Management Competence
Demonstrated ability and substantial experience of programme management responsibly from large-scale, complex and responsive development co-operation programmes.
Demonstrated excellent ability and experience of managing a programme and its organisation in a flexible and entrepreneurial manner, with a facilitative approach, while retaining strong focus on results orientation.
Excellent inter-personal, communication, dialogue and human-resource management skills and proven team-building ability, necessary to support, motivate and mentor staff and partners engaged in a challenging and market-development oriented programme structure.
Ability to create a creative, open-minded, learning, constructive and innovative working environment.
Ability to incorporate or otherwise work with local organisations and actors with knowledge about and experience from the relevant Liberian context, to utilise and ensure their capacity and continuous capacity development and to otherwise adapt ways of working accordingly
Additional management skills, necessary to meet programme requirements in terms of co-ordination, coherence and consistency of programme implementation , financial management , monitoring and reporting .
Technical Knowledge
High level (Masters Degree or the equivalent) documented education and training in relevant disciplines – such as international development, business, economics, trade, financial systems, rural development, agriculture or a related field of study – appropriate for leading a market-based approach to poverty reduction in agri-business.
Relevant technical expertise, documented theoretical knowledge and understanding of and considerable (at least 5 years) practical experience from applying an M4P approach.
Substantial documented experience (at least 10 years) of design and implementation of development co-operation projects or programmes in relevant fields in developing countries, of which at least 5 years in Sub-Saharan African countries and/or in post-conflict and/or conflict-affected areas.
Other Skills
Excellent/very good documented analytical skills, Full professional proficiency in spoken and written English, Self-reliant in computer skills, Other relevant knowledge and specific experiences related to the aims and focus of the programme within the context of Liberia.
How to apply:
If you are interested to cooperate with AFC Consultants in this tender, please send you most recent CV to:
Barbara.Braun@afci.de
Closing Date: Friday, 22 June 2012
