🇳🇬 Job Vacancies @ U.S. Mission – 5 Positions

The U.S. Mission to Nigeria comprises of the Embassy in Abuja, FCT, and the Consulate General in Lagos. U.S. Consulate General Lagos is the Mission’s representative to the Nigerian people in the southern region.

We are recruiting to fill the following positions below:

1.) Office Management Assistant
2.) Physician
3.) Voucher Examiner / Alternate Cashier
4.) Arts and Graphics Assistant
5.) Senior Program Specialist, Data Analysis & Visualization

Job Title: Office Management Assistant

Announcement Number: Lagos-2024-012
Location: Lagos
Series/Grade: FP - 0120 8
Work Schedule: Full-time - 40 Hours per week
Promotion Potential: FP-NA

Overview

• Hiring Path: Custom Announcement (not open to the public)
• Who May Apply/Clarification From the Agency:
  • This position is open to USEFM - FP grade is FP8.
  • Actual FP salary authorized by Washington D.C.
• Security Clearance Required: Top Secret Clearance
• Appointment Type: Permanent
• Appointment Type Details: Definite not to Exceed (5 years)

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Summary

• The incumbent performs clerical and administrative duties as the Office Management Assistant (OMA) for the Regional Security Office (RSO) pertaining to a multitude of RSO administrative items, both classified and unclassified.
• The incumbent will need to work independently and possess strong communication skills as the incumbent will be in contact with many diverse individuals on a daily basis.

Duties

• Incumbent serves as the Office Management Assistant for the RSO office. Incumbent is the first line of contact on general inquiries or requests. Position is responsible for the collection, review, compilation, and distribution of all incoming/outgoing communication traffic, and correspondence. Communicates directives and instructions from the RSO to locally Employed Staff. Incumbent will require unescorted access to the Control Access Area (CAA) and a Secret security clearance.
• Organizes all administrative and clerical work in the RSO office, including oversight of office equipment, inventories, processing staff timesheets, as well as scheduling of appointments, security briefings, meetings, and events for the section.
• Assists RSO in the monitoring of general expenditures and operating expenses with the various funding cites applicable to security operations at post. Assists RSO in formulating yearly budget requests.
• Maintains overall management of RSO filing systems and software to include schedules and calendars, unclassified and classified office records, archives, policies, manuals, and personnel security files.  Manages entries into Diplomatic Security (DS)-propriety applications: Records Management System (RMS), Crises and Emergency Planning Application (CEPA), RSO Security Management Console (SMC), and Regional Desk reporting. Proper handling of sensitive RSO records and provides advises on departmental guidelines for maintaining records.
• Drafts routine and substantive correspondence, including memoranda, cables, and security notices for publishing, including proofreading and quality assurance of drafts by the section.
• Coordinates travel logistics, travel arrangements, and temporary duty assignments for the section as well as visitors to the section, providing assistance with travel as necessary. Issues security badges for Mission staff.

Education Requirements

• Completion of High School is required.
• Please address this factor in your ERA application under Education.

Requirements:

• All selected candidates must be able to obtain and hold a Top Secrete Security Clearance.
• All selected candidates will be subject to a background investigation and, may be subject to a pre-employment medical exam.
• Selected candidate must be able to begin working within a reasonable period of time (6 weeks) upon receipt of agency authorization and/or clearances/certifications or their candidacy may end.

Experience:

• Two (2) years of administrative experience is required; this includes some of the following types of administrative duties: filing, scanning, scheduling appointments/meetings, maintaining calendars, ordering office supplies, making travel arrangements and receiving telephone calls.

Salary
USD $37,896 /Per Year

Application Closing Date
29th February, 2024.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Physician

Announcement Number: Lagos-2024-013
Location: Lagos
Series/Grade: LE - 0505 12
Work Schedule: Full-time - 40 Hours per week
Promotion Potential: LE-NA

Overview

• Hiring Path: Open to the public
• Who May Apply/Clarification From the Agency: This position is open to:
  • All Interested Applicants / All Sources
  • For USEFM - FP grade is FP 3 ($80,787.00).  Actual FP salary authorized by Washington D.C.
• Security Clearance Required: Public Trust - Background Investigation
• Appointment Type: Permanent
• Appointment Type Details: Indefinite subject to successful completion of probationary period

Summary

• The physician in this position is expected to provide primary urgent and emergency outpatient medical care services to all eligible American employees and their family members.
• Additionally, the incumbent will provide emergency and occupational health services to all employees of the Mission. Services will be provided through direct patient evaluation, examination, and treatment.

