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 Russia’s full-scale war and attacks on Ukraine’s critical infrastructure.

JOB OVERVIEW

The Energy Specialist is a key member of the EER Team and plays a pivotal role in assuring adherence to power energy regulations, energy solutions development, and power engineering systems. He/ She will invest in providing energy response analysis support to the technical team and ensure the preparation of power- and energy-related and environmental assessments for project activities and interventions. The Energy Specialist supports field examinations, reports on reports on locations, equipment, and materials necessary to assembly and commission power energy installations, and maintains power- and energy-related documentation related to ERA’s projects. The Energy Specialist works in close coordination with the AGRI and BCP technical staff and Environmental Compliance team to ensure power- and energy-related and environmental assessment for ERA’s interventions; and will report to the Energy Response Manager and be based in Kyiv or Odesa.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Coordinate and review testing and analysis of potential power- and energy-related and environmental hazards;
• Support the ERA’s interventions, ensuring energy response compliance of activities and interventions;
• Monitor project power- and energy-related and environmental impact and report on compliance with USAID power- and energy-related and environmental policy;
• Participate in the evaluation of power- and energy-related and environmental risks of proposals submitted by subcontractors and beneficiaries in line with their reliability and ability to achieve the goals with a focus on the safe export of Ukraine’s agricultural products, infrastructure improvement, and emergency and energy response.
• Conduct site visits to assess subcontractors and beneficiaries’ energy response compliance, provide guidance on environmental hazards mitigation if needed;
• Oversee and monitor field implementation of energy response and environmental mitigation measures;
• Ensure submission of required internal power- and energy-related and environmental documentation related to ERA’s interventions to the DAI ‘s experts based in headquarter and coordinate with them further documentation preparation process;
• As required, coordinate energy response training and technical assistance;
• Undertake additional actions required by the Deputy Chief of Party to ensure compliance with USAID and Ukraine power- and energy-related and environmental regulations policies;
• Perform other tasking as directed by the ERA senior management.

Communication:

• In close collaboration with the Director for Communication and Change Management, represent ERA in a professional manner to the key audiences;
• Proactively engage with target communities to identify opportunities to promote energy response attentiveness of the local communities.

Monitoring & Evaluation:

• Manage activities to implement workplan at improving ERA’s indicator for energy response compliance;
• Coordinate with MEL team regular data collection, its progress, relying on innovative data-gathering methods when appropriate;
• Capture the output and outcome level data, document and report the results in a timely manner.

Reporting:

• Compile the Energy Response Compliance 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 DCOP and COP.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Advanced degree in Power Engineering, Renewable Energy Sources Engineering, Power Mechanical Engineering, or relevant field;
• Experience in Ukrainian power energy and technical compliance procedures for the enterprises of different industries;
• Minimum 5 years of relevant professional experience;
• Work experience with international companies or donors- funded projects preferred;
• Spoken and written fluency in English and Ukrainian is a must;
• 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

ERA BACKGROUND

Ukraine’s efforts to win the future – emerging from Russia’s full-scale war ready to accelerate its development as a sovereign, independent, democratic, and prosperous state – require a dynamic, inclusive economic recovery. Through partnerships with the government and robust private sector engagement, ERA has supported economic growth and resilience in Ukraine since 2018. Following Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and subsequent occupation of the part of Ukraine, ERA shifted from its focus on Eastern Ukraine to cover development priorities across the country that address Ukraine’s urgent needs in export logistics and infrastructural improvements.

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.

About the job

The Procurement Administrative Associate is a support position that will have the primary responsibility of assisting with all project administrative tasks and procurement functions. The Procurement Administrative Associate plays a crucial role in facilitating the smooth and efficient procurement process, contributing to the organization’s overall success by ensuring timely and cost-effective acquisitions. The role covers most of the routine procurement, document maintenance, and TAMIS system record-keeping. The Procurement Administrative Associate reports to the BCP Procurement Manager and is in the Kyiv office.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Monitor Procurement Tracker accuracy in coordination with other members of the Procurement Team based on Purchase Requisitions submitted by ERA staff. Ensure that all PRs are tracked with actual information from the point of receiving to the final receipt.
• Prepare the solicitation documents for the procurement of goods and services according to the shared tasks.
• Participate in the evaluation of bids and proposals and make minutes of the Evaluation Committee’s members’ discussion, prepare notes for the bids evaluation report, and technical evaluation minutes.
• Prepare payment requests and ensure that supporting documents are uploaded to TAMIS in a complete package.
• Participate in the joint verification of procured goods and equipment and make certain the items correspond to Technical Specifications and Quantities.
• Keep accurate and transparent document files and electronic copies requested by FOM in the TAMIS system.
• Submit completed procurement packages and invoices for payment to the Finance Team in coordination with other Procurement Team members.
• Work with hard copies and compile an archive of hard copies storing of which is legally required.
• Perform other tasks as necessary as assigned by Senior Procurement Manager.

About you

• BA education in Logistics or other relevant fields.
• Minimum 1 year of relevant work experience.
• Experience in administrative tasks, including filing systems.
• Experience of work in supply chain online systems.
• Understanding of standard procurement procedures and documentation workflow.
• Excellent communications skills and ability to relate to people at all levels of an organization
• Well-organized and self-directed individual with sound technical skills, analytical ability, good judgment, and strong operational focus. Excellent organizational skills with a willingness to take initiative and be proactive.
• Proven integrity and ability to adhere to the rules, honor commitments, and meet the spirit as well as the letter of those commitments, stand up for what is right.
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple responsibilities and respond effectively to the most sensitive inquiries or complaints; experience with enterprise accounting software, and Microsoft Office suite.
• Fluent in English and Ukrainian are mandatory, both written & spoken.

