Attachment J.1_Labor Category Descriptions and Qualifications.pdf

RFP No. 72051923R00004

ATTACHMENT J.1

LABOR CATEGORY MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND DESCRIPTIONS

Education + Experience Requirements

OR Experience Requirements (Substitution of Relevant Work Experience in Lieu of a Degree)

Level Academic Degree*

AND Years of Relevant Work Experience**

Years of Relevant Work Experience***

Junior Level BS/BA 1 2

Mid Level MS/MA/MBA/JD 6

18 BS/BA 7

Less than BS/BA 8

Senior Level Ph.D. 8

25 MS/MA/MBA/JD 9

BS/BA 10

Less than BS/BA 11

*Highest degree obtained should be related to services provided.

** Experience must be related to the services provided.

***Relevant Work Experience is required for the levels indicated.

Language fluency, relevant regional experience, and international development experience requirements will be specified in individual task orders.

No. Labor Category Description X001 Project Management

Specialist This category includes a large and technically diverse range of industry and functional specialists (who are not otherwise specified in other labor categories). Perform functions such as the following: (a) directly produce the deliverables contracted for in the task order;

(b) provide strategic advice, technical guidance, and expertise, (c) deliver detailed analysis, evaluation, and recommendations, and (d) lead surveys to collect and analyze data to provide advice and recommend solutions. Provides technical expertise in support of task order requirements in one or more of the following areas: (i) Crisis, Conflict and Natural Disasters (ii) Democracy, Rights and Governance (iii) Education (iv) Economic Growth (v) Environment, Climate Change, and Environmental Compliance (Reg. 216) (vi) Food Security and Agriculture (vii) Gender (viii) Health and Nutrition (ix) Infrastructure and Urban Planning (x) Organizational Capacity Strengthening (xi) Science and Technology (xii) Education (xiii) Trade (xiv) Workforce Development (xv) Energy (xvi) Other, As Required.

In addition, the professionals under this labor category may also provide subject matter expertise in collaboration, learning and adapting (CLA), communications and knowledge management. The specialists will lead integration of CLA strategies into the project and provide for robust communication and knowledge management tools, including employing technology to gather evidence, foster project learning, adaptation and advocacy.

X002 Chief of Party/Project Director

Provide: (1) substantial experience managing projects related to the functional area and country context; (2) substantial experience managing relationships with high ranking government officials, U.S. Embassy, and other key stakeholders; (3) ability to engage with key partners, and to conduct strategic thinking and management processes, and (4) other requirements as deemed necessary under each Task Order.

X003 General Administrative Support

This is a labor market for any administrative support services required to fulfill the task order requirements. This individual(s) will provide support for the day-to-day operations and management of the task order. This support may include, but not be limited to, providing secretarial, logistical and operations support; managing project documentation; producing and distributing project related correspondence; supporting general contract management through asset management; monitoring of project deliverables and variables; scheduling meetings and travel reservations, ensuring project activities are finished on time and within budget, and other duties as required.

X004 Operations Specialist Provide subject matter expertise as necessary to manage each task order, including but not limited to: sub-contracts, sub-grants, financial management, gender, monitoring, evaluation & learning, youth, sustainability, environment and training. They will provide industry specific skills to contribute to the day-to-day operations and ongoing monitoring and measurement of the project.

X005 Gender Specialist Provide expertise in all aspects of gender data collection and analysis to ensure that the overall emphasis of gender is included in all applicable work carried out under the IDIQ.

X006 Vulnerable Population Inclusion Specialist

Provide technical direction, oversight, and leadership to create and maximize opportunities to engage social inclusion through direct project activities. Support and lead the development of a social inclusion action plan to recognize the structural disparities and social norms that limit vulnerable populations participation.

X007 Financial Management Specialist

Provide expertise to ensure that budget analysis and financial reporting requirements are met in accordance with the contract terms and conditions. Assists in project management functions of financial planning, program auditing, budgeting, and reporting.

X008 Grants Management Specialist

Provide grant oversight and capacity building support for grants issued under USAID task orders, maintain and manage records of grant agreements including paper and electronic files, an inventory of all agreements, and a schedule of dates and deadlines relevant to those agreements; evaluate grant proposals based on responsiveness, cost reasonableness, regulatory compliance and risk analysis and mitigation and provide regular updates on grantee activities, compliance, risks and challenges that may arise and offer solutions accordingly.

