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There are 5 messages in this issue:
Message 1 - Senior Ministry Performance
Management & Monitoring Advisor, Iraq +b
Message 2 - Deputy Chief of Party-Shared
Governance Program, Mali +b
Message 3 - Investment Advisor +b
Message 4 - Senior Advisor in Renewable
Energy +b
Message
5 - Job
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Senior Ministry Performance Management &
Monitoring Advisor, Iraq +b
Posted by:
Recruitment ( recruitment@msi-inc.com
)
Name of company or organization : Management Systems International (MSI)
Place of Assignment
: Iraq
Job description
: Senior Ministry Performance Management & Monitoring Advisor, Iraq
Company
Profile: Management Systems
International (MSI) is a global international development firm based in
Washington, D.C. providing specialized short- and long-term technical
assistance. Today, it has over 100 projects under management worldwide and its
technical expertise has been expanded to include implementation of a range of
analytical and field projects in democracy and governance, economic growth,
organizational capacity building, education, and natural resource
management. At the beginning of 2008,
MSI joined Coffey International, Ltd., a global multi-disciplinary professional
services organization with offices in 20 countries around the world. MSI became
a part of Coffey International Development (Coffey ID), one of seven divisions
which comprise the Coffey Group. Together, we aspire to create extraordinary
outcomes for our clients, our staff and the communities in which we work. For
more information on MSI, please visit our website at www.msiworldwide.com.
Position
Summary:
Management
Systems International/MSI (www.msiworldwide.com),
an international development consulting firm based in Washington DC, is
recruiting for a Senior Ministry Performance Management & Monitoring
Advisor with substantial experience in working with ministries or local
governments to set up citizens to monitor government performance, preferably in
service delivery. This long-term position will be based in Iraq.
Responsibilities:
Serve as the lead technical advisor
helping Iraqi ministries set and monitor targets and develop
monitoring/management systems;
Demonstrate professionalism in working
with local ministries, US Government stakeholders and international donors.
Job
qualifications : Qualifications:
Masters or higher-level degree in
public policy, or related area required;
Minimum of 8 years experience working
with local governance actors;
Experience working in conflict or
post-conflict contexts preferred;
Strong analytical, communication,
organization, writing, and interpersonal skills;
Experience working with US Government
stakeholders, experience working with the US Department of State a plus;
Ability to work with minimal guidance
and handle tight deadlines;
Team player and self-starter.
Only
candidates who have been selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone
calls, please.
To
apply, please visit our website: www.msiworldwide.com.
Education :
Masters degree
Job
type :
Full-time, long-term
Deadline
for submission of applications : September 18, 2008
Instructions
to applicants : To apply, please visit www.msiworldwide.com
Follow-up : Applicants need not do follow-ups
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Deputy Chief of Party-Shared Governance
Program, Mali +b
Posted by: Recruitment ( recruitment@msi-inc.com )
Name
of company or organization : Management Systems
International (MSI)
Place
of Assignment :
Mali
Job
description : Deputy Chief of Party-Shared Governance
Program, Mali
Company
Profile: Management Systems
International (MSI) is a global international development firm based in
Washington, D.C. providing specialized short- and long-term technical assistance.
Today, it has over 100 projects under management worldwide and its technical
expertise has been expanded to include implementation of a range of analytical
and field projects in democracy and governance, economic growth, organizational
capacity building, education, and natural resource management. At the beginning of 2008, MSI joined Coffey
International, Ltd., a global multi-disciplinary professional services
organization with offices in 20 countries around the world. MSI became a part
of Coffey International Development (Coffey ID), one of seven divisions which
comprise the Coffey Group. Together, we aspire to create extraordinary outcomes
for our clients, our staff and the communities in which we work. For more
information on MSI, please visit our website at www.msiworldwide.com.
Project/Proposal
Summary:
The
shared governance program (commonly referred to in French in Mali as the Programme de Gouvernance Partagιe, (PGP) was designed for the purposes of contributing to
the consolidation of the process of decentralization and local governance in
Mali. Phase One program implementation placed a heavy emphasis on the
participatory governance of local affairs, on transparent financial resources
mobilization and administration, conflict resolution and gender participation
in governance and the improvement of the political environment supportive of
decentralization. It is anticipated that the next phase of the program will
keep the same focus with a special attention given to the governance of the ungoverned
spaces of the northern part of the country.
Position
Summary:
The
deputy chief of party (D/COP) will assume primarily the responsibilities of the
program coordinator for the north of Mali. S/He will work as a member of a team
of experienced colleagues who have already participated in the implementation
of the first five years of the program. S/He will add a new dimension to the
team as it relates to the mainstreaming of TSCTI studies and programs, and help
build better synergy with US organizations in charge of those program elements.
