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• United States Agency for International
  Development (USAID)
• Centers for Disease Control
• Peace Corps

• Supervises at a minimum, two technical
  FSNs and may mentor one US Direct Hire Foreign Service /Private Sector
  Officer, which includes developing annual work objectives, mentoring,
  facilitating professional development, completing ad hoc and annual
  performance reviews, and providing performance feedback.
• Works closely with Private
  Sector/Partnership Unit staff to determine training needs, helps identify
  appropriate training opportunities, and ensures fair participation in
  training by Agriculture Unit staff, with approval of the Feed the Future
  Coordinator.
• Collaborates with PPD, FMO, and A&A
  to coach and mentor Private Sector/Partnership Unit members, as needed, in
  effective project and financial management.

• Analytically assesses the private
  sector/partnership portfolio, the performance of partners, the available
  budget, the need for additional activities or ending activities, and designs
  new projects or activities appropriate to achieve objectives including,
  but not limited to (i) Feed the Future (ii) Power Africa and (iii) Trade
  Africa.
• Fully participates or takes the lead on
  each stage of project design for new activities, including drafting and
  getting approval for concept papers, writing scopes of work, evaluating
  applications/proposals, and starting up new projects.
• Ensures that implementing partners for
  the private sector/partnership portfolio abide by their reporting
  requirements, including quarterly reports, trip reports, accruals, PMPs,
  annual reports, and other requirements such as reporting for the OP or
  other requests. This includes supportive supervision of other project
  managers in the Private Sector/Partnership Unit as necessary.
• Actively participates in routine
  USAID/Uganda implementing partners meetings to discuss technical and
  programmatic direction of the USAID/Uganda and Economic Growth strategy.
• Manages projects as Agreement or
  Contracting Officer’s Representative and/or Activity Manager, which
  includes review and approval of workplans, budgets, quarterly and annual
  reports, performance monitoring plans, monitoring activities through field
  visits and ensuring that financial reporting (accruals/vouchers) are
  submitted to FMO as required.
• Identifies opportunities and strengthens
  existing opportunities for integration of private sector/partnership
  programming other areas of the Mission programming.
• Technically advises and makes
  recommendations on the need for short-term technical assistance from
  USAID/Washington central projects and writes the technical components of
  the scope of work for the consultants.
• Works in liaison with the program office
  and the Financial Officer and the Office of Acquisition and Assistance to
  help track private sector/partnership projects/activities, annual funding
  amounts, field support, procurement actions, and management units.
• Work in close collaboration with the
  Economic Growth monitoring and evaluation officer, manages the Economic
  Growth Office analytical agenda for private sector programming and
  partnership development.
• Manages the Economic Growth Program
  Monitoring Plan (PMP) for the Private Sector / Partnership Unit.
• Supports the Economic Growth Office
  Director and Feed the Future Coordinator in coordinating the portfolio and
  pipeline reports and the procurement plans for the private
  sector/partnership portfolio.
• Leads budget allocation discussions for
  private sector/partnership funds and makes recommendations to the Economic
  Growth Office Director and Feed the Future Coordinator.
• Prepares reports and responses to US
  AID/Washington requests for information.
• Supports the Economic Growth Office Director
  and Feed the Future Coordinator to monitor the private sector/partnership
  budget and work in collaboration with the Economic Growth Financial
  Analyst to ensure that budgets are up to date, reprogramming is completed,
  and budgetary changes are approved by Economic Growth Office Director.
• Monitors the private sector/partnership
  budget through quarterly accruals and pipeline analysis for projects in
  the Private Sector/Partnership Unit and participates in Mission portfolio
  and pipeline reviews.

