Position Title: ALE Division Rover (Multiple Positions)
Solicitation Number: SOL-OFDA-16-000045
Salary Level: GS-14 Equivalent: $108,887 – $141,555
Issuance Date: June 13, 2016
Closing Date: July 5, 2016
Closing Time: 12:00 P.M. Eastern Time
Dear Prospective Applicants:
The United States Government (USG), represented by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA), is seeking applications from qualified U.S. citizens to provide personal services as an ALE Division Rover under a United States Personal Services Contract (USPSC), as described in the attached solicitation.
Submittals must be in accordance with the attached information at the place and time specified. Applicants interested in applying for this position MUST submit the following materials:
1. Complete resume. In order to fully evaluate your application, your resume must include:
(a) Paid and non-paid experience, job title, location(s), dates held (month/year), and hours worked per week for each position. Dates (month/year) and locations for all field experience must also be detailed. Any experience that does not include dates (month/year), locations, and hours per week will not be counted towards meeting the solicitation requirements.
(b) Specific duties performed that fully detail the level and complexity of the work.
(c) Names and contact information (phone/email) of your current and/or previous supervisor(s). Current and/or previous supervisors may be contacted for a reference.
(d) Education and any other qualifications including job-related training courses, job-related skills, or job-related honors, awards or accomplishments.
(e) U.S. Citizenship
(f) Optional: Where you heard about this job (FedBizOps, OFDA Jobs, Career Fair, etc.).
Your resume should contain sufficient information to make a valid determination that you fully meet the experience requirements as stated in this solicitation. This information should be clearly identified in your resume. Failure to provide information sufficient to determine your qualifications for the position will result in loss of full consideration.
2. USPSC Application form AID 302-3. Applicants are required to complete sections A through I. This form must be physically signed. Electronic signatures will not be accepted.
NOTE ABOUT THE DATA UNIVERSAL NUMBERING SYSTEM/SYSTEM FOR AWARD MANAGEMENT REQUIREMENTS
All USPSCs with a place of performance in the United States are required to have a Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) number and be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database prior to receiving an offer. You will be disqualified if you either fail to comply with this requirement or if your name appears on the excluded parties list. The selectee will be provided with guidance regarding this registration.
Additional documents submitted will not be accepted. Incomplete or late applications will not be considered. OFDA reserves the right to select additional candidates if vacancies become available during future phases of the selection process.
Applicants can expect to receive a confirmation email when application materials have been received. Applicants should retain for their records copies of all enclosures which accompany their applications. Your complete resume must be emailed to:
OFDA Recruitment Team
E-Mail Address: recruiter@ofda.gov
Website: www.OFDAjobs.net
Any questions on this solicitation may be directed to OFDA Recruitment Team via the information provided above.
Sincerely,
Renee Reed
Contracting Officer
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Working under the guidance and supervision of the ALE Division Director and Team Leaders, the ALE Division Rover will assist the ALE Division in managing complex and high profile responses, building and retaining staff capacity, and filling critical leadership requirements within the office. The ALE Division Rover will lead, manage, or support OFDA portfolios that require significant USG policy engagement and humanitarian program management. ALE Division Rovers can expect to move between portfolios depending on the changing nature of OFDA’s humanitarian engagement in specific crises. The ALE Division Rover will work in close collaboration with a program team that may include Senior Regional Advisors, Senior Humanitarian Advisors, Program Officers, Disaster Operation Specialists, and Program Assistants, depending on the portfolio assigned. A significant amount of travel may be required as outlined below. The ALE Division Rover will perform the following functions:
Leadership:
· Serve in leadership positions such as a Team Leader or Deputy Team Leader on field-based response teams or serve in leadership positions such as a Team Leader of Deputy Team Leader on headquarters-based teams.
· Provide training and mentoring to Disaster Operations Specialist and Program Assistants on the portfolio management, representation, and contextual specialty functional areas outlined below.
· Participate, as assigned, in a wide range of office-wide policy, process, and strategic initiatives to ensure ALE’s division priorities and operating realities are reflected in outcomes. Actively solicit and consolidate feedback from the division on these initiatives and work with the ALE Division Director, Team Leaders, and Deputy Team Leaders to identify the division’s strategic interests and creative ways to find solutions that are beneficial to the division as well as the office. Ensure the division is regularly updated on the progress of these initiatives.
Representation:
· Represent OFDA at senior levels within the USG and humanitarian stakeholders to address humanitarian concerns and priorities from the OFDA perspective through oral and written briefings, as well as coordination and policy development meeting to include the following:
o Meetings with individual and groups of implementing partners discussing programmatic priorities, objectives, progress, results, and challenges;
o Discussions, meetings, and papers informing USG foreign policy in areas with humanitarian concerns or impacts;
o USG Interagency forums;
o Coordination mechanisms with the DCHA bureau and USAID.
