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0001 Offshore Hire - U.S. PSC Food for Peace Emergency

Specialist

0002 Offshore Hire - U.S. PSC Food for Peace Emergency

Specialist

0003 Offshore Hire - U.S. PSC Food for Peace Emergency

Specialist

NSN 7540-01-218-4386 STANDARD FORM 1447 (REV. 8/2016)

Prescribed by GSA - FAR (48 CFR) 53.214(d)

Postal Address:

U.S. Agency for International Development USAID Kenya P.O. Box 629 Village Market 00621 Nairobi, Kenya

Courier Address:

USAID/Kenya c/o American Embassy United Nations Avenue, Gigiri, Nairobi, Kenya

Pouch Address:

American Embassy 8900 Nairobi Place Department Of State Washington D.C. 20521-8900

Tel: 254-20-862 2000 Fax: 254-20-862 2680 / 2682 http://kenya.usaid.gov/

SOLICITATION NUMBER: 72061519R00009

ISSUANCE DATE: August 19, 2019 CLOSING DATE/TIME: August 30, 2019 04:30 p.m. GMT+3

SUBJECT: Solicitation for Offshore Hire U.S. Personal Service Contractor (U.S. PSC) Food for Peace (FFP) Emergency Specialist

Dear Prospective Offerors:

The United States Government, represented by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is seeking applications from qualified persons to provide personal services under contract as described in the attached solicitation.

Submissions must be in accordance with the solicitation instructions. Applicants should retain copies of all offer materials, for their records.

Applications must be submitted electronically via email to nairobipscjobs@usaid.gov by the closing date and time indicated above. Late, incomplete, or unsigned applications will not be considered. Scanned copies are accepted by email. Applicants must prominently reference the solicitation number in the application submission.

This solicitation in no way obligates USAID to award a PSC contract, nor does it commit USAID to pay any cost incurred in the preparation and submission of the application. Any questions must be directed in writing to the email addresses specified above.

Sincerely, Natalya Komarova Executive Officer http://kenya.usaid.gov/ mailto:nairobipscjobs@usaid.gov

Solicitation: 72061519R00009

Attachment 1:

I. GENERAL INFORMATION

1. SOLICITATION NO.: 72061519R00009

2. ISSUANCE DATE: 08/19/2019

3. CLOSING DATE/TIME: 08/30/2019 at 04:30 p.m. (Nairobi Time)

4. POINT OF CONTACT: Executive Office/Human Resources, Patrick Bii, HR Assistant, email at pbii@usaid.gov

5. POSITION TITLE: Offshore Hire U.S. Personal Service Contractor (U.S. PSC) Food for Peace (FFP) Emergency Specialist

6. MARKET VALUE: $90,621 to $117,810 equivalent to GS-14 Final compensation will be negotiated within the listed market value.

7. PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE: Two (2) year base period with three one-year options based on funding and satisfactory performance.

8. PLACE OF PERFORMANCE: Nairobi, Kenya

9. ELIGIBLE OFFERORS: U.S Citizens. Citizenship, if dual, must be clearly stated.

10. SECURITY LEVEL REQUIRED: Secret

11. STATEMENT OF DUTIES/POSITION DESCRIPTION

BACKGROUND:

The Food for Peace (FFP) Office within USAID is the U.S. Government’s (USG) primary arm for responding to major food emergencies throughout the developing world. The East and Central African regions have consistently been the historic epicenter of some of the world’s most protracted complex emergencies -- to include continued conflicts in Central African Republic, Burundi, Somalia, and South Sudan -- that at the end of 2018 hosted an estimated 5.6 million refugees and more than 14 million internally displaced persons. In addition, cyclical natural disasters throughout the region require a sustained, robust humanitarian platform for the USG in order to increase accountability and improve the efficiency and effective delivery of emergency assistance. FFP partners with the UN World Food Program (WFP), other public international organizations and non-governmental organizations on relief, nutrition, livelihoods and resilience-oriented activities. These activities include in-kind food and nutrition assistance as well as cash-and market-based interventions, such as unconditional cash transfers, cash-for-work activities, food vouchers and vocational training.

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The Regional Office of Food for Peace for East and Central Africa provided approximately $1.45 billion of food assistance to an estimated 36 million people in Fiscal Year 2018. The surge support and technical assistance provided by the Regional Office is critical to USAID’s ability to monitor food assistance activities in the region, where the absence of FFP staff in eight of the 15 countries requires direct oversight from Nairobi. As a unitary team comes together under the new Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) through the merger of the Office of Food for Peace and Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA), FFP will require a senior Emergency Specialist with specialized expertise and the ability to respond in a fast-changing, dynamic humanitarian environment.

MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

The FFP Emergency Specialist will ensure effective management of FFP resources in the East and Central Africa regions. Due to the oftentimes unpredictable nature of emergency assistance requirements in the region, this position requires frequent travel throughout the region -consistently between 50-60% of the time in travel status - and must be able to act independently and with a great deal of speed and flexibility.

Specific Duties: The contractor serving in this position will have the following specific duties:

1. Undertake emergency food needs assessments and participate in multi-agency needs assessment missions for new emergencies and ongoing programs. Report to USAID/FFP/Washington and Country Teams on the nature and extent of emergency crises, including changes in the food security situation and food assistance requirement gaps.

2. Design and manage emergency food responses in coordination with the FFP Office in Washington (FFP/W), U.S. Government (USG) Country Teams, host governments, Private Voluntary Organizations, international organizations, and other donors.

3. Monitor and report on the effectiveness of FFP emergency responses and the performance of implementing partners to ensure that food assistance activities are appropriate, well-targeted, and meeting acute food needs of the most vulnerable populations.

4. Strengthen USAID’s collaboration with the State Department of Population, Refugees and Migration to strengthen accountability, effectiveness and efficiencies in oversight of respective key Public International Organization and non-governmental organization partners.

5. Provide short to medium-term surge support for immediate emergency/disaster response when necessary

POSITION ELEMENTS:

a. Supervision Received: The individual is administratively supervised by the Office Chief, or his/her designee, and while the individual is expected to keep the Office Chief apprised of the country program, is expected to independently oversee the portfolio and advise Mission Management and FFP/Washington.

b. Available Guidelines: Guidelines include Agency regulations, Food for Peace Strategy, Title II regulations, among others. The incumbent provides guidance and ensures guidelines are enforced at all levels. The incumbent must be able to use excellent judgment and have the ability to deal with ambiguity at all levels. On many instances, the incumbent will have to rely on his/her knowledge and extensive prior experience to enforce guidelines as s/he carries out his/her duties.

c. Responsibility for decision making: The incumbent serves under administrative discretion of the Office Chief, or his/her designee, but will directly and independently oversee a FFP country portfolio. As such, s/he will have wide latitude in decision making on all program technical and budgetary issues, and in providing recommendations to FFP/Washington for program technical direction. His/her high-level expertise directly impacts decisions in the Mission at the highest level, and decisions in FFP/Washington.

d. Complexity: The incumbent works in an environment of continual change. FFP programs are faced with unprecedented new and intricate sets of political, economic and technical issues which have to be resolved to the satisfaction of all stakeholders and very often under a strict time frame of meeting the food needs of thousands of people affected by crop failures, droughts, conflict and natural disasters. As such, the incumbent is required to take the lead in resolving complex issues in food assistance programs by exercising a high level of creativity, judgment, sensitivity to local and host government perspectives, gender issues, and business sense as related to the sale, transportation, storage, and distribution of hundreds of millions of dollars of U.S. food commodities.

Given the fluid humanitarian and security situations, the incumbent will regularly work with implementing partners to adjust FFP programming (e.g., geographic locations, types of interventions, etc.) as needed in response to changing humanitarian and security conditions on the ground. The incumbent also represents FFP in program and strategy discussions with other USAID offices regarding linking humanitarian and development programs to build resilience. This engagement requires innovative thinking to achieve USAID objectives regarding resilience, while remaining compliant with guidelines and policies for food assistance programming and international humanitarian principles.

e. Scope and Effect: The individual is required to be expert in humanitarian and food assistance programming to including nutrition, livelihoods, and resilience programming.

Due to his/her expertise, the individual may be called upon to participate in or lead disaster assistance response teams, participate in other food assistance assessments, develop scopes of work for assessments and incorporate results into programming. The individual will develop and contribute to lessons learned and best practices for food assistance programming at the national and regional level.

f. Nature, Level and Purpose of Contacts: Must maintain high-level contacts and communication with internal and external stakeholders including USAID, and other USG officials, heads of UN country programs, heads of NGO organizations, senior government officials including heads of ministries and county governments, as well as host governments to advise on food assistance programming in alignment with USAID regulations and priorities.

g. Supervision Exercised: The incumbent will not serve as a supervisor.

h. Travel: Due to the oftentimes unpredictable nature of emergency assistance requirements in the region, this position requires frequent travel throughout the region - consistently between 50-60% of the time in travel status.

i. Security Clearance: Secret

j. Support Items: The incumbent will be provided access to a desktop computer, shared office equipment (such as printer, scanner and shredder), office supplies and support services.

k. Sunday Pay: Is not authorized.

12. PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The primary location of work will be on the U.S.

Embassy/USAID compound in Nairobi, Kenya. No special demands are required to perform the work.

II. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS

The incumbent must meet the following requirements in education and professional experience:

1. Education Master's degree with significant study in a pertinent field (including, but not limited to international relations, agriculture, economics, public health) plus at least six (6) years of progressively responsible experience in humanitarian assistance (two years of which must be related to food assistance). Relevant experience is defined as some combination of experience in developing, managing, assessing, evaluating and reporting on humanitarian assistance programs, strategic planning, and project design.

Or

Bachelor’s degree with significant study in a pertinent field (including, but not limited to international relations, agriculture, economics, public health) plus at least eight (8) years of progressively responsible experience in humanitarian assistance (two years of which must be related to food assistance). Relevant experience is defined as some combination of experience in developing, managing, assessing, evaluating and reporting on humanitarian assistance programs, strategic planning, and project design.

III.EVALUATION AND SELECTION FACTORS

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. FAR provisions of this solicitation are available at https://www.acquisition.gov/browse/index/far.

