95332420Q0030 RFQ Attachment 2 Position Description.pdf

95332420Q0030 HCD LAE Director Intermittent PSC

RFQ Attachment 2 Position Description

1. Introduction and Background

MCC’s mission is to provide grant assistance to support economic growth and poverty reduction in select developing countries with a demonstrated commitment to just and democratic governance, economic freedom, and investments in their citizenry. MCC’s partner countries enter into a five-year agreement (Compact) with MCC that includes a plan for achieving shared development objectives and the responsibilities of each country in achieving those objectives. Our model is defined by core principles of selectivity, country ownership, transparency, and a focus on results.

Our values identify who we are and what is important to us. Our Values are CLEAR: Embrace Collaboration, Always Learn, Practice Excellence, Be Accountable and Respect individuals and ideas.

MCC’s values define how we behave on a daily basis, both as individuals and as an institution, in pursuit of our mission. They guide how we make decisions, set priorities, address challenges, manage tradeoffs, recruit and develop staff, and work together with our country partners and stakeholders.

The department of Compact Operations (DCO) is responsible for developing and implementing MCC’s compact programs. The department ensures that MCC compacts are designed and implemented in compliance with agency standards for procurement, financial management, environmental and social performance, and gender integration and social inclusion.

Within DCO, the Sector Operations Division is responsible for the development and oversight of MCC’s agriculture, land, and human and community development investments, and program procurement and financial services, gender integration and social inclusion.

2. Scope of Position

This position will serve as a Personal Services Contractor (PSC) within Land and Agricultural Economy (LAE) in Department of Compact Operations (DCO), Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). DCO is responsible for developing and implementing MCC’s compact programs. The department ensures that MCC compacts are designed and implemented in compliance with agency standards for procurement, financial management, environmental and social performance, and gender integration.

The PSC will report to and be supervised by the Practice Lead and Senior Director (PLSD) for LAE and/or the Managing Director for Sector Ops.

This position is not authorized to supervise any Federal employees.

3. Personal Services Contract

MCC is authorized to enter into a contract with an individual as a Personal Services Contractor (PSC) under the authority of Section 614(a) (8) of the Millennium Challenge Act of 2003.

A personal services contract is different from non-personal services Government contract, which establishes an independent contract relationship. Under a non-personal services contract, the contractor or employees of the contractor are subject to the technical direction but not the supervision of the MCC. As defined by the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 37.104, a personal services contract is characterized by the employer-employee relationship it creates between the Government and the contractor personnel. Thus, the PSC is subject to the relatively continuous technical direction, supervision, and control of the MCC. PSCs may be assigned inherently governmental duties (see FAR 7.502). By law and by the contract’s terms, the PSC is subject to most of the laws, rules and regulations applicable to the direct hire employee such as MCC regulations, conflict of interest, under some circumstances MCC authorized employment security clearances and financial disclosure. However, under the MCC personal services contract authority, PSCs are not employees for purposes of laws administered by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). The following elements apply to this contract:

1) Performance in Washington, D.C., US, MCC eligible countries, other US and foreign cities (as required for outreach purposes), and/or at the PSC’s home of record.

2) Principal tools and equipment furnished by the Government.

3) Services are applied directly to the integral effort of agencies or an organizational subpart in furtherance of assigned function or mission.

4) Comparable services, meeting comparable needs, are performed in the same or similar agencies using civil service personnel.

5) The need for the type of service provided can reasonably be expected to last beyond 1 year.

6) The inherent nature of the service, or the manner in which it is provided, reasonably requires directly or indirectly, Government direction or supervision of contractor employees in order to—

i. Adequately protect the Government’s interest;

ii. Retain control of the function involved; or

iii. Retain full personal responsibility for the function supported in a duly authorized Federal officer or employee.

4. Key Requirements

Awardee must satisfy the following key requirements:

• U.S. citizenship.

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a federal security clearance.

• Performance in Washington, DC USA, MCC eligible countries, other US and foreign cities (as required for outreach purposes), and/or at the PSC’s home of record.

• Domestic and international travel will be required.

• Statement of Employment & Financial Interest (e.g., Office of Government Ethics “OGE Form-

450” or similar statement) may be required.

• Active System for Award Management (www.sam.gov) registration (this is a free, Government website) and be listed as sole-proprietor.

• Designated and/or random drug testing required.

5. Duties

a) Major Duties and Responsibilities

• Works as part of a practice team led by the Senior Director for Land and Agricultural Economy and performs a variety of assignments associated with the development and implementation of MCC-funded projects and activities in the area of land and property rights, as well as tasks and https://www.acquisition.gov/?q=browsefar http://www.sam.gov/ responsibilities related to maintenance or expansion of practice area expertise and MCC internal administration.

• Regular engagement with relevant team members, counterparts and other stakeholders over the course of each week address time-sensitive tasks associated with the compact development or compact implementation responsibilities described herein.

• Serves as the land project lead, land sector lead or activity lead, and/or integrated project lead and MCC primary point of contact for land-related investments in one or more countries in various stages of compact development and implementation. Travel to MCC-eligible and other countries, as assigned. Work in Washington, DC is expected periodically.

• Assesses the root causes of land-related constraints to economic growth and identifies programmatic solutions that can address such constraints. Identifies and conceptualizes specific project investment solutions and undertakes due diligence of recommended interventions to ensure feasibility, consistency with sector best practice, measurable economic benefits, and sustainability.

• Provides expert advice and counsel to MCC teams and to partner governments on land sector program issues related to policy, legal and institutional reform; land markets; property rights formalization and registration, including both statutory and customary approaches; land administration; and land-sector-related technology and technology systems.

