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Summary

This position is located in the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center , 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC, in the Bureau/Office for Foreign Assistance.

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Responsibilities

This position is located in the Planning, Performance, and Systems Division (PPS) of the Bureau for Foreign Assistance (FA) and serves as the Deputy Director. The incumbent reports to the Managing Director for Planning, Performance, and Systems, who is also the Senior USAID Coordinator.The incumbent is responsible for supporting the Managing Director in the management and day-to-day coordination of all aspects of PPS.

As a Deputy Director, you will:

• Supervise, advise, and manage an office consisting of a variety of hiring mechanisms and several teams. Exercise the authority to supervise and manage administrative, technical, and programmatic issues and to ensure teams operate as a cohesive unit. Responsible for furthering the goals of equal employment opportunity (EEO) by taking positive steps to assure the accomplishment of affirmative action objectives and by adhering to nondiscriminatory employment practices in regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or handicap.
• Manage overall human resources, personnel, administrative, and budget decisions for the office, in coordination with the Director and colleagues from other Divisions. Ensure compliance with corresponding policies and procedures. Execute administrative functions related to budget and personnel actions, as needed, including executing and approving actions in Agency financial, procurement, and personnel systems.
• Facilitate the implementation of policies and procedures for USAID and State foreign assistance strategic planning, performance monitoring, evaluation, data analysis, and information systems that are responsive to USG directives. Develop long-range plans, goals, objectives, and milestones to advance and measure the effectiveness of these major agency efforts and programs.
• Lead the development and implementation of studies, analyses, and instruments to measure progress on USG foreign assistance strategic planning, performance monitoring, evaluation, data, and information systems. Identify trends and significant issues that may impact foreign assistance program policies. Conduct thorough analysis and review of guidelines that may be subject to extensive interpretation for many different and unrelated program processes and methods.
• Promote the integration of the planning and performance cycle across the foreign assistance enterprise, including State and USAID programs, as well as field and headquarters. Facilitate the integration and coherence of the planning and budget cycles, and corresponding information, data, and business systems, including through coordination within PPS teams, as well as across F/FA Divisions.
• Lead the development of a USG foreign assistance data strategy that promotes the rationalization of interagency information systems, business processes, and data sets; complies with USG and international transparency standards and laws; and facilitates the use of data in an integrated planning and resource cycle. Oversee USG foreign assistance data governance and use policies, guidance, and procedures. Serves as the senior official for data issues and information systems falling within the office's purview, exercising approval authority and administrative actions related to this role as needed.
• Provide expert advice and guidance on strategic planning, performance monitoring, and evaluation of USG foreign assistance programs, and corresponding data analysis and information systems, in areas that require extensive interpretation for many different and sometimes unrelated processes and methods.
• Keep abreast of international and USG best practices related to strategic planning, performance monitoring, evaluations, data, and information systems, and facilitates their incorporation as relevant to PPS, F, and FA initiatives.
• Prepare briefing materials, reporting documents, analyses, correspondence, and other products for a variety of audiences including but not limited to USAID and State Bureaus, USG leadership, Congressional entities, field colleagues, and oversight bodies.
• Represents FA and F in USAID, State, and interagency working groups, on strategic planning, monitoring, and evaluation. Serves as the senior F and FA expert and representative, to internal and external stakeholders, on data analysis, information systems, and aid transparency, as well as related business processes, policies, procedures.

Travel Required

25% or less - 25% or less - You may be expected to travel for this position

Supervisory status
Yes

Promotion Potential
15 - This position is at the Full Performance Level

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

• United States Citizenship is required.
• Relevant experience (see Qualifications below).
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a security clearance.
• Time in grade must be met by the closing date of the vacancy announcement.
• Males born after 12/31/1959, must be registered with the Selective Service.
• Most recent SF-50 showing tenure code "1" or "2" (see Required Documents).

Time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date. This means that you must have served at least 52 weeks at the next grade level (or equivalent) below the grade advertised on this vacancy announcement.

Qualifications

GS-15: You qualify for the 15 grade level if you possess 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level (GS-14), performing duties such as:

A) Experience in developing and implementing U.S. foreign assistance policies and procedures related to strategic planning, performance monitoring, and evaluation;
B) Experience utilizing information technology systems to access, analyze, and report on USG foreign assistance data;
C) Experience providing advice and making recommendations to high-level U.S. government officials on issues of national or international significance, and representing a division or organization at meetings, conferences, and events.
D) Experience in managing overall human resources, personnel, and budget decisions for an organizational unit, including executing the full range of administrative functions related to budget and personnel actions.
E) Experience overseeing the work of subordinate staff and teams, including coordinating work plans and providing technical assistance to reach an organizational unit's objectives.

There is no substitute of education for specialized experience for the GS-15 position.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, relevant to the duties of the position to be filled, including volunteer experience.

