USAID New vacancy 2024

Position: USAID Project Management Specialist (Budget) USAID

Job Description

GENERAL INFORMATION

SOLICITATION NO.: 72066324R10005

ISSUANCE DATE:02/07/2024

CLOSING DATE AND TIME FOR RECEIPT OF OFFERS: 02/21/2024, no later than 5:00 p.m (EAT) (shut of business).

POSITION TITLE:  USAID Project Management Specialist (Budget)

MARKET VALUE: $19,728 – $35,508 yearly i.e., equal to FSN – 10. In accordance with AIDAR Appendix J and the Local Compensation Plan of USAID/Ethiopia. Final compensation can be negotiated inside the listed market worth.  Salary can be paid in native currency on the exchange fee in impact when the payroll is processed.

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE: Five (5) years. The companies supplied beneath this contract are anticipated to be of a unbroken nature by a collection of sequential contracts, topic to continued want, passable efficiency, and the provision of funds.

The anticipated interval of efficiency can be from 05/01/2024 – 04/30/2029.

PLACE OF PERFORMANCE: US Embassy, Entoto Road, Addis Ababa, with journey as stated within the Statement of Duties.

LIGIBLE OFFERORS:  Cooperating Country Nationals (CCNs). “Cooperating country national” means an individual who’s a cooperating nation citizen, or a non-cooperating nation citizen lawfully admitted for everlasting residence within the cooperating nation.

SECURITY LEVEL REQUIRED: Facilities entry.

STATEMENT OF DUTIES

General Statement of Purpose of the Contract

The USAID Project Management Specialist – Budget (the “Specialist”) is a member of the Office of Humanitarian Assistance (OHA) and reports to the OHA Disaster Risk Management Team Lead. The Specialist serves as a subject knowledgeable on the full vary of USAID/OHA price range actions. The Specialist is accountable for main or performing a big selection of price range actions for all the OHA portfolio, together with budget planning, growth, implementation and monitoring of complicated, multi-million-dollar humanitarian and DRM assets. The Specialist offers senior-level steering to OHA and different Mission colleagues associated to all price range and financial elements of the OHA portfolio and liaises carefully with technical groups inside the Mission, with the Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) and with USAID/Washington. The Specialist additionally performs a main function in coordinating financial elements of OHA and different Mission reporting necessities. OHA manages a big and complicated portfolio that encompasses Humanitarian and Development Assistance and Title II-funded actions to enhance the meals safety and vitamin of weak populations responding to multisectoral emergency wants in Ethiopia. Through its $1 billion-dollar annual price range, the OHA manages multisectoral humanitarian and restoration packages together with large-scale live-saving humanitarian response actions, and actions that defend family property and construct group resilience

Statement of Duties to be Performed

Budget and Financial Management (40%)

• Provides steering to the OHA workplace workforce as material knowledgeable in main the preparation of annual and multi-year workplace budgets and ensures program price range planning and growth is aligned with Mission and OHA technique and cross-cutting priorities.
• Provides the appropriate fiscal data for use for brand spanking new and current tasks and lead dialogue throughout Quarterly Financial Reporting (QRF) and Operational Planning (OP) train.
• Advises the OHA on budgeting points and pertinent rules that apply to the usage of USAID funds by supply, sort and period.
• Ensures humanitarian and DRM program budgets adhere to company necessities (sufficient documentation, ahead funding compliance, adherence to earmarks, initiatives, directives, and price range pointers).
• Updates uncommitted balances regularly and offers technical and programmatic suggestions to OHA administration on the usage of un-sub-committed balances for new or ongoing actions.
• Tracks obligations, outlays, accruals and pipeline and ensures conformity to motion plans, budgets and U.S rules, as nicely USAID pointers.
• Makes recommendations to the Teams concerning applicable contractual and financial actions.
• Compiles price range data, mission obligation supplies and price range situations at the side of the Office of Financial Management (OFM) and the Office of Acquisition and Assistance (OAA).
• Coordinate carefully with USAID/Washington BHA workforce on BHA funded actions.
• Prepares area help budget requests, in coordination with the Technical Teams.
• Develops and/or edits obligation documents, motion memos, waivers and different paperwork wanted for price range choices.
• Provides in depth advisory companies to a big selection of stakeholders including mission managers, USAID groups in addition to implementing companions to make sure annual multi-million-dollar USAID budgets are aligned with USAID priorities within the host nation.
• Analyzes budget steering from a wide range of sources, and guides OHA and Mission management to make sure adherence.

ortfolio Operation and Management (30%)

• Serves as OHA’s subject matter expert (SME) for Global Acquisition and Assistance System (GLAAS).

