Table of Contents:

There are 10 messages in this issue:

Message 1 - Senior Advisor in Inclusive Business-Exports Promotion +b

Message 2 - Senior Advisor in Industrial Development +b

Message 3 - Human Resources Manager, Khartoum Sudan +b

Message 4 - Senior Advisor Water, Sanitation and Hygiene +b

Message 5 - Senior Advisor in Biofuels +b

Message 6 - Senior Advisor in Sustainable Tourism +b

Message 7 - Junior Advisor Tourism +b

Message 8 - Senior Advisor Tourism +b

Message 9 - Country Director Mali and Burkina Faso +b

Message 10 - Senior Advisor in Renewable Energy +b

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Senior Advisor in Inclusive Business-Exports Promotion +b

Posted by: Sandra S. van Doesburg

Name of company or organization : SNV/Netherlands Development Organization

Place of Assignment :  Bolivia  

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 Inclusive Business and Exports Promotion will include:

•        Strategic positioning: Identify and interpret opportunities and/or barriers and threats of advisory practices and ensuring information transfer to the team; ensure up to date contextual analysis and interpretation regarding the commodities exports sector;

•        Network development: Develop, expand and maintain effective and efficient local and regional networks with relevant stakeholders; identify possible new clients; functions as the interface between SNV and the client;

•        Engagement and strategic scoping; Initiate multi-actor assignments at sub national or national level; prepare proposal / strategies and ensure approval on contracts; compose teams for assignments and establish contacts and agreements;

•        Advisory Services: Lead assignments and being directly responsible for their successful implementation; act as account manager for specific assignments and / or clients; determine whether or not and when other disciplines should be involved; manage and monitor progress and resources allocation and deployment; be responsible for contracting process, monitor quality of services delivered by involved organizations and local capacity builders within assignments; identify potential conflicting interests and initiate appropriate actions; ensure clients satisfaction on quality of services and processes during the assignment;

•        Review and Evaluation of Advisory Services: Contribute to feedback process, coaching and evaluation of achieved results for clients and SNV; lead the collective learning; be responsible for timely and high quality evaluation processes, coordinate the evaluation process and monitor with clients; propose corrective measures and lessons learned based on evaluations; ensure identification of follow up assignments, ensure planning and coordination of actions;

•        Coaching Advise other team members, both professionally as operationally; coach associated partners on quality within context of assignments;

•        Knowledge development: Contribute to internal and external knowledge development; participate in knowledge development / expertise groups and in external and internal networks; ensure lessons learned being shared and applied in daily practice; possibly being appointed as national or sub regional focal point of an expertise network.

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 2 years and with possibility of extension based on performance.

INFORMATION ON APPLICATION:

You can send your application letter and CV (in English) to Ms. Jennifer Chumacero (seleccion@snvbo.org) under reference number BO 6580, until 10th September, 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

Job qualifications : ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS:

•        Masters Degree in economics, business administration, international trade or equivalent.

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE FOR THE POSITION:

•        Proved knowledge of the Latin-American context, especially regarding economic development and agro industrial and productive development.

•        Experience in promoting business in development countries.

•        Knowledge of commodities’ and special commodities’ markets, forestry sector (desirable) especially connecting Latin America or other developing countries with United States of America and/or Europe.

•        Experience in the development of public policies for the promotion of exports and the development of potential products with emphasize on small and medium enterprises.

•        Desirable knowledge of market development for the tourist sector.

•        Proven capacity of engaging local productive initiatives to international markets.

•        Experience in research, quantitative analysis and preparation of technical documents.

•        Strong negotiation skills, leadership and results oriented.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

•        Professional Background: Minimum 8 years of professional work experience, including at least 5 years of international experience as consultant or in an advisory position in a 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 : Given in Text

Deadline for submission of applications : 10 September 2008

Submit applications to : Jennifer Chumacero  at this email address seleccion@snvbo.org  

Instructions to applicants : INFORMATION ON APPLICATION:

You can send your application letter and CV (in English) to Ms. Jennifer Chumacero (seleccion@snvbo.org) under reference number BO 6580, until 10th September, 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

Follow-up : Personal follow-ups allowed

Important Message: Please mention clearly in your application letter that you learned about this job vacancy through DEVJOBS, and  mention the URL of DEVJOBS, which is http://www.devjobsmail.com.

