Title: Transportation Infrastructure (Railroad) Advisor
Requesting Office: USAID/Ukraine
Duration: 4 months
Level of Effort: 25-30 hours per week. Work schedule from 13:00 to 17:00 Kyiv time.
Work Mode: Remote with On-Site or In-Country support as needed. Level Must operate on Ukraine time zone- at 6 hours a day)
TDYs: Up to 4 TDY trips, each trip is 6 weeks in duration
Vistant (formally PMCG), recognized as one of the fastest growing companies across the country and the region by Inc. 5000, Financial Times, Washington Technology, and the Baltimore Business Journal, is a public-sector management consulting firm serving federal international development, healthcare, and social services agencies.
Essential Job Responsibilities:

• Technical Advisory Support
• Infrastructure sector strategic and project planning
• Construction project coordination and advising
• Project structuring including feasibility analysis and financing
• Stakeholder and donor coordination
• USAID program requirement compliance and reporting
• Budget support
• Related private sector engagement support
• Specific Deliverables include a project plan for rail line project and advisory papers on infrastructure investment.

Experience:

• 10 years of work experience
• Proven experience planning, coordinating, and implementing infrastructure projects.
• Rail experience highly preferred, with other transportation sector experience helpful.
• At least 5 years' relevant work experience preferred with related education in a field such as engineering, planning, railroad/transportation management, project management.
• Familiarity with construction and engineering standards, rail or other transportation standards, contracting structures, capital financing, and international coordination all a plus.

Education

• Bachelor's degree

Required Skills

• Ability to thrive in a fast paced and changing growth environment.
• Customer Service driven towards all external and internal customers.
• Unwavering professional integrity and the ability to maintain confidentiality of sensitive company/employee information.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with diverse stakeholders.
• Attention to detail and strong organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.

Security Clearance Requirements

• Must be eligible to obtain Facility Access Clearance.

Place of Performance:

• USAID Office in Ukraine

Salary Requirements:

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)