Project Management Specialist (Democracy)

The incumbent will manage meetings, refined reports, site visits, and communications related to USAID Ecuador’s justice/citizen security, local governance service delivery, cyber-security and donor to donor agreements for a two-year period. The incumbent acts as backstop to the office director on daily and weekly taskings from Washington to ensure timely, quality responses on matters such as local service delivery as a cross-cutting theme across the entire Mission portfolio and tracking and scheduling engagement with the government in anti-corruption efforts. The incumbent serves as an activity manager on anti-corruption reforms for USAID Ecuador and serves as a back-up point of contact for engaging with the Ecuadorian Government on key justice/security, service delivery, and cyber security issues. The incumbent participates in the 3 design, implementation and monitoring of democracy activities implemented in Ecuador, serving as Activity Manager for any Washington-managed activities described below. In this capacity, the incumbent promotes the policy interests of the U.S. Government at the central, regional, and municipal levels of the host country and gains Ecuadorian government and donor community acceptance of USAID conceptual and policy frameworks and operating practices. This work involves gaining civil society and GOE acceptance of service delivery models and policies to have quick impacts. She/he co-manages the USAID’s relationship with Ecuadorian Government officials and civil society to find common ground on service delivery issues, as well as with counterparts in other donor organizations, such as EU Delegation, UNDP, WB, IMF, and others. The Project Management Specialist acts as an activity manager (assisting the COR/AOR) for democracy portfolio activities with a total budget of over $15 million USD. She/he leads the drafting of portions of the Ecuador Annual Report for the relevant sectors included in his/her portfolio and other key USAID strategy documents, such as the CDCS, PADs. She/he prepares environmental compliance documentation for activities mentioned above. The incumbent conducts research and analysis into anti-corruption/service delivery issues and participates in key pre-design assessments.