Senior Advisor in Industrial Development +b

Posted by: Sandra S. van Doesburg

Name of company or organization : SNV/Netherlands Development Organization

Place of Assignment :  Bolivia  

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 Industrial Development will include:

•        Strategic positioning: Identify and interpret opportunities and/or barriers and threats of advisory practices and ensuring information transfer to the team; ensure up to date contextual analysis and interpretation regarding the commodities exports sector;

•        Network development: Develop, expand and maintain effective and efficient local and regional networks with relevant stakeholders; identify possible new clients; functions as the interface between SNV and the client;

•        Engagement and strategic scoping; Initiate multi-actor assignments at sub national or national level; prepare proposal / strategies and ensure approval on contracts; compose teams for assignments and establish contacts and agreements;

•        Advisory Services: Lead assignments and being directly responsible for their successful implementation; act as account manager for specific assignments and / or clients; determine whether or not and when other disciplines should be involved; manage and monitor progress and resources allocation and deployment; be responsible for contracting process, monitor quality of services delivered by involved organizations and local capacity builders within assignments; identify potential conflicting interests and initiate appropriate actions; ensure clients satisfaction on quality of services and processes during the assignment;

•        Review and Evaluation of Advisory Services: Contribute to feedback process, coaching and evaluation of achieved results for clients and SNV; lead the collective learning; be responsible for timely and high quality evaluation processes, coordinate the evaluation process and monitor with clients; propose corrective measures and lessons learned based on evaluations; ensure identification of follow up assignments, ensure planning and coordination of actions;

•        Coaching Advise other team members, both professionally as operationally; coach associated partners on quality within context of assignments;

•        Knowledge development: Contribute to internal and external knowledge development; participate in knowledge development / expertise groups and in external and internal networks; ensure lessons learned being shared and applied in daily practice; possibly being appointed as national or sub regional focal point of an expertise network.

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 2 years with a possibility of extension based on performance.

Job qualifications : ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS:

•        MBA in economics, business administration, industrial engineering or equivalent.

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE FOR THE POSITION:

•        Proved knowledge of the Latin-American context, especially regarding economic development and public policies related to the promotion of the industrial sector.

•        Experience in promoting business in development countries especially within countries that promote innovative public policies for the industrial sector.

•        Experience in the development of public policies for the promotion of the industrial sector, for technological innovation, specifically oriented to small and medium enterprises.

•        Proven capacity of engaging local productive initiatives with international best practices.

•        Experience in research, quantitative analysis and preparation of technical documents.

•        Strong negotiation skills, leadership and results oriented.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

•        Professional Background: Minimum 8 years of professional work experience, including at least 5 years of international experience as consultant or in an advisory position in a 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 : Given in Text

Deadline for submission of applications : 10 September 2008

Submit applications to : Jennifer Chumacero  at this email address seleccion@snvbo.org  

Instructions to applicants : INFORMATION ON APPLICATION:

You can send your application letter and CV (in English) to Ms. Jennifer Chumacero (seleccion@snvbo.org) under reference number BO 6579, until September 10th 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

Follow-up : Personal follow-ups allowed

Important Message: Please mention clearly in your application letter that you learned about this job vacancy through DEVJOBS, and  mention the URL of DEVJOBS, which is http://www.devjobsmail.com.

Human Resources Manager, Khartoum Sudan +b

Posted by: Recruitment ( recruitment@msi-inc.com )

Name of company or organization : Management Systems International (MSI)

Place of Assignment :  Sudan  

Job description : Human Resources Manager, Khartoum Sudan

Please note: This is a local position.  Only Sudanese candidates are eligible to apply.

