Senior Rule of Law Advisor

Job Description

This Foreign Service Limited position (Senior Rule of Law Advisor) is located in the Governance and Rule of Law Team (GROL), Center of Excellence on Democracy, Rights and Governance (DRG). As a senior rule of law (ROL) advisor on the Governance and ROL Division (GROL), the advisor will act as a technical authority on complex and precedent-setting rule of law issues and develops plans and strategies in areas such as legal frameworks, justice sector reform, court administration, judicial independence, juvenile justice, administrative law, legal education, access to justice, and the use of legal professional reform to create accountability and ethical norms, among others. He or she will provide rule of law technical advice and assistance to USAID Bureaus and Missions, host-country personnel, intra-agency colleagues, and other stakeholders by conducting analyses, formulating strategies, conceptualizing new programs or redesigning current activities.

Primary Responsibilities

The FSL position will serve as a rule of law technical expert and provide:

Expert Technical Leadership: The FSL serves in the DRG Office and is responsible for providing expert technical advice and leadership on a broad array of complex and precedent-setting rule of law programs, including helping plan, develop, and implement program activities in support of mission objectives.

Field Support: Prepares or reviews rule of law concept papers and other documents and facilitates internal bureau and broader Agency-level technical review and He or she reviews and provides input into Country Development Cooperation Strategies (CDCS), rule of law related Development Objectives (DOs), Project Appraisal Documents (PADs) and program descriptions/statements of work.

Interagency and Intra-agency Coordination: The FSL serves as a technical liaison on rule of law assistance both within USAID and across all USG agencies, multilateral organizations, networks, foreign governments and donors, NGOs, and civil society

Other responsibilities may include: (1) Contributing to DRG office programs and initiatives related to ROL and democracy and governance; (2) Attending, organizing, and making presentations at meetings, conferences, and workshops; (3) Preparing briefing papers or reports on rule of law activities; and (4) Developing ROL training materials on ROL challenges; and (5) Serving as project manager or alternate for rule of law projects, performing the full range of project management

Eligibility Criteria: Applicants must be U.S. Citizens and

• Have a law degree or relevant graduate degree
• Have at least 10 years of professional practice in the field of justice sector support or experience providing direct technical assistance in core ROL development activities on behalf of an international organization, the U.S. government, or an NGO.
• Demonstrate rule of law technical and comparative knowledge across a number of different countries and types of judicial systems, including preferably, French and/or Spanish speaking
• Language proficiency in either French or Spanish is preferred

Time Frame:

This position is a Foreign Service-Limited (FSL) appointment. The successful candidate will be appointed for an initial period of five years.

Extensions could be possible up to four years. The position will be subject to the Foreign Service (FS) pay scale and is graded at an FS-2; exact salary will be commensurate with experience.

REPORTING REQUIREMENTS/SUPERVISION

The Advisor will be supervised by the DCHA/DRG/GROL Chief.

The incumbent is primarily self-directed within the guidance provided by DCHA/DRG.

INSTRUCTIONS TO APPLICANTS

Please submit a current CV and cover letter to Sarah Logan slogan@usaid.gov.

Please submit contact information (email/phone) for three professional references

Please submit 1 writing sample (recent publications preferred)