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ALG seeks a Team leader as part of our response to a call for tender by an international development agency.
Working in close cooperation with the management and technical team of the LG4P project, the contractor1 is responsible for contributing to the achievement of the target indicators, outputs and output indicators described in this document. The contractor will implement activities across all three intervention areas, with a proportionately higher role in the activities of outputs one (Inclusive Service Delivery) and two (PFM and own source revenues).
Tasks of expert 1 (Team Leader/Pool Manager):
- Overall responsibility for the advisory packages of the contractor
- Ensuring the coherence and complementarity of the contractor’s services with other services delivered by the project at local and national level
- Design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of capacity development measures for local partnersin the following areas: inclusive service delivery, public finance management, citizen participation
Responsibilities
- Responsibility for taking cross-cutting themes into consideration (for example, gender equality and climate change)
- Staff management, in particular identifying the need for short-term assignments within the available budget, planning and managing the assignments and supporting local and international experts
- Ensuring that monitoring procedures are carried out
- Regular reporting in accordance with deadlines
- Responsibility for checking the use of funds and financial planning in consultation with the officer responsible for the commission at GIZ
- Supporting the officer responsible for the commission in updating and/or adapting the project strategy, in evaluations and in preparing a follow-on phase
- Qualifications of expert 1: (Team Leader/Pool Manager):
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Education/training (section 2.1.1 of the assessment grid): |
Master’s degree (or equivalent) in either Public Policy, Political Science, Public Finance Management, Development Sciences, Social Sciences, Local Governance, Business Administration, Economics, Project Management or Geography |
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Language (section 2.1.2 of the assessment grid): |
Knowledge of English, C1 -level in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages |
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General professional experience (section 2.1.3 of the assessment grid): |
7 years of professional experience in the sector good governance, local governance, or poverty reduction |
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Specific professional experience (section 2.1.4 of the assessment grid): |
5 years of professional experience in project cycle management (5 points out of a possible total of 10 points) and budget management (5 points out of a possible total of 10 points). |
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Leadership/management experience (section 2.1.5 of the assessment grid): |
5 years of leadership experience as a project team leader (6 points out of a possible total of 10 points), with managing expert pools in 2 projects with a budget of at least 150,000.00 EUR each (4 points out of a possible total of 10 points) |
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International professional experience outside the country/region of assignment (section 2.1.6 of the assessment grid): |
Not applicable |
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Professional experience in the country/ region of assignment (2.1.7 of the assessment grid): |
5 years of professional experience in East Africa, Central Africa, Southern Africa, or West Africa (in accordance with UN DESA Statistics Division), (5 points out of a possible total of 10 |
| points) of which 3 years in East Africa (5 points out of a possible total of 10 points). | |
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Experience in the field of development cooperation (section 2.1.8 of the assessment grid): |
5 years of experience in development cooperation projects |
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Other (section 2.1.9 of the assessment grid): |
Not applicable |