Carol Masemola

Carol Masemola serves as a key procurement lead within USAID/South Africa, responsible for managing technical assistance and capacity-building acquisitions that advance the agency’s mission of sustainable development across Southern Africa. She oversees the acquisition of professional services critical to strengthening public health systems, governance institutions, and environmental conservation initiatives. Her portfolio primarily consists of non-construction services requiring specialized technical expertise, with a focus on building local institutional capacity through strategic partnerships and long-term technical support contracts. Masemola’s work directly supports USAID’s objectives in HIV/AIDS response, civic engagement, and wildlife protection by ensuring timely and compliant access to high-quality consulting and implementation services. Her contractor relationships are centered on professional service providers with deep regional expertise in public health, governance, and environmental management. She regularly engages with domestic and international firms offering analytical, advisory, and training services, prioritizing vendors with proven experience in sub-Saharan African contexts. While no single contractor dominates her portfolio, she fosters collaborative, performance-based partnerships that emphasize local ownership, adaptive management, and measurable outcomes. Her procurement approach favors flexible, outcome-driven contracts that enable agile responses to evolving development challenges. Masemola’s contracting patterns reflect a strong preference for open competition, with 100% of her acquisitions awarded without set-aside designations. This indicates a strategic focus on maximizing technical capability and value rather than socioeconomic categorization, though she remains compliant with all federal small business requirements. Her approach prioritizes merit-based selection based on demonstrated expertise, past performance, and contextual relevance over socioeconomic preferences. Her primary procurement activity falls under NAICS 812990 (All Other Personal Services) and 541990 (All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services), reflecting her specialization in advisory, research, monitoring and evaluation, and capacity-building services. She routinely procures technical assistance for health system strengthening, policy analysis, community engagement programs, and biodiversity conservation initiatives, demonstrating deep domain expertise in development programming and results-oriented service acquisition.