The Humanitarian Assistance Officer (HAO) will lead the Personnel, Experience,
Training, Equipment Readiness (PETER) team in identifying, distributing, and balancing workload and tasks among
employees to ensure timely accomplishment of assigned team tasks across 5 major workstreams – education and
enablement, readiness, data and analytics, IT helpdesk, and application development. They will represent the team
consensus and convey the team’s findings and recommendations to various stakeholders within BHA. The
incumbent will advise BHA, Agency leadership, and host-country governments on new developments and effective
approaches to humanitarian assistance; articulate the benefits of interventions to effectively reach specific target
audiences; provide technical liaison with other USG Agencies,, and other stakeholders to coordinate their efforts
with USAID operations and approaches to humanitarian assistance; develop strategies, plans, program guidance, and
dissemination of research results for Agency-wide application and incorporation into humanitarian assistance
programs; maintain liaison with sources of information inside and outside BHA to assess and review new or unusual
circumstances, variations in approach and incomplete or conflicting information; inform stakeholders of changes in
organizational programs and operations, conducting briefings on major program changes in particular those
impacting humanitarian assistance programs and operations overseas. The incumbent will sign-up for on-call
response assignments and serve on Washington-based Response Management Teams (RMTs) and/or Disaster
Assistance Response Teams (DARTs) deployed in response to disasters.