The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) works to save lives, alleviate human suffering, and reduce the impact of disasters by helping people in need become more self-reliant. BHA is responsible for planning, coordinating, developing, achieving, monitoring, and evaluating international humanitarian assistance falling into two conceptual areas: 1) Humanitarian Response during emergencies and 2) Early Recovery, Risk Reduction, and Resilience activities to address longer-term recovery after emergencies. You can learn more about BHA on our website.
The Office of Africa (OA) assesses, designs, and provides humanitarian assistance to partners and communities responding to, recovering from, and reducing the risk of natural disasters and complex emergencies, while linking with other USAID investments that build resilience. To achieve these objectives, humanitarian experts based overseas coordinate with local authorities and USAID Missions, while humanitarian experts based in Washington D.C. coordinate with USAID Regional and Pillar Bureaus. The Office of Africa in Washington consists of five (5) geographic divisions: East Africa; Central Africa; Sudans; West Africa; and Southern Africa, as well as a Management and Integration Team (MIT) that is responsible for supporting the management needs of the office and ensuring integration of policies and practices between OA and the rest of BHA. Overseas, OA has three (3) Regional Offices: Regional Office Southern Africa (ROSA), West Africa Regional Office (WARO), Sudans, East, and Central Africa Regional Office (SECARO), which support our bilateral teams in various missions through Africa. These teams are responsible for the provision of emergency humanitarian assistance through grants and cooperative agreements to non-governmental organizations (NGOs); international organizations (IOs) including United Nations (UN) agencies; and to other partners to ensure the implementation and delivery of this assistance. These teams also oversee BHA Office of Africa's nonresponse efforts in disaster risk reduction (DRR), resilience, and humanitarian transition.
It takes talented people with unique experiences to provide the best humanitarian aid possible. We are committed to having a workforce that reflects the global communities we serve. We strive to create an inclusive workplace, where everyone brings their authentic selves to work. We invite you to join us in providing humanitarian assistance to save lives and alleviate the suffering around the world.
Statement of Duties to be performed
Based in Nairobi, the Regional Humanitarian Advisor (RHA) Nutrition Specialist supports the effective management of BHA resources and will report to BHA's SECARO Senior Regional Humanitarian Advisor or designee. They will collaborate and coordinate closely with technical colleagues in BHA/Washington. The RHA Nutrition Specialist will spend approximately 75 percent of their time supporting the Kenya and Somalia portfolio. Closely coordinating with staff and implementing partners, the RHA Nutrition Specialist will be responsible for designing, and overseeing nutrition activities and the systems and processes to monitor and evaluate. The RHA Nutrition Specialist will spend the remaining 25 percent of their time supporting countries other than Kenya and Somalia in the SECARO region in coordination with the broader global nutrition technical team.
The individual will perform the following duties:
General Duties:
Supervisory Relationship - The USPSC will take direction from and will report to the BHA Nairobi-based Regional Office Director for SECARO or his/her/their designee.
Supervisory Controls: The supervisor provides administrative direction in terms of broadly defined missions or functions. USPSC independently plans, designs and carries out projects, studies, and programs. Results of the work are considered technically authoritative. There is no higher-level official technically responsible for administering the program/project.
12. PHYSICAL DEMANDS - The work requested is primarily sedentary and does not involve undue physical demands. Work is primarily performed in an office setting.
During deployment on DARTs (if required), and during site visits, there may be some additional physical exertion including long periods of standing, walking over rough terrain, or carrying of moderately heavy items (less than 50 pounds). During deployment on DARTs (if required), and during site visits, the work may additionally involve special safety and/or security precautions, wearing of protective equipment, and exposure to severe weather conditions.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED FOR THIS POSITION
The incumbent must meet the following requirements in education and professional experience:
The Government may award a contract without discussions with offerors in accordance with FAR 52.215-1. The CO reserves the right at any point in the evaluation process to establish a competitive range of offerors with whom negotiations will be conducted pursuant to FAR 15.306(c). In accordance with FAR 52.215-1, if the CO determines that the number of offers that would otherwise be in the competitive range exceeds the number at which an efficient competition can be conducted, the CO may limit the number of offerors in the competitive range to the greatest number that will permit an efficient competition among the most highly rated offers. The FAR provisions referenced above are available at https://www.acquisition.gov/browse/index/far.
The technical evaluation committee may conduct reference checks, including references from individuals who have not been specifically identified by the offeror, and may do so before or after a candidate is interviewed.
The points for the specialized experience and the offeror interview, stated below, will depend on the solicitation. However, the professional reference check will be 10 points across all solicitations.
Satisfactory Professional Reference Checks (10 points)
Offerors must provide their references to USAID/KEA upon request no later than seven (7) days from the initial request. Failure to meet this requirement will result in the offeror being removed from consideration for this solicitation. In addition, the Agency has the right to seek any additional feedback on the offeror as needed.
[1] U.S. resident alien means a non-U.S. citizen lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States.