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Lead Humanitarian Assistance Specialist
3 months ago
**Duties**:
- Lead the team in identifying, distributing, and balancing workload and tasks among employees to ensure timely accomplishment of assigned team tasks; represent the team consensus and convey the team’s findings and recommendations.
- Advises BHA, Agency and Interagency leadership, and other donors on new developments and effective approaches to humanitarian assistance; articulates the benefits of interventions to effectively reach specific target audiences.
- Provides technical liaison with other USG Agencies, Congress, donors, multilateral banks, and PVOs to coordinate their efforts with USAID programs, policies, and approaches to humanitarian assistance.
- Maintains liaison with sources of information inside and outside BHA to assess and review new or unusual circumstances, variations in approach and incomplete or conflicting information.
**Requirements**:
**Conditions of Employment**:
- United States Citizenship is required.
- Relevant experience (see Qualifications below).
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a security clearance.
- Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered with the Selective Service.
- Direct Deposit/Electronic Funds Transfer is required.
- If you have no prior Federal experience or are selected under Delegated Examining procedures, you will be required to serve a one-year probationary period.
- If you select to be considered under Merit Promotion requirements, you must meet the Time-in-Grade requirements before the closing date of this vacancy announcement.
- You may be required to serve a one year Supervisory probationary period.
**Qualifications**:
**Specialized Experience**:
**GS-14**:You must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the **GS-13** level in the Federal service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-time work is considered on a prorated basis. Examples of qualifying specialized experience at the next lower level for this position include:
- Initiating and leading international, interdisciplinary, and interagency groups within and outside the US in programs, policies and strategies impacting key international humanitarian priorities;
- Leading the coordination, operations, and programming roles of a civilian-based international humanitarian response for an organization;
- Experience in the international civilian humanitarian assistance architecture, operations, programs, policies, regulations, and inter-relationships among the USG, donors, and other international organizations.
- Directing a major programmatic component of an international civilian-based humanitarian assistance organization.
**This position includes a Selective Placement Factor (skill, knowledge, ability or other worker characteristic basic to - and essential for - satisfactory performance of the job). Selective Placements Factors are a prerequisite to appointment and represent minimum requirements for a position. Applicants who do not demonstrate the experience below are ineligible for further consideration.**
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**Selective Placement Factor**:Your resume must demonstrate advanced experience in leading international humanitarian disaster responses and overseeing humanitarian programming for a civilian-based humanitarian assistance organization.
Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience relevant to the position's duties to be filled, including volunteer experience.-
**Education**:
This position does not have a positive education requirement. Therefore, no transcripts are required.
**Additional information**:
Moving and relocation expenses **are not** authorized.
EEO Policy: EEO Policy Statement.
Veterans' Information: Veterans' Preference Advisor.
It is the Government's policy not to deny employment simply because an individual has been unemployed or has had financial difficulties that have arisen through no fault of the individual. USAID will use information about an individual's employment experience only to determine their qualifications and assess their relative level of knowledge, skills, and abilities. Although an individual's personal conduct may be relevant in any employment decision, including conduct during periods of unemployment or evidence of dishonesty in handling financial matters, financial difficulty that has arisen through no fault of the individual will generally not be the basis of an unfavorable suitability or fitness determination.
**Reasonable Accommodation Policy**:
- Benefits
A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensiv
