Job Vacancy – Senior Market Systems Expert

Duma Works is recruiting a Senior Market Systems Expert for our client, Technoserve.
Title: Senior Market Systems Expert
Reports to: TBA
Location: Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda or Uganda
Grade: TBA
TechnoServe Background
TechnoServe works with enterprising people in the developing world to build competitive farms, businesses,and industries. We are a nonprofit organization that develops business solutions to poverty by linking people to information, capital and markets. Our work is rooted in the idea that given the opportunity, hardworking men and women in even the poorest places can generate income, jobs and wealth for their families and communities. With more than four decades of proven results, we believe in the power of private enterprise to transform lives.
Program Description
A donor is planning a new £50 million –£70 million, 7-year flagship program. The program aims to contribute to the economic transformation needed to create more and better jobs, set countries on a trajectory out of poverty, and create social stability. The program will support increased foreigndirect investment (FDI) into manufacturing to boost productivity by introducing new technology and management capabilities, and increase the capabilities of the workforce and diffuse these improvements into the wider economy. Anticipated focus sectors include textiles/apparel, construction, pharma, light vehicle/machinery assembly, logistics and packaging, and agri-processing.
A Transaction Facilitation Services component will identify and support investments with the highest additionality and development impact. A Technical Assistance (TA) component will address constraints faced by specific foreign investors to facilitate new or expand existing investments. It will also support the development of backward linkages to domestic firms and strengthening of firm capacity for participation in the supply chain. TA will be provided to government and private sector/private sector-related organizations in line with market systems principles.
Position Description
The Senior Market Systems for the Poor/Sector/Value Chains Expert will work with the Junior Market Systems Expert to provide TA to government and the private sector to support additional FDI in manufacturing sectors. Using market systems principles and rooted in a strong understanding of political economy issues, they will provide TA to address investment-specific constraints faced by foreign investors, facilitate market linkages to FDI investors (both backward linkages to domestic firms and upstream linkages with new buyers), and strengthen local firms’ capacity to participate in the investor supply chain.
Minimum Skills and Experience required
- Must have at least 10 years’ experience working in a particular market sector or subsector to develop the sector by identifying barriers, developing value chains (supply based and customer), improving exports and product standards, productivity and skills issues.
- Must have good knowledge of global trends in the sector.
- Must have a Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field. Master’s degree in a relevant field preferred.
- Preferred to have experience in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Preferred to have experience in sectors related to the project (e.g. textiles/apparel, construction, pharma, light vehicle/machinery assembly, logistics and packaging, and agri-processing).
- Strongly preferred to have experience delivering technical assistance in a way that aligns with market systems principles and is systemic, adaptive, grounded in political economy analysis and aware of incentives.
- Comfort and experience working in a fast-paced, multicultural environment.
- An effective decision maker and problem solver, able to analyze situations, diagnose problems, identify the key issues, establish and evaluate alternative courses of action, and produce a logical, practical and acceptable solution.
- Proven ability to communicate complex technical information to diverse stakeholders.
- Experience in business planning and analysis, modeling for feasibility and execution.
- Able to analyze and express ideas clearly in business writing.
- Carries out tasks with integrity and honesty.
- Preferred to have experience managing staff. Exhibits emotional intelligence, an ability to delegate, strategic thinking, support for the development of staff skills, and experience providing coaching and feedback.
- Fluent in English.
This position is contingent upon funding and donor approval. We welcome hearing from qualified and interested applicants.
Apply
To apply online click here or send your Cover Letter and detailed CV to [email protected]s.dumaworks.com marking the subject as “3324”, Your Full name & Phone number e.g. 3324 Barack Obama, +2547xxxxxxxx. If you don’t follow these instructions, your application will not go through.
Deadline for receiving applications: Monday, 30 April 2018
N.B.
* You will receive a confirmation email and an alert to take a basic screening test over SMS or online. The email with the test may not arrive immediately. Please be patient. The email/SMS test will typically be 5-8 questions to help us understand your background. Regular SMS rates apply to the test.
If you apply and don’t meet these minimum qualifications, we will not be able to move forward with you application.
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