• Initiate GLAAS requisitions for new and energetic awards
• Advises Contracting Officer’s Representative/Agreement Officer’s Representative (COR/AORs) and others on the necessities of GLAAS.
• Provides technical steering on fixing errors and GLAAS updates.

• Develops the annual calendar of price range actions that may guarantee efficient management of the price range.
• Works with Health Office COR/AORs to make sure procurement plans are updated.
• Coordinates the development and use of budget instruments and practices.
• Provides operational, monetary, administrative and logistics help to the Health Office.
• Provides help related to program monitoring and implementation, partner communications, and interfacing with related help workplaces.
• Supports group of area journeys, conferences, and seminars and to make sure most participation by goal audiences.
• Analyzes current monetary data, together with pipelines, disbursements, accruals and forecasted expenditures to tell the price range formulation process.

Reporting (30%)

• Provides guidance and coordinates OHA’s contributions to a wide range of plans and studies, together with the Operational Plan (OP), Congressional Budget Justification, Mission Resource Request (MRR), and Performance Plan and Report (PPR).
• Organizes and coordinates OHA Portfolio Reviews and assists in getting ready the mandatory doc and displays for Mission Portfolio Reviews. Helps monitor and follow-up motion gadgets from the portfolio critiques.
• Identifies current and potential program implementation and administration issues as evident from monitoring efforts and work with respective program managers to resolve issues/take corrective motion.
• Serves as a key liaison with the Mission’s Program Office (PRO) responding, on behalf of OHA, to common and advert hoc reporting and programmatic requests.

The contractor is eligible for journey to the U.S., or to different places overseas, for coaching, for short-term obligation, or to take part within the “Foreign Service National” Fellowship Program, in accordance with USAID coverage.

Supervisory Relationship

The specialist can be directly supervised by the OHA Disaster Risk Management Team Leader and take common course from the OHA Deputy Chief. The Budget specialist ought to require little supervision in finishing up routine duties, and solely common steering for many duties. The scope and adaptability of the duties will demand an excessive amount of initiative to establish and take a look at progressive approaches and options to complicated conditions and the flexibility to work independently.

Supervisory Controls

None anticipated.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The work requested does not involve undue physical calls for.

LIST OF REQUIRED FORMS PRIOR TO AWARD

The Contracting Candidates will present directions about find out how to full and submit the next types after an offeror is chosen for the contract award:

• Medical History and Examination Form (Department of State Forms)
• Questionnaire for Non-Sensitive Positions (SF-85)
• Fingerprint Card (FD-258)

BENEFITS AND ALLOWANCES

As a matter of policy, and as appropriate, a PSC is normally approved the next advantages and allowances:

BENEFITS:

Group life insurance coverage, medical protection, annual depart and sick depart.

ALLOWANCES (as relevant):

Meal allowance and miscellaneous profit allowance.

TAXES

Cooperating Country Nationals are anticipated to adjust to all related Ethiopian laws and rules.

USAID REGULATIONS, POLICIES AND CONTRACT CLAUSES PERTAINING TO PSCs

How to Apply

SUBMITTING AN OFFER

Eligible Offerors are required to complete and submit:

1. The offer type DS-174 (Application 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.
2. A resume in English
3. Letter of software (cowl letter) that describes your expertise with the analysis criteria (Section III: Evaluation and Selection Factors), and
4. Contact data for no less than three and a most of 5 references, together with at least two references with direct information of the offeror’s previous efficiency.

Further Guidance:

To guarantee consideration of provides for the meant place, offerors should prominently reference the Solicitation Number within the provide submission.

Application have to be submitted ONLY via addisusaidjobs@usaid.gov and the e-mail topic should say – Solicitation 72066324R10005, USAID Project Management Specialist (Budget). Be certain to include your title and the solicitation quantity on the prime of every page.

Please don’t submit a couple of software; and

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