Functional Specialist

  • Mid-level, Full-time staff position
  • Posted on 31 July 2018

Job Description

Functional Responsibility: A functional specialist is an expert in a specific discipline, such as human resources, finance, marketing, information technology or continuous improvement. A specialist can either manage a department or take a key role in one area of the department. For example, a marketing specialist might oversee the research, distribution, sales, advertising, promotions, social media or public relations of a small business. At a large company, she might specialize by handling one of those duties. A specialist might not be able to handle all of the tasks in her area, but knows enough about them to manage others. For example, an advertising specialist will be familiar with media buying, layout and design, pay-per-click strategies and copywriting. While she might not have advanced layout and design skills, she understands the basics of graphic design and can direct a graphic artist. Respond to queries from students on the particular subject. Education: MA/MS desired; a minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in relevant area. Experience: No less than 1 to 2 years of relevant experience

About the Organization

The Mitchell Group, Inc. (TMG) is a global solutions leader providing meaningful impact and sustainable solutions to development efforts affecting the lives of ordinary people. We are a veteran-owned business with over 30 years of international development program experience. TMG has performed highly successful, long-term contracts for US government clients such as USAID and National Institutes of Health (NIH) in supporting their various projects in multiple countries on 6 continents throughout the world. Many of those projects have been in Africa, where TMG has worked in 38 of its countries and currently has offices in Ghana, Burkina Faso, Niger, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, and Ethiopia. Through these projects, TMG has gained broad, multi-sector experience in managing more than 100 US government contracts. We work with a large group of highly qualified experts whose specialized skills provide expertise to perform services in various technical areas, logistical management, financial management, administration, project management, MIS services, capacity building, training, and other sectors.

TMG has been a leading contractor in assisting the US National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and other domestic and international agencies with their important international biomedical research efforts to find cures for such human scourges as Malaria, AIDS and Ebola. TMG has also assisted USAID in successfully performing major contracts implementing its international development programs in such functional areas as Monitoring and Evaluation, Education and Training, Health Services, Countering Violent Extremism, Disaster Management, Agriculture and Food Security, and Outreach and Communications.

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