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POST: CALL FOR
EXPERTS: Private Sector Development Programmes - West
Africa
Organization:
Development Alternatives, Inc.
Location:accra, Ghana
Salary: Very
attractive
About DAI
DAI is an employee-owned global development company. For 40
years, we have worked on the frontlines
of international development, tackling
fundamental social and economic development problems caused by inefficient
markets, ineffective governments, and instability. Currently, DAI is delivering
results that matter in some 60 countries. Our integrated development solutions
turn ideas into impact by bringing together fresh combinations of expertise and
innovation across multiple disciplines—crisis mitigation and stability
operations, democratic governance and public sector management, agriculture and
agribusiness, private sector development and financial services, economics and
trade, HIV/AIDS and disease control, water and natural resources management,
and energy and climate change. Our clients include international development agencies,
international lending institutions, private corporations and philanthropies,
and national governments.
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
How to apply:
Please apply via the following link:
Closing date: 30 Sep
2013
How to Apply
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