Opportunity in Washington, DC
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has contracted through CAMRIS International partnered with IAP World Services Inc. (IAPWS), to recruit and hire qualified individuals for the following position:
Title:Program Analyst
Bureau for Global Health, President’s Malaria Initiative, United States Agency for International Development (USAID/GH/HIDN/PMI)
Application Deadline:Open until filled
The program analyst for the President’s Malaria Initiative provides executive-level support to the U.S. Global Malaria Coordinator and Deputy as well as the PMI team at large, performing a variety of both complex and routine executive administrative, analytical, and program management support duties. Duties will range from administrative-type tasks such as scheduling briefings and meetings, arranging travel and maintaining program files, to more complex analytical-type tasks such as researching, collecting, compiling, and analyzing data for various program documents, designing and maintaining spreadsheets, and drafting briefers, talking points, and PMI reports and communication materials. The program analyst ranks tasks in order of importance and impending deadlines, and handles several tasks simultaneously, always prioritizing support needs of the Coordinator and Deputy over other PMI team support and project work. The analyst identifies and anticipates needs and takes initiative to address them, seeking guidance if and when needed from the Coordinator, Deputy or Malaria Division Chief. The individual must develop a working knowledge of USAID and PMI policies and guidelines, as well as corporate practices and procedures.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Primary Duties & Responsibilities to the Coordinator and Deputy:
· Maintains calendars and schedules appointments for coordinator and deputy. May establish appointment priorities or reschedule appointments or invitations.
· Demonstrates diplomacy when interacting with officials of other USG Agencies, other governments or partners.
· Initiatives and processes travel requests for Coordinator and Deputy’s travel, including submission of detailed trip reports upon return from travel.
· Review travel vouchers to ensure that Coordinator and Deputy are reimbursed for incurred travel expenses.
· Collects and compiles data for use in regular and ad hoc reporting on the status of programs from various sources such as cooperating agency reports, USAID reports and documents, and technical staff. Ensures that schedules and deadlines are met.
· Writing/editing information for letters, issue briefs, country profiles, talking points, and responses to public inquiries.
· Prepares power point presentations and collects/organizes briefing materials.
· Maintains PMI files including country briefing documents and talking points for the Coordinator.
· Coordinates special projects on behalf of the Malaria Coordinator and Deputy.
· Escorts external guests to and from meetings with the Coordinator and Deputy.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities to the PMI Team:
· Participates in grant and contract management (project management) for the President’s Malaria Initiative, including reviewing work plans and budgets, preparing quarterly financial pipeline and accrual reports and tracking of project activities and deliverables for one or more malaria central contract or grant.
· Actively participates in PMI technical and programmatic meetings and discussions and applies this learning to day to day support of the Coordinator and Deputy and in project management and country backstopping work.
· Prepare various program documents and correspondence such as memos, and waivers, amendments, project authorization documents, Congressional Notifications, Technical Notifications, and requests, ensuring that all documentation is complete and in compliance with USAID rules, regulations, and standards.
· Prepare budgets and financial tracking sheets to be used by the Coordinator and PMI team.
· Researches, plans, analyzes, and organizes technical and/or statistical information and develops data for use in briefings, publications, and reports. Presents data during technical / project briefings.
· Leads collection and compilation of data for use in regular and ad hoc reporting on the status of programs from various sources such as cooperating agency reports, USAID reports and documents, and technical staff. Ensures that schedules and deadlines are met.
· Collects and makes arrangements for distribution of material to the USAID missions, USAID/W offices, host country institutions, and cooperating agencies.
· Participates on one or two PMI country backstopping teams, providing virtual support and backstopping of PMI country level activities and implementation.
· Travel to one or two PMI countries as a member of annual Malaria Operational Planning (MOP) team.
· Performs other duties as assigned.
CERTIFICATIONS, LICENSE, PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS OR OTHER
EXPERTISE REQUIRED. The contractor must have:
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
· The position requires a minimum of a college degree and 3-6 years of post-grad professional experience with prior developing country project management experience a plus.
· Master degree in public health or related field strongly desired.
· Strong writing, organizational skills required.
· Requires proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office, Internet and e-mail applications.
· Experience in the use of data base applications is recommended.
· U.S. Citizenship and ability to obtain a secret-level security clearance required.
LANGUAGE/COMMUNICATION SKILLS
· Oral and written communications skills and the ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals.
· Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
· French and/or Portuguese language skills strongly desired.
MATHEMATICAL/ANALYTICAL SKILLS
· Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to reports and financial tracking systems.
· Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
This is an opportunity for employment or a contract, but we reserve the right to make no selection or award.
CAMRIS International and IAP World Services Inc. offer competitive salaries and comprehensive benefits.
CAMRIS and IAP are Equal Opportunity Employers (EOE M/F/D/V)
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