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 16, 2024.

For further information about DAI GLOBAL LLC, please consult our website dai.com.

Kyiv/Lviv

ERA BACKGROUND

Ukraine’s efforts to win the future – emerging from Russia’s full-scale war ready to accelerate its development as a sovereign, independent, democratic, and prosperous state – require a dynamic, inclusive economic recovery. Through partnerships with the government and robust private sector engagement, ERA has supported economic growth and resilience in Ukraine since 2018. Following Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and subsequent occupation of the part of Ukraine, ERA shifted from its focus on Eastern Ukraine to cover development priorities across the country that address Ukraine’s urgent needs in export logistics and infrastructural improvements.

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.

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.

JOB OVERVIEW

The Environmental Officer is a key member of the Environmental Compliance Team and plays a pivotal role in assuring adherence to environmental policies and regulations, environmental controls, and reporting systems. The Environmental Officer will invest in providing environmental analysis support to the technical team and ensure the preparation of environmental assessments for project activities and interventions. The Environmental Officer supports field examinations, reports on environmentally hazardous locations and materials, and maintains environmental documentation related to ERA’s projects. The Environmental Officer works in close coordination with the AGRI, BCP, and Emergency & Energy Response technical staff to ensure environmental assessment for ERA’s interventions. The Environmental Officer will report to the Senior Manager for Environmental Compliance and be based in Kyiv or Lviv.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Coordinate and review testing and analysis of potential environmental hazards;
• Support the ERA’s interventions, ensuring environmental compliance of activities and interventions;
• Monitor project environmental impact and report on compliance with USAID environmental policy;
• Participate in the evaluation of environmental risks of proposals submitted by subcontractors, grantees, or beneficiaries in line with their reliability and ability to achieve the goals with a focus on the safe export of Ukraine’s agricultural products, infrastructure improvement, and emergency and energy response.
• Conduct site visits to assess subcontractors, grantees, or beneficiaries’ environmental compliance, provide guidance on environmental hazards mitigation;
• Oversee and monitor field implementation of environmental mitigation measures;
• Ensure submission of required internal environmental documentation related to ERA’s interventions to the DAI ‘s experts based in head quarter and coordinate with them further documentation preparation process;
• As required, coordinate environmental training and technical assistance;
• Undertake additional actions required by the Deputy Chief of Party to ensure compliance with USAID and Ukraine environmental regulations policies;
• Perform other tasking as directed by the ERA senior management.

Communication:

• In close collaboration with the Director for Communication and Change Management, represent ERA in a professional manner to the key audiences;
• Proactively engage with target communities to identify opportunities to promote environmental attentiveness of the local communities.

Monitoring & Evaluation:

• Manage activities to implement workplan at improving ERA’s indicator for environmental compliance;
• Coordinate with MEL team regular data collection, its progress, relying on innovative data-gathering methods when appropriate;
• Capture the output and outcome level data, document and report the results in a timely manner.

Reporting:

• Compile the Environmental Compliance reports for the ERA management on a regular basis;
• Oversee Environmental 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 DCOP and COP.

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.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Advanced degree in Ecology, Environmental Management, or relevant field;
• Experience in Ukrainian environmental and technical compliance procedures for the enterprises of different industries;
• Minimum 5 years of relevant professional experience;
• Work experience with international companies or donors- funded projects preferred;
• Spoken and written fluency in English and Ukrainian is a must;
• Experience producing technical reports and managing data;
• Demonstrated ability to work and coordinate effectively with a wide variety of stakeholders.

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 14, 2024.

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

Kyiv 

ERA BACKGROUND

Ukraine’s efforts to win the future – emerging from Russia’s full-scale war ready to accelerate its development as a sovereign, independent, democratic, and prosperous state – require a dynamic, inclusive economic recovery. Through partnerships with the government and robust private sector engagement, ERA has supported economic growth and resilience in Ukraine since 2018. Following Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and subsequent occupation of the part of Ukraine, ERA shifted from its focus on Eastern Ukraine to cover development priorities across the country that address Ukraine’s urgent needs in export logistics and infrastructural improvements.

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.

JOB OVERVIEW

The Grants Associate is a support position with the primary responsibility of assisting the grants department with variety of administrative tasks to ensure consistent grant processing. The role covers maintenance and optimization of grantmaking data systems, document maintenance, and keeping the grants records in the Technical and Administrative Management Information System (TAMIS). The Grants Associate reports to the Grants Director and will work in the Kyiv office.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Assisting administration of the grantees’ selection process to ensure that policies and procedures are upheld as outlined in the approved Grants Manual.
• Assisting in collecting the concept notes/applications under NOFOs (notifications of funding opportunities.)
• Assisting in development and management of the trackers.
• Assisting in grant correspondence (notifications, questions to the applicants, preparation of the official letters).
• Checking the applicants for eligibility purposes and ensuring timely documents entry into TAMIS.
• Assisting in arranging meetings, taking notes, drafting protocols, presentations’ design, etc.
• Preparing the draft of the grant agreements and other grants related documents.
• Ensuring exchange, maintenance and archiving of the required hard copies of the documents.
• Assisting in preparation of backup documentation for payments under grants.
• Cooperate with Procurement team on market research for in-kind grants development.
• Perform other tasks as necessary as assigned by Grants Director.

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.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum 1 year of relevant work experience.
• Experience in administrative tasks, including filing systems.

• Strong interpersonal skills and written and oral communication skills.
• Essential working knowledge of digital tools and technologies for information processing, communication, and computer applications (e.g. MS Office) as an independent user.
• Language requirements are as follows:
• English level III (General working proficiency) Reading/Writing/Speaking.
• Ukrainian Fluent.

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 14, 2024.

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