1. SOLICITATION NO.: 72067421R10090 RE-AD 2. ISSUANCE DATE: June 22, 2022 3. CLOSING DATE/TIME FOR RECEIPT OF OFFERS: August 31, 2022 At 12:00 midnight, Local Time, Pretoria, South Africa 4. POSITION TITLE: Project Management Specialist - DREAMS 5. MARKET VALUE: LSL 441,892.00 – LSL 707,036.00 pa equivalent to FSN GRADE/11 Final compensation will be negotiated within the listed market value 6. PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE: Five years renewable contract subject to funds availability and need for the position. 7. PLACE OF PERFORMANCE: Maseru, Lesotho 8. SECURITY LEVEL REQUIRED: Facility Access 9. AREA OF CONSIDERATION: All Lesotho citizens and Lesotho permanent resident permit holders 10. PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The work requested does not involve undue physical demands.

• Serves as a senior-level technical resource for the Health Office in the area of comprehensive HIV prevention for AGYW to ensure development of key systems that effectively integrate across the entire health portfolio. 
• Works collaboratively with the PEPFAR program technical leads across US agencies and with host country agencies to identify opportunities for collaboration and ensure complementarity among AGYW programming, including prevention of and response to gender-based violence.
• Provides technical assistance and oversight to implementing partners to ensure that the DREAMS activities are carried out in alignment with approved work plans and PEPFAR DREAMS guidance and priorities. 
• Stays abreast of state-of-the-art knowledge on programming and coordinates exchanges and sharing of best practices among USAID, USG and other stakeholders to strengthen AGYW interventions.
• Guides USAID and host country government on strategic decisions and policy formulation to strengthen interventions for AGYW. 

• Serves as a COR/AOR and/or Activity Manager for HIV prevention for AGYW programs/projects/activities awarded through the Health Office, providing financial and programmatic oversight to ensure contracts and grants achieve anticipated results, and are linked to and enhance attainment of the Health Office, Mission, and USG objectives. 
• Participates in activity design of new PEPFAR funded activities for AGYW, including developing program descriptions and other technical components for new procurements.
• Conducts site visits as required in order to monitor progress, and to provide technical and programmatic recommendations to ensure effectiveness, efficiency and judicious use of U.S. Government (USG) funding

• Represents the Health Office, Mission, and USG at national and/or international technical and programmatic meetings, within various working groups, the interagency, senior host country officials and other social sector donors, government officials, and IPs.
• Conducts data and trend analysis and provides technical recommendations to improve the performance of the DREAMS programs at both site and national levels.
• Prepares ad hoc reports as required for the Mission, USAID/Washington, Office of Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC), donor coordination groups, and others.
• Drafts talking points and/or speeches for the Office Chief, Mission Director, Ambassador and others, as required, and prepares briefing papers, presentations, and coordinates site preparations for VIP site visits.
• Provides leadership on DREAMS-related inputs to the development of the annual PEPFAR Country Operational Plan (COP) and ensures strong monitoring and oversight of the DREAMS portfolio through the quarterly PEPFAR Oversight and Accountability Review (POART), Semi Annual Performance Report (SAPR), and Annual Performance Report (APR).
• Supports annual budget allocation for DREAMS programming, and maintains DREAMS activities financial tracking, including that obligations, expenditures, and budget pipelines conform to action plans.
• Prepares information sheets, presentations, and other documents about US government funded AGYW programs. Draft briefing materials, progress reports, memoranda, and other Front Office communications materials as needed. Identifies and submits success stories, best practices, and images to be highlighted by USAID media.

• A preliminary review of the applicant's submitted package (which includes the cover letter and CV) to establish that minimum educational, work experience and English writing fluency requirements are met;
• Assessments to include English writing skills, and Microsoft Office proficiency that might include any of the following: Word, Excel, PowerPoint; and any technical skill test that might be deemed appropriate; 
• A personal face to face interview; and
• Reference checks.

• All USG Internal employees interested, and eligible should visit usaid.ci.hr to apply. Applicants with P-net accounts can log-in from the above website to apply and first-time users will be required to register on the site before they can apply. 
• Kindly note that when you apply via cellphone you are not able to complete the required questionnaire. And if you do not complete the required questionnaire for the position, you will automatically be eliminated from further review.
• For an application to be considered complete, please include a high-quality cover letter, explaining why you are qualified for the position and a CV of no more than 4 pages.  Failure to comply with these instructions may result in your application being considered “non-responsive” and eliminated from further consideration.
• Offers must be received by the closing date and time specified in Section I.
• To ensure consideration of offers for the intended position, Offerors must prominently reference the Solicitation number in the offer submission.
• The U.S. Mission in South Africa provides 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. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) also strives to ensure equal employment opportunity in all personnel operations.
• Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. Applicants who do not follow the application instructions may be dropped from further consideration.

• Carol Masemola, Telephone: (012) 452-2058
• Lavinia Denation, Telephone: (012) 452-2054
• Thabang Mothupi, Telephone: (012) 452-2198
• Heather Franklin, Telephone: (012) 452-2028
• Seja Matlakala, Telephone: (012) 452-2358
• Engeline Sebego, Telephone: (012) 452-2188
• Odessa Sifora, Telephone: (012) 452-2112
• Alicia Veldman, Telephone: (012) 452-2088
• Kim Sias, Telephone: (012) 452-2206

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,” including contract clause “General Provisions,” available at https://www.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/documents/1868/aidar_0.pdf
2. Contract Cover Page form AID 309-1 available at https://www.usaid.gov/forms will be used for this contract.
3. Acquisition and 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 Regulations .