Team Leader, KE1

Job Title:                       Team Leader, KE1

Project Start Date:        August 2013

Project Duration:          44 months

Function of the Position:

This is a role providing overall management responsibility as the Team Leader for an EC funded project. DAI is searching for candidates in economic development and private sector development in Sub-Saharan Africa and ACP countries.  Specific experience in Ethiopia, Tanzania, Sierra Leone and Nigeria would be an advantage.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Provide overall management of programme objectives and performance
• Manage other programme team members
• Act as lead liaison between contracting authority and beneficiaries
• Provide technical backstopping to project activities
• Organise inputs of non-key experts
• Ensure timely delivery of reports and other deliverables of the project to the contracting authority to a high standard
• Monitor project costs to budget

Qualification and skills:

• An appropriate higher university degree in Economics/Development/Project management or equivalent
• Fluent  command of written and spoken English
• Ability to liaise with government agencies and private sector organisations
• Proficiency in full EC project cycle management as a team leader, including excellent planning, forecasting, monitoring and reporting skills
• Proven team leadership and coordination of an international team
• Excellent communication and drafting skills, particularly used in report writing

General Experience:

• Not less than 10 years of work experience in development and/or capacity building programmes. This should include field level experience.
• Knowledge of EDF programmes and procedures
• Field level experience gained in a broad range of sectors and institutional environments, such as NGO's and government.
• Previous work experience in developing countries and/or Sub-Saharan Africa

                                                                                                           

Specific Experience:

• Specific experience of at least 10 years is required in the implementation and monitoring of economic growth or private sector development programmes, including at least 5 years in Sub-Saharan Africa working on EDF projects.
• At least 5 years’ experience appraising PEs in a similar setting or field or for a similar purpose
• Intimate knowledge of participatory planning and facilitation methodologies; institutional and social development issues (including decentralisation, good governance, local institutional capacity building, poverty reduction strategies, mainstreaming of gender concerns, and rights based approaches to development); and project cycle management including the use of the logical framework                     
• Human resource management, and working within a multi-sectoral team environment involving a variety of stakeholders                                                                                                                
• Management of teams of experts for the implementation of multi-sectoral programmes   
• Knowledge of policy issues relating to private sector development and their practical application
• At least five years’ experience of capacity building in government agencies or ministries in related subjects to economic transformation                                                                                                                                  

To apply for this role please use the following link:

http://ch.tbe.taleo.net/CH13/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=DAINC&cws=1&r

Deadline for applications:

31stMarch 2013

Company Description

DAI is an employee-owned international development company. For 40 years, we have worked on the frontlines of international development, tackling fundamental social and economic development problems caused by inefficient markets, ineffective governments, and instability. Currently, DAI is delivering results that matter in some 60 countries. Our integrated development solutions turn ideas into impact by bringing together fresh combinations of expertise and innovation across multiple disciplines—crisis mitigation and stability operations, democratic governance and public sector management, agriculture and agribusiness, private sector development and financial services, economics and trade, HIV/AIDS and disease control, water and natural resources management, and energy and climate change. Our clients include international development agencies, international lending institutions, private corporations and philanthropies, and national governments.