Responsibilities: Based in Washington, DC, as a Foreign Service Limited (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. Your duties will include:
- Assisting USAID Missions 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;
- Analyzing conflict-sensitive designs 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 other types of support with CVP teams to USAID Missions such as assessments and training;
- Assisting USAID Missions to design, procure, implement, and evaluate state-of-the-art CVP, peacebuilding, or conflict-sensitive programming, either as stand-alone programs 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;
- Continuing 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 regions;
- Engaging with key partner agencies including, but not limited to, the Department of State, the Department of Defense, and leading think tanks and academic institutions such as the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP), the National Defense University (NDU), the Center for International and Strategic Studies (CSIS), the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and others;
- Participating in the design, review, updating, and delivery of conflict-related training courses in Washington and overseas; and
- Serving as a Contracting Officer's Representative/Agreement Officer's Representative (COR/AOR), as required, for various CVP procurements/programs.
Document
Democracy Officer
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Bureau/Office
Bureau for Conflict Prevention and Stabilization
Location
Washington, D.C.
Pay Scale/Grade
FSL-0301-02
Eligibility
U.S. Citizens
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