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10/2/2018 ~ USAID/Mali Executive Offi~ Vacant Position: USAID/Mali Project Management Specialist (PMS HF&PSE) HR-HEAL TH-004-2018-PMS All Malian Citizens and Local Residents with valid work permit at the time of application.

OPEN PERIOD: 10/3/2018 to 10/24/2018 - 5:00 p.m. (Bamako time)

GRADE LEVEL: FSN-10 (17,481,649 - 27,096,565 CFA), please see below BENEFITS/ ALLOWANCES section for more information.

NUMBER OF POSITION: One (1) Vacancy

PLACE OF PERFORMANCE: Bamako, Mali

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE: Employment under this contract is of a continuing nature. Its duration is expected to be part of a series of sequential contracts based on performance, availability of funds and the need for services.

SECURITY LEVEL REQUIRED: Public Trust

STATEMENT OF DUTIES:

The U.S . Agency for International Development is seeking a Project Management Specialist FSNPSC to support USAID/Mali Mission Health Office.

Basic Function of Position

The USAID Project Management Specialist (Health Financing and Private Sector Engagement) is assigned to the Health Systems Team in the USAID/Mali Health Office. The Specialist is responsible for the planning, monitoring, coordination implementation, and evaluation of a broad range of tasks related to health financing in Mali, including health sector finance reform through domestic resource mobilization, increased transparency and management of health sector resources, and facilitating partnerships between the Government of Mali and the private sector to increase access to and availability and use of high quality health services. The Specialist serves as the Mission's lead advisor on sustainable public and private healthcare financing and works with the Health Systems Team Leader and Health Policy Specialist on a wide range of assignments across the Health portfolio. The Specialist engages with other donors and high-level Ministry of Health and Ministry of Finance officials and represents USAID on the Ministry of Health's multi-donor health financing and health insurance technical working groups. The Specialist will also serve as the AOR for the Mission's upcoming $25 million health systems strengthening award, as well as serve as Activity Manager for Mission's existing buy-ins to the "Health Policy Plus" ($6.7 million) the "Human Resources for Health" ($4.9 million) field support projects. S/he also serves as AOR for any public-private partnership awards s/he designs. The incumbent reports to the Deputy Health Systems Team Leader (the Health Policy Specialist).

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MALI Major Duties and Responsibilities

a. Technical Leadership- 40%

This position represents USAID as a member on multi-donor technical and policy working groups with a particular focus on the governance and accountability action plan committee, health financing working group, and health insurance working group. The Specialist provides strategic guidance in health financing and health economics to USAID/Mali. S/he serves as key liaison for all strategic health financing, performance-based methods, costing and health economics issues. S/he assists the USG team in strengthening the use of expenditure analyses, and economic and financial data to ensure efficient use of resources across service delivery, health systems and health promotion partners. The incumbent examines various models of service delivery (including results-based financing) and costs them, specifically looking at how resources are moved into programs and where the biggest impact has been. S/he identifies short- and long-term achievable, sustainable strategies to improve financial systems within Mali's health sector with a focus on decentralization. The incumbent represents USAID/Mali and the broader integrated health program at meetings, seminars and conferences in health finance, costing, and health economics. S/he ensures that all health finance and costing activities are consistent with internationally accepted best practices, relevant to Mali, and adhere to Government of Mali policies.

The incumbent will liaise with high level public and private sector officials to explore and advocate for the establishment of public-private partnerships as a means to increase access to and coverage of quality health services. The Specialist prepares activity recommendations, scopes of work (e.g. for new activities and evaluations), and other required documentation to achieve Mission and Government of Mali health financing objectives. The Specialist develops and maintains an extensive range of contacts within the private sector (both for- and not-for-profit)-and through these contacts-stays up to date on the constraints to private sector engagement and policies to mitigate them. S/he develops activities to attract private sector funding for health insurance mechanisms and strengthens partnerships with the public sector. The incumbent will also track overall funds flow through the health sector.

Last, the incumbent reviews periodic and ad hoc reports to ensure that health financing and private sector objectives are being met. The Specialist also serves as a member of USAID/Mali's Country Development Coordination Strategy (CDCS) team to ensure that activities in his/her purview support the Mission's CDCS.

b. Activity Development and Oversight - 40%

The incumbent takes a lead role in providing technical and programmatic expertise in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of health costing and performance based financing programming. S/he provides technical leadership in the areas of health systems strengthening in the achievement of results, advising and authorizing USAID implementing partners to undertake specific courses of action consistent with current Mission- funded activities related to governance, management and capacity building. S/he assists implementing partners in the development of achievable, measurable plans and objectives for the implementation of innovative health financing interventions. The incumbent identifies opportunities for integrating state-of-the-art approaches into the health portfolio and provides technical assessment and recommends strategies to pilot innovative interventions in performance-based financing and health insurance mechanisms. S/he serves as the lead coordinator and advisor on health costing and performance-based financing activities across the health portfolio.

