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Post:Call for Experts Private Sector Development Programmes, West Africa
organization:DAI
Location:Accra,Ghana
Background
For 25 years, DAI has played a leading role in the design and implementation of programmes that seek to
include the poor in market systems. DAI has been a leading practitioner and thinker on market-based programming that creates jobs, services, and inclusion for poor households and entrepreneurs. Our work encourages pro-poor investment and innovation that build communities. DAI applies best practices in areas such as agriculture, enterprise development, and accountability in many of the world's most demanding environments. This ensures our crosscutting private sector development initiatives are built on sturdy foundations, with the poor as our key stakeholders.
Call for Experts:
DAI is looking for experts for various anticipated DFID-funded private sector development programmes in West Africa. The programmes will be based in Ghana and will cover various countries in West Africa. Their objectives are to create economic and employment opportunities by using a Making Markets Work for the Poor (M4P) approach to facilitate systemic and lasting change to ensure sustainable and efficient market opportunities. Specific areas of focus will include improving the supply and trade of staple foods, creating economic opportunities for communities affected by the oil industry, capacity and skill building, as well as improved productivity and trade policy.
DAI is currently recruiting for a number of positions:
- Experienced Team Leaders, with knowledge of DFID's M4P approach
- M4P and Market Development Experts (Storage, Trade Policy, Market Systems in Grains and Staple Foods)
- Market Development Officers
- Trade Policy Experts
- Local Content and Community Development Experts (particularly around oil industry)
- TVET/Skills Development Experts
- Access to Finance Experts
- Challenge Fund/Grant Management Experts
- Knowledge Management and Communication Experts
- M&E Experts
Requirements:
- Relevant experience in GHANA and/or West/Sub-Saharan Africa;
- A minimum of 5 years successful working experience in one (or more) of the possible technical areas in this project;
- Experience working on international donor funded programmes
- Excellent English communication skills
- French language skills would be an advantage
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