Senior Advisor, Healthcare

Summary

This position is part of the International Development Finance Corporation, Office of Health and Agribusiness. As the Senior Advisor, Healthcare, you will serve as DFC's senior authority on health-sector investment strategy, providing policy, technical, and transaction guidance throughout the investment lifecycle to strengthen portfolio quality, manage risk, and maximize development impact. You will also perform supervisory responsibilities to a small staff.

Duties

• Provides leadership for the strategy, growth, and performance of the global health investment portfolio. Establishes strategic priorities and directs the identification, evaluation, sequencing, and advancement of high-impact health-sector investment opportunities across financing products. Leads enterprise-wide coordination among the Office, origination and investment teams, business development, and regional and country offices to align investments with DFC development mandate, U.S. Government global health priorities, and market opportunities. Sets strategic direction for identifying, assessing, and prioritizing new health-sector investment opportunities, including country- and region-specific initiatives, to expand DFC market presence and development impact. Cultivates and maintains senior-level relationships with health-sector corporations, financial institutions, development partners, and other key stakeholders to advance strategic partnerships, originate high-value transactions, and strengthen the global health investment platform. Establishes portfolio-wide strategic goals, performance measures, and accountability mechanisms, and directs implementation to ensure disciplined execution and measurable results. Delivers analysis, recommendations, decision memoranda, and briefings on significant issues, risks, market developments, and proposed courses of action affecting DFC global health portfolio. Provides briefings to Congressional staff on proposed DFC health investments and other health-related initiatives. Performs full administrative and technical supervisory responsibilities and oversight to assigned staff. Please Note: This is not a Bargaining unit position.

Qualifications

Status candidates must meet time-in-grade requirements (52 weeks at the next lower grade level). Applicants must meet all eligibility and qualification requirements no later than the closing date of this announcement. TIME-IN-GRADE: Current career or career-conditional employees of the Federal government, or former career or career-conditional employees, who have a break in service of less than one year, are required to meet the time-in-grade restriction of one year of Federal experience at the next lower grade, with few exceptions outlined in 5 CFR 300.603(b). You may qualify at the GS-15 level, if you fulfill the following qualification requirements: A. One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-14 grade level in the Federal service that includes: (1) Developing strategies, policies, and procedures to create high impact in support of global health initiatives and projects focused on Pharmaceutical/Life Sciences, Health Technology and/or Healthcare Delivery; (2) Leading business development, corporate marketing, and business outreach activities related to global health; AND (3) Developing initiatives to promote the use of international development finance tools, programs, or services among the U.S. business community and appropriate foreign entities related global health platforms. Note: Education is not substitutional at this grade level. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. This announcement may be used to fill similar positions, if additional vacancies occur.

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

How to apply

Please read the entire announcement and all the instructions before you begin an application. To apply and be considered for this position, you must complete all required questionnaires, assessments and submit all required documentation as specified in the How to Apply and Required Documents section. The complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on the closing date of the announcement to receive consideration. The application process is as follows: Click the Apply Online button. Answer the questions presented in the application and attach all necessary supporting documentation. Click the Submit Application button prior to 11:59 PM (ET) on the announcement closing date. If you are required to complete any USA Hire Assessments, you will be notified after submitting your application. The notification will be provided in your application submission screen and via email. The notification will include your unique assessment access link to the USA Hire system and the completion deadline. Additionally, in USAJOBS you can click "Track this application" to return to your assessment completion notice. Access USA Hire using your unique assessment link. Access is granted through your USAJOBS login credentials. Review all instructions prior to beginning your assessments. You will have the opportunity to request a testing accommodation before beginning the assessments should you have a disability covered under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended. Set aside about two (2) hours to take the USA Hire Assessments; however, most applicants complete the assessments in less time. If you need to stop the assessments and continue later, you can re-use your unique assessment link. Your responses to the USA Hire Assessments will be reused for one year (in most cases) from the date you complete an assessment. If future applications you submit require completion of the same assessments, your responses will be automatically reused. Visit the USA Hire Applicant Resource Center for practice assessments and assessment preparation resources at https://support-usahire.opm.gov/hc/en-us. To update your application, including supporting documentation: During the announcement open period, return to your USAJOBS account, find your application record, and click Edit my application. This option will no longer be available once the announcement has closed. To view the announcement status or your application status: Visit https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/howto/application/status/. Your application status page is where you can view your application status, USA Hire assessment completion status, and review your notifications sent by the hiring agency regarding your application. Read the Eligibility questions carefully. The questions address if you are eligible to apply to this JOA. Your responses will affect your consideration for the position. You may qualify for more than one eligibility, so please choose carefully. You will only be considered under the options you have selected. If you respond that you do not meet any of the eligibility questions, you will not be considered for this position. Do not submit photographs with your application package. Documents with photographs may not be seen by hiring officials - you must remove your image from any badges, licenses, etc. If your resume includes a photograph or other inappropriate material or content (e.g. SSN or DOB), your resume will not be used to make eligibility and qualification determinations and you will not be considered for this vacancy. Documents submitted as part of the application package, to include supplemental documents, may be shared beyond the Human Resources Office. Some supplemental documents such as military orders and marriage certificates may contain personal information for someone other than you. You may sanitize these documents to remove another person's personal information before you submit your application. You may be asked to provide an un-sanitized version of the documents if you are selected to confirm your eligibility. Do not upload Adobe portfolio documents. Adobe portfolio documents are not viewable by our agency's staffing offices. It is your responsibility to ensure all required documents have been submitted prior to the closing date of the announcement.