Laura Unterholzner

Laura Unterholzner serves as a Recruiter within the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Office of Management and Administration (7200AA), where she plays a critical role in staffing and workforce planning for technical assistance and institutional capacity-building programs. Her responsibilities include identifying, sourcing, and onboarding qualified personnel to support USAID’s global governance, democratic engagement, and emergency response initiatives. She interfaces directly with contracting officers and program managers to align human capital acquisitions with strategic mission objectives, ensuring that procurement actions for professional services meet rigorous performance and compliance standards. Her work is foundational to sustaining the agency’s ability to deliver long-term development outcomes through skilled, mission-aligned personnel. Laura maintains a primary working relationship with AMD INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC, a contractor frequently engaged to provide specialized staffing solutions for USAID’s international development programs. Her procurement patterns reflect a preference for established vendors with demonstrated expertise in deploying technical experts across complex, multi-country environments. She collaborates closely with these partners to ensure compliance with federal hiring regulations, credential verification, and performance-based service delivery frameworks, fostering consistent, high-quality workforce support for field operations. Laura’s contracting activity shows no use of socioeconomic set-asides, with 100% of her acquisitions conducted under full and open competition. This reflects a strategic focus on securing specialized talent based on technical merit and operational readiness rather than socioeconomic criteria, aligning with USAID’s need for rapid deployment of subject matter experts in high-risk or time-sensitive contexts. Her procurement focus is entirely within NAICS 921190—Other General Government Support—encompassing professional staffing services for governance advisors, policy analysts, election monitors, and institutional reform specialists. She specializes in acquiring contract personnel with deep expertise in public sector capacity building, electoral systems strengthening, and crisis response coordination, ensuring that USAID’s international partners receive mission-critical human capital aligned with U.S. foreign policy objectives.