Responsibilities:
As
part of the program implementation team and under the supervision of the COP,
the D/COP will be in charge of the following responsibilities:
Assume management and program responsibilities
as the D/COP for the overall program in the North.
Orient the existing staff with respect
to the dynamics related to the TSCTI program
Coordinate program development,
execution and monitoring as they relate to the northern regions of Mali. .
The MSI team has already developed ties
with the Peace Corps. The D/COP will contribute to strengthening those strong
ties with Peace Corps volunteers operating in the zone
Conduct Liaison with USAID Mission and
the US Embassy with respect to TSCTP issues in the country.
Conduct liaison work with all the DOD
programs in the field as they relate to the development of decentralized units.
Conduct Liaison with Peace Corps with
respect to the synergy with Peace Corps Volunteers in the North.
Coordinate capacity building activities
for the benefit of the local staff and local partner organizations.
Coordinate the conduct a review of the
M&E system and draft periodic reports on the implementation of the north
dimension of the program.
Serve as Acting Chief of Party in the
absence of the CoP.
Job
qualifications : Qualifications:
The
following qualifications are required :
Fluency in French and English.
Masters degree in development studies,
political sciences, public affairs, and/or development administration.
Skills related to governance programs
management
Five years experience working in the
francophone sub-Saharan environment.
Knowledge of and experience with
local/grassroots development programs
Academic and/or field experience with
counterterrorism studies and related field programs and activities.
Familiarity with existing pastoral life and programs geared
at development in the arid and semi-arid areas.
Familiarity with TSCTI in general and
TSCTI studies and activities undertaken in Mali in particular.
Only
candidates who have been selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone
calls, please.
To
apply, please visit our website: www.msiworldwide.com.
Education :
Masters degree
Job
type :
Full-time, long-term
Deadline
for submission of applications : September 18, 2008
Instructions
to applicants : To apply, please visit www.msiworldwide.com
Follow-up : Applicants need not do follow-ups
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Investment Advisor +b
Posted by: Sandra S. van Doesburg
Name
of company or organization : SNV/Netherlands
Development Organization
Place
of Assignment :
Uganda
Job
description : SNV Netherlands Development Organisation is dedicated to a society where all people
enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. We serve some
3,000 clients globally. We give capacity development and management advice,
strengthen producer and stakeholder platforms, boost market intelligence,
improve access to finance and develop local service providers. Our clients are
selected for their track record and potential to make a tangible and
sustainable increase in jobs and deliver efficient value for money basic
services. Our geographical footprint in some of the worlds poorest and most
remote communities with 100 offices in 33 countries in 5 regions is second to
none. Our team is made up of 1,500 highly professional and dedicated staff
largely local, 30 per cent of whom are women.
We have more than a 40 year history. We take risk, test solutions and
seek to scale up models that are found effective. To increase impact, we work
together with all those who can make a difference. Our organisation
has a core subsidy from the Dutch Government. We also mobilize resources to
expand our coverage and impact.
SNV
East Southern Africa is actively involved in value chain financing. To
strengthen this core service offering, SNV has strategically positioned itself
with some of the world leading fund managers (Small Assistance Enterprise Fund,
ACUMEN, Synpase and Grofin)
to increase SNVs impact in economic development through enhancing clients
capacity to benefit from growth and equity investments in selected value
chains.
While
the various funds in the market have specific themes, SNVs main focus will be
to design interventions that maximize impact. Examples of themes include:
1.
Market symmetry: warehouses, input supply and business service providers
(Microfinance, Vets, Agronomy, Fertilizers, Leasing Companies)
2.
Value Addition: Transport and processing.
3.
Quality: Packaging and marketing.
We
seek an experienced professional who will deliver on SNV ambitions to leverage
and diversify investment opportunities with our clients.
SUMMARY
OF RESPONSIBILITIES
Reporting
to the Head of Economic Development, East and Southern Africa, the Investment
Advisor will work with the regional economic development team. S/he will liaise
closely with peers in the other 9 SNV countries of East and Southern Africa and
with relevant Head Office staff in the Netherlands. This position will focus on
creating a long-range pipeline of investment opportunities in the region and
updating it yearly; cultivating and soliciting investors, fund managers,
instituting a public-relations program; organizing appropriate staff training;
maintaining investment records; writing and sending investment applications;
sending follow up notes or overseeing that task; reporting to large fund
managers on specific projects; and visiting major businesses invested in. This
will require understanding of investment fund requirements, local investment
authority incentives and assessing compatibility with SNV values, mission,
strategy and policies.
