Acuity International, formed from the combination of Comprehensive Health Services, Janus Global Operations, Project Time & Cost, Sallyport, and Michael Baker Global Services, holds Worldwide Protective Services (WPS) III task orders for the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Diplomatic Security, including protective and security-logistics support for the U.S. Embassy in Mogadishu, Somalia. The company also provides program and construction management and occupational health services to government clients.
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OCONUS Recruiters in Middle East
36 of the 107 recruiters and staffing firms placing OCONUS / GovCon roles we track list Middle East as a region they cover. Featured partner first, then alphabetical.
36 of the 107 recruiters and staffing firms placing OCONUS / GovCon roles tracked on OCONUS Recruiters cover Middle East, as of October 14, 2026. The featured partner, Recruitmint, is pinned first when it qualifies; every other row is alphabetical, unpaid, and drawn from public information.
Middle East-tagged firms name Middle East contracts, CENTCOM-area work, or a regional office on their own public materials. Visa, status-of-forces, and vetting requirements here differ from embassy work in Africa or contractor support in Asia-Pacific, and they can differ country by country within the region. Ask each firm which countries it has staffed rather than assuming region-wide reach. The jobs-clearance-required-overseas guide breaks down how clearance and vetting timelines typically play out. Pair this region view with the LOGCAP or WPS & Security specialty pages if your contract sits in this theater.
Which recruiters and staffing firms placing OCONUS / GovCon roles serve Middle East?
Advertiser disclosureFeatured partner pinned first and labelled; every other company is listed alphabetically. No paid placement.
| Company | Headquarters | Specialties | Size | Best for | Website |
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Acuity International
Africa, Middle East
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Reston, VA, USA | Mid-size | WPS & Security | Visit | |
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Al Jameh Group
Middle East
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Ahmadi, Kuwait | Boutique | Logistics & Life Support | Visit | |
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AllWorld Language Consultants, Inc. (ALC)
CONUS, Middle East
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Rockville, MD, USA | — | Linguist & Interpreter Staffing | Visit | |
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Amentum (Linguist Programs)
Middle East, Global/OCONUS
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— | Large | Linguist & Interpreter Staffing | Visit | |
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American International Contractors (Special Projects), Inc. (AICI-SP)
Europe, Asia-Pacific
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McLean, VA, USA | — | Embassy & State Dept Support | Visit | |
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American International Contractors, Inc. (AICI)
Middle East, Africa
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McLean, VA, USA | — | Construction & Engineering Support | Visit | |
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American United Group (AUG)
Middle East, Global/OCONUS
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Kuwait | Mid-size | Logistics & Life Support | Visit | |
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AWC Global LLC
Middle East, Europe
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United States | Boutique | LOGCAP | Visit | |
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BL Harbert International
Middle East, Europe
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Birmingham, AL, USA | — | Construction & Engineering Support | Visit | |
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CALNET, Inc.
CONUS, Global/OCONUS
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— | — | Linguist & Interpreter Staffing | Visit | |
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Careers International
Middle East, Asia-Pacific
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Mangaluru, India | Boutique | LOGCAP | Visit | |
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CLI Solutions
Middle East, Africa
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Tampa, FL, USA | Boutique | Linguist & Interpreter Staffing | Visit | |
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Constellis
Middle East, Africa
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Herndon, VA, USA | Large | WPS & Security | Visit | |
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Continuity Global Solutions
Global/OCONUS, Middle East
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Falls Church, VA, USA | Mid-size | WPS & Security | Visit | |
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CRG (Contract Resources Group)
Middle East, Africa
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— | — | Logistics & Life Support | Visit | |
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Ecolog International
Africa, Middle East
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— | — | Logistics & Life Support | Visit | |
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FedCiv Professional Services
CONUS, Middle East
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McLean, VA, USA | Boutique | GovCon Recruiting | Visit | |
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Fluor Government Group
Africa, Middle East
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Irving, TX, USA | Large | LOGCAP | Visit | |
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GardaWorld Federal
CONUS, Global/OCONUS
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Arlington, VA, USA | Large | WPS & Security | Visit | |
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General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT)
Global/OCONUS, Middle East
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— | Large | IT & Cyber GovCon | Visit | |
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Global Language Strategies (GLS)
Middle East, Global/OCONUS
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Fairfax, VA, USA | — | Linguist & Interpreter Staffing | Visit | |
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GoAsia Talent
Asia-Pacific, Middle East
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Singapore | Boutique | GovCon Recruiting | Visit | |
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Gulvain Partners
Middle East, Europe
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Dubai, UAE | Boutique | Executive Search (GovCon) | Visit | |
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M&E Global
Europe, Middle East
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Belbroughton, Worcestershire, UK | Large | DoD Contract Staffing | Visit | |
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ManpowerGroup Public Sector
Middle East, Africa
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Arlington, VA, USA | Large | GovCon Recruiting | Visit | |
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Minimal Risk Consultancy
Europe, Africa
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United Kingdom | — | WPS & Security | Visit | |
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Parsons Corporation
Global/OCONUS, CONUS
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Centreville, VA, USA | Large | LOGCAP | Visit | |
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Perini Management Services
Middle East, Africa
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Framingham, MA, USA | Large | Construction & Engineering Support | Visit | |
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Planate Management Group
CONUS, Africa
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Alexandria, VA, USA | — | Embassy & State Dept Support | Visit | |
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Sallyport Global
Middle East, Africa
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— | — | WPS & Security | Visit | |
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SOC LLC
Middle East, CONUS
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Chantilly, VA, USA | Large | WPS & Security | Visit | |
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SOSi
Middle East, Africa
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Reston, VA, USA | Large | Logistics & Life Support | Visit | |
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STRAGO International
Middle East, Africa
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Dubai, UAE | Mid-size | LOGCAP | Visit | |
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VHB Global Inc.
CONUS, Middle East
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Dumfries, VA, USA | Boutique | Linguist & Interpreter Staffing | Visit | |
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Vinnell Arabia
Middle East
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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | Mid-size | DoD Contract Staffing | Visit | |
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WorldWide Language Resources
CONUS, Global/OCONUS
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Fayetteville, NC, USA | — | Linguist & Interpreter Staffing | Visit |
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36 shownAl Jameh Group has operated since 1996 as a contractor and subcontractor to the U.S. Army and its prime vendors in Kuwait, Iraq, Qatar and Afghanistan. Its services include sponsorship, mission-critical recruitment and staffing, life support, facility and generator maintenance, and HVAC work.
Provides translation, interpretation, Title III intercept and intelligence support to DoD, law enforcement and the Intelligence Community. Its site lists support in locations including Iraq, Qatar, UAE, Germany, Kuwait, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, and a Global Staffing Solutions service line.
Amentum recruits linguists in a variety of languages and dialects to support an intelligence community customer OCONUS, including aboard U.S. Navy vessels and in Kuwait, Jordan, and other Middle East countries. Roles are categorized by clearance level, requiring Secret (CAT 2) or TS/SCI with polygraph (CAT 3) and ILR-rated language proficiency.
AICI-SP is a design/build construction company established by AICI to pursue secure U.S. embassy construction for the Department of State's Overseas Buildings Operations. It has also completed Department of Defense construction projects in the Middle East, and maintains an employment page.
AICI is a design/build international construction firm specializing in U.S.-funded infrastructure in the Middle East and Africa, with projects also in Asia and Europe. Its government clients include USACE, NAVFAC, USAID, and the State Department's Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, and it maintains an employment page for project staffing.
American United Group is headquartered in Kuwait with offices in the US, UK, Iraq, Jordan and Afghanistan. It says it has supported the U.S. Army and international community since 1997, delivering manpower, life support, immigration sponsorship support and construction projects for the Department of Defense and its defense industry contractors.
Minority-owned, veteran-led, SBA-focused federal contractor with a regional hub in Kuwait. Offers workforce solutions (including Other Country National recruitment and TIP-compliant lifecycle management), base operations support, facility management, logistics and camp operations for DoD, federal agencies and prime contractors across the Middle East, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
BL Harbert International is a self-performing general contractor whose International Group recruits for construction, design, engineering and logistics roles at project sites worldwide. Its International Group has offices in Birmingham, AL, Washington, DC, Dubai, Istanbul and London, and seeks candidates willing to live and work abroad.
CALNET provides cleared linguists and interpreters to the U.S. Armed Forces and Intelligence Community, covering languages including Arabic, Chinese, Dari, Farsi, Pashto, Kurdish, and Urdu. Its service lines also include information technology, cybersecurity, software development, and intelligence operations and analysis support.