Duties

• The physician in this position is expected to provide primary urgent and emergency outpatient medical care services to all eligible American employees and their family members.
• Additionally, the incumbent will provide emergency and occupational health services to all employees of the Mission. Services will be provided through direct patient evaluation, examination, and treatment.
• The LE Staff physician is responsible for determining when hospitalization/medical evacuation is required and arranging all appropriate aspects of the patient's care.
• The LE Staff physician will participate in after-hours call responsibilities with other health unit team members. The job holder has significant impact on the entire embassy customer base in a variety of levels and fashions, including decisions on employees’ abilities to work, continued ability to be posted in their overseas assignment based on medical conditions that require ongoing management, and Medevac decisions and implications.
• The Front Office and Management Officer will look to this position to play a vital role in creating a healthier workplace, writing policies and providing advice on how to improve the health condition and awareness of the entire mission.

Education Requirements

• Medical Degree from an accredited Medical School and completion of appropriate post-graduate internship/residency/or fellowship is required. Must possess and maintains a current valid and unrestricted license to practice medicine within the host country, country of citizenship, or the U.S.

Experience:

• A minimum of three (3) years of clinical experience post-graduate training in primary care (Family Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Pediatrics, or Internal Medicine) with at least 50% of the provider's time involved with direct patient care during that time is required.

Requirements:

• All selected candidates must be able to obtain and hold a Public Trust security clearance.
• All selected candidates will be subject to a background investigation and, may be subject to a pre-employment medical exam.
• Selected candidate must be able to begin working within a reasonable period of time (6 weeks) upon receipt of agency authorization and/or clearances/certifications or their candidacy may end.

Salary
USD $50,180 - USD $77,780 /Per Year

Application Closing Date
29th February, 2024.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Voucher Examiner / Alternate Cashier

Announcement Number: Abuja-2024-011
Location: Abuja
Series/Grade: LE - 0420 7
Work Schedule: Full-time - 40 Hours per week
Promotion Potential: LE-NA

Overview

• Hiring Path: Open to the public
• Who May Apply/Clarification From the Agency:
  • This position is open to: All Interested Applicants / All Sources. For USEFM - FP is 07 (42,391). Actual FP salary determined by Washington D.C.
• Security Clearance Required: Public Trust - Background Investigation
• Appointment Type: Permanent
• Appointment Type Details: Indefinite subject to successful completion of probationary period

Summary

• The position is in the vouchering unit of the Financial Management Office, U.S.  Embassy Abuja and reports to the Supervisory Voucher Examiner.

Duties

• The basic function of the Voucher Examiner/ Alternate Cashier is to review, examine, and process all types of payment vouchers allowances for the Mission.
• Furthermore, the candidate is to be alternate cashier and provide full range of cashiering services to the Mission community in accordance with the regulations. The position performs duties in compliance with ICASS Service Standards.

Education Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or Business Administration is required.
• Note: NYSC Certificate/Exclusion/Exemption document is required.

Qualifications:

• Experience: Three (3) years of work experience with financial matters is required.

Requirements:

• All selected candidates must be able to obtain and hold a Public Trust Security Clearance.
• All selected candidates will be subject to a background investigation and, may be subject to a pre-employment medical exam.
• Selected candidate must be able to begin working within a reasonable period of time (6 weeks) upon receipt of agency authorization and/or clearances/certifications or their candidacy may end.

