Pepfar Country Coordinator

Overview
Open & closing dates
01/14/2025 to 01/28/2025
Salary
$124,331 - $182,584 per year
Pay scale & grade
FP 02
Location
Hanoi, Vietnam
1 vacancy
Remote job
No
Telework eligible
No
Travel Required
Relocation expenses reimbursed
Yes—This LNA position is initially for 27 months and may be extended periodically up to a maximum of five years based on satisfactory performance and the needs of the Service. A PEPFAR Country Coordinator is assigned to a specific U.S. embassy or consulate with the expectation that the PEPFAR Country Coordinator’s appointment will permit completion of a 24-month tour of duty.
Appointment type
Temporary - This is a paid, Limited Non-Career Appointment (LNA) Foreign Service Position, which is restricted by statute to a maximum of five years.
Work schedule
Full-time
Service
Excepted
Promotion potential
NA
Job family (Series)
0130 Foreign Affairs
Supervisory status
Yes
Security clearance
Top Secret
Drug test
Yes
Announcement number
PEPFAR-2025-0002
Control number
827728400
Summary
There is more to joining the Foreign Service than just salary. Refer to the Benefits section for more information on compensation.
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U.S. Citizens, Nationals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S.
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Duties
PEPFAR Country Coordinators lead the USG PEPFAR interagency team in the designated country. Responsibilities include:
Advancing the PEPFAR team's progress towards sustainable control of the HIV epidemic and, ultimately, achieving an AIDS-free generation.
Ensuring that the PEPFAR program fits within the strategies and regulations of the partner country government and aligns with international policies and recommendations.
Ensuring accountability, transparency, and impact for the USG resources directed to controlling the HIV/AIDS epidemic in country.
Communicating USG policy and technical direction to implementing agency leadership.
Coordinating and facilitating the interagency approach to PEPFAR within the USG.
Coordinating and facilitating with PEPFAR implementing agencies on the restructuring, reorienting, and recasting of immediate and long-range goals, objectives, plans, and schedules to meet substantial changes in policy, legislation, program authority, and/or funding, and facilitate discussion with the interagency team regarding determinations of projects to be initiated, ended, or refocused.
Developing annual country operational plans (COPs).
Overseeing changes in interagency organizational structure.
Leading the interagency process in-country in long range planning in connection with prospective changes in USG funding, policies, and programs.
Providing expert guidance and advice to Direct Hire (DH) officers and to Locally Employed (LE) staff who perform reporting and analytical work and provide administrative support.
Establishing appropriate controls to ensure the integrity—financial, technical, and operational—of all HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and care programs implemented pursuant to PEPFAR.
Deciding, in coordination with the U.S. embassy leadership and PEPFAR implementing agencies, how best to direct the funds allocated to the country for successful program impact, fully understanding the current levels of expenditure and pipeline, develop budgets, and ensure continued flow of funds necessary to implement the program.
Ensuring the use of data collection and knowledge-based program management in regard to all aspects (implementation, technology, costing) of treatment, prevention, and care strategies.
Providing leadership and guidance to other USG interagency leaders in-country who implement and monitor the PEPFAR program portfolio.
Analyzing the unique operational context of the PEPFAR program in the designated country and coordinating the interagency process to establish a vision and strategy for responding to this context within the guidelines of the GHSD policy and U.S. diplomatic priorities.
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**Requirements**:
Conditions of Employment
Be a U.S. citizen and accept assignments based on the needs of the FS.*
Be able to obtain/maintain a Top-Secret Security Clearance.
Be able to meet the minimum medical qualification standard.
Be able to obtain a favorable Suitability Review Panel determination.**
Be appointed prior to age 60 (preference eligible veterans excepted).**
LNAs do not lead to permanent employment with the State Department.
Foreign Service PEPFAR Country Coordinators serve as the embassy-based expert on all matters concerning the PEPFAR program housed in the Department of State’s Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy Office (GHSD). The Coordinator represents the PEPFAR program and policies of GHSD in the host country.
The Coordinator leads the U.S. PEPFAR interagency team in the designated country in the conception, formulation, and recommendation of initiatives in response to the epidemic profile in the designated country. The Coordinator has responsibility for a PEPFAR program that is appropriate fo