Clarification from the agency

U.S. Citizens

This position serves as the Regional Senegal Deputy Resident Country Director (DRCD) and reports to the Resident Country Director (RCD) and the Deputy Vice President (DVP) for Africa Region. As an official government employee, the DRCD is part of the U.S. country team at the U.S. Embassy and must collaborate closely with various elements of the U.S. Embassy. The Regional DRCD assists the DVP and RCD to provide ongoing guidance, advice, technical feedback, and support to the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) compact country/countries entity/entities in implementation. Specifically, the Regional DRCD plays a critical role in the Compact's success by:

• working closely with the relevant RCDs, the Regional DRCD will help to lead the development of regional compacts.
• working closely with the RCDs to manage and oversee the implementation of a regional compact.
• managing operations of the MCC Resident Mission, including supervising local staff, managing specific aspects of the Resident Mission including procurement, staffing, budgeting, financial, and asset management.
• coordinating in-country visits by MCC staff, technical advisors, and other official U.S. government missions.
• building and maintaining MCC's relationship with compact country partners and the US Embassy.
• coordinating between the MCAs, the compact governments, MCC Resident Country Mission, US Embassy, and MCC Washington on technical, operational, administration and other policy issues.
• coordinating with MCCs and MCC Washington to achieve the timely delivery of reports, plans, approvals and agreements as may be required for compact development and implementation; tracking milestones and concrete progress on compact implementation; and suggesting appropriate actions to mitigate risks, including program modification.
• coordinating project monitoring and evaluation and impact evaluation work with MCC Washington and compact country partners.
• preparing responses to inquiries from the compact country governments, MCC Washington, Congress, other public and private sector stakeholders of MCC.
• representing MCC in donor and other sensitive meetings where country strategy may be discussed, and USG policies are represented.
• supporting the RCDs in organizing public outreach and representational events in-country relating to MCC activities and Compact implementation, including helping to represent MCC in interactions with Congressional delegations (CODELs), other donors, representatives of the local business community and civil society, and other interested parties in the country.
• serving as Acting RCD as requested, supporting equal employment opportunity objectives.
• performing other related duties as assigned by the DVP and RCD.

Conditions of employment

• Some domestic and international travel is requied
• This is a term position not-to-exceed 60 months. MCC has the option of extending this term appointment.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a federal security clearance
• Relocation expenses will not be paid
• The Regional DRCD will be posted immediately to one of MCC's partner countries in West Africa to help oversee regional compact development and eventual implementation

Qualifications

Selective Placement Factor (Screen out): Applicants must be proficient in French (verbal communication and reading). If you do not meet this requirement, your application will not receive consideration for this position. Please ensure that this information is included in your resume and

Qualifying experience for the MC-3b level includes 5 years of experience in or with transitioning or developing countries, either in the private sector or with an international financial institution, multilateral organization, international or local non-government organization (NGO), the U.S. Government or other internationally focused entity Examples of specialized experience includes (1) experience analyzing international development challenges and designing and implementing medium or large-scale infrastructure and/or technical assistance programs (over $10 million) to address these challenges or investment projects in the context of these challenges; (2) experience as a team leader or project manager managing medium or large-scale infrastructure programs (e.g., energy, water, transport, etc.) or technical assistance programs (e.g., education, health, finance, etc.); providing assistance to governments, local communities or grassroots organizations in emerging or developing countries; (3) developing, negotiating and overseeing complex international projects with multimillion dollar annual budgets in a team environment; (4) experience working on government institutional strengthening projects; and (5) experience working at a senior management level in the private sector, a bilateral or multilateral development organization, an international NGO, or an international commercial bank. Note: This experience MUST be well documented within your resume or application. HIGHLY DESIRED:

• Experience working in transitioning or developing countries, in particular any prior work experience in West Africa.
• Experience in delivering results as part of a multidisciplinary team within a matrix reporting structure and managing / supervising related personnel
• An advanced degree in finance, economics, public health, international development, business, public policy, civil engineering, law, or a related discipline.

PART-TIME OR UNPAID EXPERIENCE: Credit may be given for appropriate unpaid and or part-time work. To receive credit you must clearly identify the duties and responsibilities in each position held and the total number of hours worked per week.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

A review of your application and supporting documents will be made and compared against your responses to the assessment questionnaire to determine if you are qualified for the position and to ensure that you have been placed in the appropriate quality category. The HR Office and/or Subject Matter Expert (SME) will evaluate each applicant who meets the basic qualifications on the competencies/knowledge, skills and abilities related to the position such as ):

• Technical Competence

Candidates will be evaluated based on their qualifications for this position as evidenced by the education, experience, and training they report relative to this position and the degree to which they possess the knowledge, skills and abilities/competencies listed on this vacancy announcement.

Note: We recommend that your application specifically and clearly show your possession of the specialized experience qualification requirements and possession of the KSAs/ competencies listed above.

If chosen for an interview, you may be requested to prepare and present additional job related information, which may include, but not limited to: responses to the knowledge, skills and abilities; completion of a work sample; or response/presentation to a case study on a MCC program. Candidates will be notified of the requirements and information needed through their USAJOBS account.

Application of veteran's Preference:. Veterans who meet the eligibility and qualification requirements and who have compensable service-connected disability of at least 10 percent are listed in highest quality category, except when the position being filled is scientific or professional at the GS-09 grade level or higher. http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#GS-PROF-OCCUPATIONS