Kyiv

Project Background

AGRI-UKRAINE GRAIN EXPORT LOGISTICS

USAID’s Economic Resilience Activity (ERA) is one of USAID’s core partners implementing the $350 million Agriculture Resilience Initiative – Ukraine (AGRI-Ukraine) that was established in 2022 to bolster Ukrainian agricultural exports and alleviate the global food security crisis exacerbated by the war. Under AGRI-Ukraine, ERA partners with public and private companies to complement and leverage urgently-needed grain transportation and transshipment investments.

INFRASTRUCTURAL IMPROVEMENTS

ERA also directly supports the Government of Ukraine, including the State Agency for Restoration and Development of Infrastructure of Ukraine (SARDI), the State Customs Service and Ukrainian Railways, to upgrade 42 of Ukraine’s border crossing points (BCPs). Modern and more efficient border infrastructure and customs procedures will reduce export costs and increase export capacity, enabling Ukraine to scale trade and advance its path to EU integration.

AGRI-Ukraine Grain Export Logistics

Danube and Big Odessa Port Transshipment: (1) procure grain loading equipment, temporary storage structures, and port handling-related equipment, (2) procure pilot boats as well as support port service needs for navigational safety throughout the Danube River system, and (3) renovate and repair port storage and logistics facilities including the addressing of anticipated energy deficit issue.

Road Transshipment and Logistics: (1) procure specialized grain trailers and agricultural commodity shipping containers and (2) deliver loading and unloading transshipment equipment to make future road shipments a more efficient alternative should Black Sea ports remain closed due to Russia’s ongoing aggression.

Rail Transshipment and Logistics: (1) procure grain wagons, (2) supply new or used shunter locomotives, (3) deliver temporary storage bags and loading transshipment equipment, and (4) strengthen routes for Ukrainian producers to transport grain by rail through modernized equipment and handling practices, while enhancing western border checkpoints.

Phytosanitary Testing and Export Compliance: (1) deliver equipment and consumables for grain testing to 10 Ukrainian state phytosanitary laboratories and (2) ensure capacity building and training for laboratory staff.

The AGRI Private Partnerships Specialist is responsible for working with private AGRI logistics companies, grain traders, and agricultural holdings, both public companies and private-owned companies as well as agricultural associations/unions/councils. This role requires a strong knowledge of the AGRI commodity export industry, including logistics and supply chain management. The AGRI Private Partnerships Specialist will be responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with private sector AGRI companies and traders, working with them to identify and address challenges to the export of AGRI commodities, and supporting them in implementing best practices for AGRI products export and logistics. The AGRI Private Partnerships Specialist is based in Kyiv and reports to the AGRI Deputy Director.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain relationships with both private sector companies and state partners to promote the export of AGRI commodities.
• Work with private sector partners to identify and address challenges to the export of AGRI commodities, including logistics and supply chain issues.
• Support private sector partners in implementing best practices for AGRI commodity export and logistics.
• Facilitate communication and coordination between private sector partners and other stakeholders, including government agencies, international organizations, councils, associations or trade unions.
• Collaborating with the AGRI Team, elevate agricultural logistics and transportation capabilities, facilitating the streamlined and punctual export of agricultural commodities to global markets.
• Work closely with other USAID ERA teams to ensure that private sector engagement is integrated into all project activities.
• Join and closely follow the efforts of the AGRI team in promoting, reconstructing, and repairing various agricultural commodities export facilities.
• Creates meeting memos/reports timely with key bullet points to circulate among SMT upon request.
• Follows-up requests to or meetings with beneficiaries upon request.
• Conduct field visits or other business trips within Ukraine with the purpose of due diligence, visibility check, preparation of USAID vips meetings and other upon request
• Contributes to project planning, monitoring progress, and ensuring that objectives are met within budget and time constraints.
• Timely delivers all the ecological standard documents (ERC, EMMP, and others upon request).
• Timely verification to their best knowledge the potential reputational and compliance risks (Know-Your-Client).
• Analyze the private agricultural market and propose a strategy of partnership with selected beneficiaries.

Reporting:

• Prepare accurate and timely field reports and other documentation as required.
• Monitor and report on the progress of private sector partners in expanding and improving the export of AGRI commodities.
• Support the MEL Team with deliverables, as it relates to private partnerships.

