Description of Position: The Supervisory Humanitarian Assistance Officer will:

● Serve as part of the OHA leadership team, supervising personnel and providing oversight of a
large emergency response and Early Recovery, Risk Reduction, and Resilience (ER4) portfolio
currently valued at more than $200 million.

● Lead on staff development, including transferring skills and know-how, to increase the capacity
of OHA staff through training, providing assignments that introduce a higher level of
responsibility, and improving work processes.
● Lead on strategy and humanitarian assistance budget development and provide oversight for all
non-emergency staff and programming. Maintain responsibility for the development of
strategies, plans, program guidance, and dissemination of research results for Agency-wide
application and incorporation into humanitarian assistance programs.
● Manage the monitoring of programming including prioritization of OHA team field monitoring
and management of the third-party monitoring contractor.

● Serve as the primary point of contact for humanitarian civilian-military relationships, including
with BHA staff at U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM).
● Lead the office in the absence of the Office Director and/or manage the emergency programs
team in the absence of the team lead for emergency programming.
● Inform stakeholders of changes in organizational programs and operations, conducting briefings
on major program changes in particular those impacting humanitarian assistance programs and
operations overseas.

This position requires travel and the willingness to undergo training, remain on call for, and serve in
progressively responsible roles on new or ongoing emergency responses. BHA requires all staff to
become qualified and, with Mission concurrence, serve on disaster responses for periods of one month
or more annually, within and outside of the LAC region.