Salary
USD $ 19,132 /Per Year

Application Closing Date
28th February, 2024.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Arts and Graphics Assistant - All Interested Candidates (Communications Assistant)

Announcement Number: Abuja-2024-010
Location: Abuja
Series/Grade: LE - 0635 9
Hiring Agency: Embassy Abuja
Work Schedule: Full-time - 40 hours per week

Overview

• Hiring Path: Open to the public
• Who May Apply/Clarification From the Agency:
  • This position is open to All Interested Applicants / All Sources.
  • For USEFM - FP grade is 5/1 ($53,043).  Actual FP salary authorized by Washington D.C.
• Security Clearance Required: Public Trust - Background Investigation
• Appointment Type: Permanent
• Appointment Type Details: Indefinite subject to successful completion of probationary period

Summary

• The incumbent provides graphic, photographic, and video support for internal Mission purposes under the supervision of the Management Officer.

Duties

• The incumbent is responsible for implementing large process improvements in internal communications.
• Will manage multiple projects of this type throughout the year, while providing graphic, photographic, and video support for internal Mission purposes.
• The incumbent will develop and manage a print studio and create Mission Nigeria’s graphic design output for internal communications.
• Taking into account USG policy and the commercial aspects of working for a publishing house, the incumbent strategically analyzes design needs and creates products that responds to those needs

Requirements

• All selected candidates must be able to obtain and hold a public trust security certificate.
• All selected candidates will be subject to a background investigation and, may be subject to a pre-employment medical exam.
• Selected candidate must be able to begin working within a reasonable period of time (6 weeks)upon receipt of agency authorization and/or clearances/certifications or their candidacy may end.

Education Requirements:

• A Bachelor’s degree in communications, graphic design, photography, art, or information technology is required.
• NYSC Certificate/Exemption/Exclusion document is required.

Experience:

• Four (4) years' experience working as a photographer, graphic designer, art designer, or audio-visual specialist with a portfolio of work is required.

Salary
USD 30,488 / Per Year

Application Closing Date
23rd February, 2024

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Job Title: Senior Program Specialist, Data Analysis & Visualization - All Interested Candidates (Public Health Specialist)

Announcement Number: Abuja-2024-009
Location: Abuja
Series/Grade: LE - 0550 11
Hiring Agency: Embassy Abuja

Work Schedule: Full-time - 40 Hours per week

Overview

• Hiring Path: Open to the public
• Who May Apply/Clarification From the Agency: This position is open to All Interested Applicants / All Sources. For USEFM - FP is 04 (65,461). Actual FP salary determined by Washington D.C.
• Security Clearance Required: Public Trust - Background Investigation
• Appointment Type: Permanent
• Appointment Type Details: Indefinite subject to successful completion of probationary period

Summary

• Under the supervision of the Team Lead, Data Science, the incumbent provides technical expertise to improve CDC Nigeria and Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment programs in the country.

Duties

• The Senior Program Specialist, Data Analysis and Visualization (SPS-DAV), leads and manages CDC’s data analysis and visualization systems, playing a key role in profiling, enhancing, standardizing, transforming, and visualizing health data across programs.
• The SPS-DAV’s essential mission is to analyze complex data sets and present selected information in a visual and graphical manner that can be easily understood by consumers and decision makers.
• Data triangulation, translation and dissemination are essential components of CDC’s program monitoring and evaluation efforts, and the SPS-DAV will be instrumental in helping to keep the agency and its partners on track for achieving extremely ambitious goals for HIV prevention, care, and treatment.

Requirements

• All selected candidates must be able to obtain and hold a Public Trust security clearance.
• All selected candidates will be subject to a background investigation and, may be subject to a pre-employment medical exam.
• Selected candidate must be able to begin working within a reasonable period of time (6 weeks) upon receipt of agency authorization and/or clearances/certifications or their candidacy may end.

Education Requirements:

• Master's Degree in Information Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Epidemiology, Information Systems is required.
• NYSC Certificate/Exemption/Exclusion document is required.

Experience:

• Experience: Minimum of five (5) years of work experience as a Data Analyst, Statistician or Data Scientist in a health/medical research organization, university or public health program implementing agency in HIV/AIDS, STD, TB prevention programs at the local, state, Federal or international levels is required.
• N.B: Please address this factor in your ERA application under Major Duties and Responsibilities.

Language:

• Fluency in speaking/reading/writing English is required.
• N.B: Please address this language requirement in your ERA application.

Salary
USD 45,283 / Per Year

Application Closing Date
23rd February, 2024

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online