Job Expectations

In this position, you are expected to share the DAI’s four core values:

• Integrity: commit to civil and ethical behavior, play by the rules, and do the right thing;
• Responsibility: be accountable to clients, partners, grant recipients, beneficiaries, colleagues, and communities where we work. If you fall short, you own up, fix the problem, and get it right the next time;
• Excellence: adhere to the highest technical and professional standards in innovation, learning, and service;
• Global Citizenship: respect cultural diversity and treat everyone everywhere with professionalism and dignity to make the world a better place.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in agriculture, business, economics, or a related field.
• At least 7 years of experience working with private agricultural logistics companies and grain traders or associations/unions/councils.
• Seamless cross-functional teamwork skills to elevate agricultural logistics and transportation capabilities, facilitating the smooth and timely export of agricultural products to global markets.
• Strong knowledge of the AGRI commodity export industry, including logistics and supply chain management.
• The ability to prioritize competing tasks, set realistic deadlines, and manage time efficiently.
• Experience working with USAID or other international development organizations is a plus.
• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Fluent English and Ukrainian are required.

JOB EXPECTATIONS:

In this position, you are expected to share the DAI four core values:

• Integrity: commit to civil and ethical behavior, play by the rules, and do the right thing;
• Responsibility: be accountable to clients, partners, grant recipients, beneficiaries, colleagues, and communities where we work. If you fall short, you own up, fix the problem, and get it right the next time;
• Excellence: adhere to the highest technical and professional standards in innovation, learning, and service;
• Global Citizenship: respect the cultural diversity and treat everyone everywhere with professionalism and dignity to make the world a better place.

WE OFFER

Contract length: 12-month employment agreement with a possibility of extension.

Benefits Package:

• 28 calendar days of annual leave
• 10 days of internal well-being paid leave per annum
• Medical Insurance for ERA staff and their families
• Life Insurance for ERA staff
• Coverage of all expenses for the business trips
• Military reservation is possible and granted if you are on a relevant military register

Start date: August 2024

Application process

All applicants must send a cover letter and updated CV (no longer than four pages) in English to ukraine@dai.com

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or status as a protected veteran.

Closing date for applications: August 20, 2024.

For further information about DAI GLOBAL LLC, please consult our website era-ukraine.org.ua.

Kyiv/ Odesa

ERA BACKGROUND

AGRI-UKRAINE GRAIN EXPORT LOGISTICS

USAID’s Economic Resilience Activity (ERA) is one of USAID’s core partners implementing the $350 million Agriculture Resilience Initiative – Ukraine (AGRI-Ukraine) that was established in 2022 to bolster Ukrainian agricultural exports and alleviate the global food security crisis exacerbated by the war. Under AGRI-Ukraine, ERA partners with public and private companies to complement and leverage urgently-needed grain transportation and transshipment investments.

INFRASTRUCTURAL IMPROVEMENTS

ERA also directly supports the Government of Ukraine, including the State Agency for Restoration and Development of Infrastructure of Ukraine (SARDI), the State Customs Service and Ukrainian Railways, to upgrade 42 of Ukraine’s border crossing points (BCPs). Modern and more efficient border infrastructure and customs procedures will reduce export costs and increase export capacity, enabling Ukraine to scale trade and advance its path to EU integration.

ENERGY AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE SUPPORT

As one of USAID’s most flexible activities that responds to emerging and/or emergency needs, ERA is expanding its interventions that assist Ukraine businesses, communities or individuals in the fall and winter (September 2024-December 2025). The goal is to minimize the impact on the Ukrainian people and economy given recent power deficits. This is an adaptive component and ERA may also need to respond to other emergency needs in the face of ongoing Russian aggression and attacks on Ukraine’s critical infrastructure.

JOB OVERVIEW

The Emergency Response Manager will be responsible for ensuring the development and management of critical emergency response and energy interventions from the design, procurement, delivery and monitoring of equipment and related installation service. The Emergency Response Manager is a key member of the ERA team and plays a pivotal role in assuring adherence to power energy regulations, energy solutions development, and power engineering systems. He/ She is responsible for technical energy needs analysis, beneficiary selection process and planned impact in close collaboration with ERA AGRI, BCP, and EER teams. The Emergency Response Manager coordinates field visits, reports on locations, equipment, and materials necessary to assembly and commission power energy installations, and maintains power- and energy-related documentation. The Emergency Response Manager supervises energy specialist(s) and coordinators, works in close coordination with the AGRI and BCP technical personnel, and reports to the Director for the Environment and Emergency Response.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Energy Response Assessment:

