Project Management Specialist (Democracy & Governance)

The Project Management Specialist (Democracy & Governance) reports directly to the USDH Democracy, Rights and Governance (DRG) Officer in USAID/Guinea and Sierra Leone. S/He acts as the Mission’s key focal point for tracking local socio-political contexts, project planning and implementation, administration, financial supervision, monitoring and evaluation of the Mission’s portfolio of DRG activities. The DRG Specialist serves as a wide-ranging subject-matter expert and principal development advisor on human rights and democratic governance, engaging such DRG-related areas as civil society and political processes and political consensus building, decentralization reforms, political parties and elections support, conflict management and mitigation (CMM), equalizing participation by women and youth and cross-sector challenges such as health governance or coordinating with Economic  media strengthening, Growth activities (DG-EG linkages) in Guinea (and in Sierra Leone as needed). S/He is responsible for developing and maintaining working relationships in Guinea with relevant civil society groups, media, inter-communal peace-building institutions, government officials, donors working in related fields, United States Embassy officials, plus other key political actors.