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This establishes an OPEN CONTINUOUS ANNOUNCEMENT which will be utilized to maintain eligible/qualified
applicants to be considered for current Country Director vacancies with the Peace Corps.
The Country Director (CD) is the senior Peace Corps representative in the country of assignment. The position
will be located in one of the countries under Peace Corps' geographic region of operations: Africa (AF), Europe,
Mediterranean and Asia (EMA), and Inter-America and the Pacific (IAP).
01/11/2023 to 12/31/2023
$142,972 - $183,500 per year
FP 1
FEW vacancies in the following location:
No
Yes—as determined by the agency policy.
Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position.
No
Term - 60 Months
Full-time
Excepted
None
Yes
Yes
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Current or former competitive service federal employees.
Current excepted service federal employees.
Current federal employees of this agency.
Current Federal employees, regardless of tenure Internal agency employees; including agency temporary employees, eligible agency Experts, and eligible agency personal services contactors Individuals with Disabilities
A successful candidate must be able to interact effectively with others, both within the assigned country, with
the U.S. Embassy and host country government officials at very senior levels, with Peace Corps headquarters,
and with other relevant stakeholders.
The Country Director performs the following major duties:
Specialized Experience:
You must meet the specialized experience at the grade level(s) in which you choose to be considered by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on 12/31/2023 (the closing date of the announcement). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. To ensure full credit for your experience, please indicate dates of employment by month, day, and year and the number of hours worked per week in your resume.
This vacancy is being announced at one grade level:
FP-1 (Education cannot be substituted for experience at this level)
Qualifying experience for the FP-1 grade level includes one year of specialized experience at least equivalent
to the FP-2 or GS-14 grade level which is in or directly related to the line of work of the position to be filled and
which has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the
duties of the position. Specialized experience includes: Experience leading, managing, analyzing, designing,
or providing advisory services for international development programs or domestic non-governmental
organizations (NGO), or in the private sector; Experience managing technical assistance and capacity building
programs in developing or transitioning countries; Experience developing, negotiating and managing complex
international or domestic community development projects; and Experience developing and implementing
collaborative approaches with internal and external partners and stakeholders to build coalitions and work on
common agency program goals and objectives.
Selective Placement Factor(s):
Selective Placement Factors (SPFs) are knowledge, skills, abilities, or special qualifications that are in
addition to the minimum requirements in a qualification standard, but are determined to be essential to
perform the duties and responsibilities of a particular position. Applicants who do not meet a selective
placement factor are ineligible for further consideration.
This position has one (1) selective placement factor defined below:
Three (3) years of: 1) executive leadership experience in transitioning or developing countries
involving international development work, or 2) community development experience working with
underserved communities in the United States. Experience may be with private sector, non-governmental
organizations (NGOs), or government organizations (local, state, and/or federal). Executive experience must
include either an international focus or a focus on domestic communities that are made up of a majority of
culturally diverse members.
Examples of specialized professional experience include: held a senior level position such as Country Director,
Executive Director, Regional Director, Chief of Party, CEO, Ambassador, or others in a complex organizational
environment; experience leading and managing programs with an international development focus or a focus
on work with underserved U.S. communities that are made up of a majority of culturally diverse members;
experience providing strategic direction to complex programs; and experience that includes high level
representational duties. Note: This experience MUST be well documented within your resume or application.
Failure to provide this information in your resume with date, month and years of service along with location of
service will result in automatic elimination from competition.
Failure to meet this selective placement factor will result in disqualification.
Additional information on qualification requirements is outlined in the OPM Qualifications Standards Handbook of General Schedule Positions. It is available for your review on the OPM web site at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/
Time-in-Grade Requirements: Internal applicants and Federal employees who are currently holding, or who has held within the previous 52 weeks, a position under a non-temporary appointment in the competitive or excepted service, must meet "time-in-grade" requirements (have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade of the grade for which you are applying (FP-02 or GS14). NOTE: All current or former Federal employees (including internal employees) must provide a copy of their SF-50 (you may need to submit more than one), "Notice of Personnel Action" that indicates proof of status and time-in-grade eligibility. The SF-50 must include your position, title, series, grade, step, tenure, and type of service (Competitive or Excepted).
All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement. Qualification claims will be subject to verification.
Please note: Peace Corps employees are employed using the Foreign Service Salary Schedule (FP). The FP pay plan does not follow the same structure as the GS pay plan. In the FP pay plan, as the grade-level numbers decrease the level/pay for the position increases (the FP-09 is the lowest, entry, level/pay and the FP-01 is the highest, senior, level/pay).
This position has no Individual Occupational Requirements.
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.
Acceptance of employment with Peace Corps precludes employment by certain intelligence organizations for a specific period of time, determined by the employing agency, after Peace Corps employment ceases.
Applicants who are found to be otherwise qualified will be required to submit upon request in the future a completed Intelligence Background Questionnaire, 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 you or an immediate family member have been employed by or associated with the NSA, you or your family member must contact the NSA Prepublication Review Office at 443-634-4095.
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, attached supporting documentation, and your responses to the self-assessment questionnaire. Your materials will be evaluated to validate your possession of any required knowledge, skills, abilities, and/or competencies. The following competencies will be evaluated in the self-assessment questionnaire:
To apply for this position, you must submit a complete Application Package, including:
Once the online questionnaire is received you will receive an acknowledgement email that your submission was successful.
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/699478500. Only resumes submitted according to the instructions on the job announcement listed at www.usajobs.gov will be considered.
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