Hiwot Seyoum

Hiwot Seyoum serves as an A&A Management Specialist at USAID/Ethiopia, where she plays a pivotal role in managing acquisition and assistance processes that align with the agency’s mission to strengthen public health systems, improve governance, and build community resilience. Her responsibilities include overseeing the full lifecycle of procurement actions—from needs assessment and market research to contract award and performance monitoring—ensuring compliance with federal regulations and USAID’s development objectives. She primarily handles non-construction services supporting institutional capacity building, technical assistance, and program implementation, with a focus on professional, scientific, and administrative support services critical to USAID’s development outcomes. Hiwot collaborates with a diverse range of contractors, including international consulting firms, local Ethiopian service providers, and technical experts specializing in public health, education, and governance. Her working relationships emphasize performance-based outcomes, requiring vendors to demonstrate technical proficiency, cultural competency, and a track record of sustainable impact in complex operating environments. She prioritizes partnerships with organizations that bring localized expertise and adaptive management approaches to USAID’s programs. Hiwot’s contracting patterns reflect a strong preference for open competition, with 100% of her acquisitions conducted without set-aside designations such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB. While she does not currently utilize socioeconomic set-asides, her procurement strategy emphasizes merit-based selection and value-driven outcomes, ensuring that technical quality and program alignment drive vendor selection over socioeconomic criteria. Her primary NAICS focus areas include All Other Support Services (561990), Administrative Management Consulting (541611), and Other Professional Services (541990), reflecting her procurement of technical assistance, program evaluation, logistics coordination, and institutional strengthening services. She also engages in water infrastructure-related procurements under NAICS 237110, demonstrating a multidisciplinary approach to development programming that integrates both service delivery and physical infrastructure support.