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The Specialist serves as AOR for the Health Office's upcoming $25 million health systems strengthening award with active technical oversight of the health financing portion of this award. The incumbent therefore reviews and approves all annual activity work plans and M&E plans and prepares independent government cost estimates, and monitors expenditures. The Specialist also serves as Activity Manager for the Mission's buy-ins into the "Health Policy Plus" ($6.7 million of USAID/Mali funds) and "Human Resources for Health" ($4.9 million of USAID/Mali funds) field support projects, and develops and manages new public-private partnership activities. The Specialist conducts site visits to monitor relevant activities and prepares trip reports that detail findings and recommendations, and provides oral briefings to Health Office leadership. Last, s/he participates in and/or leads Technical Evaluation Committees to decide on awards.

c. Programmatic Coordination- 20%

The Project Management Specialist is the USAID/Mali liaison in substantive meetings with high level public and private sector officials involved with USAID-supported programs, keeping them informed of program status, Government of Mali action needs, difficulties encountered, and other project related issues, including the review of existing strategies and the formation of new policies considering difference of opinions and priorities where health sector financing, reform, and capacity­building are concerned. S/he coordinates with other technical staff on sub-sector activities contributing to program objectives to ensure they are synergistically working towards the achievement of objectives. The incumbent coordinates and communicates regularly with other USAID/Mali staff, USAID implementing partners, Government of Mali entities (Ministry of Health, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Promotion of Investment & Private Sector, and Ministry of Territorial Administration & Decentralization), and development partners (Government of France, Government of the Netherlands, World Bank, World Health Organization, and Global Fund) on administrative, technical, programmatic and policy issues related to the aforementioned areas. S/he monitors the political environment and other donor activities to inform USAID/Mali's funding and programmatic decisions.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND TRAVEL: The work does not involve undue physical demands.

POINT OF CONTACT: Human Resources Management Office - Email: bamakohrmvacancies@usaid.gov

QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED FOR THIS POSITION:

I. Education (10 points): A master's degree or host-country equivalent is required in economics, health economics, finance, business, management, or a field that relates to health in this capacity.

2. Prior Work Experience (25 points): At least five years of progressively responsible experience is required in a health policy role related to the responsibilities of the position, such as working with health system finance, health systems policy reform, private sector engagement in the health sector, and/or public-private partnerships and alliances. Experience using health financing approaches to increase access to and use of health services and facilitating private-sector partnerships is desired. A portion of this work should be in a developing country setting, and/or in the planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of health systems or related work for other donor organizations, or Malian public or private sector institutions. Experience related to development in Mali is desired.

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3. Language Proficiency (10 points): Level III oral and written English and Level IV French are required.

4. Knowledge (25 points): The Specialist must have a good grasp of the health sector in Mali, the institutional factors constraining the Malian health system, private-sector engagement with the health sector, and health financing systems in Mali. Understanding of Mali's economic, political, and social context related to health financing, and familiarity with USG policies, procedures, and regulations, are also desired.

5. Skills and Abilities (30 points): The Specialist must have excellent verbal communication skills and tact. The ability to establish and maintain high-level contacts and good working relationships with counterparts in relevant public and private organizations is required. Very strong writing skills are required to prepare regular and ad-hoc reports, documentation of program impacts, and briefing papers. The ability to obtain, evaluate, and analyze data, and to synthesize data and present it to a variety of audiences is needed. The ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment, to achieve consensus on policy and administrative matters, and to work under pressure and produce results, is necessary. The work requires good computer skills and proficiency in various computer software applications, including Microsoft Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Maximum Evaluation Score: 100 points

SELECTION FACTORS:

To be considered for this position, applicants must meet the minimum qualifications noted above. For applicants meeting the minimum qualifications, further consideration and selection will be based on panel assessment of the selection factors listed below.

Applicants are required to address each of the selection criteria on a separate sheet describing specifically and accurately what experience, training, education, and/or awards or recognition they have received relevant to each criteria described below, and any related considerations.

To be considered for this position, applicants must meet the minimum qualifications.

1. All Malian Citizens and Local Residents with a valid work permit at the time of application; 2. A master's degree or host-country equivalent is required in economics, health

economics, finance, business, management, or a field that relates to health in this capacity.

3. At least five years of progressively responsible experience is required in a health policy role related to the responsibilities of the position, such as working with health system finance, health systems policy reform, private sector engagement in the health sector, and/or public-private partnerships and alliances. Experience using health financing approaches to increase access to and use of health services and facilitating private-sector partnerships is desired. A portion of this work should be in a developing country setting, and/or in the planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of health systems or related work for other donor organizations, or Malian public or private sector institutions. Experience related to development in Mali is desired.

4. Level III oral and written English and Level IV French are required.

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5. The Specialist must have a good grasp of the health sector in Mali, the institutional factors constraining the Malian health system, private-sector engagement with the health sector, and health financing systems in Mali. Understanding of Mali's economic, political, and social context related to health financing, and familiarity with USG policies, procedures, and regulations, are also desired.