X009 Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Specialist

Provide expertise in the use of performance indicators and various research/evaluation methodologies to determine outcomes and impacts throughout the program, support programs to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of program goals, provide relevant data to help inform decision-making, provide technical assistance and training in the development and implementation of systems and programs.

X010 Knowledge Management and Learning Specialist

Provide expertise in the use of traditional and digital learning approaches to develop and implement innovative, creative, and effective strategies to capture and share technical knowledge with donors, partners and internal stakeholders. Leverage best practices of synthesizing, organizing and disseminating knowledge to improve the effectiveness of development programs.

X011 Resilience Specialist Provide expertise on resilience matters, including linking with humanitarian response, supporting advocacy efforts, and policy activities.

X012 Engineering Advisor Licensed Civil, Electrical, Mechanical, Environmental, Engineer, Project, Planning Engineer.

X013 Workforce Development

Specialist Provide expertise to address matters regarding workforce development, including efforts that reach out to youth, women and other marginalized populations with skill enhancement efforts that support increased employability and inclusion of the targeted populations.

X014 Market Systems Specialist

Provide expertise to strengthen market systems and interrelated areas, including customs and trade, policy reform, and finance and investment. Financial expertise may include providing access to credit, business development services and leveraging diverse financial tools such as credit guarantees, and private capital.

X015 Trade Specialist Provide expertise in trade areas such as the following: trade facilitation, logistics, customs reform, export promotion, trade policy, implementation of international and regional trade agreements.

X016 Customs Expert and Trade Facilitation Specialist

Provide expertise on customs issues and design activities to simplify and expedite customs processes with the aim of reducing port dwell time as well as any customs issues that contribute to delays along transport corridors.

X017 Entrepreneurial Development /Youth Engagement

Provide expertise in the design, management, and implementation of youth-centered development interventions. Identify the needs and gaps in services provided currently and ensure that workforce development interventions use best practices to address the needs of youth.

X018 Business/Enterprise Development Specialist

Provide expertise in sector selection methodologies, subsector or value chain analysis, end market analysis, business enabling environment, value chain finance, market facilitation, and strategies for creating competitive advantage.

X019 Education Specialist Provide expertise, leadership, management, and technical assistance for education program design, delivery and management of education services.

X020 Democracy, Rights and Governance Specialist

Provide expertise to promote democracy, human rights and governance issues. Provide analysis, advice and guidance on activities including but not limited to:

• Political transitions;

• Government transparency;

• Decentralization;

• Anti-corruption;

• Security sector reform;

• Conflict mitigation and peacebuilding;

• Municipal Governance;

• Civil Society Initiatives

• Conflict mitigation and peacebuilding

• Good governance, effectiveness and other closely related topics.

X021 Rule of Law and Human Rights Specialist

Provide expertise to design, monitor, analyze, evaluate, provide advice on and implement rule of law (ROL) and human rights projects.

• Conduct research, analysis and assessments of the structure and functions of the legal and judicial sectors, with a specific focus on strengthening the rule of law and promoting and protecting human rights.

• Monitor ROL, human rights, and related issues in developing countries for the advancement of democratic governance and human rights.

• Provide analysis, advice and/or implementation assistance on rule of law institutions (including courts, prosecutors and relevant ministries), formation and modifications to legal systems, and legal aspects of design or modification of rules, regulations and legislation.

X022 Crime and Violence Prevention Specialist

Provide expertise to design, monitor, analyze, evaluate, provide advice on and implement citizen security and crime prevention strategies, programs and policies, and have the ability to maintain strong relationships with government counterparts, civil society, and all relevant stakeholders.

X023 Transparency, Accountability and Public Function Specialist

Provide expertise to build the capacity of civil society organizations (CSOs) and citizens to advocate for good governance and hold the government accountable for providing services and managing resources at the local level. Work with civil society, local government councils, and citizens to strengthen existing accountability and transparency mechanisms.

X024 Civil Society Initiatives Specialist

Provide expertise to support civil society actors to play a more effective and collaborative role in providing solutions for development.

