Our Business
Crown Agents is an
international development company employing over 600 personnel worldwide with a
presence in more than 40 countries, subsidiaries in 11 countries, and permanent
staff working on the ground in 22 corporate offices in Africa, Asia Latin
America, Japan, the
United Kingdom, and the United States. Crown Agents
provides direct assistance, management consulting, and human and institutional
development for public and private sector clients in customs and trade
facilitation, public financial management, procurement, logistics, and health
systems strengthening.
Crown Agents USA
(CA-USA), the U.S. incorporated subsidiary of Crown Agents, provides direct
technical assistance, capacity development, and procurement services to
stimulate economic growth, establish good governance, and improve health
outcomes across the developing world. Since its incorporation in the United
States in 1998, CA-USA has provided technical assistance services and support
to U.S. Government agencies and international organizations such as the U.S.
Agency for International Development (USAID), the Millennium Challenge
Corporation (MCC), the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA), Department of
State (DOS), and the Gates Foundation.
Project
Description
Rwanda Private
Sector Driven Agricultural Growth Project (PSDAG) is a five-year Feed the
Future project funded by USAID and implemented by ENGILITY Corporation/IRG. The
project was created in line with Government of Rwanda (GoR) targets and aims to
develop a strategic partnership between the Rwandan public and private sectors
to improve the conditions for investment mobilization and to create more
economic opportunity for smallholder farmers through increased value chain
market integration. The project’s principle objectives include:
Objective 1:Assisting the Government of
Rwandan (GoR) to attract and increase Private Sector Investment
Objective 2: Facilitating increased
private Sector Investment by Upgrading Agricultural Value Chains
Objective 1 will
include the development and implementation of a clear roadmap for attracting
and supporting private investment, including clear definition of roles and
responsibilities within the GoR to improve the enabling environment and work
with potential investors from their expression of investment interest to the
implementation of the investment.
Statement of
Work
PSDAG will hire an
Investment Framework Organizational Capacity Assessment to:
- Map and
describe the current roles and responsibilities of public institutions,
donors, and private sector entities involved in Rwanda’s current
Investment Framework; - Assess
capacity building needs of public Investment Framework institutions
mapped; - Make
recommendations for improvement or adjustments to be made to the current
Investment Framework; - Assess
current public/private dialogue process and make recommendations for
improvement;
The consultant will
conduct tasks through key informant interviews.
Deliverables
The consultancy will
be implemented in two phases. The Phase I Scope of Work’s objective is to
identify, assess, describe and conceptualize public and private sector entity
rolls, responsibilities and interactions in promoting private sector investment
in Rwandan agriculture. The consultant will also assess the current
public/private dialogue process and make recommendations for improvement.
Recommendations will need to be vetted by key PSDAG stakeholders, mainly the
Private Sector Working Group, chaired by MINAGRI.
Specific
Tasks may include:
- Develop
inception report to detail work plan, initial timeline, interviewee list,
report review list, draft and final report formats. - Conduct
key informant meetings with entities involved in the Investment Framework
Process including MINAGRI, RDB, MINICOM, MINECOFIN, PSF, and other
national, regional and district level government or private sector
agencies; and - Identify
and describe the rolls of each interviewed public and private sector
entity that is involved, directly or indirectly, in promoting commercial
investment in agriculture. Assess and describe the entities capacity to
fulfil those roles and make capacity building recommendations. - Identify,
review and assess the current institutional capacity of the PSF and its
Agriculture Chamber to undertake policy advocacy; - Conduct
key informant meetings with key private sector agribusinesses and
recommend improvements to the current public/private dialogue process.
Qualifications
The assignment will
be carried out by a consultant with a track record of private sector development
in developing countries, in particular Rwanda. The consultant must have
significant experience of private sector capacity building. The consultant must
have the following minimum qualifications and experience:
- Post
Graduate qualification in Economics, Business Administration; Human
Resource Development, or any other related social science; - Demonstrated
knowledge of private sector development and contemporary development
agendas; - No less
than 5 years’ experience in undertaking capacity needs assessment and
institutional development assignments; - Familiarity
with and an understanding of agribusiness development issues and needs in
Rwanda.
Application
Process
To apply to this
position, please email your CV to careers@crownagents.com. Include your name,
along with “14-23M
PPD & ICA Specialist”, in the subject line. Visit our
website at www.crownagentsusa.com for
more information about our company. No phone calls, faxes or walk-ins please.
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to all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, color,
religion, gender, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status,
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