Severine Marie Elisabeth Leon

Severine Leon serves as a Human Resources Assistant at USAID/El Salvador, supporting the agency’s mission to strengthen institutional capacity and governance through targeted human capital development. In this role, she facilitates the acquisition of personal services contracts essential to staffing advisory missions, technical assistance programs, and capacity-building initiatives. Her responsibilities include coordinating procurement documentation, ensuring compliance with federal human resources regulations, and liaising with contracting officers to align staffing needs with program objectives. She primarily handles acquisitions under the All Other Personal Services category, enabling the agency to engage subject matter experts in governance, rule of law, human rights, and migration management. Severine collaborates closely with a diverse pool of independent consultants, international development firms, and local institutional partners who provide specialized advisory services. While no single contractor dominates her portfolio, her procurement patterns reflect a preference for agile, high-caliber professionals with demonstrated expertise in public sector reform and institutional strengthening. She works in close coordination with USAID’s Office of Human Resources and the Office of Acquisition and Assistance to ensure timely, compliant, and mission-aligned staffing solutions. Her procurement activity is exclusively non-set-aside, with 100% of acquisitions conducted under open competition without socioeconomic preferences. This reflects the agency’s reliance on globally competitive, technically qualified experts rather than targeted small business programs, aligning with the specialized and often time-sensitive nature of advisory services in international development. Her primary procurement focus is NAICS 812990—All Other Personal Services—encompassing short- and long-term engagements for policy advisors, legal experts, governance consultants, and human rights specialists. These services support USAID’s technical assistance framework, requiring deep domain knowledge in institutional diagnostics, public administration reform, and rule of law programming. Her expertise lies in identifying and procuring high-impact human capital solutions that directly advance El Salvador’s institutional resilience and democratic governance objectives.