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: 

MSI was recently awarded a three-year contract with USAID/Sudan named SUPPORT (Services Under Program and Project Offices for Results Tracking), and tasked with responsibility for executing many functions normally associated with the Mission\'s Program and Communications offices.  As a part of the SUPPORT program, MSI is currently establishing an office and residential compound in Juba, Sudan, conducting evaluations and special studies, hosting conferences, hiring technical and support staff and facilitating VIP visits.  For more information on our Sudan project (Services Under Program and Project Offices for Results Tracking - SUPPORT) please follow this link: http://www.msiworldwide.com/index.cfm?msiweb=project&p_id=150.

Position Summary:

The Human Resources Manager will be responsible for all HR functions for MSI\'s SUPPORT offices in Sudan (Khartoum and Juba).

Responsibilities:

•        Manage local MSI employee benefits;

•        Maintain HR related files;

•        Assist in the hiring and HR orientation of new local employees;

•        Advise the Chief of Party on Sudan labor and employment laws;

•        Assist and advise the Chief of Party in employee relations issues;

•        Be based in Juba, with travel to field offices as necessary.

Job qualifications : Qualifications:

•        Minimum 5 years human resources experience at the management level.

•        Prior experience managing HR for an international development organization strongly preferred.

•        Professional level fluency in English and Arabic.  Fluency in a language common to Southern Sudan also helpful.

•        In depth knowledge of Sudanese employment laws and practices required.

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 : Bachelors degree 

Job type :  Full-time, long-term

Deadline for submission of applications : September 20, 2008

Instructions to applicants : To apply, please visit our website at www.msiworldwide.com  

Follow-up : Applicants need not do follow-ups 

Important Message: Please mention clearly in your application letter that you learned about this job vacancy through DEVJOBS, and  mention the URL of DEVJOBS, which is http://www.devjobsmail.com.

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Senior Advisor Water, Sanitation and Hygiene +b

Posted by: Sandra S. van Doesburg

Name of company or organization : SNV/Netherlands Development Organization

Place of Assignment :  Kenya  

Job description : SNV Netherlands Development Organisation is working in over 33 developing countries across the world. In these countries, we are dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own development. The emphasis of our work is on poverty alleviation through (1) increasing Production, Income and Employment (PIE) and (2) increasing access to Basic Services (BASE) in the sectors of Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WaSH), Education, Health and Renewable Energy. We aim to achieve considerable impact in both ¡¥impact areas¡¦. We do this through providing advisory services, facilitating knowledge development, brokering and networking, strengthening local capacity builders, supporting the establishment of local capacity development funds and carrying out advocacy at national and international levels.

Within its general objective to contribute to poverty reduction, SNV is in the process of focusing its activities on the improvement of basic service delivery within the framework of the Millennium Development Goals. In relation the WaSH sector, SNV Kenya aims to contribute to MDG 7 (Environmental Sustainability), target 10: halving the number of people without sustainable access to safe water and basic sanitation (incl. hygiene).

SNV Kenya support to water, sanitation and hygiene is guided by impact targets emanating from the MDG-based National Water Services Strategy (NWSS) 2007-2015 as domesticated by the Water Services Boards and urban (utility) and rural (community-based) Water Service Providers who provide a primary entry points for WaSH services. To ensure increased access to adequate and sustainable WaSH services, SNV Kenya seeks to work with WaSH service providers  (and support programmes) in providing access to clean water to rural (pastoralists) communities and the peri-urban poor. Working with and through client constellations, our efforts are geared towards bridging (inter)sectoral divides by fostering relationships between key players involved in WaSH service delivery and water (and other natural) resource management to sustain the water supply and quality.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:

1.       Refine and evolve the WASH concepts and strategies developed to date at the Country and Portfolio level and translate these into action-oriented initiatives by a multitude of actors within the sector, thereby giving due attention to power relations that foster inequality and hamper a conducive environment for service provision to the poor.

2.       Maintain up-to-date information on sector developments through an on-going analysis of trends and issues and identify, together with all relevant stakeholders the requisite capacity development services geared towards increasing access to safe and sustainable drinking water and basic sanitation.

