Description of Position: The Supervisory Humanitarian Assistance Officer will:
● Serve as one of two Deputy OHA Directors in the office.
● In coordination with the Office Director, help manage a new USAID/Ukraine Mission office of up to
10 staff and help oversee a multi-billion dollar humanitarian assistance portfolio.
● Advise BHA, Agency and Mission leadership, and host-country governments on new developments
and effective approaches to humanitarian assistance, and articulate the benefits of interventions to
effectively reach specific target audiences;
● Provide technical liaison with other USG Agencies, Congress, donors, multilateral banks, and private
voluntary organizations (PVOs) to coordinate their efforts with USAID programs, policies, and
approaches to humanitarian assistance;
● Maintain liaisons with sources of information inside and outside BHA to assess and review new or
unusual circumstances, variations in approach, and incomplete or conflicting information;
● Inform stakeholders of changes in organizational programs and operations, conduct briefings on major
program changes, in particular those impacting humanitarian assistance programs and operations
overseas; and
● Sign-up for and serve as needed multiple times throughout the year on Washington-based Response
Management Teams (RMTs), which provide services and support to Disaster Assistance Response
Teams (DARTs) deployed in response to disasters.