USPSC Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) Program Manager

This position works in the risk analysis division, serving as a fews net program manager with responsibility for various activities. Fews net has long been a leader in identifying emerging threats of acute food insecurity. It is entering a new phase with an expanding geographic scope that responds to the changing nature of acute food insecurity, increasingly marked by conflict, climate variability and extremes, and macroeconomic shocks. The fews net program manager is responsible for co-managing with other fews net program managers the fews net portfolio of mechanisms (including contracts, grants, public international organization grants and cooperative agreements) and for robust engagement with and service delivery to key fews net stakeholders in bha, usaid, the broader u. S. Government (usg), and the international humanitarian and development community. The fews net program manager will meet weekly with the fews net management team leader to check in and provide updates on staff’s portfolio. See outside linked file.