6. The Specialist must have excellent verbal communication skills and tact. The ability to establish and maintain high-level contacts and good working relationships with counterparts in relevant public and private organizations is required. Very strong writing skills are required to prepare regular and ad-hoc reports, documentation of program impacts, and briefing papers. The ability to obtain, evaluate, and analyze data, and to synthesize data and present it to a variety of audiences is needed. The ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment, to achieve consensus on policy and administrative matters, and to work under pressure and produce results, is necessary. The work requires good computer skills and proficiency in various computer software applications, including Microsoft Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Management may consider the following when determining successful candidacy: nepotism, conflicts of interest, budget, and residency status.

Current employees serving a probationary period are not eligible to apply. Current employees with an Overall Summary Rating of Needs Improvement or Unsatisfactory on their most recent Employee Performance Report are not eligible to apply.

HOW THE SELECTION WILL BE MADE:

The successful candidate will be selected based upon:

1. Preliminary review of the applicants submitted package to establish that minimum requirements are met.

2. Tests: Candidates may be tested on English writing skills, Microsoft Office proficiency, or any technical skills test that might be deemed appropriate may be required.

3. Interviews. 4. Reference checks.

USAID/Mali Human Resources Section will perform the preliminary review (Step 1) to eliminate those applications that do NOT meet the minimum requirements. The TEC will review each of the applications which meet the minimum qualifications against the established evaluation criteria to develop a shortlist of applicants to be tested and/or interviewed. Applicants will be contacted (Step 2) for testing or/and interviews. Based on the results of the tests, however, an applicant otherwise identified for interview could be removed from the interview list. Following the interviews (Step 3) during which the applicant will be evaluated against the established criteria, the TEC will make a preliminary determination of candidates to be considered for employment and forward that list to HR. HR will conduct reference checks (Step 4&5) prior to advising the TEC and CO of the results of these checks. References may be solicited from current as well as former supervisors in addition to the references provided in a candidate's application package.

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TO APPLY:

Qualified candidates for this position should submit the following documents to be considered. Failure to do so may result in a determination that the application is not qualified. Only shortlisted Applicants will be contacted.

1. Resume or curriculum vitae (CV) relevant to the subject position; 2. Cover letter of not more than three (3) pages describing how the incumbent ' s skills and

experience fit the requirements of the subject position. 3. Applicants are required to provide three (3) to five (5) professional references with complete

contact information including email address and telephone numbers. References should have knowledge of the candidate's ability to perform the duties set forth in the application and must not be family members or relatives.

4. Copy of Academic Transcripts/Diplomas/Degrees/Certificates. 5. Applicants must provide their full mailing address with telephone and email address and

should retain for their records copies of all enclosures that accompany their submissions.

SUBMIT APPLICATION:

Human Resources Management Section - Email : bamakohrmvacancies@usaid.gov with the following reference number in the subject line: HR-HEALTH-004-2018-PMS. Emails received without the Vacancy Reference Number as indicated above will NOT be considered.

Please note that all cv/resume and cover letter must be in En lish, otherwise a plication package is incomplete and will be rejected. CLOSING DATE FOR THIS POSITIO IS: ctobcr 24. 20 I 8 at 5P\1

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LIST OF PRE-HIRE REQUIRMENTS FOR PSCs:

Once the Contracting Officer (CO) informs the successful Applicant about being selected for a contract award, the C.O will provide the successful Applicant instructions about how to complete the following.

1. Medical Examination 2. Security Investigation 3. Employee Biographical Data Sheet (Form AID 1420) 4. Application for Employment in the Foreign Service of the United States (Form OF 174).

BENEFITS/ ALLOWANCES:

The incumbent will be compensated in accordance with the U.S. Mission to Mali's Local Compensation Plan (LCP). The plan includes basic salary, miscellaneous allowance, and medical insurance subsidy. If an applicant does not meet all required qualifications for the position and is selected for the position, he/she may be hired at a lower grade than the position classification grade. Final compensation will be based on the position grade and negotiated within the corresponding market value.

TAXES:

The successful Applicant will be subject to host country tax laws.

USAID REGULATIONS, POLICIES AND CONTRACT CLAUSES PERTAINING TO PSCs:

USAID regulations and policies governing CCN/TCN PSC awards are available at these sources:

1. USAID Acquisition Regulation (AIDAR), Appendix J, "Direct USAID Contracts with a Cooperating Country National and with a Third Country National for Personal Services Abroad," is including contract clause "General Provisions," available at https:/ /www.usaid.gov/sites/ default/fi Jes/documents/ 1868/aidar O. pd f

2. Contract Cover Page form AID 302-4 available at https://www.usaid.gov/forms 3. Acquisition & Assistance Policy Directives/Contract Information Bulletins (AAPDs/CIBs) for

Personal Services Contracts with Individuals available at http://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%20Regu1ations

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY:

The US Mission in Mali provides equal opportunity and fair and equitable treatment in employment to all people without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, political affiliation, marital status, or sexual orientation. We strive to achieve equal employment opportunity in all personnel operations through continuing diversity enhancement programs. The EEO complaint procedure is available to individuals who believe they have been denied equal opportunity based upon marital status or political affiliation. Individuals with such complaints should avail themselves of the appropriate grievance procedures, remedies for prohibited personnel practices, and/or courts for relief

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