Duties Summary Reporting to the President and CEO, and serving as an integral member of the management team, the Managing Director of External and Governmental Affairs is responsible for planning, directing, and executing the IAF's internal and external communications, public affairs activities, and Congressional and intergovernmental outreach. The goal is to advance the agency's position with
relevant constituents, as well as to drive broader awareness and donor support for the foundation. Learn more about this agency Responsibilities • Collaborates with IAF's President and management team to develop and implement an integrated strategic communications agenda to broaden awareness of the IAF?s unique approach, model, and relevance. • Collaborates with IAF's President and management team to increase visibility of its programs, priorities, and impact across key stakeholder audiences and to facilitate the building of programmatic and funding partnerships. • Oversees the design, development and dissemination of high quality communications, using the full range of media and communication methods. • Develops strategy for and oversees the development of IAF?s social media and outreach strategy(ies) and the design and production of the social media and outreach programs. • Leads the drafting, makes recommendations, reviews and clears the content and format for all IAF communications materials as well as for the IAF Web site and other digital media. • Develops a public affairs strategy and coordinates all public affairs activities to enhance relationships with targeted, external audiences, including Congressional audiences, the media and key influencer's. • Develops media strategy and oversees relations with the media and broader public; promotes public understanding of the impact of the agency's programs. • Engage Congressional members and staff to provide information about the IAF?s work, and advance the agency's interests affected by the legislative process. • Coordinate IAF response to congressional requests for budget and programs briefings, congressional and staff delegation site visits. Identifies challenges and emerging issues faced by the organization. • Establish and monitor staff performance and development goals, assign accountabilities, set objectives, establish priorities, conduct annual performance appraisals. ### Travel Required Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position. ##### Supervisory status Yes ##### Promotion Potential 15 • #### Job family (Series) 0301 Miscellaneous Administration And Program • Requirements Help ## Requirements ### Conditions of Employment • US Citizenship is required. • Suitable for Federal employment, determined by background investigation. • Direct Deposit of pay is required. • Selective Service registration required for male applicants, unless exempt. • Background and security investigation for Top Secret Clearance. ### Qualifications Only experience and education obtained by the closing date of this announcement will be considered. Preference will be given to those applicants who are professionally proficient to speak, read, and understand Spanish TO English AND English TO Spanish. Applicants must meet the specialized experience requirements below. • *In order to be eligible for the GS-14 level, you must possess at least one year of specialized experience that is equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the GS-13 level in the Federal service.**Specialized experience is defined as experience that is in or directly related to the line of work of this position and has equipped you with the knowledge and competencies to successfully perform the duties of this position. More specifically, this requirement involves experience: overseeing the production of communications (e.g. social media, articles, briefings, news releases, videos etc) to convey technical and non-technical information; developing, implementing, and evaluating communications and public affairs strategies; writing articles or other documents suitable for distribution to external audiences and/ publication; developing legislative strategies and working with Congressional members and staff to provide information about or advance an organization's interests; and preparing speeches and briefing papers for senior officials. Applicants must demonstrate knowledge of social, geographic, political, economic, cultural, environmental issues and challenges of Latin America and the Caribbean. Experience leading, supervising, or managing a staff is preferred. • *In order to be eligible for the GS-15 level, you must possess at least one year of specialized experience that is equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the GS-14 level in the Federal service.**Specialized experience is defined as experience that is in or directly related to the line of work of this position and has equipped you with the knowledge and competencies to successfully perform the duties of this position. More specifically, this requirement involves experience: managing teams AND overseeing the production of communications (e.g. social media, articles, briefings, news releases, videos etc) to convey technical and non-technical information; developing, implementing, and evaluating communications and public affairs strategies; writing articles or other documents suitable for distribution to external audiences and/ publication; developing legislative strategies and working with Congressional members and staff to provide information about or advance an organization's interests; AND, preparing speeches and briefing papers for senior officials. Applicants must demonstrate knowledge of social, geographic, political, economic, cultural, environmental issues and challenges of Latin America and the Caribbean. Experience leading, supervising or managing a staff is required. 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). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. ### Education ### Additional information • *Telework Suitability:** The duties of this position are suitable for occasional telework and the selectee may be allowed to telework with supervisor approval and if they meet the eligibility criterion in the 2010 Telework Act. • **Stipulations of Employment:*** Selection may require completion of a 1-year probationary period. Selection may require completion of a 1-year supervisory or managerial probationary period. Applicants must be eligible to obtain and keep a Top security clearance. Appointment is subject to the successful completion of a background investigation and favorable adjudication. Failure to successfully meet these requirements will be grounds for termination • **Work Schedule:*** This position allows for a flexible work schedule. • **Miscellaneous:*** IAF uses E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, please visit http://www.uscis.gov/e-verify. This position is being advertised concurrently with vacancy announcement # IAF-19-MP-10386271JS using Merit Promotion procedures. If interested, refer to that announcement to determine if you meet merit promotion requirements and can apply to that announcement. NOTE: You must apply separately to each announcement in order to be considered under both. This vacancy announcement may be used to fill similar positions within 90 days. If selection is made below the full performance level, promotion up to the full performance level may be made without further competition. However, promotion(s) will depend on the performance of the incumbent and are not guaranteed. If you are unable to apply online or need to fax a document you do not have in electronic form, view the following link for information regarding an Alternate Application: https://help.usastaffing.gov/Apply/index.php?title=AlternateApplicationInformation Read more ### How You Will Be Evaluated You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above. Once the application process is complete, qualified candidates will be assigned to a quality category. The category assignment is a measure of the degree in which your background matches the competencies required for this position. The categories for this announcement are defined as: Best-Qualified and Qualified. Your resume and supporting documentation will then be used to determine if you are qualified for this job. If you rate yourself higher than is supported by your application materials, your responses may be adjusted and/or you may be excluded from consideration for this job. If you are found to be among the top candidates, you will be refer
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