Agence américaine pour le développement international recrute un Représentant pays de l’OTI basé en Birmanie.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The duties of the Country Representative require teamwork, discretion, judgment, and personal responsibility. As a member of a highly operational office, you are willing and able to perform a wide range of administrative functions to help ensure programmatic success. You have a high level of integrity and attention to detail to ensure the use of OTI systems and procedures to maintain effective and efficient management of funds, programming, and monitoring and evaluation. You are highly flexible and willing to work under conditions of ongoing change, and remain professional and respectful of colleagues and authority in a diverse workforce. You place a premium on building relationships with your respective team in Washington, D.C., colleagues in the field, and with key stakeholders both in and outside of USAID. You are able to prioritize and complete tasks without follow-up by the supervisor, while also filling gaps as needed to ensure the responsiveness of the team. You are a strategic thinker, articulate innovative ideas, present solutions, and serve as a positive role model for colleagues both in and outside of OTI. You are also committed to upholding USAID/OTI’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility’s (DEIA) Vision and Values as outlined in the background.

Under the direct supervision of the Washington-based OTI Regional Team Leader for the Asia Team or their designee, you will perform the following duties:

Manage a high-profile program in a dynamic environment and provide strategic, programmatic, and operational guidance to OTI’s implementing partners (contractors and/or grantees) while leveraging critical local staff input, and the partner’s role in strategy co-creation, to ensure that activities are contributing to OTI’s program objectives;
Conceptualize and design program strategies and objectives in close coordination with OTI staff in Washington and in the Field, the Embassy, Host Country Government, implementing partner staff and local civil society actors based on political and context analysis and U.S. Government policy; Initiate strategy reviews as needed in line with changes in context and policy;
Analyze, synthesize and report on current political developments, security concerns, and other pertinent information required to achieve OTI’s program objectives; Monitor local and regional political developments and regularly brief OTI and partner staff on their potential programmatic impact;
Responsible for managing program effectiveness; ensuring strategic accountability; setting realistic intended program results and program achievements by utilizing OTI’s programming principles and processes and regularly engaging with the resources available to support and measure program effectiveness;
Articulate program strategy, as well as communicate and coordinate OTI’s in-country activities between OTI and its implementing partners, USAID, the Embassy and other donor organizations; prepare and disseminate programmatic, financial and periodic reports to the USAID Mission, OTI/Washington and other organizations as appropriate;
Serve as OTI’s primary liaison with USAID Mission personnel, U.S. Embassy staff, Host-Country Government Officials, UN Organizations, Indigenous and International Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), and other stakeholder organizations. Develop and maintain collaborative relationships to ensure close coordination at the field level, identify the widest range of potential local partners and opportunities, and achieve maximum synergy with other programs;
Build, lead, supervise, and motivate a team composed of USPSCs and a significant number of implementing partner staff. In close coordination with the Implementing Partner, continuously review and design staffing plans to meet overall program objectives; Recruit, train, supervise, and evaluate the performance of in-country OTI staff. Maintain staff morale in a difficult security and work environment;
Provide recommendations to the Washington-based Contracting Officer Representative (COR) and/or the Regional Team Leader on implementing partner performance, budgets, contract modifications, among other partner related issues;
Provide USAID concurrence on all implementing partner activities, including final approval of grantees for grants under contract, in accordance with the USAID’s Automated Directives System (ADS);
Ensure the use of OTI systems and procedures to maintain effective and efficient management of funds and programming;
Ensure that OTI’s programs and activities are monitored and evaluated and that lessons learned are applied to ongoing or future activities;
Prepare operational plans in collaboration with the U.S. Embassy, including logistics and property use guidelines, closeout and hand-over, security procedures, and contingency and evacuation plans; Review and concur on OTI program budgets for field operations;
Ensure that all OTI field staff adhere to in-country security guidelines set by the U.S. Embassy Regional Security Officer and other organizations such as the United Nations or host government, as appropriate; Coordinate closely with Implementing Partner senior management to provide relevant security related information from the Embassy;
Travel within the country/region to monitor and assess political conditions, and implementing partner operational platforms, meet with potential grantees, senior host-country government and other program counterparts, and develop recommendations to respond to evolving dynamics; and,
Serve on temporary details within OTI, other USAID bureaus/offices, or other U.S. Government (USG) agencies under this scope of work for a period not to exceed six (6) months. Duties performed while on detail must be directly related to the scope of work, but may not be directly related to OTI programs or activities. Contracting Officer (CO) approval is required for the temporary detail. Any extension past the six (6) months requires CO approval.

SUPERVISORY RELATIONSHIP:

The Country Representative – Burma will report to OTI’s Washington-based Team Leader for the Asia Regional Team or their designee. The Country Representative is expected to take initiative, act independently, and manage his/her tasks with minimal supervision. Though this is a senior field-based position, the incumbent is expected to actively and proactively collaborate with OTI/Washington leadership, and to fully utilize, embrace, and become an expert on OTI systems and processes. Failure to adequately perform the scope of work above and/or failure to take direction from the supervisor may result in corrective actions, including denial of step or grade increases, extension of contract probationary periods, performance improvement plans, and/or termination for the convenience of USAID/OTI.

Au minimum, l’offrant doit posséder :
(1) Une maîtrise avec sept (7) années d’expérience de travail ;
OU
Un baccalauréat avec neuf (9) années d’expérience de travail ;
OU
Un diplôme d’associé avec dix (10) années d’expérience professionnelle ;
OU
Un diplôme d’études secondaires/équivalent avec onze (11) années d’expérience professionnelle ;
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(2) Six (6) années d’expérience en gestion de projet auprès d’une agence des affaires étrangères du gouvernement américain
, d’une organisation d’aide nationale ou internationale ou d’une organisation non gouvernementale
dans les domaines du développement communautaire, du développement économique, de la médiation/arbitrage,
de la résolution de conflits, de la démocratie et de la gouvernance, droit international, analyse politique et/ou
activités en matière de droits de l’homme;
(3) Deux (2) années d’expérience sur le terrain à l’étranger (en personne ou virtuellement). Un
service temporaire virtuel (TDY) est défini comme un travail qui aurait été effectué dans un lieu à l’étranger sans
la pandémie de COVID ;
(4) Trois (3) années d’expérience en supervision avec au moins un subordonné direct.

Veuillez adresser vos questions sur ce poste ou le processus d’offre à l’équipe de recrutement d’OTI à [email protected].

Agence américaine pour le développement international recrute un Représentant pays de l’OTI basé en Birmanie.