Applicants shall be rated as per three (3) significant evaluation factors – Professional Experience, Program Management and Interpersonal and Communication Skills. Professional Experience represents half of the overall weight of the evaluation and is the single most important factor.

The first two sub factors thereunder are of relative equal weight to each other. The significant factors Program Management and Interpersonal and Communication Skills, when combined, are of equal weight to Professional Experience. The sub factors are of relative equal weight to each other under each significant factor.

A. Professional Experience (50 percent)

(i) Demonstrated knowledge and experience with USG food assistance programs,

(ii) Demonstrated technical expertise in a food aid related field, such as nutrition, agriculture, economics, public health, or other related fields.

B. Program Management (25 percent)

(i) Ability to manage programs, to include programmatic and financial issues,

(ii) Ability to monitor and evaluate programs, to include programmatic and financial issues, (iii)Ability to review, evaluate and apply complex policies and regulations.

C. Interpersonal and Communication Skills (25 percent)

(i) Ability to provide rapid, concise, accurate reporting, both verbally and in writing,

(ii) Ability to work effectively as a team member and with staff from diverse cultures.

IV. APPLYING/SUBMITTING AN OFFER

1. Interested applicants are required to submit the following:

1) Offer form AID 309-2, “Offeror Information for Personal Services Contracts with individuals,” available at https://www.usaid.gov/forms/aid-309-2

2) An up-to-date curriculum vitae (CV) or resume (no more than five pages), cover letter explaining your qualifications for the position, copies of all relevant certificates and include three (3) references, who are not family members or relatives, with working telephone and e-mail contacts. The references will be asked to provide a general assessment of the applicant's suitability for the position. It is the responsibility of the applicant to ensure submitted references are https://www.usaid.gov/forms/aid-309-2 available to provide a written or verbal reference in a timely manner.

2. Applications must be submitted electronically via email to nairobipscjobs@usaid.gov by the closing date and time indicated above.

3. To ensure consideration of offers for the intended position, Offerors must prominently reference the Solicitation number in the offer submission/cover letter.

V. LIST OF REQUIRED FORMS PRIOR TO AWARD

The CO will provide instructions about how to complete and submit the following forms after an offeror is selected for the contract award.

Medical Form (DS Form 6561) EQIP Questionnaire for Sensitive Positions (for National Security (SF-86) or

EQIP Questionnaire for Non-Sensitive Positions (SF-85) EQIP Signature Forms (3-CER, REL, MEL) Finger print Card (FD-258) (available from requirements office) AID 6-85 (Foreign Residence Data)

VI. BENEFITS AND ALLOWANCES

As a matter of policy, and as appropriate, a USPSC is normally authorized the following benefits and allowances:

1. BENEFITS:

(a) Employer’s FICA Contribution

(b) Contribution toward Health and Life Insurance

(c) Pay Comparability Adjustment

(d) Annual Increase (pending a satisfactory performance evaluation)

(e) Eligibility for Worker’s Compensation

(f) Annual and Sick Leave

2. ALLOWANCES:

Section numbers refer to rules from the Department of State Standardized Regulations (Government Civilians Foreign Areas)

(a) Temporary Quarter Subsistence Allowance (Section 120)

(b) Living Quarters Allowance (Section 130)

(c) Cost-of-Living Allowance (Chapter 210)

(d) Post Allowance (Section 220)

(e) Separate Maintenance Allowance (Section 260)

(f) Education Allowance (Section 270)

(g) Education Travel (Section 280)

(h) Post Differential (Chapter 500) mailto:nairobipscjobs@usaid.gov http://aoprals.state.gov/content.asp?content_id=231&menu_id=92 http://aoprals.state.gov/content.asp?content_id=231&menu_id=92

(i) Payments during Evacuation/Authorized Departure (Section 600), and (j) Danger Pay Allowance (Section 650)

VII. TAXES

USPSCs are required to pay Federal income taxes, FICA, Medicare and applicable State Income taxes.

VIII. USAID REGULATIONS, POLICIES AND CONTRACT CLAUSES PERTAINING

TO PSCs

USAID regulations and policies governing USPSC awards are available at these sources:

1. AIDAR: The Agency for International Development Acquisition Regulation (AIDAR) Appendix D – “Direct USAID Contracts with U.S. Citizens or U.S. Resident Alien for Personal Services Abroad,” including contract clauses “General Provisions,” found at:

http://www.usaid.gov/policy/ads/300/aidar.pdf

2. Contract Cover page form AID 309-1 available at https://www.usaid.gov/forms

3. Acquisition and Assistance Policy Directives/Contract Information Bulletins (AAPDs/CIBs): AAPDs/CIBs for Personal Services Contracts with Individuals available at https://www.usaid.gov/work-usaid/aapds-cibs

4. Ethical Conduct. By the acceptance of a USAID personal services contract as an individual, the contractor will be acknowledging receipt of the “Standards of Ethical Conduct for Employees of the Executive Branch,” available from the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, in accordance with General Provision 2 and 5 CFR 2635. See https://www.oge.gov/web/oge.nsf/OGE%20Regulations

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