7. MARKET VALUE:. Final compensation will be negotiated within the market value for the position equivalent to FSN-11 level in accordance with AIDAR Appendix J and the Local Compensation Plan (LCP) of U.S. Embassy-USAID/Nepal. The LCP consists of the local salary schedule, which includes salary rates, authorized fringe benefits, and other pertinent facets of compensation.

8. PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE: Estimated to start o/a January 1, 2024 through o/a December 31, 2029. (depending on the security clearance process) Employment under this contract is of a continuing nature. Its duration is expected to be part of a series of sequential contracts; all contract clauses, provisions, and regulatory requirements concerning availability of funds and the specific duration of this contract shall apply.

9. PLACE OF PERFORMANCE: Kathmandu, Nepal

10. ELIGIBLE OFFERORS: All interesting candidates - Cooperating Country Nationals (CCNs) AIDAR, Appendix J. 1 (b) Definitions: (6) “Cooperating country “means the country in which the employing USAID Mission is located. (7) “Cooperating country national” (“CCN”) means an individual who is a cooperating country citizen or a non-cooperating country citizen lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the cooperating country.

11. SECURITY LEVEL REQUIRED: Facility and computer access.

12. STATEMENT OF DUTIES The Project Management Specialist (Environmental Health) is a Cooperating Country National (CCN) professional on the Maternal, Newborn, Child Health, and Nutrition (MNCHN) Team in the 25 person Health Office (HO) with a Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS) budget of $220 million. The Specialist serves as one of two Mission resident technical leaders and experts for environmental health including: indoor and outdoor air quality; disaster risk reduction; health-related climate change mitigation and adaptation programming; solid and healthcare waste management, and other environmental issues as they arise. S/he also provides expertise and technical leadership for water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and water security issues including water governance and equity. S/he interacts with the highest levels of central, provincial, and municipal governments; participates in technical and program planning meetings; attends donor and implementing partner coordination meetings; and participates in program workshops and seminars. The Specialist will be a key member of the MNCHN Team, providing primary leadership, strategic direction, technical guidance and programmatic support on environmental health to HO and Mission staff, implementing partners and external stakeholders to enrich program planning, design and implementation. S/he will serve as an alternate technical expert and lead on WASH, and water security. S/he will ensure synergistic collaboration with other health activities and between the HO and other technical offices for environmental health, WASH and water security programming. S/he directly engages with and shares Nepal Mission learning with senior Washington technical leadership. The jobholder will serve as an Agreement/Contracting Officer’s Representative (A/COR) and/or alternate for environmental health, WASH, and water security activities and serve as Activity Manager on selected projects as needed. S/he will also serve as a Mission Environment Officer and Climate Integration Expert for the HO for about $10m a year or $50m during the life of the project. The Specialist will be supervised by the MNCHN Team Leader and is required to perform workrelated travel. The Major Duties and Responsibilities include: A. Technical Leadership & Project Management (50%) ● Serves as Mission technical environmental health expert focused on air quality and climate change, and provides technical guidance to the HO and Mission leadership on WASH and water security activities as needed. ● Supports and contributes to overall Mission CDCS, goals and targets across the development objectives. ● Plans and designs selected environmental health and WASH activities and oversees implementation. ● Stays current with global environmental health, WASH, and water security information, trends and successful strategies. ● Provides technical and programmatic input and participates in planning and execution of the annual portfolio review to USAID/Nepal senior management and the Government of Nepal (GON), and other macro level reviews as required, including but not limited to regional, national and international forums. ● Provides strategic direction and leadership to HO staff and other Mission and Embassy staff on administrative, technical, programmatic and policy issues related to environmental health, WASH, and water security. ● Collaborates in the design, implementation and evaluation of environment health, WASH and water security operational and intervention-linked quantitative and qualitative research. ● Identifies opportunities for integrating “state of the art” environmental health, WASH and water security -related approaches into USAID activities, providing technical assessments and recommending strategies to pilot innovative interventions. ● Provides recommendations for short-term environmental health technical assistance from USAID/Washington and writes the technical scopes of work for consultants. ● Leads