Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, July 06 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Job summary
• The Country Director (CD) is the Portfolio Director (PD) for the programme with overall responsibility for delivering quality results of this portfolio in line with TMA’s Strategy and Project Cycle Management (PCM) Guidelines as well as managing and maintaining strategic relationships with government, the private sector, civil society, and the donor community. In addition, the CD is responsible for managing the country team to ensure delivery of the programme and ensuring best practice is followed with TMA corporate guidelines, procedures and systems.

Roles and responsibilities
Strategic Leadership, Fundraising and Budgeting
• Provide strategic leadership to the Country Programme, ensuring that country programme is in line with the overall objectives of TMA and aligned to continental, regional and country priorities on economic development and trade integration
• Lead fundraising initiatives for the country programme in collaboration with the corporate office, to ensure that enough resources are available to implement the country programme interventions in the medium to long term
• As the budget and risk holder, ensure that the expenditure of portfolio is in line with forecasted budgets and that risks are being effectively managed. Programme Cycle Management
• Ensure successful delivery and realisation of outcomes of overall portfolio of projects in the programme in line with TMA’s Theory of Change and PCM guidelines, including monitoring and evaluation (M&E), financial management and risk management.
• Act as the Secretary to the National Oversight Committee (NOC) composed of TMA’s key partners which oversees the implementation of the programme.
• Prepare annual business plans and quarterly progress reports and updates for the NOC and ensure the smooth operation of this Committee
• Work at a strategic portfolio level with the Chief of Programmes and Strategic Objective Leaders (SOLs) to ensure coherence of the country portfolio and its alignment to national development plans and TMA’s
Theory of Change.
• Within TMA’s matrix management structure, manage the 3-person matrix team of the Project Leader
(PL) and Technical Co-ordinator (TC), and convene regular meetings to ensure effective PCM is taking place in all the projects of the portfolio, particularly in terms of delivery of outputs/outcomes and expenditure against work plans and effective management of risk.

Stakeholder Management
• Lead on high-level political and diplomatic matters representing TMA at high level events and act as the primary TMA interlocutor at all high-level stakeholders in priority projects. Ensure that all TMA projects have steering committees chaired at a senior level by implementing partners.
• Responsible for liaison with the local donor community to ensure smooth relationships with the investors and to support additional fund raising from new and existing donors. Together with country colleagues and Senior Management Team, develop proposals for new country projects.

Job description
Knowledge sharing & Communications
• Develop and implement a communications and visibility strategy for TMA in country in liaison with the
TMA Communications Team and ensure good public relations around TMA projects and TMA related issues, including case studies and impact stories.
• Generate and distribute knowledge sharing products from the portfolio of projects in conjunction with the Results Team. Corporate systems
• Ensure that all TMA’s corporate systems and procedures are followed in the country office including:
• Provide leadership, support and mentoring to country office staff including undertaking performance appraisals.
• Ensure good practice PCM is followed by the whole team in terms of project design, procurement & contract management, outcome/output-based planning, reporting and financial management, and results-oriented monitoring, learning and evaluation.
• Ensure the programme follows good practice contract management, financial management etc.; and
• Ensure risk management, transparency, zero tolerance to fraud and corruption, and due diligence in all programming activities. •

Academic and professional qualifications
• An undergraduate degree preferably in Economics, Development Studies, International Trade, Planning, Finance or Management.
• A post-graduate degree in a related field will be an added advantage.

Work EXPERIENCE
• A minimum of 12 years management experience for Undergraduate degree holders and minimum of 10 years for postgraduate degree holders management experience (5 of which should have been gained in Southern and East African countries preferably in Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda) in managing economic development co-operation programmes preferably in regional integration, trade facilitation, trade and investment climate reform, transport sector development, and/or institutional reform for Foreign
• Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), the European Commission (EC), the World Bank group and/or other development partners. Strong programme cycle management skills, proven ability in preparing terms of reference and project documents and monitoring and evaluation skills are essential.

Additional skills
• Excellent leadership and people management skills.
• Strong strategy skills.
• Fundraising skills
• Ability to establish and maintain strong collaborative partnerships/relationships with development partners, high ranking government officials, civil society, and private sector organisations.
• Sound decision-making and judgement capabilities.
• Excellent communication and personal effectiveness skills.
• Problem solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent presentation, oral and written communication skills.
• Financial management and budgeting experience

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 120

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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