KEY
RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Marketing and pipeline development
The
advisors will:
implement this service in our chosen
geographical and sector value chain;
be the lead in facilitating investment
proposals, Technical Assistance (TA) to management of the SMEs;
be the lead in feeding these ideas to
fund managers for presentation to the investment committee;
co-lead the marketing side of the fund
with fund managers. Fund managers will lead, with support from SNV locally, all
advertisement and placements of ads for applications.
2.
Basic Analysis
The advisors will be required to prepare
appropriate dossiers for independent scrutiny by the funds investment analysts.
3.
Projections
The advisors will produce multi-year
projections on investments. This includes first class business plans and other
basics of running a business in an emerging economy.
4.
Risk Management
The advisors will need to perform
beneficiary risk assessments;
The advisors will play a role in
managing risks on the beneficiary side through its investment officers.
5.
Distillation and dissemination of learning
The advisors will play a role in this
service and align with internal SNV delivery channels (Knowledge Management and
Brokering);
Supporting Account Managers in partner
countries.
DUTY
STATION:
The
duty station is Kampala, the capital of Uganda.
Health
services: reasonable to good
Educational
facilities: there are a variety of international schools, including English and
American. There is a Dutch school for additional Dutch language training for
several hours per week.
Security
situation: good
Accessibility:
daily flights to and from Europe.
SALARY
SCALE: 12 Minimum 3274.83 maximum 4867.41 gross per month (hypo tax will be
deducted) depending on relevant working experience, excluding attractive
secondary conditions and allowances.
LENGTH
OF CONTRACT: 3 years with possible extension
STARTING
DATE: ASAP
Job
qualifications : REQUIRED EXPERIENCE:
Education
Masters degree in Business, Finance or
related fields required.
Work
experience
Minimum 5 years of relevant experience
in agriculture development/investment arena (experience in Africa is a must)
An organized and strategic approach to
investment management with experience in developing, managing and coordinating
successful pipeline efforts (experience in Africa is a must);
Demonstrated success in the cultivation,
solicitation and management of investment funds;
Demonstrated ability to conceptualize
and describe agriculture based investment needs in a way that is compelling and
comprehensive to the potential investor;
Leadership and strategic qualities to
develop and support relevant staff in the region in investment brokering and
investment idea generation;
Experience in developing solid working
relationships and team work;
Demonstrated experience in developing
and managing budgets; computer literate including knowledge of the most up-to-date
pipeline tracking systems;
A track record as an effective
communicator who is articulate and persuasive in written and verbal
communications; adept at crafting business and investment plans and models,
investor correspondence and other kinds of materials and making presentations
to a variety of audiences.
Personal
characteristics
Committed to and enthusiastic about the
mission and vision of SNV Netherlands Development Organization;
Strong interpersonal/human relations
skills: outgoing, straightforward and creative;
Strong verbal and professional written
communication skills: one who shares information readily, listens as well as
gives advice and respects the abilities of others;
Ability to maintain relationships with
significant and influential individuals: an individual with credibility, good
judgment, honesty, integrity, trust, diplomatic, and the ability to motivate
others in a similar vein;
Ability to solicit gifts: a strategist
who is adept at planning, prioritizing, organizing and following through;
Team-focused, must enjoy and be
successful at working in teams as well as results oriented and proactive in
approach;
A person with a sense of humour, high degree of maturity, sophistication,
self-confidence, and flexibility.
Languages:
fully proficient in English and strong knowledge in French.
Education :
Masters degree
Job
type :
Full-time, long-term
Start-up
date : asap
Deadline
for submission of applications : 25th August 2008
Submit
applications to : Molly Ayiemba
at this email address mayiemba@snvworld.org
Instructions
to applicants : INFORMATION/APPLICATION:
You
can send your application letter and CV (in English) to Molly Ayiemba (mayiemba@snvworld.org)
under reference number UG 6531, until 25th August 2008.
Follow-up : Personal follow-ups allowed
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Senior Advisor in Renewable Energy +b
Posted by: Sandra S. van Doesburg
Name
of company or organization : SNV/Netherlands
Development Organization
Place
of Assignment :
Nicaragua
Job
description : At SNV, we help organisations
succeed and scale by unlocking and harnessing their true potential for
transformative social change. With more
than 950 professional technical advisors located in 90 offices in more than 30
developing countries, we provide strategic and contextualized advisory,
knowledge and advocacy services to more than 1800 leading public, private and
social sector organisations in Africa, Asia, the
Balkans, and Latin America to accelerate and sustain their fight against
poverty. Driven by the
principles of economic and social inclusion, SNV catalyses scalable and lasting
solutions that increase employment and income opportunities and access to basic
services for the low-income segment.