coordination between USAID/Nepal offices regarding integrated environmental health, WASH and water security technical areas. ● Serves as A/COR, alternate A/COR and/or Activity Manager. ● Ensures implementing partners (IPs) are in compliance with USAID contractual/agreement requirements, financial, procurement and reporting policies and branding and marking plans. ● Provides mandatory technical and programmatic reviews of work plans and progress reports and serves as a requester in Global Acquisition and Assistance System (GLAAS). ● Oversees IP planning, financial management, accountability, performance, and timely communication for: information and physical security; Global Information Systems; emergency preparedness and response; gender equality; social inclusion and other Agency requirements. ● Ensures that IP performance based management systems are in place to capture results and contributions to overall health, environmental health, WASH and water security targets. ● Ensures that the A/COR project official files are up-to-date, complete, and accurate. ● Conducts field visits to USAID-supported environmental health, WASH and water security activities to meet with IPs and government health officials and, as appropriate, provides technical, programmatic and administrative guidance. ● Works closely with the Financial Management Office to ensure that funds are spent in a timely manner. Reviews financial documents received from partners for payment, and forwards them for further approval. ● Provides inputs in preparing Implementation Letters for the commitment of USAID funds. ● Assists the Controller and Contracts Office in closing out unspent/unliquidated balances, as necessary. ● Oversees and participates in co-creation processes throughout the project lifecycle. ● Contributes to building local partner capacity, meeting localization goals, and collaborating with local partners in environmental health, WASH and water security technical areas. B. Environmental Compliance (30%) ● Ensures mission compliance with relevant USAID environmental policies, procedures and federal regulations, including: 22 CFR 216 by reviewing Initial Environmental Examinations (IEE); Requests for Categorical Exclusions (RCE); Environmental Assessment Scoping Statements (EASS); Environmental Assessments (EA); IEE or EA Amendments; or other documents developed in fulfillment of 22 CFR 216 requirements. ● Advises Development Objective Teams, Activity Managers and A/CORs, and Operating Unit heads on: (1) how best to comply with USAID’s Environmental Procedures over the life of project, including effective monitoring of partner implementation of the environmental mitigation measures required by IEEs and EAs; and (2) how to obtain additional environmental expertise to assist in compliance with USAID’s mandatory environmental procedures. ● Coaches and mentors technical staff as well as U.S. Direct Hire employees and local staff on complex WASH and Environmental Health matters to ensure they are up to date on the Agency’s latest guidelines, policies and business processes. ● Ensures the environmentally sound design and management of mission activities. ● Serves as Mission Co-Environmental Officer and as one of two points of mission contact with the Bureau Environmental Officer and the Regional Environmental Advisor. ● Undertakes desk or field-based environmental compliance monitoring of any project or activity in the Mission portfolio, on request. C. Representation and Reporting (20%) ● Represents the office on environmental health, WASH and water security matters and engages in technical dialogue on these matters within the USAID/Nepal Mission. ● Represents USAID/Nepal Mission in central, provincial and municipal meetings; multi-sectoral GON technical and program planning meetings; donor and implementing partner coordination meetings; and program workshops and seminars. ● Serves as liaison on technical issues between USAID/Nepal Mission, GON counterparts, other U.S. Government (USG) agencies, and regional and international organizations that are active in the environmental health, WASH, and water security sectors in Nepal. ● Participates in regular technical team meetings; HO meetings; environmental health, WASH, water security working group meetings; and other USAID/Nepal routine mission-wide review or reporting meetings. ● Leads or participates in site visit preparation and hosting for high level delegations. ● Drafts, coordinates, and edits technical and scientific reports, briefings, communications materials, and presentations related to environmental health, WASH and water security. ● Assists in preparing HO program and financial management inputs and narratives for mandatory reporting to USAID/Washington, including for the Performance Plan and Report (PPR) and other annual reporting processes. ● Develops a range of media content, in collaboration with the Mission Program Office, to promote USAID visibility, communicate program outcomes and elevate environmental issues within Nepal. ● Supports the development of talking points, briefers, internal documentation and communications, in conjunction with VIP visits and various Embassy events. ● Assists with annual reporting requirements for ensuring full compliance with USAID’s environmental policies and procedures. ● The jobholder is required to perform work-related travel.

