Description of Position: The Humanitarian Assistance Officer will:
โ Lead the Strategic Planning and Activity Design Team in designing evidence based emergency and resilience projects and programs to sustainably reduce humanitarian caseloads; and assist teams, divisions, and offices to develop long range strategic plans to plan the investment and response portfolios.
โ Advises BHA, Agency leadership, and host-country governments on evidence-based activity design and planning, new developments and effective approaches to humanitarian assistance; articulates the benefits of interventions to effectively reach specific target audiences.
โ Provides technical liaison with USAID Missions, other USAID Bureaus, and Offices, USG Agencies, Congress, donors, multilateral banks, and PVOs to coordinate their efforts with USAID programs, policies, and approaches to humanitarian assistance.
โ Responsible for the development of strategies, plans, activity design guidance, and capacities of BHA staff for evidence-based activity design and planning of humanitarian assistance and resilience programs.
โ Maintains liaison with sources of information inside and outside BHA to assess and review new or unusual circumstances, variations in approach and incomplete or conflicting information.
โ Informs stakeholders of changes in organizational programs and operations, conducting briefings on major program changes in particular those impacting humanitarian assistance programs and operations overseas.
โ Sign-up for and serve on Washington-based Response Management Teams (RMTs), which provide services and support to Disaster Assistance Response Teams (DARTs) deployed in response to disasters. Future of Work Designation: This position has been designated as Telework Eligible.
Qualifications:
โ Must be a U.S. citizen. Please state U.S. citizenship in the application/resume (if citizenship is not stated, application will not be considered).
โ Must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level, FSL-03 or GS-13, of this position.
โ Specialized experience must include: โ multi year development/resilience, and emergency cost-effective programs design; โ development of long range (three to five years) strategic plans for an organization or a portfolio of programs in a country or region, or a thematic topic such as disaster risk reduction, or resilience.
โ Overseas experience working on monitoring, evaluation, emergency response, political complex crises assistance programs, is preferred.
โ The Team Lead position requires a specific clearance level based on organizational location. Candidates must be able to obtain and maintain the security clearance level associated with the position for which they have been selected. Interested candidates should submit (in .pdf or Microsoft Word Format):
โ Resume/CV;
โ Cover letter (one page or less) must include potential team preferences and expressing a statement of interest, including one paragraph (250 words or less) that describes where in the resume the applicant meets the specialized experience qualifications; state whether you have veteransโ preference or if you have held or currently hold a political appointment (PA) within the last five years; (NOTE: current/former PA should submit their appropriate SF-50 which demonstrates their appointment);
โ Three professional references with at least one current or former supervisor;
โ Stated security clearance level, if applicable;
โ Stated U.S. citizenship (if citizenship is not stated, application will not be considered).
Please submit your application package to bha.ams.staffing@usaid.gov. Subject line must be as follows specific to the position and office being applied to; Applicants should submit separate applications for each office for which they would like to be considered. Subject lines must read:โFSL Application: Office of Technical and Program Quality-HAO-FSL-02-BHA.โ Application submissions are required by 11:59 p.m. EST on 01/23/2025. Packages not submitted by the deadline with the specified subject lineโor incomplete packagesโwill not receive consideration. This notice may be used to fill additional similar vacancies, as the workforce needs of the Bureau may change.Document Humanitarian Assistance Officer (Team Lead/DMEAL Division), (186.58 KB)