Humanitarian Assistance Officer (Interagency Team Lead) (U.S. Citizens only)

Description of Position: The Humanitarian Assistance Officer will: ● Lead the U.S. Policy, Strategy and Interagency Coordination 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. ● Advise BHA and Agency leadership on strategic Interagency coordination related to humanitarian issues and advocate for BHA equities in Interagency discussions. ● Advise BHA, Agency leadership, and USG Agencies on new developments and effective approaches to humanitarian assistance; articulate the benefits of interventions to effectively reach specific target audiences. ● Provide 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. ● Be responsible for the development of strategies, policies, plans, program guidance, and dissemination of research results for Bureau- and Agency-wide application and incorporation into humanitarian assistance programs. ● Maintain liaison with counterparts and sources of information inside and outside BHA to assess, review, and address new or unusual circumstances, variations in approach, and incomplete or conflicting information. ● Inform Interagency stakeholders of changes in policy, organizational programs, and operations, conducting briefings on issues impacting humanitarian assistance programs and operations overseas. ● Become certified and serve as an Agreement Officer’s Representative/Contracting Officer’s Representative (AOR/COR), as assigned. ● Sign-up for and serve as needed multiple times throughout the year on Washington-based Response Management Teams (RMTs) or field-based Disaster Assistance Response Teams (DARTs) deployed in response to disasters.

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