13. PHYSICAL DEMANDS The work requested does not involve undue physical demands. II. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED FOR THIS POSITION a. Education: Bachelor’s degree in environmental science, public health, or related field is required. b.Prior Work Experience: A minimum 7 years of progressively responsible/mid-level experience in the field of environmental health, WASH and water security is required. At least three (3) years of this experience must have been in planning, designing, implementing, evaluating and managing projects and programs. c. Language Proficiency: Level IV (Fluent) reading, speaking, and writing in English and Nepali language is required. d.Job Knowledge: The job holder must have a thorough understanding of Nepal’s economic structure, social institutions, health system, and development challenges, opportunities and strategies. The jobholder must have technical expertise in environmental health, WASH and water security. The jobholder must have, or be able to quickly acquire, a good working knowledge of the specific areas of: indoor and outdoor air quality; disaster risk reduction; health related climate change mitigation and adaptation; solid and healthcare waste management; and environmental protection, compliance and mitigation. The jobholder must have the ability to simultaneously plan, oversee implementation of, monitor and evaluate complex environmental health, WASH and water security programs. S/he must be able to analyze data and report on performance trends. The jobholder must be able to quickly learn USAID: planning, programming, monitoring, evaluation and learning policies, practices, and requirements; environmental compliance regulations and procedures; performance management processes; and requirements for reporting on program results. She/he must have the willingness and ability to develop firm grounding in the Agency’s strategic and development priorities and the USAID/Nepal Mission's strategies, objectives and priorities. e. Skills and Abilities: The job holder must have: Relationships and Communications: The ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with technical level representatives from the GON at the federal, provincial and local levels; other USG agencies; implementing partners; and other donors is required. The ability to communicate complex, specialist knowledge to other experts and lay persons, both orally and in writing. Exceptional speaking, presentation, and communication skills. Good interpersonal skills and excellent ability to work both independently and in a team environment. Tact and diplomacy in interacting with internal and external audiences. The ability to make logical and persuasive arguments to senior officials in a multicultural context, work under pressure, and be able to resolve problems as they emerge and/or know when to defer to leadership to mitigate sensitive situations. Demonstrated skills of collaboration and inclusive decision making in a diverse work environment, bringing together diverse perspectives into a shared opinion. High emotional intelligence with experience practicing appreciative listening and empathic communication. Project Management: Good project management skills, including financial and administrative management, monitoring to track performance of assigned activities, and the ability to recommend solutions to resolve matters impacting program implementation. Training and Mentorship: The ability to independently mentor technical professionals and plan and execute training on the latest Agency guidance on environmental health, WASH and water security and environmental compliance. The ability to influence and guide technical staff and IPs to ensure compliance with Agency environment regulations. The ability to synthesize complex program data and Agency policies to translate them into simple, succinct information which can be used to track performance, make decisions, execute environmental health, WASH and water security programs and ensure compliance to USAID performance reporting requirements. Adaptability: The ability to plan and execute unanticipated events or site visits by Embassy management or VIPs, and be adaptable and ready to respond quickly, as requested. Diversity and Multicultural Environments: Knowledge of, and experience with, Nepal’s context and policies related to diverse and marginalized populations and a willingness and ability to learn USAID’s policies, priorities and approaches to DEIA and to apply them to development programming and the work environment. Information Technology: Advanced information technology abilities and the ability to use virtual applications and platforms for processing and analyzing data and reporting on program performance (or the ability and willingness to acquire these skills). The job holder is expected to effectively apply principles of equity, diversity and inclusion within all aspects of their work, including within the Mission, as part of their interactions with external stakeholders, and across relevant USAID programming and partnerships, with the objective of bringing in the various perspectives and voices of populations and communities across Nepal for a more inclusive distribution of the responsibilities and benefits of development.

USAID/Nepal is an equal opportunity employer committed to a staff composition that reflects the social and ethnic diversity of Nepali society. We believe that social inclusion and diversity contribute to excellence. USAID/Nepal makes hiring decisions without regard for gender, gender identity, caste, race, ethnicity, disability, marital status, age (if over 40), or sexual orientation. Applicants from ALL backgrounds are encouraged to apply

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