Careers International recruits workforce from Asia to support U.S. military and government overseas contracts, including LOGCAP, AFCAP, UN, and NATO projects. Its screening process covers linguistic and technical evaluation, medical fitness, vaccinations, and security clearance documentation for roles in DFAC operations, life support, maintenance, and logistics.
CLI Solutions is a veteran-founded, service-disabled veteran-owned defense contractor that recruits, vets, and deploys cleared linguists, cultural advisors, and intelligence professionals for the Department of Defense and intelligence community. It lists support across CENTCOM, AFRICOM, EUCOM, and INDOPACOM languages and holds a Top Secret facility clearance.
Constellis provides armed and unarmed security services, high-risk protective operations, and facilities and base-operations support to U.S. government and commercial clients, tracing its lineage to predecessor firms including Triple Canopy and Academi. The company operates in roughly 40 countries with regional offices across Africa, the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East, supporting contingency and expeditionary operations in austere environments.
Continuity Global Solutions, formerly Torres Advanced Enterprise Solutions, provides security and risk management, staffing and project management, and linguistic services for U.S. government and embassy clients, including Local Guard Force contracts and bodyguard details for U.S. diplomatic missions overseas. Its staffing division handles direct hire, executive search, and temporary and contract-to-hire placements for security, linguistic, and operational-support roles in austere environments.
CRG is a reconstruction and capacity-development company operating in complex environments, with listed locations in Iraq, Syria and Africa. Its service lines include life support and base operations, logistics and mobility, infrastructure and construction, security and intelligence, and human capital and capacity development, for clients ranging from military entities to donor agencies, UN/EU institutions and NGOs.
Ecolog is a global provider of integrated services and rapid response solutions, with life support, supply chain management, construction, engineering, healthcare and environmental services. It began supporting peacekeeping missions in the Balkans and has operated internationally since 2002. Its site lists operations in more than 40 countries across Africa, the Middle East, Europe and Asia, including Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Iraq, Jordan, Mongolia and the Philippines.
FedCiv places security-cleared and OCONUS-capable personnel, including program analysts, administrative specialists, interpreters, and logistics coordinators, for federal agencies and prime contractors. It also provides Arabic-English bilingual administrative teams for Middle East programs, including document translation and liaison coordination, and staffs cleared program-support and records-management functions including CUI/FOUO document handling.
Fluor's Government Group has served as a LOGCAP IV contractor providing multi-functional logistics, life-support, and design-build construction services for U.S. Department of Defense contingency operations, including selection to support the AFRICOM and SOUTHCOM areas of responsibility. Fluor has also performed contingency design-build and life-support work in Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait, and Kyrgyzstan under separate U.S. Army Corps of Engineers contracts.
GardaWorld Federal provides integrated operational support to U.S. government programs, including protective security, mobile and static security, K9 detection, expeditionary logistics and life-support services, and disaster/crisis response staffing for federal, state, and local agencies and their commercial partners. Its security teams include veterans and specialists vetted and trained to standards aligned with U.S. government requirements.
GDIT is a General Dynamics company delivering technology and mission services to U.S. government, defense and intelligence agencies, operating across 50+ countries. Its careers site lists OCONUS programs (including IBDSS, EMITS, BICES, EITEN and World Wide Field Support) with positions in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Europe that may require Secret to TS/SCI clearances.
Global Language Strategies provides translation, interpretation, vetting and screening support, and recruiting and pre-deployment services to U.S. government contractors. Its published DoD work includes Military OneSource document translation, bilingual screening specialists at Air Force bases in the Gulf region, and language testing and training for local guard forces at U.S. embassies.
GoAsia Talent is a Singapore-based recruitment firm operating across APAC and the Gulf, running retained executive search, contingent staffing, and volume capability-centre builds for clients including defence and federal construction roles such as project managers, P6 schedulers, and site coordinators working to NAVFAC and federal contract delivery standards.
Gulvain Partners is an executive search and recruitment firm focused on the government and defence sectors in the Middle East and Europe. It places mid- to senior-level candidates with defence OEMs, suppliers, security organisations and government entities across the GCC, wider Middle East and North Africa, and offers executive search, on-site talent acquisition, contingency recruitment and HR consultancy.
