The employee serves as the USAID Project Management Specialist (Governance) and advisor and works under the supervision of the USAID Project Management Specialist (Governance Team Leader) or designee. The incumbent will primarily act as a specialist and provide technical advice to the Governance Team, Democracy and Governance Office (DGO) Director and Mission Front Office and serve as an Agreement Officer Representative/Contracting Officer Representative (AOR/COR) and an Activity Manager for a number of contracts and agreements, in support of the USAID/Honduras DGO. DGO activities will range from mid to complex and high dollar value mechanisms. The incumbent will provide support to the USAID/Honduras Mission in developing, planning, implementing, managing, and monitoring the Mission’s governance portfolio, particularly related to good governance, e-governance, legislative bodies, political competition and consensus building, municipal governance, decentralization, transparency and accountability, civil society and localization. The incumbent is responsible for providing technical assistance and coordination with senior and technical level governmental officials, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), professional associations, USAID implementing partners, and others. In conjunction with other DGO staff, the job holder will contribute to Office and Mission actions related to strategy development, project design, budgeting, program implementation and monitoring, conducting analyses, assessments, and evaluations, and the close-out of programs. The incumbent should be able to operate independently when collaborating with high-level counterparts from the local donor community, national government, and non-governmental organizations as well as with USAID/Honduras and other U.S. Government colleagues both in Honduras and Washington, D.C. The incumbent’s duties include participation in the full range of consultative, advisory, representation, monitoring, management, data collection and analysis, and evaluative aspects of the governance portfolio.