USAID Venture 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 supplies 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 support, offering help earlier than, throughout and after a disaster—from readiness and response, to reduction 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 Improvement 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 crew. The Specialist ensures that US Authorities (USG) assist in main health care providers and techniques strengthening for improved health outcomes is supplied in line with 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 Venture 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 capabilities and/or techniques management is required.

Language:  Wonderful written and spoken English and Amharic (degree 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 correct at any level within the analysis course of to determine a aggressive vary of candidates with whom negotiations can be carried out pursuant to FAR 15.306(c).  In accordance with FAR 52.215-1, if the CO determines that the variety of affords that will in any other case be within the aggressive vary exceeds the quantity at which an environment friendly competitors will be carried out, the CO might 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 affords.  The FAR provisions referenced above can be found at https://www.acquisition.gov/browse/index/far.

Score components are used to find out the aggressive rating of certified candidates compared to different candidates. Candidates should show the ranking components outlined beneath inside their resume, as they’re evaluated strictly by the data supplied. The ranking 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 might be giant and/or worldwide.

KNOWLEDGE (30 factors): Demonstrated means to shortly acquire common data of rules and procedures, humanitarian help, and of excellent office management practices; and be educated, or in a position to shortly turn out to be educated of total 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 means to work together successfully with a wide range of authorities officers and worldwide companies and to keep up collaborative working relationships inside a crew construction. Demonstrated computer skillsincluding Microsoft Workplace, web-based databases, and digital submitting. Demonstrated decision-making means and judgment in planning and finishing up duties, utilizing diplomacy and tact. Demonstrated means to quickly analyze data, consider information, 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} can be evaluated in accordance with the Analysis and Choice Elements.

Candidates ought to handle these components within the supply bundle, describing particularly and precisely what expertise, coaching, education and/or awards they’ve obtained because it pertains to the components. Failure to deal with the Analysis and Choice Elements might 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.

Closing 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 – Cross/Fail (no factors assigned). Reference checks can 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. Closing compensation can be negotiated inside the listed market worth. Wage can be paid in native forex on the alternate price in impact when the payroll is processed.

Deadline: Apr 18, 2024

The way to Apply:

SUBMITTING AN OFFER

Eligible Offerors are required to finish and submit:

1. The supply kind 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 Elements), and
3. Contact data for no less than three and a most of 5 references, together with no less than two references with direct data of the offeror’s previous efficiency.

Additional Steerage:

To make sure consideration of affords for the meant 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 Venture Administration Assistant (Humanitarian Help). Remember to embrace your identify and the solicitation quantity on the prime of every web page.

Please don’t submit a couple of software; and

The applying 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 purposes is not going to be thought-about.