KPMG is a leading provider of professional services, which include audit, tax and advisory. KPMG’s International Development Advisory Services (IDAS) unit is based in Nairobi, Kenya and has adopted a pan-African approach to development work, employing full-time experienced development experts within the KPMG Africa team at our headquarters in Nairobi, together with a network of champions across the twenty - one countries of KPMG in sub-Saharan Africa.
KPMG IDAS Africa coordinates projects throughout the continent to ensure consistency of delivery and local team capacity development. IDAS Africa’s work spans the public, private and civil society sectors and covers six technical areas: Programme Management, Fund and Grant Management, Organisational Development and Performance Improvement, Improving Accountability for Donors and Citizens, Private Sector Development, and Rebuilding Fragile and Post-Conflict States. Our country and donor experience in Africa is extensive.
Due to continued growth in the region, KPMG is always working on and bidding for new programmes. We are currently looking for a Team Leader for one of the programmes in our pipeline.
Specific roles and responsibilities:
Management
• Provide high quality technical and strategic leadership, managerial oversight, and administration of the project.
• Oversee the design and planning of initiatives within the programme including monitoring and evaluation and knowledge sharing.
• Oversee implementation and delivery of program activities.
• Accountable for the achievement of results, ensuring quality of services are maintained at the highest standard, and that all project objectives and deliverables are met.
• Oversee the design and planning of initiatives within the programme including monitoring and evaluation and knowledge sharing.
• Oversee implementation and delivery of program activities.
• Accountable for the achievement of results, ensuring quality of services are maintained at the highest standard, and that all project objectives and deliverables are met.
Systems and Operations
• Contribute to the establishment and management of a Trust Fund.
• Adapt and implement management systems with standard operating procedures to administer all activities funded by the project, ensuring sufficient financial staff for disbursing all local costs under this project, monitoring and tracking expenditures, and preparing financial reports of project expenditures for submission to the donor.
• Assess the programme and fiduciary risks at regular intervals and manage identified risks, including drafting and implementing contingency plans.
• Adapt and implement management systems with standard operating procedures to administer all activities funded by the project, ensuring sufficient financial staff for disbursing all local costs under this project, monitoring and tracking expenditures, and preparing financial reports of project expenditures for submission to the donor.
• Assess the programme and fiduciary risks at regular intervals and manage identified risks, including drafting and implementing contingency plans.
Stakeholder Engagement
• Serve as liaison between the Fund, Investors and KPMG.
• Collaborate with partners, donors, and stakeholder representatives, building and maintaining productive relationships.
• Ensure long-term sustainability of the programme, including a strategy for knowledge sharing and transfer of capacity and expertise to the Government and other stakeholders.
• Collaborate with partners, donors, and stakeholder representatives, building and maintaining productive relationships.
• Ensure long-term sustainability of the programme, including a strategy for knowledge sharing and transfer of capacity and expertise to the Government and other stakeholders.
Supervision
• Supervise direct reports with a particular focus on achievement of key tasks and project deliverables.
• Develop staff skills and knowledge and facilitate supervisee success and professional development whenever possible.
• Communicate, implement, and assure adherence to KPMG and project policies, guidelines and values.
• Develop staff skills and knowledge and facilitate supervisee success and professional development whenever possible.
• Communicate, implement, and assure adherence to KPMG and project policies, guidelines and values.
Reporting
• Ensure timely preparation and submission of monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual work plans and budgets, and present them for approval to the relevant approving authorities.
Qualifications and Experience required:
Essential
• Demonstrated outstanding leadership, strategic thinking, and organisational, team-building and stakeholder management skills.
• Proven track record of leading complex projects, ideally which bring together stakeholders from the public and private sectors, and include development partners.
• Technical qualifications and practical experience in agribusiness (preferable at graduate level in Agricultural Economics, Land Economics, Economics, Agriculture or related fields).
• Experience in implementing and managing Challenge Funds a distinct advantage
• Proven ability to function effectively with multiple host-country counterparts and representatives from other key stakeholders such as NGOs and other donors.
• Strong verbal and written English communication and presentation skills, with proficiency in Kiswahili an advantage but not essential
• Proven track record of leading complex projects, ideally which bring together stakeholders from the public and private sectors, and include development partners.
• Technical qualifications and practical experience in agribusiness (preferable at graduate level in Agricultural Economics, Land Economics, Economics, Agriculture or related fields).
• Experience in implementing and managing Challenge Funds a distinct advantage
• Proven ability to function effectively with multiple host-country counterparts and representatives from other key stakeholders such as NGOs and other donors.
• Strong verbal and written English communication and presentation skills, with proficiency in Kiswahili an advantage but not essential
Desirable
• Experience in agribusiness finance.
• Experience of working in Sub-Saharan Africa; working in Tanzania and East Africa in general.
• Familiarity with the Government of Tanzania and major donor regulations and administrative procedures.
• Working proficiency in Swahili.
• Experience of working in Sub-Saharan Africa; working in Tanzania and East Africa in general.
• Familiarity with the Government of Tanzania and major donor regulations and administrative procedures.
• Working proficiency in Swahili.
How to apply:
If your career aspirations match this exciting opportunity, please forward your curriculum vitae quoting IDAS/TZ/2013/12 – Team Leader on or before 18 October 2013 to dasrecruit@kpmg.co.ke
Due to the high number of applications, only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
KPMG East Africa Team Leader Opportunity
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