CORE
VALUES AND ASPIRATIONS: SNV aspires to think different and catalyze development
beyond convention not because it is easy, but because four decades of
experience on-the-ground have shown us that
sustainable solutions require integrated and contextualized approaches,
tailor-made strategies, and the ability to help our clients evolve. At SNV, we
believe in principled leadership driven by passion, inquisitiveness,
connection, results-orientation and integrity.
CORE
FUNCTIONS of the Senior Advisor in Tourism will include:
Strategic positioning: Identifying and
interpreting opportunities and/or barriers and threats of advisory practices
and ensuring information transfer to the team; Ensuring up to date contextual
analysis and interpretation regarding tourism sector.
Network development: developing,
expanding and maintaining effective and efficient local and regional networks
with relevant stakeholders; identifying possible new clients; functions as the
interface between SNV and the client;
Engagement and strategic scoping;
initiating multi-actor assignments at sub national or national level; preparing
proposal / strategies and ensuring approval on contracts; composing teams for
assignments and establishing contacts and agreements;
Advisory Services: leading assignments
and being direct responsible for their successful implementation; acting as
account manager for specific assignments and / or clients; determining whether
or not and when other disciplines should be involved; managing and monitoring
progress and resources allocation and deployment; being responsible for
contracting process, monitoring quality of services delivered by involved
organizations and local capacity builders within assignments; identifying
potential conflicting interests and initiating appropriate actions; ensuring
clients satisfaction on quality of services and processes during the
assignment.
Review and Evaluation of Advisory
Services: contributing to feedback process, coaching and evaluation of achieved
results for clients and SNV; leading the collective learning; being responsible
for timely and high quality evaluation processes, coordinating the evaluation
process and monitoring with clients; proposing corrective measures and lessons
learned based on evaluations; ensures identification of follow up assignments,
ensuring planning and coordination of actions.
Coaching advising other team members,
both professionally as operationally; coaching associated partners on quality
within context of assignments.
Knowledge development: contributing to
internal and external knowledge development; participating in knowledge
development / expertise groups and in external and internal networks; ensuring
lessons learned being shared and applied in daily practice; possibly being
appointed as national or sub regional focal point of an expertise network.
COMPENSATION:
Salary
Scale 11: minimum 2795,02 maximum 4294,82 gross
per month depending on relevant working experience, excluding attractive
secondary conditions and individual allowances.
CONTRACT
PERIOD: starting a.s.a.p. for 3 years and renewable based on performance.
Job
qualifications : ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS:
Academic level of Masters Degree in
Renewable Energy, Environmental field or any related areas.
SPECIFIC
KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE FOR THE POSITION:
Knowledge of key actors (organizations,
networks and decision makers) in the Renewable Energy (RE) sector within
Central America.
Proved experience in project design
focused on Renewable Energy alternatives.
Experience in Renewable Energy
Technologies and related program implementation
Strong knowledge of the legal,
organizational and political framework, technical standards and development
prospects in Central America related to RE
Knowledge and proven experiences in
Clean Development Mechanisms (CDM) methodologies, CERs markets and methane markets.
Experience in marketing and promotion of
Renewable Energy Technologies and in using market-based approaches for the
expansion of the RE sector.
Experience in successfully use of
business approach within the renewable energy sector contemplating social
inclusion strategies.
Experience in resource mobilization
techniques
WORK
EXPERIENCE:
Professional Background: Minimum 8 years
professional work experience, including at least 5 years of international
experience as consultant / advisory position, private or development
organization. Knowledge of the international development or international
business field preferred;
Language: A proven track record working in a
multi-cultural and diverse environment.
Experience working in a bilingual (English & Spanish) environment
with sufficient proficiency required.
Culture: Proven track record in working
in diverse and decentralized teams of professionals in an innovative setting;
able to lead, stimulate, inspire and coach professionals in a dynamic work
environment. Committed
to strengthening an innovative, inspiring and dynamic work-place environment
united by conviction to pursue development beyond convention.
Education :
Masters degree
Job
type :
Full-time, long-term
Start-up
date : asap
Salary
range : minimum 2795,02 maximum 4294,82 gross
per month
Deadline
for submission of applications : 4th September 2008
Submit
applications to : Ms. Pamela Espinosa at this email
address recruitmentla@snvworld.org
Instructions
to applicants : INFORMATION/APPLICATION:
You
can send your application letter and CV (in English) to Ms. Pamela Espinosa (recruitmentla@snvworld.org) under
reference number NI 6509 until September 4, 2008. For further information
regarding SNV Latin America, please visit our website at www.snvla.org and www.inclusivebusiness.org
For
corporate information, please visit us at www.snvworld.org
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