3.       Support initiatives of local actors to influence and contribute to policy and strategy development within the water sector, facilitating scaling up and rolling out of lessons learnt at the local and national level

4.       Delivery of advisory services to public, civil society and private sector organizations towards enhanced delivery of water and sanitation services in Northern Kenya.

5.       Investigate and stimulate public-private and civil society partnerships to ensure quality of water and sanitation services and enhance pro-poor service delivery.

6.       Follow up and contribute actively to national policies and developments related to water and sanitation and analyze them in terms of their opportunities and implications for improved service delivery

7.       To support other SNV advisors in the development of competencies and skills in order to provide the above mentioned services to clients and partners in an effective and efficient manner.

8.       Fulfill a leading role in WaSH knowledge development, brokering and networking (dissemination) within SNV Kenya

9.       To participate actively in existing networks of WaSH services in Kenya and at international levels and explore emergent opportunities for further evolution of the practice.

10.     To identify and pursue opportunities for external funding of SNV¡¦s technical and organizational advisory services in WaSH.

Working in a team of 10 advisors, the advisor will especially link up with the other BASE and PIE advisors to build on synergy and unity of purpose to realise the SNV mission.

DESCRIPTION OF DUTY STATION: Nanyuki, Northern Portfolio, Kenya

Medical and educational facilities: Fair medical facilities in Nanyuki and good medical facilities in Nairobi (2.5 hours by good tarred road).

Schooling: Fair (in Nanyuki), good international schools in Nairobi

Security situation: Peace is prevailing throughout the country

Accessibility: Daily flights with KLM/Kenya Airways and several connecting flights from Nairobi.

CONTRACT PERIOD: 3 years with possible extension

DESIRED APPOINTMENT DATE: ASAP

SALARY SCALE: 11 Minimum £á 2.795,02 ¡V Maximum £á 4.294,82 depending on working experience.

Job qualifications : REQUIREMENTS:

Education:

„X     Professional with a Masters degree in Water Resource Management, Sanitary Engineering, Public Health or other relevant degree with specialization in water sanitation and hygiene service provision.

„X     8-10 years of experience in water resource management and/or WaSH service delivery including 5 years as senior advisor or consultant

Specific Knowledge / Skills:

„X     Comprehension of WaSH approaches and concepts;

„X     Affinity with the legal and institutional framework for WaSH service delivery in Kenya;

„X     Experience with service delivery mechanisms, including financial management and cost recovery mechanisms;

„X     Knowledge of good (water) governance practices, gender-sensitive and empowerment principles approaches;

„X     Comprehension of, and preferably experience with, political and socio-economical context of Kenya;

„X     Ability to generate knowledge and publish articles on WASH.

Knowledge and skills for the position:

„X     Application of theoretical models related to development processes, organizational (OD)- and institutional (inter-organizational, ID) development (Capacity Development Services);

„X     Advocacy, networking / lobbying and knowledge brokering;

„X     Strategic analysis of WASH environment both nationally as well as internationally;

„X     Coaching;

„X     Searching for knowledge and knowledge development (internet, knowledge institutes)

Other: English required. Computer skills including Word, Excel and Geographic- and Management Information (GIS-MIS) systems.

Education : Masters degree 

Job type :  Full-time, long-term

Start-up date : asap

Salary range : Given in Text

Deadline for submission of applications : 11 September 2008

Submit applications to : Christine Ogolo at this email address cogolo@snvworld.org  

Instructions to applicants : INFORMATION ON THE APPLICATION

You can send your application letter and CV (in English) to Ms. Christine Ogolo (cogolo@snvworld.org) until September 11, 2008.

For corporate information, please visit us at www.snvworld.org

Follow-up : Personal follow-ups allowed

Important Message: Please mention clearly in your application letter that you learned about this job vacancy through DEVJOBS, and  mention the URL of DEVJOBS, which is http://www.devjobsmail.com.

Senior Advisor in Biofuels +b

Posted by: Sandra S. van Doesburg

Name of company or organization : SNV/Netherlands Development Organization

Place of Assignment :  Honduras  

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 Biofuels 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 biofuels 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.

