USAID Challenge Administration Assistant (Humanitarian Help)

USAID/Ethiopia’s Workplace of Humanitarian Help (OHA) is liable for coordinating the USG’s emergency humanitarian response in Ethiopia and supporting Ethiopia’s relief-to-development continuum. In coordination with USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Help (BHA), In coordination with USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Help (BHA), OHA supplies life-saving humanitarian help—together with food, water, shelter, emergency healthcare, sanitation and hygiene, and demanding nutrition companies, and takes a holistic have a look at humanitarian assist, offering help earlier than, throughout and after a disaster—from readiness and response, to aid and restoration. This contains non-emergency programming that’s foundational to linking humanitarian help to long-term improvement to make sure USG and GoE improvement features are protected.

The Supervisory USAID Growth Help Specialist serves because the Household Well being Staff Lead, offering strategic, technical and administrative management for the management and coordination of all funded Household Well being actions and personnel assigned to handle them throughout the crew. The Specialist ensures that US Authorities (USG) assist in main health care companies and programs strengthening for improved health outcomes is offered based on evidence-based nationwide plans and methods, and that USG strategically supplies knowledgeable recommendation, monetary assist, and different help in concord with USG overseas help insurance policies. 

Place: USAID Challenge Administration Assistant (Humanitarian Help)

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED FOR THIS POSITION

a.     Schooling: Minimal of Two or extra years of post-secondary education in Secretarial Science or Enterprise Administration, Administration, Social Science, or Common Research, equal to a US junior faculty or community faculty diploma is required.

Prior Work Expertise: A minimal of three years of progressively accountable expertise associated to program management and administrative capabilities and/or programs management is required.

Language:  Glorious written and spoken English and Amharic (degree 4).

EVALUATION AND SELECTION FACTORS

The Authorities could award a contract with out discussions with candidates in accordance with FAR 52.215-1.  The CO reserves the fitting at any level within the analysis course of to determine a aggressive vary of candidates with whom negotiations can be performed pursuant to FAR 15.306(c).  In accordance with FAR 52.215-1, if the CO determines that the variety of gives that might in any other case be within the aggressive vary exceeds the quantity at which an environment friendly competitors might be performed, the CO could restrict the variety of candidates within the aggressive vary to the best quantity that may allow an environment friendly competitors among the many most extremely rated gives.  The FAR provisions referenced above can be found at https://www.acquisition.gov/browse/index/far.

Ranking components are used to find out the aggressive rating of certified candidates compared to different candidates. Candidates should display the score components outlined beneath inside their resume, as they’re evaluated strictly by the knowledge offered. The score components are as follows:

EVALUATION FACTORS

EDUCATION (10 factors):  Factors can be given for (1) education above the minimal degree and/or (2) specialised education pertinent to the place. and/or (3) specialised coaching pertinent to the place.

WORK EXPERIENCE (20 factors): Factors can be given for (1) expertise above the minimal ranges required, (2) specialised expertise pertinent to the place, (3) expertise in pertinent improvement help actions, (4) expertise in improvement organizations which can be giant and/or worldwide.

KNOWLEDGE (30 factors): Demonstrated potential to rapidly acquire common data of rules and procedures, humanitarian help, and of fine office management practices; and be educated, or in a position to rapidly turn into educated of general Humanitarian Help actions, in addition to demonstrated data of normal workplace procedures and practices.

SKILLS AND ABILITIES (40 factors): Demonstrated organizational and management expertise, analytical and research; social {and professional} judgment; in addition to interpersonal interplay in cross-cultural and multi-level settings. Demonstrated potential to work together successfully with a wide range of authorities officers and worldwide businesses and to take care of collaborative working relationships inside a crew construction. Demonstrated computer skillsincluding Microsoft Workplace, web-based databases, and digital submitting. Demonstrated decision-making potential and judgment in planning and finishing up duties, utilizing diplomacy and tact. Demonstrated potential to quickly analyze data, consider knowledge, and put together experiences and associated paperwork in English and Amharic.

WRITTEN TEST (20 factors)

INTERVIEW PERFORMANCE (80 factors)

BASIS OF RATING: Candidates who meet the Minimal {Qualifications} can be evaluated in accordance with the Analysis and Choice Components.

Candidates ought to tackle these components within the supply package deal, describing particularly and precisely what expertise, coaching, education and/or awards they’ve acquired because it pertains to the components. Failure to handle the Analysis and Choice Components could end in not receiving credit score for all pertinent expertise, education, coaching and/or awards.

The highest-ranking candidates could also be chosen for an interview and writing take a look at. Interviews could also be performed both in particular person or by phone/video name at USAID’s discretion.

Ultimate TEC suggestions for the candidates can be based mostly on the preliminary analysis of the purposes, interview efficiency, and written take a look at. USAID/Ethiopia is not going to pay for any bills related to interviews.

Passable Skilled Reference Checks – Go/Fail (no factors assigned). Reference checks can be performed just for the first-ranked candidate.  Please be suggested that references could also be obtained independently from different sources along with those offered by an offeror. If a candidate doesn’t want USAID to contact a present employer for a reference verify, this ought to be acknowledged within the candidate’s cowl letter, and USAID is not going to contact these references with out contacting the candidate.

MARKET VALUE:$12,764 – $22,964 yearly i.e., equal to FSN – 8. In accordance with AIDAR Appendix J and the Native Compensation Plan of USAID/Ethiopia. Ultimate compensation can be negotiated throughout the listed market worth. Wage can be paid in native foreign money on the alternate fee in impact when the payroll is processed.

Deadline: Apr 18, 2024

Easy methods to Apply:

SUBMITTING AN OFFER

Eligible Offerors are required to finish and submit:

1. The supply kind DS-174 (Utility for U.S. Federal employment) which might be discovered within the U.S. embassy web site https://et.usembassy.gov/embassy/jobs/; or https://www.usaid.gov/ethiopia/work-with-us/careers/ds-form-174-ccn-application.

1. A resume in English
2. Letter of software (cowl letter) that describes your expertise with the analysis standards (Part III: Analysis and Choice Components), and
3. Contact data for no less than three and a most of 5 references, together with a minimum of two references with direct data of the offeror’s previous efficiency.

Additional Steerage:

To make sure consideration of gives for the meant place, offerors should prominently reference the Solicitation Quantity within the supply submission.

Utility have to be submitted ONLY by way of addisusaidjobs@usaid.gov and the e-mail topic should say – Solicitation 72066324R10011, USAID Challenge Administration Assistant (Humanitarian Help). Be sure you embody your identify and the solicitation quantity on the high of every web page.

Please don’t submit a couple of software; and

The appliance have to be submitted earlier than or on the cut-off date at native Ethiopia time 5 p.m. (Native Ethiopia, Addis Ababa Time, or EAT).  Late and incomplete purposes is not going to be thought of.