About the Position

The US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) is America's development finance institution. DFC partners with the private sector to finance solutions to the most critical challenges facing the developing world today. Information on DFC's projects and activities can be found at http://www.dfc.gov.

DFC's Board of Directors (Board) is composed of officials from the Department of State, the US Agency for International Development, the Department of Treasury, and the Department of Commerce as well as private sector board members. All of DFC's powers are vested in, and exercised by, or under the authority of, the Board. The Board provides direction and general oversight as to the manner in which the business of the Corporation may be conducted and in which the powers granted to it by law may be exercised or enjoyed.

This contract will directly support the Office of General Counsel (OGC). OGC is responsible for providing the Vice President & General Counsel (VP/GC), Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Deputy CEO, Chief of Staff, Board of Directors, and other staff members with legal counsel on a wide variety of international finance, investment and banking issues, and administrative matters associated with the DFC's activities and mission. The contractor will provide support to DFC, through OGC, on Board Liaison and corporate governance matters. In particular, the contractor will provide deliverables that support DFC's coordination with the members of DFC's Board of Directors who come from federal agencies and with the agencies represented by those board members. DFC's coordination with the individual agency representatives, and their agencies, are critical to the effective execution of the agency's mission. Thus, the contractor will need to establish and maintain productive working relationships with DFC management and with staff at various federal agencies in order to help provide deliverables that support communication between DFC, the Board, and the federal agencies represented on the Board, as well as other federal agencies that interact with DFC or whose activities otherwise impact DFC's mission. These deliverables will support the DFC interagency coordination and review processes.

Responsibilities

1. Interagency coordination

• You will be expected to provide updates to VP/GC, Deputy General Counsel for Policy, Monitoring, and Corporate Affairs and Board Liaison (DGC for PMCA), and Corporate Secretary on ongoing interagency policies and processes. Many of these policy matters will be of a sensitive and precedential nature. These updates will include, but are not limited to:
• The status of each policy; e.g. which agencies and DFC offices are working on the policy and where each policy is at in the development/review process.
• Short- and long-range program goals, objectives, and measurements for criteria for meetings
• Coordinate on DFC's routing of, and response to, issues going through the interagency process. This includes, but is not limited to, issues related to strategic competitors, including the People's Republic of China (PRC), and DFC transactions with PRC nexus, including coordination with Board agencies on revisions to and application of the PRC Nexus framework
• Track, and assist on the DFC input/comment on, executive orders, OMB circulars, and other executive branch policies and guidance that impact DFC. This support will include coordinating DFC inputs and comments and DFC implementation of the resulting agency requirements
• Obtains input from federal agencies represented on DFC's Board of Directors regarding DFC projects and activities. This input should include any questions and concerns the partner agencies have on DFC projects and activities.
• Assist with compiling and routing responses to Board questions during the formal Board Q&A process for Board transactions.
• Identifies interagency policies and processes that are ready for review/discussion at the CEO bi-weekly governance sync, Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) meetings, Board Committee meetings, and Board meetings.
• Compiles and disseminates communications to the DFC workforce on interagency policies and processes.
• Reviews draft Board documents to ensure the full, consistent, and complete integration of interagency policies and processes.
• Engages with stakeholders across DFC, the U.S. Government, and private sector to strengthen partnerships, provide legal trend awareness, advance information sharing, and advocates for DFC equities.
• Attends meeting with stakeholders and reports back to GC and DGC for PMCA on meeting outcomes.
• Coordinate with origination teams and the State Department on issues that arise in the course of State Department vetting or State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) vetting to ensure timely action and resolution of such matters

2. Interagency reviews

• Provide analyses of partner agency concerns about DFC projects and activities. These analyses should identify the policies and legal authorities relevant to addressing said concerns. In addition, these analyses should identify potential DFC offices of primary responsibility, and DFC offices with coordination responsibility, to address these concerns.
• Provides reviews of matters going before the Board and/or through an interagency coordination process. These reviews should identify the relevant authorities (e.g. statutes, regulations, and rules and agency policies) and analyze their impacts on the proposed actions. Many of these reviews will need to consider DFC adherence to BUILD Act requirements for support in upper-middle-income countries (UMICs), availability of DFC support under the European Energy Security and Diversification Act (EESDA), State vetting and DRL vetting, and the Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act (FATAA).
• Prepare deliverables for review and use by DFC government personnel.
• Specific deliverables could include the preparation and review of: (1) Monthly UMIC Reports for DFC submission to the State Department. These reviews would need to, amongst other things, ensure compliance with the State Department's safe-harbor requirements and DFC directives; (2) DFC submissions to State for one-off certifications for UMICs under the EESDA, including coordinating with DFC origination and PCG staff and staff at State to facilitate State approvals of such certifications; and (3) Deliverables on other key interagency matters such as Treasury waivers, energy engagement guidance, and supply chain issues.

Qualifications

• Must hold or be able to obtain a Secret level security clearance.
• Must be based in the DC Metropolitan area and able to report to DFC headquarters.
• Must have a minimum of 10 years working experience as a licensed and practicing attorney.
• Significant experience (at least 10 years) working in or with DFC Board Agencies (Department of State, US Agency for International Development, Department of Commerce, and Department of Treasury).
• Must have background in environmental and social (including Human Rights) policies, practices and standards and how they apply in cross-border or international contexts; preference for background in applying these practices to development efforts.
• Experience in energy, infrastructure, and finance issues. Must have an understanding of international development finance.
• Experience working on issues related to the PRC and Chinese state-owned enterprises

Preferred Qualifications

• Preference for a graduate of an accredited law school with an LLB. or J.D. with experience working as an attorney