Position: Director, Private Sector Advocacy
Deadline date: 20 September 2019 at 5.00pm East Africa time
Overview:
The Director, Private Sector Advocacy will be responsible for directing and monitoring TradeMark East Africa’s (TMEA’s) workstreams related to the Private Sector Advocacy portfolio at the regional and national levels in the countries in which TMEA operates, in line with TMEA project documents and the TMEA Theory of Change (TOC). The primary objective will be to enhance private sector organisations’ (PSOs) capacity to proactively and positively influence decision-making, to accelerate dispute resolution, to sustain political buy-in, to increase commitment and to reduce overall programme risks in TMEA’s project clusters.
The Director, Private Sector Advocacy will be responsible for directing and monitoring TradeMark East Africa’s (TMEA’s) workstreams related to the Private Sector Advocacy portfolio at the regional and national levels in the countries in which TMEA operates, in line with TMEA project documents and the TMEA Theory of Change (TOC). The primary objective will be to enhance private sector organisations’ (PSOs) capacity to proactively and positively influence decision-making, to accelerate dispute resolution, to sustain political buy-in, to increase commitment and to reduce overall programme risks in TMEA’s project clusters.
The
ideal candidate will possess an undergraduate degree with at least 12
years of relevant working experience OR a Master’s degree with at least
10 years of relevant working experience (i.e. experience gained while
working in private sector and civil society development, policy advocacy
and stakeholder engagement preferably in regional integration, trade
facilitation and business environment reform and related areas).
In
addition, s/he will have a minimum of five years’ experience leading
and managing programmes related to trade and regional
integration/development co-operation in the countries in which TMEA
operates (Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya,
Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda).
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