You must:

• Meet all qualification requirements, subject to verification at any stage of the application process; and
• Meet all applicable Time in Grade requirements (current federal employees must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade or equivalent grade band in the federal service) by 2020

CTAP/ICTAP candidates will be referred to the selecting official if they are found well qualified. Well-qualified means an eligible employee who possesses the knowledge, skills, and abilities which clearly exceed the minimum requirements of the position. A well-qualified employee must meet the qualification and eligibility requirements of the position, including any medical qualifications, suitability, and minimum education and experience requirements, meet all selective factors (where applicable); meet quality ranking factors and are assigned a score of 85 or higher; be physically qualified with reasonable accommodation to perform the essential duties of the position; meet any special qualifying U.S. OPM-approved conditions; AND be able to satisfactorily perform the duties of the position upon entry without additional training.

Education

This position does not have a positive education requirement. Therefore, ​no Transcripts are required.

Additional information

USAID is an independent Federal Government agency that receives overall foreign policy guidance from the Secretary of State. With headquarters in the District of Columbia, we operate in more than 100 countries around the world, playing an active and critical role in the promotion of U.S. foreign policy interests. When crisis strikes; when rights are repressed; when hunger, disease and poverty rob people of opportunity; USAID acts on behalf of the American people to help expand the reach of prosperity and dignity to the world's most vulnerable people. USAID employees and contractors must commit to maintaining a workplace free of sexual misconduct, including harassment, exploitation, and abuse and adhere to USAID's Counter-Trafficking in Persons Code of Conduct. For information on the effort to counter all forms of human trafficking, including the procurement of commercial sex acts and the use of forced labor, visit http://www.state.gov/g/tip. For more information about USAID, visit http://www.usaid.gov.

This announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies.

These are Testing Designated Positions (TDP's) under the Agency's approved Drug Free Work Place Program. All applicants selected for this position will be subject to random drug testing once they begin working for the Agency.

Moving and relocation expenses are not authorized.

Mythbuster on Federal Hiring Policies:

https://hru.gov/Studio_Recruitment/tools/Mythbuster_on_Federal_Hiring_Policies.pdf .

EEO Policy: EEO Policy Statement .

Reasonable Accommodation Policy: Reasonable Accommodation Policy Statement .

Veterans' Information: Veterans Information .

Telework: https://www.telework.gov/ .

Selective Service Registration: http://www.sss.gov/ .

It is the policy of the Government not to deny employment simply because an individual has been unemployed or has had financial difficulties that have arisen through no fault of the individual. Information about an individual's employment experience will be used only to determine the person's qualifications and to assess his or her relative level of knowledge, skills, and abilities. Although an individual's personal conduct may be relevant in any employment decision, including conduct during periods of unemployment or evidence of dishonesty in handling financial matters, financial difficulty that has arisen through no fault of the individual will generally not itself be the basis of an unfavorable suitability or fitness determination.

How You Will Be Evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

We will review your application package to ensure you meet the job and eligibility requirements, including the education and/or experience required for this position. If you meet the minimum qualifications stated in the vacancy announcement, we will compare your resume, optional cover letter and supporting documentation to your responses on the scored occupational questionnaire (True/False, Yes/ No, Multiple Choice questions) to determine if your answers to the assessment questionnaire are supported in your resume. If your answers to the online assessment questionnaire are not supported in the resume it will affect your eligibility for further consideration. You may be found "not qualified" if you do not possess the minimum competencies required for the position. If your application is incomplete, we will rate you as ineligible. Candidates that are rated as Highly Qualified will be referred to the hiring manager and may be invited for an interview.

The scored occupational questionnaire will evaluate you on the following competencies:

• Technical Competence
• Leadership
• Organizational Awareness
• Oral Communication
• Written Communication
• Interpersonal Skills

To preview questions please click here .

Background checks and security clearance

Security clearance
Secret

Drug test required
No

Position sensitivity and risk
Noncritical-Sensitive (NCS)/Moderate Risk

Trust determination process
Suitability/Fitness

Required Documents

• Resume showing relevant experience.
• CTAP ; ICTAP Eligibles: Must submit a copy of the appropriate documentation such as a reduction-in-force (RIF) separation notice, a SF-50 reflecting your RIF separation, or a notice of proposed removal for declining a direct reassign or transfer of function to another commuting area.
• If this position requires proof of higher education, you must include a copy of your transcript (unofficial or official) or a list of courses that includes the following information: name of accredited institution, grades earned, completion dates, and quarter and semester hours earned. Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the requirements. Please refer to http://www.opm.gov/qualifications/policy/ApplicationOfStds-04.asp for more information. Please be advised that an official transcript will be required if you are selected for the position.
• Most recent copy of your SF-50 (Notification of Personnel Action); your document must reflect grade, step, tenure code "1" (Career) or "2" (Career-Conditional), and type of position occupied.
• Veterans' documentation, if requesting consideration under any Veterans' hiring eligibilities ( veterans' preference and Veterans Employment Opportunities Act ). If seeking eligibility based on any other special hiring authority (e.g. disabled veteran, Schedule A, special hiring programs ).
• Peace Corps letter

If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:

Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education .

Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.