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EAST AFRICA TRADE AND INVESTMENT HUB

SCOPE OF WORK

COMPONENT 4 LEAD: SENIOR ECONOMIC POLICY ADVISOR

BACKGROUND:

The East Africa Trade and Investment Hub (the Hub) boosts trade and investment with and within East Africa. It does this by deepening regional integration, increasing the competitiveness of select regional agricultural value chains, promoting two-way trade with the United States (U.S.) under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and facilitating investment and technology to drive trade growth intra-regionally and to global markets. The Hub supports the U.S. Government’s presidential Trade Africa and Feed the Future initiatives.

OBJECTIVES AND DUTIES:

The Senior Economic Policy Advisor will provide leadership and day-to-day management for activities designed to improve competitiveness and the policy environment for trade, agriculture, and investment. S/he will design and facilitate activities to improve regional integration and investment. The Senior Economic Policy Advisor will engage with public and private sector partners and stakeholders across the East African Community to facilitate the harmonization, implementation, and uptake of policy reforms. The position is based in Nairobi, Kenya with extensive regional travel.

The Senior Economic Policy Advisor will be responsible for, but not limited to, the following detailed tasks:

  • Oversee and direct overall assistance to the EAC and the EAC Partner States and especially representative business associations, sector specific trade associations and other organized groups to support expanded trade and investment in the EAC region.
  • Oversee and direct overall assistance to the EAC and EAC Partner States to support stimulation, protection and retention of investment in the region, specifically through advancing investment-facilitating reforms.
  • Lead collaboration with other development partners and implementing institutions that support trade, investment and regional integration to leverage value in the implementation of trade policy assignments.
  • In coordination with the Hub’s Agriculture and Agribusiness component lead the provision of assistance to support the EAC Partner States in the implementation of WTO obligations on trade facilitation, technical barriers to trade and sanitary and phyto-sanitary measures.
  • Oversee and direct overall assistance to improve the regulatory management systems, procedures, and institutions in the region, including building networks to advocate and drive
  • Oversee technical assistance for EAC and other RECs to improve trading of goods and services, as well as the movement of capitals within the region.

QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Master’s degree in economics, public policy, international trade, trade law/policy, political economy
  • At least 10 years of relevant
  • At least 5 years of experience (strongly preferred over five years’ experience) analyzing, implementing, and working to improve trade policy and global competitiveness in Africa.
  • At least 5 years of experience managing and coordinating policy improvement and implementation activities considering stakeholder buy- in/consensus, advocacy for reform, and institutional change
  • Strongly preferred experience serving in an advisory capacity to high-level government officials on trade policy and global competitiveness issues.
  • Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with institutional and private sector partners and stakeholders in a multi-country
  • Outstanding writing and presentation skills are indispensable.
  • Excellent English writing and communication

East African nationals are encourage to apply.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • The Senior Economic Policy Advisor will supervise the Component 4

BASE OF OPERATIONS:

  • Nairobi, Kenya

REPORTING:

  • The Senior Economic Policy Advisor will report to the Chief of Party

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Development Alternatives, Inc (DAI)

DAI was founded in 1970 by three graduates of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government intent on providing a more dynamic and effective brand of development assistance. This entrepreneurial approach would look beyond traditional philanthropy to embrace the virtues of the private sector, and build a company that delivers social and economic development on a competitive, cost-effective, best-value basis—a social enterprise that is self-sustaining because it is profitable.

Employee-owned DAI is now a global development company with a record of delivering results in 160 countries. But it remains today what it was as a start-up: innovative, alert, self-critical, and forward-looking—and driven by a powerful sense of corporate purpose. Our mission remains essentially unchanged from the days of the founders.

A Consistent Mission

DAI’s mission is to make a lasting difference in the world by helping people improve their lives. We envision a world in which communities and societies become more prosperous, fairer and better governed, safer, healthier, and environmentally more sustainable.

Incorporated in 1970 as Development Alternatives, Inc., DAI made its earliest mark through a series of analytical studies. In 1973, we won a contract to analyze 36 U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) projects in Latin America and Africa.

The resulting study, Strategies for Small Farmer Development, cemented the firm’s growing reputation, and we built on this momentum to seek more substantial assignments implementing projects in the field. Our first major project was to revitalize the agricultural economy in the North Shaba region of Zaire. Other implementation initiatives in rural and agricultural development followed in Sudan and elsewhere.

Among a new generation of DAI employees joining the firm in the 1980s was current CEO Jim Boomgard, a Ph.D. agricultural economist who played a key role in developing an approach to small business promotion in developing countries and managed a landmark multicountry study called Growth and Equity through Micro-enterprise Investments and Institutions (GEMINI).

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EAST AFRICA TRADE AND INVESTMENT HUB

SCOPE OF WORK

COMPONENT 4 LEAD: SENIOR ECONOMIC POLICY ADVISOR

BACKGROUND:

The East Africa Trade and Investment Hub (the Hub) boosts trade and investment with and within East Africa. It does this by deepening regional integration, increasing the competitiveness of select regional agricultural value chains, promoting two-way trade with the United States (U.S.) under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and facilitating investment and technology to drive trade growth intra-regionally and to global markets. The Hub supports the U.S. Government’s presidential Trade Africa and Feed the Future initiatives.

OBJECTIVES AND DUTIES:

The Senior Economic Policy Advisor will provide leadership and day-to-day management for activities designed to improve competitiveness and the policy environment for trade, agriculture, and investment. S/he will design and facilitate activities to improve regional integration and investment. The Senior Economic Policy Advisor will engage with public and private sector partners and stakeholders across the East African Community to facilitate the harmonization, implementation, and uptake of policy reforms. The position is based in Nairobi, Kenya with extensive regional travel.

The Senior Economic Policy Advisor will be responsible for, but not limited to, the following detailed tasks:

  • Oversee and direct overall assistance to the EAC and the EAC Partner States and especially representative business associations, sector specific trade associations and other organized groups to support expanded trade and investment in the EAC region.
  • Oversee and direct overall assistance to the EAC and EAC Partner States to support stimulation, protection and retention of investment in the region, specifically through advancing investment-facilitating reforms.
  • Lead collaboration with other development partners and implementing institutions that support trade, investment and regional integration to leverage value in the implementation of trade policy assignments.
  • In coordination with the Hub’s Agriculture and Agribusiness component lead the provision of assistance to support the EAC Partner States in the implementation of WTO obligations on trade facilitation, technical barriers to trade and sanitary and phyto-sanitary measures.
  • Oversee and direct overall assistance to improve the regulatory management systems, procedures, and institutions in the region, including building networks to advocate and drive
  • Oversee technical assistance for EAC and other RECs to improve trading of goods and services, as well as the movement of capitals within the region.

QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Master’s degree in economics, public policy, international trade, trade law/policy, political economy
  • At least 10 years of relevant
  • At least 5 years of experience (strongly preferred over five years’ experience) analyzing, implementing, and working to improve trade policy and global competitiveness in Africa.
  • At least 5 years of experience managing and coordinating policy improvement and implementation activities considering stakeholder buy- in/consensus, advocacy for reform, and institutional change
  • Strongly preferred experience serving in an advisory capacity to high-level government officials on trade policy and global competitiveness issues.
  • Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with institutional and private sector partners and stakeholders in a multi-country
  • Outstanding writing and presentation skills are indispensable.
  • Excellent English writing and communication

East African nationals are encourage to apply.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • The Senior Economic Policy Advisor will supervise the Component 4

BASE OF OPERATIONS:

  • Nairobi, Kenya

REPORTING:

  • The Senior Economic Policy Advisor will report to the Chief of Party
 2017-08-04

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