Supervisory Humanitarian Assistance Officer, FSL-0301-02 (U.S. Citizens only)

Description of Position: The Supervisory Humanitarian Assistance Officer will:

● Serve as part of the OHA leadership team, supervising personnel and providing oversight of a large emergency response and Early Recovery, Risk Reduction, and Resilience (ER4) portfolio currently valued at more than $200 million. ● Lead on staff development, including transferring skills and know-how, to increase the capacity of OHA staff through training, providing assignments that introduce a higher level of responsibility, and improving work processes. ● Lead on strategy and humanitarian assistance budget development and provide oversight for all non-emergency staff and programming. Maintain responsibility for the development of strategies, plans, program guidance, and dissemination of research results for Agency-wide application and incorporation into humanitarian assistance programs. ● Manage the monitoring of programming including prioritization of OHA team field monitoring and management of the third-party monitoring contractor. ● Serve as the primary point of contact for humanitarian civilian-military relationships, including with BHA staff at U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM). ● Lead the office in the absence of the Office Director and/or manage the emergency programs team in the absence of the team lead for emergency programming. ● Inform stakeholders of changes in organizational programs and operations, conducting briefings on major program changes in particular those impacting humanitarian assistance programs and operations overseas.

This position requires travel and the willingness to undergo training, remain on call for, and serve in progressively responsible roles on new or ongoing emergency responses. BHA requires all staff to become qualified and, with Mission concurrence, serve on disaster responses for periods of one month or more annually, within and outside of the LAC region.

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