TradeMark East Africa (TMEA) Exciting Career Opportunities in Regional Integration

Our clients, the Department for International Development (DFID) in partnership with other potential development partners including Denmark, the Netherlands, Canada and Belgium are seeking to recruit a Chief Executive Officer and five Country Directors for Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda under the Regional East African Integration Programme (REAP) whose overall goal is to increase growth and reduce poverty in East Africa by delivering significant strategic support to the East African Community's (EAC) regional integration process, improving the region's transport corridors and reducing the costs of trade and doing business in East Africa.

REAP's implementation mechanism is TradeMark East Africa (TMEA), a not-for-profit that will provide a long term focus on building East African regional integration capacity and a platform for scaling-up of Aid For Trade (AFT) in trade-related infrastructure, corridor development, regional investment climate harmonisation, export development, trade facilitation and coping with the social and environmental adjustment costs of deeper integration and rapid export-led growth.

TMEA will be headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya with branch offices in each of the other four EAC States and an EAC Secretariat liaison office in Arusha, Tanzania.

In order to ensure that TMEA delivers on its strategic objectives, we now seek to recruit high calibre, results oriented and self driven professionals who will be employed by TMEA to provide leadership and strategic direction in these initial positions:

Chief Executive Officer
Reference number: TMEA/PD/12/09
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Duration of contract: 3 years

Reporting to the Board of Directors, the successful candidate will be responsible for developing and implementing the TMEA strategy, identifying and appraising new opportunities for approval by the Programme Implementation Committee, as well as directing and managing TMEA's projects, people, activities and technical resources in order to deliver TMEA's medium term strategic plan.

This exceptional individual will have the overall accountability for managing TMEA's technical and support staff. The successful candidate will be expected to liaise with TMEA's sister programme, TradeMark Southern Africa and other major programmes of key development partners, to align TMEA as a significant and strategic response to the challenges of regional trade and integration in East Africa.

S/he will be expected to provide strategic input and engage with policy level stakeholders on regional trade and integration including EAC institutions, EAC Partner States and development partners.

The candidate will ideally possess a minimum of a Masters degree preferably in Economics, Development Studies, International Trade, Planning, Finance or Management with at least 10 years experience (5 of which should have been gained in Africa, preferably Southern and East African countries) in leading and managing economic development co-operation programmes preferably in regional integration, trade facilitation, trade and investment climate reform, transport corridor development, and/or institutional reform.

Strong interpersonal, communications and programme cycle management and monitoring and evaluation skills are essential for this position.

Country Directors - Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda
Reference numbers: TMEA/CDB/12/09, TMEA/DK/12/09, TMEA/CDR/12/09, TMEA/CDT/12/09 and TMEA/CDU/12/09

Locations: Bujumbura, Nairobi, Kigali, Dar es Salaam and Kampala.
Duration of contract: 3 years

Reporting to the CEO, the Country Directors are responsible for managing and monitoring the day-to-day activities of the country operations in the respective country including developing and maintaining an effective programme information and monitoring system in line with the TMEA national project strategies and the medium term strategic plan.

The successful candidate will be expected to develop and maintain strong working relationships with East African partners, the Southern Africa sister Programme TMSA, identify opportunities to leverage new investments into TMEA and co-ordinate and scale up support to Aid for Trade (AFT) and regional integration at the respective country level.

The successful candidate will also be responsible for sourcing and procuring technical experts to provide assistance in the implementation of TMEA national window projects.

The candidate will ideally possess an undergraduate degree preferably in Economics, Development Studies, International Trade, Planning, Finance or Management with at least 5 years management experience (3 of which should have been gained in Africa, preferably Southern and East African countries) in managing economic development co-operation programmes preferably in regional integration, trade facilitation, trade and investment climate reform, transport corridor development, and/or institutional reform as well as building multi-stakeholder relationships.

Strong programme cycle management skills, proven ability in preparing terms of reference and project documents, monitoring and evaluation skills as well as contract management skills. Bi-lingual language skills (English and French) are essential for the Burundi and Rwanda positions.

The offer

These are challenging and extremely exciting roles which require individuals who demonstrates high personal drive and initiative with a demonstrable ability to provide effective leadership.

Detailed job profiles and reference numbers can be accessed on www.eastafrica.kpmg.com.

If your career aspirations match these exciting opportunities, please write in confidence quoting the reference number on both cover letter and envelope on or before Monday, 18 January 2010.

Applications including your curriculum vitae, a working e-mail address, daytime telephone contacts, qualifications, experience, present position, current remuneration, names and addresses of three referees should be sent electronically in PDF file format to:

Executive Selection Division,
KPMG East Africa, Lonrho House,
16th Floor, Standard Street, Nairobi
E-mail: esdtmea @ kpmg.co.ke

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted

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Regional Adviser, Education

UNICEF
Closing date: 09 Jun 2009
Location: Kenya - Nairobi Regional Office

If you are a passionate and committed professional and want to make a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you. UNICEF seeks a Regional Adviser, Education, P-5 to be based in its Regional Office in Nairobi, Kenya

Under the guidance of the Deputy Regional Director, and through frequent consultation with Country Representative, provide technical leadership, management advice and programming support throughout the region in basic education with special focus on policy advocacy in accelerating primary schooling, Child-Friendly Schools, and programming in girls’ education; and to facilitate the implementation and development of UNICEF policies and strategies in the region.

Your profile:

- Advanced university degree in the field of education, from a recognized university or appropriate equivalence, including both qualitative and quantitative approaches to research and preferably including education planning.
- Ten to twelve years of relevant work experience in development related activities of which five to eight should have been spent in a developing country, in education; in teaching, planning and at least one of the following: teacher training, curriculum development, teacher advisory.
- Versatility, judgement, maturity, and the ability to work on a team.

Ability to cope with stressful and difficult conditions, and political/cultural sensitivity.
- Current knowledge of development issues, policies, as well as social programming policies and procedures in international development cooperation.
- Proven ability to conceptualize, innovate, plan and execute ideas, as well as to impart knowledge and teach skills.
- Leadership and organizational abilities.
- Good analytical, negotiating, communication and advocacy skills.
- Computer skills, including internet navigation and various office applications.
- Demonstrated ability to work in a multi-cultural environment and establish harmonious and effective working relationships, both within and outside the organization.
- Skills in identifying and building regional institutional capacity and potential.
- Fluency in English and knowledge of Portuguese or French desirable.

UNICEF’s salary and benefits package is based on the United Nations Common System; visit http://www.un.org/Depts/OHRM/salaries_allowances for further information. UNICEF is committed to gender equality in its mandate and its staff.

Well qualified candidates, particularly women are strongly encouraged to apply.

How to apply

If you have got experience of working in a similar capacity and want to make an active and lasting contribution to build a better world for children, send a detailed curriculum vitae in English, AND a duly completed United Nations Personal History form (available at http://www.unicef.org/employ), quoting VN-09-291 to: recruit.EDU@unicef.org.

Applications should be received by 9 June 2009.

Only candidates who are under serious consideration will be contacted.

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