• Identifies opportunities for innovation in program design and pursues strategies to operationalize and implement cutting-edge approaches.

• Leads or ensures coordination – or integration as appropriate – between land programming and other related or overlapping sector programs or issues, including related to environmental and social performance safeguards (and resettlement); gender and social inclusion; and finance, investment and trade.

• Collaborates with MCC economic analysis and monitoring and evaluation staff to ensure that land sector-related concepts, trends, evidence and research approaches are adequately captured by cost benefit analysis, quantitative and qualitative program impact research design, and data collection approaches and instruments.

• Develops detailed terms of reference, budgets, timelines and cost estimates for procurement actions.

• Develops, maintains, or contributes to detailed workplans for assigned work during compact development or implementation.

• Drafts program descriptions for inclusion in the Investment Memorandum, Board or Compact documents.

• Provides advice and support to MCC host country counterparts (MCA or equivalent) in relation to project implementation, including advising on or assisting with preparation of budget/financial plans, work plans, terms of reference and/other technical components of procurement packages.

• Analyzes applicable deliverables produced by host country (MCA or equivalent) contractors as well as proposed work programs and program implementation methodologies. Suggest revisions to deliverables as appropriate to better assure project results are achieved.

• Reviews and approves/clears or oversee review and approval/clearance of quarterly disbursement requests and other documents submitted by MCAs to MCC for approval in connection with project implementation.

• Evaluates the technical adequacy of work products produced by contractors such as legal and institutional studies related to topics such as land transactions, land markets, inheritance, gender, land information systems, land use and spatial planning.

• Leads or provides technical contributions to the assessment, documentation, refinement and presentation of best practices, guidance documents, operational procedures, performance standards and other Land and Agricultural Economy practice-related priorities.

• Develops, regularly updates and assists in implementing the Land and Agricultural Economy practice team’s knowledge sharing and management plan, including knowledge events on the subject.

• Represents MCC to senior U.S. Government officials, representatives of foreign governments, and a variety of other stakeholders, both domestic and international. Strengthens external partnerships to enhance land--related dimensions of development.

• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge required by the position:

• Mastery of and experience analyzing land tenure and land administration-related problems that constrain growth in developing countries and identifying project solutions that can address identified problems in order to formulate advice and counsel to MCC management and country counterparts, incorporating industry best practices into MCC operations and programs.

• Mastery of and experience with land policy, legal and institutional reform; land markets;

property rights formalization and registration, including both statutory and customary approaches; land administration; and land-sector-related technology and technology systems in developing countries; following the evolutions and trends in the land sector, sufficient to design, assess, and monitor Compact-and Threshold-funded projects and activities.

• Leadership and project management skills to lead management and implementation oversight for highly complex, time-bound and integrated projects.

• Written and oral communication skills to prepare comprehensive reviews, briefings, scope for further analysis and special reports.

• Ability to collaborate effectively as a member of an interdisciplinary team with MCC staff, staff from host country institutions and other stakeholders.

• Skill in representing MCC at relevant USG interagency meetings regarding development policy and preparing recommendations to advance agency interests.

• Ability to brief high-level U.S. and foreign government officials on critical technical matters and to explain complex issues clearly and concisely.

b) Travel

MCC estimates that the incumbent may undertake 3-4 international trips annually.

c) Supervisory Controls

The supervisor sets the overall assignment objectives, program emphasis and resources available. The incumbent independently develops the deadlines, projects, and work to be accomplished. The employee meets regularly with the supervisor to keep him/her informed of progress, potentially controversial matters, and problems with far-reaching implications. Completed work is reviewed for its impact on broad MCC policy objectives and program goals.

d) Guidelines

Guidelines consist of broad administrative and program policy statements, basic legislation, or local laws that require extensive interpretation. The employee uses judgment and discretion in determining intent, and in interpreting and revising existing policy and regulatory guidance for use by others within or outside the Department of Compact Operations. The employee is recognized as an expert and established practitioner in the development and/or interpretation of guidance on program planning and evaluation as it relates to land tenure-related issues and programs.

e) Complexity

The employee analyzes interrelated issues of effectiveness, efficiency, and productivity of substantive mission-oriented programs. He or She develops detailed plans, goals, and objectives for the long-range implementation and administration of programs, and/or develops criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of the program. Decisions concerning planning, organizing, and conducting studies are complicated by conditions, such as conflicting program goals and objectives. Options, recommendations, and conclusions take into account and give appropriate weight to uncertainties about the data and other variables which affect long-range program performance.

f) Scope and Effect

The purpose of the work is to analyze and evaluate major aspects of substantive, MCC mission-oriented programs. The employee develops long-range program plans, goals, objectives, and milestones to evaluate the effectiveness of land-related investments. The employee resolves problems or copes with issues which directly affect the accomplishment of principal MCC program goals and objectives. The employee develops regulations or guidelines for the conduct of program operations, or new criteria for measuring program accomplishments. Study reports contain findings and recommendations of major significance to MCC top management and often serve as the basis for new administrative systems, legislative initiatives, regulations, or programs.

g) Personal Contacts/Purpose of Contacts

Personal contacts are with numerous analysts, specialists, and professional staff from within and outside the agency in a moderately unstructured setting. The purpose of contacts is to influence, motivate, or negotiate with others who may hold different points of views in order to influence managers or other officials to accept recommendations or to obtain the desired effect. Requires skill in persuasion, negotiation, motivation, or establishment of rapport.

h) Physical Demands

The work is primarily sedentary, although some walking, bending, or carrying of light items may be involved. Frequent travel to developing countries with limited infrastructure may be required.

i) Work Environment

Work is performed in an office setting. Field missions in challenging conditions may be required from time to time.