• Provides senior/high level technical
  advice to the Mission and to the President’s Investor’s Roundtable, the
  Uganda Commodities Exchange, the Uganda Securities Exchange, the banking
  sector and key Ministries on the strategic alignment of private sector and
  partnership efforts with key USAID/Uganda goals and objectives. S/he will
  be involved in strategic decision making, budget allocations, and project
  designs. S/he assist negotiates with GOU on project design and
  implementation, ensuring that host country officials at the highest level
  are apprised of program progress.
• Forge relationships that may lead to
  future partnerships in key areas of priority to USA! D/Uganda. Facilitates
  the conceptual development of new partnerships, reaches out to potential
  partners to identify areas where USAID priorities coincide with theirs;
  objectively assesses the commitment of potential partners; identifies due
  diligence issues; and communicates the Agency’s partnership building
  policies and processes to manage expectations accordingly. Develops and
  sustains close collaboration, professional relationships with senior GOU
  officials, key business leaders, other major donors, international
  organizations, leading economic development research institutes and other
  private and public sector contacts necessary to build strong, inclusive
  and sustainable alliances and partnerships.
• Develops and implements a Mission-wide
  strategic approach to private sector programming and partnership
  development in collaboration with other USAID support offices and
  technical teams as appropriate.
• Responsible for private sector and
  partnership contributions to the Mission’s strategic planning and
  reporting as part of the Mission Strategic Resource Plan and Foreign
  Assistance Framework Operational Plan and Reporting Process (OP).
• Represents USAID with stakeholders and
  external development partners in a wide variety of events sponsored by
  USAID implementing partners or working groups and forums such as the
  Private Sector Donor Group (PSDG) where USAID is affiliated. This includes
  conferences, workshops donor subgroup meetings, and other economic
  development fora. Actively engages in the Private Sector Donor Group and
  other committees to advise, comment and participate in strategic decisions
  affecting private sector programming in Uganda.
• Serves as primary point of contact with
  Alliance Builders in other USAID missions and with USAID’s Office of
  Development Partners in Washington to develop contacts and share
  information; serves as the Mission’s POC for the Development Credit
  Authority (DCA) U.S. Treasury guarantee facility program.
• Represents US Government in multilateral
  coordination efforts for private sector programming, including giving
  technical and strategic advice, and input.
• Collects, analyzes and synthesizes
  information to inform and strategically guide program planning, including
  keeping the Mission and team abreast of current events in Uganda, EAC and
  COMESA that impact on mission goals or cooperation; Conducts consultations
  with stakeholders and track legislative, policy, regulatory reforms,
  competiveness and Doing Business developments.
• Offers strategic direction and technical
  input to key USAID governmental and nongovernmental partners on their
  strategies, workplans and monitoring and evaluation as it relates to
  private sector engagement and development.
• Represent the Economic Growth Office at
  appropriate Mission meetings with and/or in the absence of the Economic
  Growth Office – e.g. petroleum working group, interagency meetings,
  country team, Economic Growth Office Staff Meeting, USAID Senior
  Management, etc.
• Provides leadership and may act as Feed
  the Future Coordinator in his/her absence.
• Drafting talking points, assisting with
  high level visits (e.g. Congressional, political appointees, senior
  representatives from US Government), developing/updating briefing
  materials as it relates to private sector activities.

