Begin a challenging and rewarding career with the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). FAS is a dynamic foreign affairs agency with offices in Washington, D.C. and 70-plus countries around the world. FAS is seeking committed professionals with diverse skills and talents to help improve foreign market access for U.S. products, build new markets, enhance the competitive position of U.S. agriculture in the global marketplace, and provide food aid and technical assistance to foreign countries.
This is an excepted service, time-limited, term appointment for up to 5 years, with the possibility of renewals. Excepted service positions do not afford competitive status.
Office of Capacity Building and Development (OCBD), a program area of the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), plans, conducts, administers, and coordinates the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) programs on international trade capacity building, sustainable agriculture and food security. The Development Resources and Disaster Assistance Division (DRDAD) of OCBD coordinates USDA’s participation in technical assistance, training, and development programs undertaken on behalf of developing nations. Specific emphasis is oriented toward, but not limited to, administering and implementing U.S. Agency for International Development- (USAID) funded programs under Participating Agency Service Agreements (PASAs).
This position is located in USAID’s Bureau for Food Security’s Office of Country Strategy and Implementation (BFS/CSI). The incumbent of this position is responsible for serving as one of BFS’s technical advisors on gender-related issues in agricultural development and food security. These focus areas are priority of the U.S. development assistance effort and a growing part of the Office’s portfolio. Work frequently involves short-fuse deadlines and high visibility within the Agency, the U.S. Government inter-agency process, and the international donor community. The incumbent would work on the Country Strategy and Implementation Office’s Technical Division (CSI/TD), under the supervision of the Technical Division Chief, expected to work independently as well as collaboratively within the office and broader Agency effort.
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