Focus on building the capacity of CSOs to rethink their traditional strategies for advocating and adapt new innovative and collaborative strategies to engage with local and regional governing bodies, and other CSOs.

X025 Municipal Services Specialist

Provide expertise to support municipalities to strengthen a range of services, including solid waste management, water, sanitation, transportation, citizen security, public spaces.

X026 Civil Society and Media Resilience Specialist

Provide expertise to develop civil society capacity to effectively represent citizen interests, increasing individual and organizational resilience to deter closing civic space, and strengthening independent media to improve sustainability, quality, and reach.

X027 Public Space Coordinator Provide expertise to establish strategic guidelines on public space interventions, achieve financial and operational sustainability through public space recovery and maintenance, engage communities in the creative process of public space design, create attractive programmatic agendas for new or recovered public spaces and engage the private sector.

X028 Environment and Natural Resources Specialist

Provide technical support and assistance to program implementation in one or more of the following technical areas: Regulation 216 compliance; environmental policy and standard, environmental mitigation, environmental engineering, ecosystem and biological assessments, natural resources management, and environmental impact assessment.

X029 Food Security Specialist Provide expertise to strengthen food security and interdependent areas such as agriculture, nutrition, value chain and market systems and private sector engagement.

X030 Health Financing Specialist

Provide expertise to design, implement, monitor and evaluate health finance programs. Use a mix of approaches and strategies to achieve the project purpose and objectives.

X031 Health Governance Specialist

Provide expertise to design, implement, monitor and evaluate health governance programs. Use a mix of approaches and strategies to apply governance improvement methodologies to the health sector to achieve the project purpose and objectives.

X032 Health Systems Performance and Sustainability Specialist

Provide expertise to strengthen country-level health systems, including those processes and structures that are necessary for sustainable improvements in locally owned systems. Ensure that health system activities are appropriately assessing and addressing performance gaps in the health system and strengthening the performance of local organizations.

X033 Political & Analytic Country expert

Provide subject matter analytic and country specific expertise grounded in political or social science. Serve as a country expert on a variety of sectoral and related assessments; lead or work in teams engaged in special studies that relate to a specific sector; and as part of a technical assistance or rapid response team for transitional environments.

X034 Capacity Strengthening Specialist

Provide expertise and assume a lead role on all aspects of capacity strengthening in line with USAID’s Local Capacity Strengthening Policy, which include strategically supporting an actor’s ability to achieve their own mission, to take action to design and implement solutions to local development challenges, to learn and adapt from that action, and innovate and transform over time. Apply a systems thinking approach and prioritize a broader range of competencies necessary for a local actor to operate within a broader context.

Provide industry or sector specific capacity strengthening to organizations including industry specific business and action planning, performance measures and indicators, organizational assessments, sector and/or industry assessments, and process and productivity improvement.

X035 Training Specialist Provide support in the area of training under task orders. This individual will focus on training and capacity strengthening, in support of the contract’s overall objectives, and as specifically called for in task orders.

X036 Human and Institutional Capacity Development (HICD) Specialist

Provide expertise on all aspects of HICD to the implementing partner, Mission and other stakeholders including, performance assessments, performance solutions design and performance monitoring and management system design. Assist in activities such as building leadership, performing strategic planning, conducting information analysis, developing process improvements, performing facilitation services, conducting surveys and improving an organization’s results.

X037 Procurement Specialist Procurement Agent, Acquisition and Assistance Specialist.

X038 Interpreter/Translator Responsible for listening to, understanding, and translating spoken or written statements from one language to another. Reproduce statements in another language for listening or reading audience. Facilitate effective communication between two parties that do not speak a similar language by converting one spoken or written language to another.

X039 Urban Climate Resilience Specialist

Advise host governments at national and sub-national levels and oversee policy dialogue for integrated climate adaptation and resilience in strategies, sectoral policies and plans as needed. Provides support in development of concepts and approaches relevant to urban climate resilience and adaptation; climate risk assessment, vulnerability assessment, risk avoidance/reduction strategies;

country’s response to climate and disaster risk; contingency planning to mitigate for potential drastic impacts caused severe weather (e.g., flooding, storms); and implementing projects as well as building local capacities of government officials, communities, and businesses to be resilient to the impacts of climate variability and change.