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 economics, business administration, environmental science, agro-economy or equivalent.

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE FOR THE POSITION:

•        Proved experience in project design and in promoting biofuel projects. Knowledge of value chain approach for economic development in biofuels

•        Knowledge and/or expertise in CDM related to biofuels, CER’s market and VER markets; and using market-based approaches for an expanding biofuels sector.

•        Experience in resource mobilization techniques within the sector.

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 : Given in Text

Deadline for submission of applications : 11 September 2008

Submit applications to : 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 Mrs. Pamela Espinosa (recruitmentla@snvworld.org) under reference number HN 6489, until the 11th of September 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

Follow-up : Personal follow-ups allowed

Important Message: Please mention clearly in your application letter that you learned about this job vacancy through DEVJOBS, and  mention the URL of DEVJOBS, which is http://www.devjobsmail.com.

Senior Advisor in Sustainable Tourism +b

Posted by: Sandra S. van Doesburg

 

Name of company or organization : SNV/Netherlands Development Organization

Place of Assignment :  Nicaragua  

Job description : 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 contextualised 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 Business Administration or Tourism.

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE FOR THE POSITION:

•        Strong knowledge of local and international tourism sector, including networking with public and private main organizations, companies and investors working within this sector.

•        Experience in development and implementation of proven successful sustainable tourism initiatives at local and or international level

•        Proven experience on tourism destination development, including product development, market strategic positioning, tourism product development and private public partnerships

•        Proven experience of resource mobilization for touristic initiatives

•        Experience in successfully application of principles of Social Corporate Responsibility (SCR)

•        Strong strategic thinking skills as well as negotiation and networking skills.

•        Experience in the application of theory models related to community based

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 : Given in Text

 

Deadline for submission of applications : 11 September 2008

Submit applications to : 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 Pamela Espinosa (recruitmentla@snvworld.org) under reference number NI 6510, until 11th September 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

Follow-up : Personal follow-ups allowed

Important Message: Please mention clearly in your application letter that you learned about this job vacancy through DEVJOBS, and  mention the URL of DEVJOBS, which is http://www.devjobsmail.com.

Junior Advisor Tourism +b

Posted by: Sandra S. van Doesburg

Name of company or organization : SNV/Netherlands Development Organization

Place of Assignment :  Mozambique  

Job description : SNV has been active in Mozambique since 1996. In the first years its program was based in Nampula province in Northern Mozambique working together with the Netherlands Embassy in the implementation of an integrated rural development program. Since 2003 SNV has extended its activities to the South and Central parts of Mozambique through its offices in Maputo and Beira (about 30 advisors). Presently SNV’s focus is on Education, WaSH, Horticulture Value Chain Development (banana, cashew) and Sustainable Tourism. Partnership agreements have been signed with Netherlands Embassy (complementarily agreement in Education, WaSH, Domestic Accountability and Growth and Equity), Unicef (WaSH), UNWTO (STEP), UNDP (AA4) and many local organizations.

Nampula programme in tourism is on its early stages. It includes a partnership with a private sector investment, who is interested in involving the surrounding community to benefit from the commercial activities in the lodge. For SNV, this is an opportunity to work to improve local linkages of tourism interventions. We work in close collaboration with the Provincial Directorate of Tourism, helping them frame the policies to foster tourism in this Northern province. We are also creating a network of local tourism operators to broker knowledge and lessons learnt in community based tourism and local supply chain for tourism investments. More interventions are under analysis.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:

The Junior Advisor Tourism will be based in Nampula. His/her core tasks will include:

•        Strategic positioning: Identifying and interpreting opportunities and/or barriers and threats of advisory practices and ensuring information transfer to the team; conducting routine supportive analysis to support decision making process;

•        Network development: Identifying possible new clients; functions as the interface between SNV and the client; maintain a network of clients as a tool to attracting more clients and be part the local tourism forums;

•        Engagement and strategic scoping: Composing teams for assignments and establishing contacts and agreements; discusses the engagement process with team and checks requirements; conducts research in proposal phase;

•        Advisory Services: Under the leadership of more senior colleagues,  participates in assignments and takes necessary actions for their successful implementation;

•        Review and Evaluation of Advisory Services: Contributes to feedback process, and evaluation of achieved results for clients and SNV; supports the collective learning; ensures timely and high quality evaluation processes, supports the evaluation process and monitoring with clients; proposing corrective measures and lessons learned based on evaluations; participates in the identification of follow up assignments, ensuring planning and coordination of actions;

•        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.

