Deadline: 21 October, 2020
Location: Abidjan, Ivory Coast
African Development Bank (AfDB) is seeking to fill the post of Senior Trade Officer.
AfDB’s mission is to spur sustainable economic development and social progress in its regional member countries (RMCs)
Responsibilities
- Analyse the trade, economic and financial conditions of regional member countries, using internal and external information sources, and determine the implications for the programming and updating of AfDB operations
- Examine the impact of the AfDB operations, in the countries concerned, of regional economic integration programmes and make recommendations on the role of the bank in assisting trade and regional integration initiatives
- Undertake assigned Economic and Sector Work (ESW), focusing mainly on issues of trade, competition and investment climate profiling, and papers on relevant trade related economic and investment issues in the development process
- Identify, prepare, evaluate and monitor the implementation of trade economics, trade development and facilitation programmes
- Maintain effective communication with the sector departments and other relevant units in the bank to ensure a coordinated approach in the implementation of the bank’s strategy and lending/non-lending operations in assigned countries
- Participate in country portfolio reviews
- Participate in aid coordination activities with UNCTAD, WTO, ITC, UNECA, AU, WB, RECs, as well as bilateral and multilateral donors, with emphasis on promoting effective trade development interventions, projects and programmes
- Participate in the preparation of the department’s budget, the annual and triennial lending/non-lending programmes and briefs on trade development issues, economic reform and institutional support programmes
Requirements
- Hold at least a master’s degree or its equivalent in Economics, Public Policy and Public Administration, International Trade Policy, Trade Statistics, Investment Climate Development, Global Trade Management, Economic Regulation and/or Competition Economics, or other related fields
- Five years, minimum, of experience in the areas of trade development, private and public sector competition policy reforms, policy formulation and implementation in developing country
- Experience as a practitioner in the economic analysis of global trade policies
- Knowledge of continental and global trade developments
- Knowledge of socio-economic, trade facilitation, investment climate, regulatory reforms and policies and business environment issues in African countries
- Ability to build partnership with a broad range of clients and deliver results that meet the needs and long-term interests of clients within and outside the institution
- Ability to communicate effectively (written and oral) in English or French
- Knowledge of bank standard software (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint)
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