Career Opportunities at USAID Indonesia

Financial Management Officers direct the accounting and payment operations in USAID missions worldwide. In addition, they provide significant levels of advisory services to all levels of the mission and host country governments. This includes administrative, operational, and program matters concerning financial, budgetary and resource management, and implementation issues.

Education & Experience:
FS-06: Applicant must have a Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution and a CPA plus three (3) years of relevant experience; OR a Master's degree in a relevant major plus one (1) year of relevant experience, such as business administration, finance or public administration, management, or accounting with at least 30 semester hours at the undergraduate or graduate level in accounting and business law. Overseas experience is highly desirable.
Relevant majors are Accounting, Business Administration, Finance or Public Administration Or Management.

FS-05: Applicant must have a Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution and a CPA plus four (4) years of relevant experience with one (1) year overseas experience; OR a Master's degree in a relevant major plus two (2) years of relevant experience, such as business administration, finance or public administration, management, or accounting with at least 30 semester hours at the undergraduate or graduate level in accounting and business law. Overseas experience is highly desirable. Relevant experience is defined as professional work of a fiscal, financial management, auditing, accounting, or budgetary nature.

An official set of transcripts and a copy of the CPA certificate must be provided by no later than the closing date. Failure to do so will result in the application being eliminated from consideration. Transcripts from any and all foreign educational instituions must be accompanied by an official Evaluation of Educational Credentials in order to be considered for the position.

Required Competencies:

HOW YOU WILL BE EVALUATED:

You will be rated based on your qualifications for this position as evidenced by the education, experience and training you report relative to this position which show that you possess the knowledge, skills and abilities required. Paid or unpaid experience will be considered and references will be checked.

BASIS OF RATING: Qualified applicants receive a score of 70 to 100 before veteran's preference points are applied (if applicable). You will be rated based on your qualifications for this position as evidenced by the education, experience, and training you report relative to this position that show the degree to which you possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities listed on this vacancy announcement. USAID must be able to conduct reference checks as part of its assessment process. Applicants who do not permit reference checks from previous employers may be disqualified.

IMPORTANT: If you are found to have rated your self assessment higher than the information in your on-line application, supporting documentation narratives, and/or any other relevant part of your application package; including attachments, a score will manually be determined that reflects your documented experience. This may result in a lowered score and may also eliminate you from the best qualified list.
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OTHER INFORMATION:

WHERE ARE WE:USAIDs headquarters is centrally located in downtown Washington, DC, at the prestigious Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center on 14th and Pennsylvania Avenue N.W. We are located right on the Federal Triangle Metro (Blue and Orange Lines). The office is within walking distance of restaurants, shops, Smithsonian Institution museums and Washington Monument.

Current USAID Foreign Service career and career candidate employees are not eligible to apply to this announcement. Applicants who previously applied for this position and were interviewed will not be invited for another interview within a 12 month period.


SELECTIVE SERVICE. As a condition of employment, all male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must have registered for the selective service. If selected for this position, the applicant must sign a statement certifying his registration, or the applicant must demonstrate exempt status under the Selective Service Law.

Career appointments in the Foreign Service are covered by the Foreign Service Act of 1980, as amended, which requires an applicant to be 18 years old at time of application and which directs mandatory retirement at age 65. Given this mandatory retirement age and the fact that five years must be allowed to achieve tenure in the agency, there is an upper age limit of 59 at time of appointment to the Foreign Service.

EDUCATION DOCUMENTATION

If you are qualifying based on education, you MUST submit a copy of your transcripts or a list of courses showing title, number of credits, grade, and date of completion.

To be used in meeting qualification requirements, a college or university degree generally must be from an accredited (or pre-accredited) college or university recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.  For a list of schools which meet these criteria, please refer to the Database of Accreditation of Post-Secondary Institutions and Programs.  If we are unable to determine that you meet the required education, you will be found ineligible for further consideration.

If you are qualifying based on foreign education, you must submit proof of creditability of education as evaluated by a credentialing agency; more information may be found at Acceptability of Higher Education for Meeting Minimum Qualification Requirements.  We recommend you get this process started as soon as possible to avoid delays in appointment if selected.

A transcript is required.

Veteran's preference applies. Qualified veterans will be considered consistent with the requirements of the Foreign Service Act.

Medical Clearance - A medical clearance for the applicant is required prior to being hired for this position. Foreign Service members must be able to serve at any overseas post. Many facilities are remote, unhealthy, or have limited medical support. Therefore, each applicant must meet medical fitness standards which are, of necessity, often more rigorous than those of other professions. Prior to being appointed to the Foreign Service, applicants must have a thorough medical examination and receive an unlimited medical clearance for assignment worldwide. After receiving a conditional offer of employment, each applicant is provided with instructions for the examining physician(s), which outline the precise requirements. Applicants living within a fifty-mile radius of Washington, DC, must have the medical exam performed by the Department of State Office of Medical Services. USAID considers the medical condition of eligible family members for assignment purposes. Therefore, USAID requires medical clearances for eligible family members before they can travel overseas to accompany an employee on assignment at US Government expense. Family members who, for medical reasons, cannot accompany an employee on an overseas assignment, are usually eligible to receive a separate maintenance allowance.

These are Testing Designated Positions (TDPs) under the Agency's approved Drug-Free Work Place Program. All applicants selected for this position will be subject to random drug testing once they begin working for the Agency.