Agency: U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
Organization: Bureau for Management, Office of Acquisition and Assistance (M/OAA)
Location of Positions: Remote
Open Period: December 19, 2022 – January 31, 2023
Appointment Type: This is an excepted service, time-limited appointment that is not to exceed five years.
Salary: (USD) $106,294 – $156,096 (does not include Washington, DC locality pay)
Number of Vacancies: Eight

Description of Organization: The Bureau for Management provides centralized program and management support services for the Agency. The Bureau for Management administers a program of centralized support for Agency operations worldwide that include accounting and finance; the Agency’s operating expense budget; management policy, control, and audit coordination; administrative services; procurement policy and operations; information resources management; and overseas support. M/OAA creates award packages that attract effective development partners and achieve value for money through well-designed and administered acquisition and assistance (A&A) awards. In short, our goal is to ensure that USAID is able to achieve its mission through grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements.

Duties and Responsibilities: This position provides expertise as a warranted Contracting/Agreement Officer (CO/AO) in support of Ukraine-related procurements. The incumbent provides additional warranted contract office support to Ukraine and countries impacted by the situation in Ukraine to help manage the considerable workload associated with activity design and strategic and operational procurement planning and execution in the near, medium, and long term.

Additional Duties:

• Performing a full range of complex procurement activities for contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements;
• Negotiating procurement of products and services under a variety of contract/assistance mechanisms;
• Managing procurement planning activities such as preparing and maintaining current acquisition plans, appropriate milestone charts, and related schedules;
• Participating in strategy and planning phases, evaluation of offers, negotiations, contract award, and contract administration; and
• Advising program officials of the procurement instruments to be used and assist in the preparation of statements of work.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be a U.S. citizen;
• Must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level, FS-03 or GS13 of this position. Examples of specialized experience include: a) conducting cost proposal analysis for cost reimbursement type contracts; (b) leading competitive Requests for Application (RFA) or competitive Requests for Proposal (RFP); (c) negotiating procurement of products and services under a variety of contract/assistance mechanisms; (d) executing contract awards within warrant authority; and (e) managing procurement planning activities such as preparing and maintaining current acquisition plans, appropriate milestone charts, and related schedules;
• Must have at least four years’ experience in contracting or related positions and a bachelor’s degree that included or was supplemented by at least 24 semester hours in any combination of the following fields: accounting, business, finance, law, contracts, purchasing, economics, industrial management, marketing, quantitative methods, or organization and management;
• Must have completed all courses required to obtain a Federal Acquisition Certification in Contracting (FAC-C) certification; and
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.