Program Officer/Senior Program Officer (Infrastructure)

This position is located in the Infrastructure, Environment and Private Sector, Department of Compact Operations, Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC).

Although the position is advertised equivalent to GS-12/13, MCC uses a pay banded system to compensate employees. This position is pay band 4B/4A which is generally equal to GS-12/13.

• Performs a variety of assignments associated with the management and oversight of the design, development, and implementation of infrastructure programs and projects in MCC Compacts.
• Works as part of multi-disciplinary country team overseeing country programs involving projects in one or more infrastructure sub-sectors (transport, water supply and sanitation, water resources, and vertical structures, etc.).
• Prepares plans for Compact infrastructure programs and projects in development and in implementation including project scheduling, budgeting, change management, contract administration, and project controls.
• Oversees projects in context of complex political, environmental, social, and health and safety contexts or other variables and unknowns affecting planning, design and operational criteria.
• Monitors and tracks and anticipates project challenges and pro-actively proposes options to address them and provides status reports to senior staff.
• Participates in the design and development of Compacts, including technical assessment of constraints analyses, concept papers, and proposals; collection and analysis of data and information to finalize proposals etc.
• Assists in the formulation of budgets, drafts scopes of work, serves on evaluation panels, issues technical directives, reviews and accepts of consultants' deliverables and tracks billings in support of or in the capacity of the Project Monitor.
• Provides research and analysis on complex issues regarding the monitoring and evaluation of long-term infrastructure projects and programs affiliated with country compacts.
• Performs related duties as assigned.