USAID Project Management Specialist (Humanitarian Assistance) is located in the Office of Humanitarian Assistance (OHA) in the USAID Mission for West Bank & Gaza (USAID/WBG), based in Jerusalem.

The Project Management Specialist (Humanitarian Assistance) provides expertise, oversight, technical guidance, coordination, and representation of activities procured and implemented by USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) in West Bank and Gaza and supports USAID/WBG in any Mission-funded humanitarian activities.

The Project Management Specialist (PMS) maintains relationships with Embassy and Mission staff, other donors, UN agencies, and international and local non-governmental organizations. The position serves as the Activity Manager and, when assigned, as the Agreement/Contracting Officer Representative (A/COR) in the implementation of awards to partners in multiple sectors of humanitarian assistance, including but not limited to Food Assistance, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, and Health. As part of the USAID/WBG OHA, the PMS works closely with USAID/BHA’s Levant Team based in Washington D.C., including supporting BHA AORs/CORs, coordinating with members of the response team and sharing timely and relevant contextual and partner updates.

This Specialist supports BHA’s operations by managing and monitoring ongoing programs and liaising with potential and new implementing partners, providing technical review of proposals and concept notes, work plans, performance monitoring plans, official reports (both programmatic and financial), and other working documents. The PMS ensures that humanitarian programs meet stated objectives. The PMS will assist in monitoring and evaluation through documentation and regular site visits, where possible, or through third-party monitoring to track program progress, identify implementation issues, and present solutions to emerging problems.

The Specialist provides program management support to the OHA and technical advice on a range of activities relevant to OHA and the broader Mission portfolio including resilience and early recovery activities. The PMS will prepare input for correspondence, reports, briefing materials, and other documents, as required by the Mission or USAID/BHA in Washington. The PMS will gather relevant information and prepare reports and briefings on the humanitarian situation in the West Bank and Gaza.

The PMS must coordinate closely with USAID/BHA and the Mission to ensure the flow of timely and accurate information regarding all BHA activities in West Bank and Gaza, for programmatic synergy with the Mission’s work, as well as provide information and briefings to Embassy counterparts. The PMS is supervised by the OHA Director or Deputy Director or their designee. The PMS must have the ability to travel worldwide, for short-term and long-term deployments, to serve on BHA disaster response teams.