Deadline: 16 January, 2021
Location: Abidjan, Ivory Coast
African Development Bank (AfDB) is seeking applications from eligible applicants for the post of Lead Coordinator.
AfDB’s mission is to spur sustainable economic development and social progress in its regional member countries (RMCs).
Responsibilities
- Lead and coordinate the formulation of the bank’s strategies, guidelines on fragility and the preparation of the bank’s work programme
- Oversee and ensure regular review and update of the bank’s strategies and guidelines
- Lead work on the development of new tools, knowledge generation and participate in policy dialogue with regional member countries
- Oversee the execution of the bank’s annual work programme in the areas of fragility, conflict and violence
- Provide leadership in the analysis of fragility trends and their likely impact on the bank’s portfolios
- Build and maintain the bank’s reputation through developing effective partnerships, maintaining frequent contacts, representing the bank at seminars, and conferences on relevant topics and discussions with counterparts and inspire the staff to do the same
- Manage internal relations, ensure effective information dissemination, deepen and widen the bank’s investor base
- Ensure strict compliance with operational guidelines for implementing the bank’s fragility strategy as derived from the ten-year strategy, and long-standing practices and relevant operating procedures/manuals, as well as apply best practices for mobilising the funding of the fragility strategy, while keeping abreast of trends and new developments in fragility discourse
- Provide advice on resource mobilisation, including during each cycle of the African Development Fund replenishment, and administrative management of the transition support facility
- Under the supervision of the director, monitor, closely, portfolio performance in transition states, ensuring the effective utilisation and performance of the transition support facility, and providing regular reports to the bank’s senior management and the board of directors
- Lead resource mobilisation efforts for the transition support facility
- Build working relationships with other bank departments and units, reporting the bank’s work on addressing fragility and building resilience and monitor and assess progress towards the attainment of relevant key performance indicators assigned to the office
- Manage relationships with regional member countries, donors, partners and other clients
- Represent the director, as needed, in bank-wide working groups as well as preparatory meetings for high level events
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Economics, Political Science, International Relations, Public Policy, or a related discipline
- Eight years, minimum, of professional experience in a multilateral development institution at a similar operating level
- Demonstrated understanding of the multi-dimensional nature of fragile and conflict-affected situations, particularly in Africa
- Excellent strategic thinking skills with the ability to translate strategic concepts and direction into the results-driven implementable operational programmes and activities
- Excellent knowledge of development institutions’ policies, guidelines and procedures relevant to fragile and conflict-affected contexts
- Strong analytical and strategic capabilities, programme management in policy-oriented institutions, academia or within multilateral development institutions
- Superior leadership qualities, technical excellence and first-rate interpersonal and people management skills
- Good/sound judgment and strong integrity
- Ability to lead cross-complex and corporate assignments
- Demonstrated ability to produce high quality work on a variety of issues with very short deadlines and make effective and timely decisions
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Able to write effectively in English and/or French
- Competence in the use of bank standard software applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), and knowledge of SAP (highly desirable)
To apply and for more information, click here.
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