USAID Mission Administration Assistant (Humanitarian Help)

USAID/Ethiopia’s Workplace of Humanitarian Help (OHA) is answerable 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 offers life-saving humanitarian help—together with food, water, shelter, emergency healthcare, sanitation and hygiene, and important nutrition companies, and takes a holistic take a look at humanitarian help, offering help earlier than, throughout and after a disaster—from readiness and response, to reduction and restoration. This consists of non-emergency programming that’s foundational to linking humanitarian help to long-term growth to make sure USG and GoE growth positive factors are protected.

The Supervisory USAID Growth Help Specialist serves because the Household Well being Workforce 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 inside the staff. The Specialist ensures that US Authorities (USG) help in major health care companies and methods strengthening for improved health outcomes is offered based on evidence-based nationwide plans and techniques, and that USG strategically offers skilled recommendation, monetary help, and different help in concord with USG international help insurance policies. 

Place: USAID Mission 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 Normal 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 features and/or methods management is required.

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

EVALUATION AND SELECTION FACTORS

The Authorities might award a contract with out discussions with candidates in accordance with FAR 52.215-1.  The CO reserves the precise at any level within the analysis course of to ascertain a aggressive vary of candidates with whom negotiations will likely be performed pursuant to FAR 15.306(c).  In accordance with FAR 52.215-1, if the CO determines that the variety of presents that might in any other case be within the aggressive vary exceeds the quantity at which an environment friendly competitors will be performed, the CO might 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 presents.  The FAR provisions referenced above can be found at https://www.acquisition.gov/browse/index/far.

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

EVALUATION FACTORS

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

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

KNOWLEDGE (30 factors): Demonstrated skill to rapidly acquire common information of rules and procedures, humanitarian help, and of excellent office management practices; and be educated, or capable of rapidly change into educated of general Humanitarian Help actions, in addition to demonstrated information of ordinary 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 skill to work together successfully with quite a lot of authorities officers and worldwide businesses and to keep up collaborative working relationships inside a staff construction. Demonstrated computer skillsincluding Microsoft Workplace, web-based databases, and digital submitting. Demonstrated decision-making skill and judgment in planning and finishing up duties, utilizing diplomacy and tact. Demonstrated skill to quickly analyze info, consider information, 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} will likely be evaluated in accordance with the Analysis and Choice Components.

Candidates ought to deal with these elements within the supply bundle, describing particularly and precisely what expertise, coaching, education and/or awards they’ve obtained because it pertains to the elements. Failure to deal with the Analysis and Choice Components might 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 individual or by phone/video name at USAID’s discretion.

Last TEC suggestions for the candidates will likely be primarily based on the preliminary analysis of the functions, interview efficiency, and written take a look at. USAID/Ethiopia won’t pay for any bills related to interviews.

Passable Skilled Reference Checks – Cross/Fail (no factors assigned). Reference checks will likely 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 examine, this needs to be said within the candidate’s cowl letter, and USAID won’t 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. Last compensation will likely be negotiated inside the listed market worth. Wage will likely be paid in native forex on the change price in impact when the payroll is processed.

Deadline: Apr 18, 2024

Learn how to Apply:

SUBMITTING AN OFFER

Eligible Offerors are required to finish and submit:

1. The supply type DS-174 (Software for U.S. Federal employment) which will 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 info for at least three and a most of 5 references, together with no less than two references with direct information of the offeror’s previous efficiency.

Additional Steering:

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

Software should be submitted ONLY through addisusaidjobs@usaid.gov and the e-mail topic should say – Solicitation 72066324R10011, USAID Mission Administration Assistant (Humanitarian Help). Remember to embody your title and the solicitation quantity on the high of every web page.

Please don’t submit multiple software; and

The appliance should 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 functions won’t be thought of.