M&E Global is a UK-headquartered defence contract recruitment and workforce provider founded in 2000 that supplies contract labour for maintenance, supply and logistics, and transportation functions supporting U.S. Department of Defense prime contractors. It has subsidiaries in the UK, Germany, Poland, Romania, the U.S., and the UAE, and states it has operated in 35 countries.
ManpowerGroup Public Sector sources, recruits, and hires local national and expatriate talent for U.S. government contractors operating overseas, covering IT, language services, engineering, and administrative roles. The division has supported projects across multiple combatant command regions, including EUCOM, CENTCOM, and SOUTHCOM areas of responsibility.
Minimal Risk Consultancy is a UK security consultancy that has run a recruitment service since 2003, sourcing specialists, often former service personnel, for close protection, residential security teams and asset protection roles. It holds a pool of DV and SC cleared personnel and lists group offices in the UK, South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya and the UAE. Its recruitment services range from advertising and candidate placement to managed deployments.
Parsons Corporation (NYSE: PSN) is a defense, intelligence, and infrastructure contractor that formed the P2GLS joint venture (originally with PAE, now continuing as Amentum-Parsons Logistics Services) to hold one of four prime positions on the U.S. Army's $82 billion LOGCAP V contract, providing logistics support across multiple global regional commands. Parsons directly hires personnel for its LOGCAP task orders and other federal defense and infrastructure programs.
Perini Management Services, a Tutor Perini subsidiary, provides design-build and design-bid-build construction for U.S. federal agencies at overseas locations, including a $151 million embassy housing and infrastructure project in Baghdad, Iraq. The firm has delivered Department of Defense construction in remote locations across the Arctic, Africa, the Middle East, and the Indian Ocean since incorporating in 1975.
Planate Management Group is a service-disabled veteran-owned small business based in Alexandria, Virginia, offering architecture, engineering, and operations support. A 2023 company announcement describes a contract to provide logistical, life support, and operations and maintenance services at select international U.S. Department of State locations. It lists regional pages for Africa, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, and Ukraine.
Sallyport Global, a Caliburn International company, describes itself as a provider of protective, security and mission support services to government and commercial clients. Its careers site lists logistics, base operations and construction jobs. Company-level details (regions, founding year) come from third-party profiles and still need confirmation on a Sallyport-owned page.
SOC LLC, a Day & Zimmermann company, provides cleared staffing and security workforce solutions to prime government contractors and federal agencies, including hiring support for Worldwide Protective Services (WPS) positions posted on its own careers pages. It also staffs technical engineering, IT, intelligence, and logistics roles through contract, contract-to-hire, and direct-hire placements.
SOSi (SOS International LLC) is a founder-owned defense and government services integrator that directly hires personnel for overseas missions spanning language services, logistics, ISR, and facilities and life-support work. Founded in 1989 and based in Reston, Virginia, it operates from more than two dozen locations globally.
STRAGO International recruits, vets and mobilises personnel for base life support and base operations contracts at military, government and remote industrial sites, from program managers to third-country national workforces. Its site cites deployments across the CENTCOM theatre, including Kuwait, Iraq, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan, Djibouti, the UAE and Saudi Arabia, plus markets across Africa, with support for US primes and subcontractors on LOGCAP and base operations programmes.
VHB Global Inc. is a woman-owned, HUBZone-certified small business that supports U.S. Government customers with intelligence analysis, language services, information technology, and logistics. It recruits linguists for Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, Kurdish, Pashtu/Dari, and Russian roles, with a corporate office in Dumfries, VA, a satellite office in Herndon, VA, and an office in Jerusalem, Israel.
Vinnell Arabia, a Northrop Grumman subsidiary, provides U.S. military doctrine-based training, aviation and ground forces support, maintenance, logistics, and technical translation services under its long-running contract with the Saudi Arabian National Guard. The company directly recruits U.S. veterans and other personnel for its overseas contract positions in Saudi Arabia.
WorldWide Language Resources, headquartered in Fayetteville, North Carolina, was founded in 1995 to provide operational linguist services to U.S. Special Operations forces. It supplies interpreters and translators to U.S., allied, and coalition forces, and also offers manpower augmentation and auxiliary and logistic support, including postal services it began providing in Afghanistan in 2006. It reports in-theater support infrastructure for programs in over 50 countries.
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