Deputy Administrator (Management and Resources)

In fiscal 2023, USAID’s budget was approximately $2.1 billion of which $1.7 billion was allocated for operating expenses.² The deputy administrator for management and resources oversees four central bureaus and four independent offices. The management scope of this position varies by administration.

• Serves as the agency’s chief operating officer and as the principal deputy and alter ego to the administrator.
• Leads performance and management reforms and reduces wasteful or ineffective programs, policies and procedures.
• Assists the administrator in carrying out the administrator’s authority and responsibility for the overall direction, coordination and supervision of agency operations at headquarters and abroad.
• Assists the administrator in directing the agency’s participation in the National Security Council, represents the agency at international meetings and performs other representational assignments, including the presentation of the agency’s position before congressional committees.
• Provides recommendations to the administrator on important personnel appointments and engages with mission directors and agency bureaus and offices under the deputy’s span of control.
• Leads initiatives to engage diverse partners and promotes development through modernized operations and equitable procurement practices.
• Provides oversight and direction to the assistant administrators and assistants to the administrator within the deputy’s span of control.³
• Represents USAID on the President’s Management Council.⁴
• Oversees the following bureaus and offices:
  • The Bureau for Foreign Assistance
  • The Bureau for Legislative and Public Affairs
  • The Bureau for Management
  • The Bureau for Planning, Learning, and Resource Management
  • The Office of Civil Rights
  • The Office of Human Capital and Talent Management
  • The Office of Security
  • The Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization

Depends on the policy priorities of the administration.