DESCRIPTION OF DUTY STATION: Nampula, Central Mozambique

•        Health Services: Health care is mediocre in Nampula. For intensive care, Maputo and South Africa are easy to reach thorough daily flights.

•        Security: Nampula is a quiet city. One can walk through the streets without any problem. But it is recommended not to walk alone at night.

•        Access to transportation: two daily flights from Nampula to Maputo, weekly flights to Pemba/Dar Es Salam/Nairobi and Maputo/Johannesburg.

•        Education:  There is one English speaking school with American curriculum, kindergarden to 9th grade, but it is not of international standard.

SALARY SCALE: 8 minimum €2235,91 – maximum €3022,47 gross per month (hypo tax will be deducted) depending on relevant working experience, excluding attractive secondary conditions and individual allowances.

CONTRACT PERIOD: starting a.s.a.p. for 2 years.

Job qualifications : SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE FOR THE POSITION:

Education:

•        Bachelor or Master degree in Tourism or a relevant field, such as Business Administration, Economics or any other related discipline, in combination with a specialization in planning, development and marketing of tourism products;

Work experience:

•        Minimum 2 years of relevant working experience; knowledge on private sector development and value chain approach to tourism sector; experience in capacity building, facilitation of multi-stakeholder processes, product development, organizational learning, change processes, and strategy formulation; Knowledge of (inter) national strategies for poverty alleviation, tourism and rural development;

•        Track record in working in diverse and decentralized teams of professionals in an innovative setting; able to work independently, in a professionals and dynamic work environment.  Committed to strengthening an innovative, inspiring and dynamic work-place environment united by conviction to pursue development beyond convention.

•        Experience on tourism destination development, including product development, market strategic positioning, tourism product development and private public partnerships;

•        Strategic thinking skills as well as negotiation and networking skills;

•        Experience in the application of theory models related to pro poor tourism;

•        Knowledge of value chain approach for economic development;

LANGUAGES AND OTHER SKILLS:

•        Fluent in Portuguese and English (official working language of SNV). 

   Very good knowledge of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Internet

Education : Bachelors degree 

Job type :  Full-time, long-term

Start-up date : asap

Deadline for submission of applications : 10 September 2008

Submit applications to : Marta Madera at this email address mmadeira@snvworld.org  

Instructions to applicants : INFORMATION ON THE APPLICATION:

You can send your application letter and CV (in English) to Marta Madera (mmadeira@snvworld.org) under reference number MZ 2250, until 10 September 2008.

Follow-up : Personal follow-ups allowed

Important Message: Please mention clearly in your application letter that you learned about this job vacancy through DEVJOBS, and  mention the URL of DEVJOBS, which is http://www.devjobsmail.com.

Senior Advisor Tourism +b

Posted by: Sandra S. van Doesburg

Name of company or organization : SNV/Netherlands Development Organization

Place of Assignment :  Mozambique  

Job description : SNV has been active in Mozambique since 1996. In the first years its program was based in Nampula province in Northern Mozambique working together with the Netherlands Embassy in the implementation of an integrated rural development program. Since 2003 SNV has extended its activities to the South and Central parts of Mozambique through its offices in Maputo and Beira (about 30 advisors). Presently SNV’s focus is on Education, WaSH, Horticulture Value Chain Development (banana, cashew) and Sustainable Tourism. Partnership agreements have been signed with Netherlands Embassy (complementarily agreement in Education, WaSH, Domestic Accountability and Growth and Equity), Unicef (WaSH), UNWTO (STEP), UNDP (AA4) and many local organizations.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:

The Senior Advisor Tourism will be based in Beira. His/her work area includes Sofala province with occasional support to SNV’s tourism program in Maputo, Inhambane and Nampula. He/she will also be required to contribute to the tourism program of SNV East and Southern Africa.  The main responsibilities 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 regional  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 directly 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.

