This position is within the Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) , at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

Duties

Lead in identifying, distributing, and balancing workload among employees to ensure timely accomplishment of team tasks; represent team consensus and convey the team’s findings and recommendations in meetings with internal and external stakeholders. Ensures strategic plan, mission, and values are communicated and integrated into team’s strategies, goals, objectives, work plans and work products. Ensures all team members participate in planning for achievement of team goals and objectives. Responsible for the development of strategies, plans, program guidance, and dissemination of research results for Agency-wide application and incorporation into international humanitarian assistance and/or international development programs. Assess effectiveness and improvement of complex program and management processes and systems encompassing diverse issues affecting critical aspects for civilian international humanitarian assistance and disaster response hiring and staffing. Identifies and proposes solutions to management problems of major importance to planning for future international humanitarian assistance staffing, programming, and response to major human induced and natural disasters and complex emergencies. Informs stakeholders of changes in organizational programs and operations, conducting briefings on major program changes in particular those impacting the staffing of humanitarian assistance programs and operations overseas.

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.
• These are Testing Designated Positions (TDP's) under the Agency's approved Drug-Free Work Place Program. All applicants selected for this position will be subject to random drug testing once they begin working for the Agency.

Qualifications

Specialized Experience: GS-14 You must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-13 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: Experience advising an organizations' senior management on the various scenarios and options for hiring and staffing solutions to meet operational readiness needs of an international civilian humanitarian assistance, international development, or disaster response organization. Experience planning, evaluation and/or analyses in areas such as staffing, recruitment, talent acquisition and management, and candidate outreach. Experience identifying and proposing solutions to management for problems of current and future international civilian humanitarian assistance, international development and/or disaster response workforces to be able to effectively respond and conduct programming for complex emergencies. Selective Placement Factor This position includes a Selective Placement Factor (skill, knowledge, ability or other worker characteristic basic to - and essential for - satisfactory performance of the job). Selective Placements Factors are a prerequisite to appointment and represent minimum requirements for a position. Applicants who do not demonstrate the experience below are ineligible for further consideration. Selective Placement Factor: Your resume must demonstrate experience managing recruitment of multiple hiring mechanisms, to include personnel contracting, for a civilian-based international humanitarian assistance or development 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]