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The Country Director (CD) is the senior Peace Corps representative in the country of assignment. The CD plans and directs all aspects of the Peace Corps programs in the country of assignment ensuring that the daily operations create an environment for Volunteers and staff to work successfully in the performance of their duties. The CD develops long-range program plans, goals, objectives, and milestones and evaluates the effectiveness of programs conducted throughout the post.
03/29/2018 to 12/31/2018
$101,204 - $148,621 per year
FP 02
Many vacancies in the following location:
Yes—as determined by the agency policy.
Occasional travel - This is an overseas position. Travel within country of assignment and other Regions' posts will be required as a condition of employment.
Yes—Relocation expenses are authorized.
Permanent - Term NTE 60 months (5 years)
Full-time - Full Time
Excepted
01
Yes
Yes
18-CD2-GENERAL
495363700
U.S. Citizens, Nationals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S.
Current or former competitive service federal employees.
Current excepted service federal employees.
•United States Citizens •Current or former Federal employees •Internal agency employees; including agency temporary employees •Eligible agency Experts •Eligible agency personal services contactors
The Country Director performs the following major duties:
Provides leadership to achieve program goals at the Post.
Establishes short and long range goals and objectives for the program, reviews past and future program requirements, determines future program resource requirements, and estimates short and long range Volunteer, staff, budgetary, and equipment needs.
Ensures quality project design, implementation and evaluation in all areas making certain that projects address capacity building and sustainability and are in alignment with Peace Corps guidance and are responsive to the needs and requirements of the host country.
Approves all major expenditures, controls physical and monetary assets, implements Peace Corps policies, adopts in-country procedures, and exercises responsibility for programming, training, support, safety and security, and administrative actions relating to Volunteers and staff.
Manages the day-to-day operations at the post, developing and implementing overall policy, procedures, goals, and objectives in accordance with Peace Corps policies and procedures.
Manages financial management, procurement, contract negotiations, disbursements, property control, and administrative services for the Post with the assistance of post’s Contracting Officers and other administrative staff, who are directly responsible for these actions.
Ensures compliance with Peace Corps policy, U.S. federal regulations and local law and ensures timely submission of the Integrated Planning and Budget Strategy report.
Initiates, negotiates, and executes agreements with host country agencies and other partners in accordance with Peace Corps policies and procedures.
Responds to host country and volunteer needs by supervising the development and implementation of programs that provide Volunteers with the training and support necessary to serve effectively.
Oversees comprehensive studies and detailed analyses of complex functions and processes related to country program planning and management and ensures effective communication and coordination among programming and training, administrative, medical and safety and security staff.
Represents Peace Corps with the host country government, the U.S. Embassy Country Team, USAID, and other agencies and advocates for its goals and activities.
Serves as either the post’s Director of Management and Operations or its Director of Programming and Training. In this role, directly overseas either the post’s management unit or its programming and training unit.
Intelligence Background Information: Peace Corps Manual Section 611 is applicable to this position. This section prohibits the employment of certain persons previously engaged in intelligence activities or connected with intelligence agencies within the past 10 years. If you have ever worked for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), you are not eligible for employment at the Peace Corps in any capacity, and you should not apply for employment.
PC-1336 Form: Applicants who are found to be otherwise qualified will be required to submit, upon future request, a completed PC-1336 form, or narrative signed statement, indicating whether the applicant has been involved in or has had any connection with intelligence activities or related work and, if so, the nature and dates of his or her involvement. Failure to meet this requirement will result in the applicant being rated ineligible for further consideration. If you have any other type of possible intelligence connection, your application will not be further considered until you submit this form. Except when the CIA or the National Security Agency (NSA) is involved (see below), if your connection with an Intelligence Agency involves an immediate family member who works or has worked in intelligence, the immediate family member should complete the form, not the applicant. Usually relying on memory is sufficient to answer most if not all of the questions. If you have an immediate family member who works or has worked for the CIA, you should not give them this form to complete. Please contact your relative in person—not by phone, email, social networking, or any other means that is not in person— and ask him or her to contact the Office of General Counsel at the CIA. If your intelligence connection involves the NSA, you (or, if the connection is with a family member, that person) must contact NSA’s Office of the General Counsel at 410-854-3910 before submitting this form to Peace Corps.
This position does not have an Individual Occupational Requirement.
Peace Corps (PC) Information
Conditions of Employment
If you have questions regarding this vacancy, you may contact ORSSjobs@peacecorps.gov. In the subject line of your e-mail, include the vacancy #, the position title and the closing date. In the body of your e-mail, provide your questions or concerns regarding the vacancy; if they are regarding your application status, include your full name and which grades you applied to.
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
Your application will be evaluated based on your resume/CV and cover letter. Your resume/CV will be evaluated to validate that you possess the required knowledge, skills, abilities (KSA) and/or competencies. The following competencies will be evaluated:
Resume and Cover Letter:
Should highlight relevant work experience including job title, duties and accomplishments and should clearly demonstrate KSA/Competencies required for the position including the size of budgets managed, number of employees supervised, languages spoken and language proficiency. Resume and cove letter cannot exceed a combined total of ten pages. Please provide current and past employer(s), location worked, supervisor(s) names and email, and start and end dates (month and year), hours worked per week, and ending salary.
Current and former Federal employees must provide a copy of their last or latest Notice of Personnel Action Standard Form 50 (SF-50). Failure to provide this document will result in not being considered for the position.
Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.
This position is an open continuous position and will remain open for 12 months from the opening date. Applicants will be assessed five times in one year and five certificates of eligible applicants will be submitted for selection consideration to selecting officials. Once the online questionnaire is received you will receive an acknowledgement email that your submission was successful. Certificates of eligibles will be submitted 30 days after the vacancy opens, followed by a new certificate every 90 days thereafter. The agency reserves the right to select any applicant eligible for appointment during the time the vacancy or a certificate of eligibles is open for selection. Should you be selected for the certificate, you will remain eligible for appointment for as long as the certificate of eligibles remains open.
You may check the status of your application at any time by logging into your USAJOBS account and by going to the "My Account" tab and clicking on "Application Status". For a more detailed update of your application status, you may go to "more information" under the individual vacancy.
USAJOBS has added an alert setting to their system to provide status updates for applicants. You can elect to activate the status updates from your USAJOBS profile at any point during the application process.
If you are among the top qualified candidates, your application may be referred to the Selecting Official for further consideration.
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
This job originated on www.usajobs.gov. For the full announcement and to apply, visit www.usajobs.gov/job/495363700. Only resumes submitted according to the instructions on the job announcement listed at www.usajobs.gov will be considered.
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