented the agency at in-person and virtual college career fairs, strategically sourcing and targeting top-tier talent.

Functional Title: Mission Integration Engagement Officer (MIEO) Program Manager

• Developed and managed a comprehensive training program for Engagement Officers located around the world.
• Identified and formalized curriculum, tracked course completion, and fostered strong relationships between MIEOs and organizational stakeholders.
• Organized workshops and conferences to maximize learning outcomes and facilitate professional development.
• Analyzed program effectiveness through data collection and feedback, making continuous improvements to the training curriculum and overall program structure.
• Provided strategic guidance and counseling to six MIEOs to ensure completion of mission-critical tasks.

Functional Title: Action Management Lead

• Led a team of five in action management, ensuring an accurate and timely flow of thousands of critical information items to senior leadership to enable effective executive decision-making.
• Mentored team members on best practices for data management, document preparation, and executive-level correspondence.
• Developed and delivered training to over 400 personnel on new software, reducing process redundancies and saving thousands of man-hours.
• Analyzed high-volume data to identify trends, providing actionable insights for improving departmental performance and accountability.

• Performed target development and target profile maintenance, social media analysis, and queries in software applications and databases. Also authored over 1,000 timely intelligence reports for internal and external customers.
• As the Subject Matter Expert within a team of 40+ personnel, represented organization at daily inter-organizational briefings. Managed team workflow and ensured compliance with established deadlines.
• Participated in regular working groups with software developers to compile information on new tools and tradecraft and report issue experience by analysts to improve functionality and efficiency.
• Pioneered a process which filled a need to disseminate large amounts of analytic data in clear and concise reports to internal customers for overarching information on target set behavior, technology use, and trend analysis.
• Authored the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) manual, which defined the role and functionality of the reporting team.
• Publicly recognized as a top performer for the contract. Received 5/5 on annual performance evaluations for 2014, 2015, and 2016.

• Served as a subject matter expert in a deployed environment and coordinated with analysts from a variety of organizations to fuse counterterrorism related intelligence in support of the Joint Interagency Task Force and Special Operations Forces.
• Produced and edited high volumes of standard and special series reporting on a variety of topics. Proven ability to work well independently and in a team.
• Trained active duty and reserve personnel on analysis and open-source tools to support organizational directives.
• Received Honorable Discharge and 10 veteran preference hiring points.