USAID Ethiopia Vacancy would like to invite qualified and competent applicants to apply for the following vacant post.
1:USAID Project Management Specialist (Health – Supply Chain)
Location: Addis Ababa, Addis Ababa
Salary: $ 24,124 – $ 43,420
Job Summary:
The USAID Project Management Specialist – Supply Chain (the “Specialist”) serves as an advisor and provides strategic, technical, analytical, and management support on health logistics and supply chain management.
S/he will serve as a Contracting Officer’s Representative/Agreement Officer’s Representative (COR/AOR) and/or Activity Manager supporting health logistics and supply chain activities.
The Specialist provides senior-level technical guidance to Health Office staff and leaders, the broader USAID Mission, implementing partners (IPs), the host government, and represents USAID with the interagency, in technical working groups, and other fora.
The Specialist is a key member of Health Office, Health Systems Strengthening (HSS) Team. The incumbent reports to the designated Team Leader and has no formal supervisory responsibility.
Statement of Duties to Performed:
Program Management:
Serves as a COR/AOR and/or Activity Manager for health logistics and supply chain programs/projects/activities awarded through the Health Office, providing financial and programmatic oversight to ensure contracts and grants achieve anticipated results, and linked to and enhance attainment of the Health Office, Mission, and USG objectives.
Conducts site visits as required in order to monitor progress, and to provide technical and programmatic recommendations to ensure effectiveness, efficiency, and judicious use of U.S. Government (USG) funding.
Technical Guidance and Leadership:
Stay abreast of state-of-the-art knowledge, programming and best practices related to supply chain management and utilize this information to improve host country supply chain management.
Coordinate exchanges and sharing of best practices among USAID, USG and other stakeholders to strengthen health logistics and supply chain systems improvement.
Provide technical guidance and leadership to the host country government in coordinating health supply chain systems support, supply planning, forecasting, quantification and programming.
Guide USAID and host country government on strategic decisions and policy formulation to strengthen supply chain management, including transparency and accountability.
Provide technical guidance and coordination to Health Office colleagues to ensure development of key systems that effectively integrate across the entire health portfolio.
Provide guidance to Health Office colleagues to monitor the achievement of milestones of IPs supporting health logistics and supply chain system implementation.
Support host country efforts to ensure health supply chain systems fully integrate with key commodity management and information systems that will allow end to end data visibility.
Skill and educational background
a. Education: Completion of a US-style University Master’s Degree in a field related to social science, statistics, mathematics, economics, computer science, epidemiology, health informatics, public health, infectious disease, zoonotic disease, biology or other quantitative discipline, or the local equivalent, is required.
b. Prior Experience: A minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible, professional-level experience in developing, implementing, and/or monitoring and evaluating health supply chain performance improvement activities, including supply chain management, logistics, health commodities management, rational drug use, and/or other closely related area. Experience collaborating with and/or working for key donors, development partners, or NGO is required.
c. Language: English and Amharic at Level IV. Language competence may be tested.
Application way
The offer form DS-174 (Application for U.S. Federal employment) which can be found in the U.S. embassy website https://et.usembassy.gov/embassy/jobs/; or https://www.usaid.gov/ethiopia/work-with-us/careers/ds-form-174-ccn-application.
A resume in English
Letter of application (cover letter) that describes your experience with the evaluation criteria (Section III: Evaluation and Selection Factors), and
Contact information for a minimum of three and a maximum of five references, including at least two references with direct knowledge of the offeror’s past performance.
Application Deadline: Feb 18, 2024