• Observe USAID mandatory operating policy requirements incorporating energy response factors and mitigative measures identified in IEEs, EAs, and EISs, as appropriate, in the design and the implementation instruments for ERA activities.
• Monitor project’s activities regarding energy response impact and report on compliance according to the Ukrainian power energy regulations and USAID environmental policy;
• Maintain beneficiary trackers for the location, budget and impact of EER support.
• In coordination with Director for the Environment and Emergency Response, work to ensure that ERA activities are aligned with the USAID ERA’s energy response and environmental standards;
• Coordinate site visits to assess vendors’ and grantees’ energy response compliance, and provide guidance on energy response and environmental hazards mitigation;
• Oversee and monitor field implementation of energy response and environmental mitigation measures;
• As required, conduct energy response training and technical assistance to vendors, beneficiaries and grantees;
• Oversee reviewing tests and analysis of potential energy response and environmental hazards;
• Undertake additional actions required by the COP and DCOP to ensure compliance with USAID and Ukraine power energy and environmental protection regulations and policies;
• Perform other tasking as directed by the ERA senior management.

Staff Supervision:

• Manage the team of three energy response professionals, coordinate their travels to the site fields and beneficiaries locations;
• Manage the workload for each of the team, set clear goals for each year period, monitor performance and evaluate results provided by each employee for energy response and environmental compliance of the ERA activities.
• Provide guidance, coordinate and advise on how to achieve objectives set in the ERA Energy Response Workplan
• Build the capacity of staff in performing Energy Response and Environmental compliance procedures; coach and empower staff to catalyze ideas and formulate implementation plan to reach the targets;
• Provide regular performance feedback and ensure that subordinates “do the right thing” all the time, honor commitments, do not cut corners, and stand up for what is right in a collaborative and respectful environment;
• Assist subordinates to learn and adapt from successes and failures; listen, be responsive and flexible to the needs and circumstances, cultivating meaningful relationships withing ERA team and external partners.

Communication and Reporting:

• In close collaboration with the Director for Communication, represent ERA in a professional manner to the key audiences promoting energy response attentiveness;.
• Supervise compiling of the Energy Response Reports for the ERA management on a regular basis;
• Oversee Energy Response Compliance of the awards through the review of reports, correspondence, site visits, etc.
• Prepare accurate and timely progress reports on a quarterly basis and contribute to preparation of annual reports;
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Director for the Environment and Emergency Response, DCOP and COP.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Advanced degree in Power Engineering, Power Mechanical Engineering, Power Engineering Project Management, Renewable Energy Sources Management or similar.
• Practical experience in Ukrainian power energy and technical compliance procedures, including construction.
• Experience in project management and/or team management.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant professional experience.
• Work experience with internationally funded projects and USAID is an advantage.
• Spoken and written professional fluency in English, Ukrainian.
• Experience producing technical reports and managing data.
• Demonstrated ability to work and coordinate effectively with a wide variety of stakeholders.

JOB EXPECTATIONS:

In this position, you are expected to share the DAI four core values:

• Integrity: commit to civil and ethical behavior, play by the rules, and do the right thing;
• Responsibility: be accountable to clients, partners, grant recipients, beneficiaries, colleagues, and communities where we work. If you fall short, you own up, fix the problem, and get it right the next time;
• Excellence: adhere to the highest technical and professional standards in innovation, learning, and service;
• Global Citizenship: respect the cultural diversity and treat everyone everywhere with professionalism and dignity to make the world a better place.

WE OFFER

Contract length: 12-month employment agreement with a possibility of extension.

Benefits Package:

• 28 calendar days of annual leave
• 10 days of internal well-being paid leave per annum
• Medical Insurance for ERA staff and their families
• Life Insurance for ERA staff
• Coverage of all expenses for the business trips
• Military reservation is possible and granted if you are on a relevant military register

Start date: August 2024

Application process

All applicants must send a cover letter and updated CV (no longer than four pages) in English to ukraine@dai.com

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or status as a protected veteran.

Closing date for applications: August 20, 2024.

For further information about DAI GLOBAL LLC, please consult our website era-ukraine.org.ua.

Kyiv/ Odesa

ERA BACKGROUND

AGRI-UKRAINE GRAIN EXPORT LOGISTICS

USAID’s Economic Resilience Activity (ERA) is one of USAID’s core partners implementing the $350 million Agriculture Resilience Initiative – Ukraine (AGRI-Ukraine) that was established in 2022 to bolster Ukrainian agricultural exports and alleviate the global food security crisis exacerbated by the war. Under AGRI-Ukraine, ERA partners with public and private companies to complement and leverage urgently-needed grain transportation and transshipment investments.

