Supervisory Program Officer
Washington, DC, United States
Friday, January 26, 2024 - Friday, February 16, 2024
This position is located in the Office of the Assistant to the Administrator in
USAID’s Bureau for Resilience, Environment and Food Security (REFS). REFS is responsible for
worldwide leadership and integrated technical expertise of the programming of the U.S. Agency
for International Development (USAID) in agricultural-led growth and environmental
sustainability. The Bureau’s expertise encompasses resilience; environment; food security;
nutrition; water security, sanitation and hygiene; climate; infrastructure; and energy, with the
goals of increasing resilience, sustainability, self-reliance, and enhancing U.S. national security
and economic prosperity.
REFS has a mandate to implement: the Feed the Future (FTF) Initiative, guided by the
whole-of-Government Global Food-Security Strategy (GFSS); Resilience Policy; USAID’s Climate
Strategy; Biodiversity Policy; Environmental Impact Assessment requirements; key portions of
legislative mandates, such as the Save our Seas 2.0 and Eliminate, Neutralize and Disrupt
Wildlife Trafficking Acts; U.S. Global Water Strategy, and Multisectoral Nutrition Strategy.
Investments align with the Administration’s National Security Strategy (NSS). Specifically,
USAID/REFS contributes to NSS Global Priorities including Out-Competing China and
Constraining Russia; Cooperating on Shared Challenges such as Climate and Energy Security,
Pandemics, Food Insecurity and Shaping the Rules of the Road in areas such as Trade and
Economics. USAID/REFS also contributes to NSS regional strategies such as Promote, a Free and
Open Indo-Pacific, Fostering Democracy and Shared Prosperity in the Western Hemisphere,
Supporting De-Escalation and Integration in the Middle East and Building 21st Century
U.S.-Africa Partnerships.
The REFS Communications and Outreach Team coordinates all aspects of outreach and strategic
communications for these four areas of international development, from speechwriting and
strategic messaging to social media, multimedia, events, stakeholder and Congressional
outreach, and more. This includes serving as the U.S. government’s communications and
outreach team for the interagency Feed the Future initiative and leading bureau strategic
communications and outreach for the breadth of REFS’ portfolio.
Description of Position: The Supervisory Program Officer will work with the REFS
Communications and Outreach team to lead creation and implementation of strategic
communications and outreach plans that support the Bureau’s goals, with a particular focus on
coordinating and providing direction for the team’s work and projects, managing contractors
and procurement processes, and managing relationships within and outside the Agency, as well
as completing a wide range of day-to-day tasks related to public affairs and outreach.
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