These job openings are in the Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA), The Office of Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean (ALAC), Office of Africa (OA). USAID's Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) provides life-saving humanitarian assistance-including food, water, shelter, emergency healthcare, sanitation and hygiene, and critical nutrition services to the world's most vulnerable and hardest-to-reach people.

Duties

Serves as a key member of a leadership team responsible for a division that supervises a group of employees Provides technical leadership and management supervision necessary for accomplishing the work of the Division. Performs the administrative and human resource management functions relative to the staff supervised Serves at senior levels across the USG as the agency expert and coordinator in providing intellectual leadership and focus to initiate complex humanitarian dialogue; generate policy recommendations, interventions, and agency implementation mechanisms Initiates and coordinates agency-wide analysis efforts and dialogue sessions, for the purpose of devising Agency humanitarian assistance and transition strategies, which assist Agency and host country policymakers to channel funds and activities Primary liaison on humanitarian issues with persons and groups both inside and outside of the organization to include senior staff at the Department of State, the Department of Defense, the National Security Council, Congress, United Nations, Etc Develop strategies for planning and/or implementing major USAID humanitarian assistance programs of international scope and impact

Requirements

• United States Citizenship is required.
• Relevant experience (see Qualifications below).
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a security clearance.
• Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered with the Selective Service.
• Direct Deposit/Electronic Funds Transfer is required.
• If you have no prior Federal experience or are selected under Delegated Examining procedures, you will be required to serve a one-year probationary period.
• If you select to be considered under Merit Promotion requirements, you must meet the Time-in-Grade requirements before the closing date of this vacancy announcement.
• You may be required to serve a one year Supervisory probationary period.

Qualifications

Specialized Experience: GS-15 You must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-14 level in the Federal service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-time work is considered on a prorated basis. Examples of qualifying specialized experience at the next lower level for this position include; a) Initiating and leading international, interdisciplinary, interagency groups within and outside the US in programs, policies, and strategies impacting key international humanitarian priorities; b) Leading the coordination, operations, and programming roles of a civilian-based international humanitarian response for an organization; c) Experience in the international civilian humanitarian assistance architecture, operations, programs, policies, regulations, and inter-relationships among the USG, donors, and other international organizations; d) Directing a major programmatic component of an international civilian-based humanitarian assistance organization. Selective Placement Factor: This position includes a skill, knowledge, ability, or other worker characteristics basic to -and essential for- satisfactory performance of the job. Selective Placement Factors are a prerequisite to appointment and represent minimum requirements for a position. Applicants who do not meet it are ineligible for further consideration. Evidence of the Selective Placement Factor must be reflected in your resume. Selective Placement Factor: Your resume must demonstrate advanced experience in leading international humanitarian disaster responses and overseeing humanitarian programming for a civilian-based humanitarian assistance organization. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience relevant to the position's duties to be filled, including volunteer experience. CTAP/ICTAP candidates will be referred to the selecting official if they are found well qualified. Well-qualified means an eligible applicant with the knowledge, skills, and abilities that clearly exceed the position's minimum requirements. In addition, a well-qualified employee must meet the qualification and eligibility requirements of the position, including any medical qualifications, suitability, and minimum education and experience requirements, meet all selective factors (where applicable); meet quality ranking factors and are assigned to the Silver Category or higher Category; be physically qualified with reasonable accommodation to perform the essential duties of the position; meet any special qualifying U.S. OPM-approved conditions; AND be able to satisfactorily perform the duties of the position upon entry without additional training. A well-qualified candidate will not necessarily meet the definition of highly or best qualified when evaluated against other candidates who apply for a particular position. Therefore, selecting officials will document the job-related reason(s) for qualification determinations without selective and quality ranking factors.

Education

This position does not have a positive education requirement. Therefore, no transcripts are required.

Contacts

• Address Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance 1300 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington, DC 20523 US
• Name: USAID HR Help Desk
• Phone: 202-712-1234 X2
• Email: [email protected]