INFRASTRUCTURAL IMPROVEMENTS

ERA also directly supports the Government of Ukraine, including the State Agency for Restoration and Development of Infrastructure of Ukraine (SARDI), the State Customs Service and Ukrainian Railways, to upgrade 42 of Ukraine’s border crossing points (BCPs). Modern and more efficient border infrastructure and customs procedures will reduce export costs and increase export capacity, enabling Ukraine to scale trade and advance its path to EU integration.

ENERGY AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE (EER) SUPPORT

As one of USAID’s most flexible activities that responds to emerging and/or emergency needs, ERA is expanding its interventions that assist Ukraine businesses, communities or individuals in the fall and winter (September 2024-December 2025). The goal is to minimize the impact on the Ukrainian people and economy given recent power deficits. This is an adaptive component and ERA may also need to respond to other emergency needs in the face of ongoing Russia’s full-scale war and attacks on Ukraine’s critical infrastructure.

JOB OVERVIEW

The Emergency & Energy Response Coordinator is responsible for coordinating EER interventions with Technical and Operations teams to ensure they are implemented according to schedule and to the best quality, as well as for monitoring and reporting on their progress. The Emergency & Energy Response Coordinator is based in Kyiv or Odesa and reports to the Energy Response Manager.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Emergency & Energy Response (EER) Coordination and Reporting:

• Collect and provide regular information and updates on EER interventions to the Director for the Environment and Emergency Response and Energy Response Manager.
• Produce weekly/biweekly/quarterly and annual reports and presentations on EER activities and performance results coordinating inputs from relevant staff.
• Review and analyze the EER Technical Team reports to ensure clear and timely information is provided to the management for prompt decision-making.
• Maintain accurate project documentation and records.
• Prepare accurate and timely field reports and other project documentation as required.
• Keep respective activity records in the DAI corporate system (TAMIS).
• Collaborate with other departments and teams to ensure alignment with overall goals and objectives.
• Assist with translation / interpretation when requested.

Procurement and Inventory of goods: in coordination with the Procurement and Inventory Teams:

• Coordinate gathering information and documents for procurement procedures, Environmental Assessments, and inventory and transfer of the goods and equipment purchased for the EER private partners.
• Monitor procurement and delivery progress and ensure that activities are aligned with the USAID ERA plans and performance indicators.

Monitoring & Evaluation: in coordination with the M&E Team:

• Support the MEL team in conducting necessary data collection to report against EER performance indicators.
• Coordinate and analyze data to measure project impact and outcomes.
• Support identification and synthesis of best practices and lessons learned for organizational sharing and learning.

Communication: in coordination with the Communications Team:

• Contribute to development of monthly equipment delivery and event schedules.
• Facilitate the organization of public events, mission visits, and work in close coordination with Admin/Logistics/Communications to make all necessary arrangements.

 QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Project Management, Economics, Business/Public Administration, or related fields.
• Minimum two (2) years of experience supporting project coordination or management with an international organization is required.
• Proficiency in office software applications (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.)
• Excellent professional communications and negotiation skills and who can relate to people at all levels of an organization.
• Ability to work independently and in close cooperation with a team remotely.
• An energetic, thinking-forward, and creative individual with high ethical standards and an appropriate professional image.
• An extremely well-organized and self-directed individual with sound technical skills, analytical ability, good judgment, and strong operational focus.
• Fluent English and Ukrainian communication skills, both oral and written.

JOB EXPECTATIONS:

In this position, you are expected to share the DAI four core values:

• Integrity: commit to civil and ethical behavior, play by the rules, and do the right thing;
• Responsibility: be accountable to clients, partners, grant recipients, beneficiaries, colleagues, and communities where we work. If you fall short, you own up, fix the problem, and get it right the next time;
• Excellence: adhere to the highest technical and professional standards in innovation, learning, and service;
• Global Citizenship: respect the cultural diversity and treat everyone everywhere with professionalism and dignity to make the world a better place.

WE OFFER

Contract length: 12-month employment agreement with a possibility of extension.

Benefits Package:

• 28 calendar days of annual leave
• 10 days of internal well-being paid leave per annum
• Medical Insurance for ERA staff and their families
• Life Insurance for ERA staff
• Coverage of all expenses for the business trips
• Military reservation is possible and granted if you are on a relevant military register

Start date: August 2024

Application process

All applicants must send a cover letter and updated CV (no longer than four pages) in English to ukraine@dai.com

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or status as a protected veteran.

Closing date for applications: August 20, 2024.

For further information about DAI GLOBAL LLC, please consult our website era-ukraine.org.ua.