DESCRIPTION OF DUTY STATION: Beira, Central Mozambique

Beira is the second town in Mozambique, it has approximately 500,000 inhabitants. Its port is a major gateway for Zimbabwe and Zambia.

Health services: Acceptable, specialist services available in Maputo and Johannesburg.

Education: International school, Catholic university of Mozambique

Security: Good

Access to transportation: Beira is a one-hour flight from Maputo (twice daily) and Johannesburg (three times per week). Travel by road to Maputo (1200 Km, 14 hours), or Mutare (Zimbabwe, four hours) is possible as the national network is generally good.

Internet: Broadband internet is available (wireless or ADSL)

CONTRACT PERIOD: Two years with possible extension, starting 1 November 2008

SALARY SCALE: 11 minimum € 2795,02 – maximum €4294,82 gross per month depending on relevant working experience, excluding attractive secondary conditions and individual allowances.

Job qualifications : SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE FOR THE POSITION:

•        Education: A Masters degree in Tourism or a relevant field, such as Business Administration, Economics or any other related discipline, in combination with a specialization in planning, development and marketing of tourism products;

•        Experience: Minimum 7 years of relevant working experience; knowledge on private sector development; Broad experience in capacity building, facilitation of multi-stakeholder processes, product development, organizational learning, change processes, and strategy formulation; Knowledge of (inter) national strategies for poverty alleviation, tourism and rural development; good analytical and reporting skills; familiar with planning and management techniques; good networking and partnership building; advocacy and lobbying

•        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. 

•        Strong knowledge of local and international tourism sector, including networking with public and private main organizations, companies and investors working within this sector.

•        Proven experience on tourism destination development, including product development, market strategic positioning, and links with other sectors (basic services and economic development)

•        Proven experience of resource mobilization for supporting tourism investments;

•        Strong strategic thinking skills as well as negotiation and networking skills.

•        Knowledge of value chain approach for economic development

LANGUAGES AND OTHER SKILLS:

•        Fluent in Portuguese and English (official working language of SNV)

   Very good knowledge of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Internet

Education : Masters degree 

Job type :  Full-time, long-term

Start-up date : asap

Deadline for submission of applications : 10 September 2008

Submit applications to : Marta Madera at this email address mmadeira@snvworld.org  

Instructions to applicants : INFORMATION ON THE APPLICATION:

You can send your application letter and CV (in English) to Marta Madera (mmadeira@snvworld.org), under reference number MZ 2681, until 10th September 2008.

Follow-up : Personal follow-ups allowed

Important Message: Please mention clearly in your application letter that you learned about this job vacancy through DEVJOBS, and  mention the URL of DEVJOBS, which is http://www.devjobsmail.com.

Country Director Mali and Burkina Faso +b

Posted by: Beverly Isanjiri

Name of company or organization : Kickstart International

Place of Assignment :  Mali  

Job description : KickStart cherche quelqu’un qui comprend bien l’anglais et le français pour la poste du Directeur Nationale Mali basée à Bamako. Prière de lire ci-dessous:

KickStart is an award-winning social enterprise founded in Kenya with a mission to help millions of people escape poverty in developing countries through economic empowerment rather than traditional aid.  Where most organizations focus on alleviating the effects of poverty, hunger, disease, squalor and lack of empowerment, KickStart addresses the root cause of poverty: lack of wealth.  KickStart does this by designing, manufacturing, distributing, marketing and selling low-cost capital equipment to poor people that enables them to make more money and lift themselves out of poverty. For example our range of ‘MoneyMaker™’ human-powered irrigation pumps enables subsistence farmers to increase their productivity and incomes by a factor of 4 to 10, transforming their farms into profitable enterprises.

