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USGI is seeking a Monitoring, Evaluation, and Risk Program Analyst who will work closely with the INL program officers and management in INL/AME to bring them into compliance with 18 FAM 301.4 requirements. This is a key mission area of INL, which is being undertaken to ensure the Bureau’s compliance with the newly revised FAM. In addition, the analyst will perform his/her work ensuring that each country program is aligned with INL’s strategic direction on enterprise risk management. The analyst will perform all of the duties and have all of the responsibilities listed in the below section.
BACKGROUND
The U.S. Department of State is the lead institution for the conduct of American diplomacy and the Secretary of State is the President’s principal foreign policy advisor. The Department of State’s mission is to advance U.S. national security interests, fight terrorism, protect U.S. interests abroad, and implement foreign policy initiatives that build a freer, prosperous, and secure world.
The Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) keeps Americans safe at home by countering international crime, illegal drugs, and instability abroad. INL helps countries deliver justice and fairness by strengthening their police, courts, and corrections systems. These efforts reduce the amount of crime and illegal drugs reaching U.S. shores.
Under this BPA call, the monitoring, evaluation, and risk management program analyst will provide services ensuring that INL programs in the Office of Africa and Middle East Affairs (AME) programs are compliant with 18 FAM 301.4 requirements and are aligned with INL’s strategic direction on enterprise risk management.
The goal of this contract is to provide dedicated support for AME programs to ensure that they are compliant with the standards set forth in 18 FAM 301.4 and have sound metrics at the country program or operating unit1 and on each foreign assistance award2 that are mutually reinforcing. The dedicated support to AME will also ensure that each country program and foreign assistance award aligns to the INL Functional Bureau Strategy (FBS) goals and objectives and is collecting data on the appropriate indicators. Furthermore, the dedicated support will produce a report on those metrics on a quarterly basis in a way in which INL can utilize the performance data for the enterprise risk management (ERM) system. Along with those specific requirements, the contractor will provide services to AME that cover all aspects of monitoring, evaluations, and risk management support at the direction of AME management. In addition, the contractor will seek to empower INL leadership with the capability to leverage enterprise risk and performance data in order to make data driven decisions at the country and Bureau levels in compliance with the new FAM. The intent will be to accomplish said goal through socializing the approach to FAM compliance with the regional program office, by updating and/or creating INL programs documentation with SMART3 performance metrics for each operating units’ activities, including but not limited to theories of change, logic models, and monitoring plans; gathering data on each program; and enabling INL to import data into an approved INL ERM data system.
Beyond ensuring that AME programs are compliant with the FAM requirements and have increased data gathering capabilities, INL expects an approach to said compliance that is intuitive to non-experts in the field of M&E and ERM. This approach must be adaptable to the culture, business practices, and existing systems that INL has in place with a focus on change management that must occur in order to bring all INL programs into compliance. INL recognizes that, due to the number of countries it operates in and the difference in one country program compared to another, that a one size fits all approach will not work. Therefore, it is important that the approach to accomplishing FAM compliance be flexible with the goal of the program being the driving force behind this initiative.
The selected candidate will be located in the INL/AME program office and coordinate all work with the program officers through the INL/AME Africa and Middle East team leaders.
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