· Provide representation support outlined above when assigned in a leadership role on a response team, as well as to provide ad-hoc representational support to the division as needed.
Portfolio Management:
· Directly manage complex humanitarian award portfolios, oversee staff managing award portfolios, and/or provide guidance on portfolio management, as needed, to include:
o Maintain AOR certification and current understanding of OFDA’s implementation of federal, agency, and office-level acquisition and assistance regulations and policies;
o Work with implementing organizations regarding project proposals submitted for OFDA funding to ensure proposals meet OFDA’s program objectives and grant guidelines;
o Prepare all documentation to obtain timely grant project approval. This will include properly inputting data into various information management systems;
o Ensure AOR functions are properly carried out;
o Track program reports from grantees and ensure reports are received in a timely manner; review program reports to ensure that program objectives have been achieved; collate input from report for feedback to grantee, and share reports with regional team member, as appropriate;
o Upon completion of programs, close out awards according to Agency policies, identifying funds for de-obligation and/or equipment for disposition;
o Expedite the flow of programmatic and other documents through the clearance process.
· Provide regional support as needed to OFDA field operations to include monitoring of OFDA programs, assessments, strategy development and general field office coverage.
· Assist the Team Leader and Deputy Leader in managing the strategy development process for the region, monitoring program funding and implementation against established strategies, and actively participating in strategy-related activities for the region.
· Serve as a resource for program-related planning efforts such as event and scenario-based contingency planning, budget development and planning, and ad-hoc program strategy development.
Contextual Specialty:
· Develop and maintain knowledge of the key humanitarian and disaster risk reduction issues associated with the assigned responses.
· Maintain an in-depth understanding of political, humanitarian, organizational, and stakeholder interests specific to the region of responsibility.
· Monitor incipient disasters, international disaster response plans and efforts, and major humanitarian issues and challenges in the area of responsibility through a wide range of USG and international sources.
· Assist in identifying humanitarian issues, priorities, lessons learned, and opportunities in the region of responsibility and applying those to program strategy development and implementation.
· Prepare and/or provide substantive assistance in the preparation of, regular strategic and analytical reports on current or anticipated emergencies, as well as comprehensive preparedness documentation on assigned countries.
General Duties:
· Serve in leadership, planning, or program positions on response teams, assessment teams, or to provide coverage for field offices with field travel required at approximately 50% time and individual deployments up to 90 days;
· Independently plan, design and carry out programs, projects, studies or other work.
· As needed, serve on DARTs which may require immediate (within 24 hours) deployment overseas for an extended period of time.
· Sign-up for and serve as needed, on Washington-based RMTs, which provides services and support to DARTs deployed in response to disasters. The duties on RMTs will be varied.
· Serve as the OFDA after-hours duty officer on a rotational basis, for approximately one week every six months.
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE REQUIRED FOR THIS POSITION
(Determines basic eligibility for the position. Applicants who do not meet all of the education and experience factors are considered NOT qualified for the position.)
Bachelor’s degree with significant study in or pertinent to the specialized field (including but not limited to international relations, political science, and disaster management) and at least nine
(9) years of relevant work experience with the USG, Private Voluntary Organization (PVO)/NGO, IO or UN Agency. Such experience must have a humanitarian focus and include responsibility in determining budget levels, selecting programs for funding, and/or managing and evaluating funded programs in a results type framework. Experience must include five (5) years of cumulative field work (foreign or domestic) in international humanitarian assistance and/or disaster response needs assessment, analysis, emergency relief program operations, or post-emergency rehabilitation.
OR
Master’s Degree with significant study in or pertinent to the specialized field (including but not limited to international relations, political science, and disaster management) and at least seven (7) years of relevant with the USG, Private Voluntary Organization (PVO)/NGO, IO or UN Agency, such experience must have a humanitarian focus and include responsibility in determining budget levels, selecting programs for funding, and/or managing and evaluating funded programs in a results type framework. Experience must include five (5) years of cumulative field work (foreign or domestic) in international humanitarian assistance and/or disaster response needs assessment, analysis, emergency relief program operations, or post-emergency rehabilitation.
SELECTION FACTORS
(Determines basic eligibility for the position. Applicants who do not meet all of the selection factors are considered NOT qualified for the position.)
● Applicant is a U.S. Citizen.
● Complete resume submitted. See cover page for resume requirements. Experience that cannot be quantified will not be counted towards meeting the solicitation requirements.
● USPSC Application form AID 302-3. Applicants are required to complete sections A through I. This form must be physically signed. Electronic signatures will not be accepted.
● Supplemental document specifically addressing the Quality Ranking Factors (QRFs) submitted.
● Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret up to Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information level clearance as provided by USAID.
● Ability to obtain a Department of State medical clearance.
● Must not appear as an excluded party in the System for Award Management (SAM.gov). Satisfactory verification of academic credentials.
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