USAID Undertaking Administration Assistant (Humanitarian Help)

USAID/Ethiopia’s Workplace of Humanitarian Help (OHA) is accountable 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 significant nutrition providers, and takes a holistic have 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 improvement to make sure USG and GoE improvement features are protected.

The Supervisory USAID Growth Help Specialist serves because the Household Well being Crew 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 group. The Specialist ensures that US Authorities (USG) assist in main health care providers and programs strengthening for improved health outcomes is supplied in line with evidence-based nationwide plans and methods, and that USG strategically offers professional recommendation, monetary assist, and different help in concord with USG international help insurance policies. 

Place: USAID Undertaking Administration Assistant (Humanitarian Help)

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED FOR THIS POSITION

a.     Training: Minimal of Two or extra years of post-secondary education in Secretarial Science or Enterprise Administration, Administration, Social Science, or Basic 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 programs management is required.

Language:  Wonderful written and spoken English and Amharic (stage 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 might be carried out 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 carried out, the CO could restrict the variety of candidates within the aggressive vary to the best quantity that can 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 supplied. The score components are as follows:

EVALUATION FACTORS

EDUCATION (10 factors):  Factors might 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 might 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 massive and/or worldwide.

KNOWLEDGE (30 factors): Demonstrated potential to rapidly acquire basic information of rules and procedures, humanitarian help, and of fine office management practices; and be educated, or in a position to 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 potential to work together successfully with quite a lot of authorities officers and worldwide businesses and to keep up collaborative working relationships inside a group 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 info, consider knowledge, and put together stories and associated paperwork in English and Amharic.

WRITTEN TEST (20 factors)

INTERVIEW PERFORMANCE (80 factors)

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

Candidates ought to tackle these components within the supply bundle, describing particularly and precisely what expertise, coaching, education and/or awards they’ve acquired because it pertains to the components. Failure to deal with the Analysis and Choice Components could lead to 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 carried out both in particular person or by phone/video name at USAID’s discretion.

Ultimate TEC suggestions for the candidates might be based mostly on the preliminary analysis of the functions, 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 – Move/Fail (no factors assigned). Reference checks might be carried out just for the first-ranked candidate.  Please be suggested that references could also be obtained independently from different sources along with those supplied by an offeror. If a candidate doesn’t want USAID to contact a present employer for a reference examine, this ought to be said 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 might be negotiated inside the listed market worth. Wage might be paid in native forex on the alternate price in impact when the payroll is processed.

Deadline: Apr 18, 2024

The best way 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 utility (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 at the least two references with direct information of the offeror’s previous efficiency.

Additional Steering:

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

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

Please don’t submit multiple utility; and

The appliance should be submitted earlier than or on the time limit at native Ethiopia time 5 p.m. (Native Ethiopia, Addis Ababa Time, or EAT).  Late and incomplete functions is not going to be thought of.