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Private Sector Adviser With FCDO Somalia
Closing: Jan 30, 2023
This position has expiredPublished: Jan 18, 2023 (19 days ago)
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Essential qualifications, skills and experience
Essential on arrival:
- Must speak Somali
- 5-10 years’ experience of delivering economic development programmes particularly adaptive approaches.
- Strong market systems development programme delivery experience.
- Good investment and finance experience including in financial sector deepening and investment climate building.
- Strong team leadership experience
- Demonstrated capacity to work effectively with a range of stakeholders including national government, bilateral and multilateral agencies and the private sector
- Experience of operating in a large and complex environment where teamwork, building relations, and bringing people with you is essential.
- Ability to deliver at pace, take initiative and manage your own workload.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Work in FCAS, with a preference for work in Somalia
Language: English and Somali
Level of language required: Proficient
Desirable:
- Experience working on or in fragile and conflict affected states
- Experience in solving a wide range of problems using a variety of tools, and being creative
- Flexibility to work on new priorities as they emerge.
Responsibilities
Essential qualifications, skills and experience
Essential on arrival:
- Must speak Somali
- 5-10 years’ experience of delivering economic development programmes particularly adaptive approaches.
- Strong market systems development programme delivery experience.
- Good investment and finance experience including in financial sector deepening and investment climate building.
- Strong team leadership experience
- Demonstrated capacity to work effectively with a range of stakeholders including national government, bilateral and multilateral agencies and the private sector
- Experience of operating in a large and complex environment where teamwork, building relations, and bringing people with you is essential.
- Ability to deliver at pace, take initiative and manage your own workload.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Work in FCAS, with a preference for work in Somalia
Language: English and Somali
Level of language required: Proficient
Desirable:
- Experience working on or in fragile and conflict affected states
- Experience in solving a wide range of problems using a variety of tools, and being creative
- Flexibility to work on new priorities as they emerge.
Lead delivery of the SIGS programme
- The UK’s flagship private sector development programme in Somalia, that implements a flexible/adaptive and system-wide approach.
- Act as Programme Senior Responsible Officer (SRO) clearly communicating programmes aims/objectives and approach, creating a safe, inclusive culture for your team of 5 that recognises success and brings along key stakeholders. And have technical leadership
- Ensure on-going compliance with corporate compliance criteria particularly in managing programme budget and risks.
- Line manage the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Adviser and Programme Responsible Owner. Role-modelling and coaching staff to effectively support policy influencing and programme delivery.
- Lead the Somalia Ec Devt/PSD Donor Coordination Group progressing the common objective of developing evidence-based policy/programming.
Policy influencing and sector engagement
- Lead UK influencing and engagement efforts on key policy areas such as: trade and Somalia’s accession to regional trade blocks, financial integrity, and price stability of FODD markets.
- Inform the engagement of key partners such as the UN, World Bank Group, European Union, and USAID through active involvement in steering committees and consultation activities.
- Shape/ influence Development Finance Institutions (DFI) engagement in Somalia including through developing relationships with colleagues in central London departments.
- Actively network /engage with the private sector to understand its challenges/opportunities for growth.
Cross-cutting PSD support
- Act as the FCDO/1HMG Somalia point person on prosperity, business, trade and investment, liaising with FCDO’s London Office and 1 HMG to provide timely responses to enquiries.
- Lead on cross office resilience work, working closely with the humanitarian and climate unit.
- Provide technical inputs into other relevant cross-office programming.
Professional and technical development
- Maintain and develop technical knowledge in FCDO Somalia focal areas through self-directed learning, networking, and engagement.
Resources managed (staff and expenditure):
The post holder will manage 1 monitoring and evaluation adviser and 1 senior programme manager and be responsible for a £ 38million programme – Supporting Inclusive Growth in Somalia.
The successful candidate will be expected to accredit to FCDO’s Private Sector Development cadre shortly after appointment
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