We currently have country programs in Kenya, Tanzania, Mali and Burkina Faso with our headquarters in San Francisco, USA, and Nairobi, Kenya.

Scope of Job

The Country Director for KickStart Mali will be responsible for managing, expanding and reporting on KickStart’s operations in Mali and Burkina Faso, and to support fundraising and donor reporting requirements as necessary.  All activities support the primary Kickstart mission of getting people out of poverty in Mali & Burkina Faso, by promoting the sales and usage of KickStart’s award winning MoneyMaker branded irrigation pumps.  The Country Director reports to the Chief Operating Officer based in KickStart’s Africa Office in Nairobi (Kenya).

Principal Accountabilities

   Manage and Strengthen the Mali and Burkina Faso program by implementing and expanding KickStart plans and strategies which comprise the following key strategic functions:

i.        The operation and optimization of the Private Sector Supply Chain Network (Manufacturer  Distributor Retailers  Small-scale farmer) for pumps & other equipment.

ii.       The design/improvement, set-up and management of a Marketing/Awareness Creation Program to accelerate the adoption of our MoneyMaker technologies.

iii.      The design/improvement, set-up and management of a Sales Program to:

a.       Sell our award-winning Money Maker technologies

b.       Gather marketing intelligence/inform Marketing & Promo campaigns

iv.      The design/improvement, set-up and management of an Impact Monitoring Program which will track, measure socio-economic impacts and key performance metrics.

•        Manage staff and activities with the mission of increasing sales and adoption of irrigation pumps, maximizing cost-effectiveness and ensuring timely and accurate reporting of KickStart’s activities, finances and social impacts.

•        Human Resource Management:        Recruit, manage, and increase capacity / capabilities of KickStart-Mali & Burkina Faso team members.  Ensure the timely and effective implementation of the KickStart performance management program – with the goal of building a motivated, high performing team.

•        Managing and reporting on all aspects of the operation. This includes the 3 components of our field program (above), and also includes financial and operational management and reporting.  Manage a budget of $700,000 to $1,000,000 per annum

   Coordinating with KickStart International’s Nairobi and San Francisco offices on both strategic (program design and implementation) and tactical issues.

   Liaising/collaborating and building relationships with all KickStart’s development partners – implementers/service providers and donors - and relevant government agencies.

   Ensuring that all activities/programs undertaken are consistent with the mission and the basic policies and strategic approaches developed and used by KickStart.

Job qualifications :  Degree level or equivalent in Business Administration, Public Administration, Economics, Political Sciences or Social Sciences or related field

   10 plus years of progressive responsible experience in International Development or in senior position in a private sector organization.

   People Management Experience – managing, mentoring, and developing people and a high performing team

   Capital equipment sales and marketing experience preferred and/ or enterprise development experience in an international NGO

   Knowledge of finance and audit as well managing and developing budgets

   Excellent personal communication, negotiation  & report writing skills

   Results/Performance Orientation – proven “self-starter”

   Sales & Marketing Experience – retail marketing of consumer goods, and supply chain management 

   Knowledge and Experience in Micro Finance – a plus

   Strong analytical abilities and detail orientation

   At least 2 years experience living and working in Sub-Saharan Africa - preferably in Francophone West Africa and specifically in Mali

   Fluent in English and French and ideally with knowledge of Bambara language

   Shares KickStart’s values and believes in its Mission

   Exposure / Knowledge of Rural Development

Nationality : N/A

Education : Bachelors degree 

Job type :  Full-time, long-term

Start-up date : As soon as possible

Deadline for submission of applications : 30th August 2008

Submit applications to : Beverly Isanjiri at this email address HR@kickstart.org  

Follow-up : Phone call follow-ups are OK

Important Message: Please mention clearly in your application letter that you learned about this job vacancy through DEVJOBS, and  mention the URL of DEVJOBS, which is http://www.devjobsmail.com.

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, CER’s 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

Follow-up : Personal follow-ups allowed

Important Message: Please mention clearly in your application letter that you learned about this job vacancy through DEVJOBS, and  mention the URL of DEVJOBS, which is http://www.devjobsmail.com.