USAID is hiring a Democracy Officer
Deadline : February 16, 2024
Location / Duty Station : Washington, DC , USA
Duties and Responsibilities
Responsibilities: Based in Washington, DC, as an FSL Democracy Officer, you will serve as a
backstop for one of more geographic teams, with potential opportunities to support Missions in Africa,
Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and Caribbean, and/or Europe and Eurasia. In addition, your
duties will include:
Career 2
- Assisting USAID Missions in identified priority countries with the integration of conflict and
peacebuilding objectives throughout the Program Cycle; from Country Development Cooperation
Strategies to program design and implementation to monitoring, evaluation, and learning. analysis of
conflict-sensitive design across the program cycle, including reviewing and designing scopes of work
from Missions for technical feasibility. - Providing technical assistance and guidance to USAID Missions with conflict-sensitive policies, tools,
programs and strategies, as well as coordinating with other CVP teams on the provision of other types
of support to USAID Missions such as assessments and training. - Assisting USAID Missions design, procure, implement, and evaluate state-of-the-art conflict and
violence prevention, peacebuilding or conflict sensitive programming, whether stand-alone or
integrated into existing sector programs. - Leading/co-leading country and/or regional conflict assessments (including CVP’s new Violence and
Conflict Assessment) and contributing to a detailed understanding of conflict dynamics within assigned
geographic areas, and translating this knowledge into actionable recommendations for USAID Missions
and Embassies - Working with external implementing partners to develop and implement systems to monitor and
- evaluate relevant activities and to link these to CPS/CVP strategic objectives, results, and learning
- priorities.
- Providing policy and technical advice to USAID leadership, on country and regional issues, as well as
overall issues related to conflict, peacebuilding and prevention. - Continual review and evaluation of worldwide political and societal developments, institutional changes
and expectations, and applicable research on conflict topics including conflict analysis, early warning,
conflict prevention, conflict sensitivity and their relationship to development in the assigned
geographic region(s). - Engaging with key partner agencies including, but not limited, to the State Department, the Defense
Department, and leading think-tanks and academic institutions such as the U.S. Institute of Peace
(USIP), the National Defense University, the Center for International and Strategic Studies, the
Woodrow Wilson Center and others. - Participating in the design, review, updating, and delivery of conflict-related training courses in
Washington and overseas. - Serving as a Contracting Officer’s Representative/Agreement Officer’s Representative (COR/AOR), as
required, for various CVP procurements/programs.
Required Qualifications, Skills and Experiences
Qualifications:
- You have a minimum of seven years of international development work experience in peacebuilding,
conflict mitigation, violence prevention, people-to-people reconciliation, and/or conflict sensitive
development, or a related area; or more than one year of specialized, relevant experience equivalent
to the next lower grade level, FSL-03 or GS-13.
Education
- You hold at least a master’s degree in international development, conflict, public policy, or a related
field of social science.
Skills
- You have excellent written and oral communication skills (in professional English), including
demonstrated ability to effectively communicate technical subject matter (though briefing documents,
presentations, and delivering training) to non-technical audiences internal and external to the Agency.
You demonstrate excellent interpersonal, facilitation, and team-building skills—and in particular are
able to work effectively on diverse teams and as part of a diverse workforce. - You are able to travel internationally.
- You are able to obtain and maintain a USG security clearance at the top-secret level.
Experience
- Preferable:
- You have practical knowledge, overseas experience, and familiarity with USAID or other
development agency programs, policies, and procedures. - You have proficiency in a second language relevant to USAID, especially French, Spanish or
Portuguese.
Interested candidates must submit the following: - A resume/CV,and
- A short written statement of interest
Please submit your complete application package to cpsjobs@usaid.gov. Please use the subject line:
“FSL APPLICATION PACKAGE: CPS-CVP_Democracy Officer.” Application submissions are
required by 11:59 p.m EST, February 16, 2024. Incomplete packages or complete packages
submitted past the deadline or without the specified subject line will not receive consideration.
Any questions concerning this notice may be directed to:
— Rob Horvath, CPS/CVP, cpsjobs@usaid.gov
