Deadline: 22 April, 2021
Location: Abidjan, Ivory Coast
African Development Bank (AfDB) is seeking to fill the role of Senior Capacity Development Officer.
AfDB’s mission is to spur sustainable economic development and social progress in its regional member countries (RMCs).
Responsibilities
- Develop programmes, strategies, and concept notes for capacity development for RMCs
- Undertake research on capacity development needs of the public, private and non-governmental institutions in Africa
- Design innovative programmes to improve the quality of capacity development in Africa
- Manage the delivery of capacity development activities such as workshops, seminars, conferences, and roundtable meetings at the bank’s headquarters and in the bank’s RMCs
- Actively engage in resource mobilisation for capacity development activities
- Prepare briefs, information notes, and news articles on the activities of the division
- Undertake evaluation of the effectiveness of capacity development and other development activities of the division
- Perform administrative duties as assigned by supervisor
Requirements
- Master’s degree, minimum, in Economics, Finance, or a related field
- Extensive experience in teaching, research or operations with proven competence and ability to develop concept notes, design training programmes and deliver lectures
- Five years, minimum, of relevant and progressive work experience
- Experience in writing notes, reports and briefs and ability to handle knowledge dissemination
- Strong quantitative analytical skills with a passion for figures and a mastery of the use of relevant software to prepare pictorials, charts and graphs
- Sound knowledge and good understanding of capacity development needs in Africa at national levels and also at the level of project implementation units
- Proficiency in writing proposals for resource mobilisation
- Capacity to conceptualise new approaches and innovation in capacity development and develop user-friendly training materials
- Ability to interpret policies, guidelines and procedures and draw personal judgment
- Ability to think strategically and link the goals of the division and department to the bank’s core strategic goals, and set priorities accordingly
- Demonstrated team player with strong communication, problem-solving, self-organisation and time management skills
- Client and results-oriented individual with a proactive attitude
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills (attach a sample of own writings) in English or French
- Competence in the use of standard Microsoft Office applications
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