Work At DIV

Current DIV openings include

• DIV Summer Internship: Public Relations and Marketing
• DIV Position Opening: Presidential Management Fellow (PMF)
• DIV Position Opening: Opportunity to help scale DIV grantees
• Ongoing opportunities

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DIV Public Relations and Marketing Intern

Time Frame: Summer of 2013, Fall of 2013, Spring 2014

Duration: 3 to 5 months

Location: Washington, DC

Description: Development Innovation Ventures (DIV), a new division within the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), has adopted a venture capital approach of staged financing to invest in highly cost-effective solutions to development challenges. DIV invites applications through a global call for proposals and provides staged funding to first help rigorously test promising solutions and then help scale proven models and technologies.  To date, DIV has funded 43 projects across 9 sectors and 17 countries in sectors including global health, water, sanitation, hygiene, energy, etc. DIV supports a range of organizations, including social businesses, academic institutions, and not-for-profits. For more information, please visit our website at www.usaid.gov/DIV

The selected candidate’s tasks will include:           

• Working with DIV Communications Team on advertising and marketing the DIV program to targeted audiences;

• Supporting in updating and generating new content for the DIV website;

• Helping generate new marketing materials that reflect the DIV project;

• Helping design media strategies and maintaining media relations;

• Disseminating information on DIV’s global competition; and

• Working on special projects as needed

Terms and Conditions: This is an unpaid internship. School credit can be arranged.  We require a minimum commitment of 15 to 20 hours a week during the summer.   You will have access to a host of career development opportunities, including exposure to experts within the development space, events management, and potential authorship of blogs.

Qualifications: Candidates must be graduate students or have prior experience in the professional work place; excellent writing skills; attention to detail; strong web skills; experience in marketing campaigns through social media; and demonstrated communication skills. Prior experience in graphic design is a plus. You must be a US citizen and eligible for a security clearance.

Application Instructions: Please email a cover letter and a resume to DIVjobs@usaid.gov. Only short listed candidates will be contacted.

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DIV Position Opening: Presidential Management Fellow (PMF)

April 2013

Duration: 2-6 months

Position: Program Specialist (multiple slots available)

Location: Washington, DC

Description: The DIV team is looking for someone who is highly motivated and eager to apply proven expertise in improving the operations of businesses or non-profit organizations to solving large-scale development challenges.  DIV operates in an entrepreneurial, start-up like culture, with team members contributing to many aspects of the office. As such this rotation can be adapted to the skills and interests of the Presidential Management Fellow

This position is open only to PMFs seeking rotations. Applicants who are not already in the PMF program will not be considered.

Specific tasks may include but are not limited to working with the DIV team on the following: 

Due Diligence & Scaling Projects

• Provide intellectual leadership and support in analytical and implementation support for DIV grantees that require rigorous evaluation methods to prove impact 

• Assist in implementing DIV’s impact evaluation requirements (i.e. including reviewing grantee monitoring and evaluation plans, writing results-oriented milestones to track grantee progress, etc)

• Provide expertise and conduct due diligence to assess DIV proposals in varoius development sectors

Monitoring and Evaluation

• Provide intellectual leadership and support in analytical and implementation support for  DIV grantees that require rigorous evaluation methods to prove impact 

• Assist in implementing DIV’s impact evaluation requirements (i.e. including reviewing grantee monitoring and evaluation plans, writing results-oriented milestones to track grantee progress, etc)

• Liaise with key evaluation leads in USAID missions and Bureaus to disseminated DIV’s evaluation methodologies and outcomes

Communications and Partnerships

• Identify, build and strengthen relationships with private sector innovators, investors, foundations, governments, donors and other potential partners in support of scaling proven models and projects           

• Develop media strategies to disseminate engaging information to raise awareness of DIV's scaling approaches, methodology and outcomes within USAID and with external partners

• Communicate the opportunity of DIV’s global competition to relevant audiences

Application Instructions: Space is limited and applications are accepted on a rolling basis but dates for the rotation are flexible. Please send a resume with subject line titled “PMF Rotation” to divjobs@usaid.gov.

DIV Position Opening: Opportunity to help scale DIV grantees

February 2013

Description: DIV is looking for someone to play a role analogous to that of an ‘operating partner’ in a PE/VC firm. This individual will lead the development, coordination, and implementation of efforts to improve the operating capacity, efficiency, and scale of DIV’s portfolio of businesses.

Specific tasks may include but are not limited to the following: 

• Advise clients on developing business plans and growth strategies

• Advise on human capital strategy, management and leadership, and organizational structure

• Help clients develop business processes and systems to enable scale up, and implement varying aspects of enterprise resource planning (ERP)

• Connect to follow on investors and help DIV apply more private sector efficiencies to its due diligence process

Ongoing DIV Position Openings

DIV seeks to hire highly motivated individuals with various skill sets including:

• private sector scaling and public sector scaling

• outreach

• due diligence of project proposals

• monitoring and evaluation

Application Instructions: Candidates for non-civil service positions are currently being considered. Interested candidates should send their resumes to DIVjobs@usaid.gov and use the email subject line to state their primary skill set from those listed in the paragraph above. Candidates should be U.S. citizens. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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