Inactive

Dear Prospective Offerors: The United States Government, represented by the U.S. Agency for International Development Mission to Madagascar (USAID/Madagascar), is seeking offers from qualified persons... Dear Prospective Offerors: The United States Government, represented by the U.S. Agency for International Development Mission to Madagascar (USAID/Madagascar), is seeking offers from qualified persons to provide personal services under contract as described in this solicitation. Incumbent will serve as the Mission Private Sector Engagement (PSE) Advisor. USAID/Madagascar is deepening its engagement with the private sector to both create and expand upon opportunities to advance the Mission’s development objectives in health; food security; trade; environment; energy; and democracy and governance while identifying and pursuing targets of opportunity for economic growth. This position will significantly enhance the Mission’s ability to support and respond to these program areas. In order to build a long lasting culture of PSE, the incumbent is tasked with training and coaching the Cooperating Country National (CCN) PSE Specialist that will be hired so that he/she can take on the duties in the long term. The PSE Advisor will work hand in hand with the PSE Specialist in order to train and mentor him/her, especially in policies coming out of Washington; in building capacity of other Mission staff; in establishing relationships with U.S. companies and increasing two-way trade. As a PSE champion within the USAID/Madagascar Mission, the incumbent will help lead Mission efforts to implement USAID’s PSE policy. This includes working with technical and support offices in the Mission, the PSE Working Group, the Embassy’s Political Economic (Pol/ Econ) Section, and stakeholders in Washington, to develop and/or implement an operational, Mission-wide PSE plan, which will adopt and expand the Mission’s PSE practices and build capacity and processes to institutionalize the Agency’s PSE Policy across the USAID/Madagascar Mission. The incumbent will build support for and promote awareness of PSE and its potential for achieving more-sustainable outcomes across sectors. He/she will help technical offices integrate PSE into the program cycle and design process.