• The ideal candidate for the United
  States US Embassy Program Management Specialist (Private
  Sector/Partnership Development Unit should possess a Master’s degree in
  Economics, Management Science, Business Administration, Finance,
  Marketing, International Development or related fields required with
  strong technical emphasis or specialization in the area of business
  development, finance, trade and investment, competitiveness.
• A minimum of eight (8) years of work
  experience in private sector development with multi-lateral or bi-lateral
  development organization(s), including experience in inclusive development
  finance mechanisms.
• Five or more years’ experience in
  developing or managing private sector development projects.
• Previous experience in donor
  coordination and chairing/leading diverse teams is required.
• Other relevant trainings or
  certifications to augment university degrees and work experience.
• Effective written and oral
  communications are absolutely critical to perform successfully in this
  position. Incumbent must be able to communicate effectively and
  accurately. The incumbent must be able to draft reports, correspondence,
  briefings and other written products in accurate and grammatically correct
  English with title or no editing required, often under tight deadlines.
• Recent experience in programming of
  business development services, competiveness, advocacy against constraints
  to business, public-private partnerships, private sector growth enabling
  national economic governance policies (for example licensing,
  registration, certification, trade compliance) is required.
• The incumbent must exercise a
  considerable degree of specialized knowledge and experience to be applied
  in identifying and analyzing complex issues related to programs.
• The incumbent is expected to have an
  in-depth understanding of US GOVERNMENT foreign assistance to Uganda and
  familiarity with central aspects of US GOVERNMENT policy in Uganda.
• The incumbent is required to understand
  and appreciate the US GOVERNMENT Mission’s strategic direction, its chief
  accomplishments and its challenges in order to skillfully articulate the
  rationale, objectives and priorities for the provision of US GOVERNMENT
  foreign assistance to Uganda. The incumbent must have specific knowledge
  of partnership building with corporate and/or government partners.
• Broad knowledge of the way USAID
  conducts business, including budgeting and programming and procurement
  procedures is essential. The incumbent is required to understand the
  objectives, methodology and status of USAID/Uganda’s programs and
  projects.
• Broad knowledge and inderstanding of
  major problems frequently faced by transition post-conflict emerging
  economies such as Northern Uganda, and hands-on-experience is valuable and
  a plus.
• Excellent communication skills, commitment
  to transparency and teamwork, and an outstanding ability to exercise sound
  and independent judgment, discretion and patience on a daily basis. This
  position requires flexibility and the ability to accept and react to
  changing policy direction with sound analyses, professionalism and poise.
• Work effectively
  in teams: The ability
  to participate in and/or lead internal and external teams, adapt to the
  existing management team, and be a good listener is essential. The
  incumbent must be able to respond professionally and adjust priorities in
  often fluid, changing, and challenging situations with minimal guidance.
  The incumbent must be able to resolve complex planning and implementation
  issues with colleagues in technical offices and other parts of the mission
  that may arise during the course of work, for which there often is not a
  clear solution. Excellent interpersonal skills, including diplomacy and
  tact, to work effectively with people at all levels, from senior officials
  to support staff, accepting divergent points of view, able to set forth
  new ideas, and able to help find consensus to achieve team goals. Able to
  lead a team when necessary, allowing for two-way communication, bringing
  divergent views together to consensus, and exercising fair judgment and
  decision-making. Ability to work in and appreciate a culturally diverse
  office and to translate local customs and culture to American counterparts
  and senior staff as necessary is essential. The incumbent must be able to
  provide information and advice with detachment and objectivity, and
  orient, coach and mentor fellow Ugandan and U.S. personnel, as described
  in the duties.
• Communicate
  effectively. The
  incumbent must be able to communicate information in a transparent,
  accurate, concise and meaningful oral and written form. The incumbent must
  be able to exercise excellent communication skills to appropriately
  represent USAID/Uganda’s programs and priorities to a wide range of
  outside parties including senior corporate representatives, senior Ugandan
  officials up to the minister level; USAID senior management, and others.
  Verbal communication skills will be used to negotiate partnership
  parameters, manage expectations of resource partners at senior levels, and
  to resolve activity implementation issues with counterparts, partners and
  team members. The incumbent must use excellent communication skills to
  establish and develop sustainable working relationships within the US
  GOVERNMENT Mission including USAID, State Department, USDA, Treasury
  Department, Department of Defense, and Peace Corps. Ability to establish
  and maintain effective working relationships with implementing partners,
  private sector partners, other donor partners, and both central and
  district level Government of Uganda counterparts is a must. The incumbent
  must have the ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in
  writing – and able to help others do the same.
• Achieve results. Independently conceive, plan,
  organize, manage, and evaluate important, diversified and complex work
  projects efficiently and accurately for individual and team work. Such
  skills are essential to meet deadlines and to ensure that activities for
  which the incumbent has the lead go smoothly, particularly in the event of
  competing priorities and/or time pressures. Excellent technical and
  project management skills to review and provide substantive feedback on
  documents including concept papers, proposals, program descriptions/scopes
  of work, annual submissions for performance reports, operational planning,
  oral and written feedback to implementing partners, and other technical
  and programmatic documents.
• Highly flexible and
  versatile: The incumbent
  must possess the ability to remain calm in a fast moving work environment.
  The incumbent must also be able to work calmly, tactfully, and effectively
  under pressure and to demonstrate extreme flexibility to manage more than
  one activity at a time in the performance of daily duties and
  responsibilities.
• Be a thought
  leader: The incumbent must
  have the ability to identify significant economic, political and social
  trends in the host country and assess their important and impact on USAID
  development assistance objectives and programs. S/he should exhibit
  critical thinking for addressing current assistance challenges, as well as
  mitigating near future challenges through creative solutions. Incumbent
  must be able to draft factual and interpretive reports that cover complex
  subject-matter, and provide recommendations for USAID intervention.
• Excellent
  computer skills: These
  include Microsoft Office, web-based databases, and electronic filing,
  including the ability to help others, ability to learn new programs
  quickly is required to adequately perform in this position.
• Language
  Proficiency: Fluent
  in English (written and oral) language.

• A hand-signed AID-302-3 Offeror
  Information for Personal Services Contracts Form, Download
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• Cover letter clearly indicating the
  position for which you are applying and describing how you meet the
  minimum requirements
• Updated Curriculum Vitae/Resume
• Copies of Academic Transcripts
• Names, contact numbers, and e-mail
  addresses of three (3) professional references. At least one of the
  references must be a prior or current direct supervisor.
• U.S. citizen, Resident Aliens and other
  nations (resident in Uganda) must attach a copy of a valid work permit.

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