SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- Intermittent Health Advisor
- Notice Date
- 9/20/2004
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541611
— Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Agency for International Development, Washington D.C., USAID/Washington, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Room 7.10-006, Washington, DC, 20523
- ZIP Code
- 20523
- Solicitation Number
- 182-04-004
- Response Due
- 10/8/2004
- Archive Date
- 10/23/2004
- Description
- Solicitation Number: 182-04-004 Issuance date: Sept 20, 2004 Closing date: Oct. 8, 2004 SUBJECT: Solicitation for USPSC for Intermittent Health Advisor FOR: Public Health Advisor, GS-0685-14, USAID/Albania Issued by: Executive Officer, USAID/Albania Ladies and Gentlemen, The United States Agency for International Development is seeking applications (OF-612) from qualified individuals interested in providing personal services as described in the attached solicitation. Submittals shall be in accordance with the attached information at the place and time specified. Any questions on this solicitation may be directed to Michael B. Stewart, Executive Officer, USAID/Albania using the following contact information: Telephone: +355-4-266-395/96/97/98/99 Fax: +355-4-266-394 E-mail: mbstewart@usaid.gov Applicants should retain for their records copies of all enclosures which accompany their applications. All applications should be submitted via internet as E-mail attachments or by a courier as follows- By E-mail to Michael B. Stewart, Executive Officer USAID/Albania at mbstewart@usaid.gov By DHL or FEDEX, consign documents to: Attention: Michael B. Stewart Executive Officer USAID/Albania Sheraton Tirana Hotel and Towers Tirana, Albania P.O. Box 2400/1 Telephone: 355-4-266-395/96/97/98/99 Sincerely, Michael B. Stewart Solicitation Number: 182-04-004 Issuance date: Sept 20, 2004 Closing date/time for receipt of applications: Oct. 8, 2004 17:00 CET (Tirana) Position Title: Intermittent Health Advisor, USAID, Albania. Final Compensation will be based upon the market value for the position, the individual's salary and work history, experience and educational background. Market Value: $73,335.00 -96,637.00 Period of performance: Two (2) years Place of performance: Tirana, Albania Supervisory controls: The incumbent will report to the Mission Director or his designee. Statement of Duties A. Background: USAID manages development and transition programs in Albania, financed through Support for Eastern European Democracies (SEED) funds. Total SEED assistance for Albania is about $28 million annually, of which USAID/Albania manages roughly $21.5 million. In addition to the Director, the Mission is staffed with three Direct Hires (USDHs), six US Personal Service Contractors (USPSCs), and 16 Foreign Service Nationals (FSNs). The Mission?s Strategic Plan is organized around a Results Framework containing five strategic objectives (SOs), which link with E&E Bureau goals for: economic restructuring (SO 1.3); strengthened democracy and civil society (SO 2.1); rule of law (SO 2.2); selected primary health care services in targeted areas (SO 3.1); and, special initiatives (SO 4.1). With regard to health sector reform in Albania, the last decade has confirmed a lesson for government decision-makers that should have been obvious but rarely seems to be: That making health services widely available helps in moving forward economic and democratic progress by increasing society?s productive capacity, strengthening the formation of a robust civil society and building people?s trust in the benefits of democracy and free-market economies. In Albania, although the government of Albania has declared health as one of the top priorities for its current development program, the health share of public expenditures is unfortunately extremely low (only 1,6% of GDP for the past three years compared to 2,9% in 1989, near the end of communist rule ) and represents, ironically, a declining commitment to health, despite the significant demographic and epidemiological changes that are occurring. In a climate where numerous problems such as organized crime, trafficking in persons, money laundering, environmental degradation, ineffective rule of law, weak and poorly performing economies, are dominating problems, investing in people has become a step child of the government. Albania faces a reality where infant and child morbidity and mortality figures are among the highest in the whole region and the abortion rate is still unacceptably high. Life expectancy, which used to be one of the highest in the region, has significantly declined, and the threat of HIV/AIDS as well as a TB epidemic is rapidly increasing. People?s perceptions and trust in their health system?s ability to deal with their problems are very low and continually declining. The old state?funded health system struggles to survive in an environment where funding has evaporated, policy is either non-existent or ineffective, and a functional privatized system is far from being a reality. In addition, other constraints cannot be overlooked such as a lack of vision, a lack of long-term planning capacity, and a lack of human resources; dilapidated health facilities? infrastructure at all levels; corruption and conflict of interests; and non-transparent health financing mechanisms. Addressing this impressive number of constraints will require well coordinated efforts between the donors and the government and demonstrates how important the need is for USAID/Albania?s assistance in health. By managing for results in health, USAID/Albania has had to seek resource efficiencies that have driven the Mission to consolidate a number of important activities to address the above. Because of the pressures on the Mission?s budget resources, the focus is on primary health care reform The Mission wants a balanced allocation of resources for primary health care and to create a transparent system that will address all forms of corruption, beginning with reducing ?under the table? payment for access and better service for health dispensary consultations. B. Basic Function of the Position: The incumbent will serve intermittently as a Health Adviser (HA) to the health SO team and will provide program guidance and support for the design, strategy development, implementation, monitoring and results reporting of the health portfolio. The Health Advisor will provide technical guidance to the FSN Health Officer as needed, assist her produce technical inputs to Mission-wide exercises at important times during each fiscal year, and be a mentor. The Health Advisor will perform the work during a succession of six TDYs, over the course of two years and must have a flexible travel schedule. Each TDY will be for a specific task and its duration will be determined by the nature of the task. As required, the Health Advisor will serve as a virtual member of the SO Health team to ensure maximum program impact with available resources. C. Major Duties and Responsibilities: The intermittent Health Advisor will serve as an expert advisor and technical authority on health activities. Serves as an expert advisor and technical authority on complex and, often, precedent-setting policy and activity issues, helping develop policies, strategies and plans for the development assistance program for the Mission Health team and implementing partners. Incumbent will provide specialized expertise to the Health team in designing and monitoring policies, strategies, and programs. Incumbent will provide technical advice, guidance, and support to the Health team on technical and related program issues regarding the design, implementation, management, and evaluation and monitoring of activities. S/he will provide expert advice and state-of-the-art professional assistance and support on policy, activity and SO portfolio implementation planning issues in development assistance. In particular, the Advisor will assist the Health Officer prepare the Health inputs for the Annual Report and the Mission?s annual portfolio review, the PRA. During the Mission?s updating of the Country Strategy Plan, the advisor will provide assistance as needed. Other foreseeable times input from the Advisor that will be needed will include, but not be limited to, the development of the Mission?s HIV/AIDS strategy, revisions to the performance monitoring plan, Mission inputs into regional health initiatives, assistance to the implementing partners on their work plans, and preparing close out reports. When the Health Officer is on leave or away on training, the Health Adviser will be needed to provide coverage. There will be times when the Adviser will provide assistance virtually. Advisor will assist the Health team in developing or modifying annual procurement plans and in adjusting the design of new/ongoing activities, as appropriate. Advisor will assist the Health team in the design and oversight of sectoral and multi-sectoral assessments and special topic analyses. The incumbent should maintain knowledge of current literature in order to advise Health Officer to facilitate and coordinate activities in selected health development assistance areas. Incumbent participates, as requested, in the review of contractor selection and approval, including preparing related documents. Performs other duties as assigned or required.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Tirana
- Country: Albania
- Country: Albania
- Record
- SN00677229-W 20040922/040920234739 (fbodaily.com)
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