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Summary
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This position is in the USAID Annex (UA) | 500 D Street SW, Washington DC 20024, in the Bureau for Global Health, Office of HIV and AIDS, at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
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Duties

• Manages grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts designed to implement, monitor and evaluate HIV prevention, care and treatment programs as technical advisor and/or as a Contracting/ Agreement Officer?s Representative (COR/AOR) as needed.
• Provides direct technical support to USAID Missions and Regional Bureaus to ensure that HIV treatment programs are effective, efficient and sustainable. Builds effective working relationships with USG, local governments and civil society stakeholders
• Develops and/or reviews GH Bureau, Regional Bureaus, and overseas Mission HIV policies, strategies, and programs, and provides technical assistance to improve the management of USAID-supported HIV care and treatment programs
• Advises USAID missions on new technical developments in HIV clinical service delivery, with a focus on community-lead case finding, retention support, and provision of integrated patient-centered services, and ensuring viral suppression.
• Synthesizes and disseminates up-to-date key research findings, cutting edge methodologies, and best practices for HIV/AIDS through briefers and recommendations for OHA and Agency leadership for strategies and investments.
• Serves as an Agency expert, providing intellectual leadership spanning the HIV clinical cascade, from case finding through retention on treatment and ensuring viral suppression, with particular focus on community-based programming.

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Requirements
Conditions of Employment

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a security clearance.
• Relevant experience (see Qualifications below).
• If you select to be considered under Merit Promotion requirements, you must meet the Time-in-Grade requirements before the closing date of this vacancy announcement.
• Direct Deposit/Electronic Funds Transfer is required.
• United States Citizenship is required.
• If you have no prior Federal experience or are selected under Delegated Examining procedures, you will be required to serve a one-year probationary period.
• Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered with the Selective Service.

Qualifications
Basic Requirement:
GS-15: You must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-14 level in the Federal service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-time work is considered on a prorated basis. Examples of qualifying specialized experience at the next lower level for this position include: a) working in and/or supporting a facility providing services to patients living with HIV and/or HIV/TB co-infection in a low-to-middle-income country; b) serving as a lead Agency technical expert and resource for implementation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) services to maximize patient retention and virologic suppression; c) providing leadership, management and oversight of USAID and PEPFAR programmatic priorities such as: cervical cancer screening and treatment, optimized linkage approaches from HIV testing services (HTS), mental health screening and treatment, facility-level quality improvement and patient adherence support services; d) providing expert technical assistance and/or oversight of the provision of technical assistance to USG-sponsored international development assistance programs across PEPFAR countries with the objective of achieving epidemic control of HIV; and e) identifying, documenting and disseminating best practices to improve HIV, including HIV/TB co-infection, antiretroviral treatment programs and provision of expert guidance to USG implementing agencies and USAID implementing partners in accordance with the latest scientific and program data.
This vacancy has a Selective Placement Factor:
In order to be considered for this position, you must have the following expertise and it must be documented in your resume:
Do you have demonstrable expertise in developing, implementing and strengthening community-based elements of HIV treatment or HIV/TB co-infection treatment programs in low-to-middle-income countries?
Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience relevant to the position's duties to be filled, including volunteer experience.
CTAP/ICTAP candidates will be referred to the selecting official if they are found well qualified. Well-qualified means an eligible applicant with the knowledge, skills, and abilities that clearly exceed the position's minimum requirements. In addition, a well-qualified employee must meet the qualification and eligibility requirements of the position, including any medical qualifications, suitability, and minimum education and experience requirements, meet all selective factors (where applicable); meet quality ranking factors and are assigned to the Silver Category or higher Category; be physically qualified with reasonable accommodation to perform the essential duties of the position; meet any special qualifying U.S. OPM-approved conditions; AND be able to satisfactorily perform the duties of the position upon entry without additional training.
A well-qualified candidate will not necessarily meet the definition of highly or best qualified when evaluated against other candidates who apply for a particular position. Therefore, selecting officials will document the job-related reason(s) for qualification determinations without selective and quality ranking factors.
Education
This position does not have a positive education requirement. Therefore, no transcripts are required.
Additional information
USAID is an independent Federal Government agency that receives overall foreign policy guidance from the Secretary of State. With headquarters in the District of Columbia, we operate in more than 100 countries worldwide, playing an active and critical role in the promotion of U.S. foreign policy interests. When crisis strikes, when rights are repressed, when hunger, disease, and poverty rob people of opportunity, USAID acts on behalf of the American people to help expand the reach of prosperity and dignity to the world's most vulnerable people. USAID employees and contractors must commit to maintaining a workplace free of sexual misconduct, including harassment, exploitation, and abuse, and adhere to USAID's Counter-Trafficking in Persons Code of Conduct. For information on the effort to counter all forms of human trafficking, including the procurement of commercial sex acts and the use of forced labor, visit http://www.state.gov/g/tip. For more information about USAID, visit http://www.usaid.gov.
If an HR Specialist determines that you are among the best-qualified applicants for these positions, an HR Specialist will share your application with multiple hiring managers for consideration. By submitting your application to this advertisement, you agree to share your application for similar positions within USAID.
This vacancy may be used to fill multiple vacancies depending on the needs of the Agency.
These are Testing Designated Positions (TDP's) under the Agency's approved Drug-Free Work Place Program. All applicants selected for this position will be subject to random drug testing once they begin working for the Agency.
Direct Deposit/Electronic Funds Transfer is required.
Moving and relocation expenses are not authorized.
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Selective Service Registration: http://www.sss.gov/.
It is the Government's policy not to deny employment simply because an individual has been unemployed or has had financial difficulties that have arisen through no fault of the individual. USAID will use information about an individual's employment experience only to determine their qualifications and assess their relative level of knowledge, skills, and abilities. Although an individual's personal conduct may be relevant in any employment decision, including conduct during periods of unemployment or evidence of dishonesty in handling financial matters, financial difficulty that has arisen through no fault of the individual will generally not be the basis of an unfavorable suitability or fitness determination.
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Bureau for Global Health
1300 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20523
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