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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.