Call for Resumes: Southern Africa Resilience in the Limpopo River Basin
DAI seeks candidates for an anticipated Southern Africa Resilience in the Limpopo River Basin program. The anticipated program will work in South Africa, Mozambique, Botswana, and Zimbabwe. Read more
Call for Resumes: ECIAfrica Associate Consultant Registration (open/close)
ECIAfrica Consulting (Pty) Ltd. is an international development consultancy operating in Southern and Eastern Africa, which offers economic development solutions to various donor agencies, governments and private sector entities.
In preparation for several forthcoming donor-funded projects in the region (Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe), ECIAfrica is updating its Associate Consultant Database, and is therefore seeking Technical Experts in:
Agriculture and Rural Development; Enterprise Development; Trade and Tourism; Development Finance; Infrastructure and Service Delivery; Policy and Governance; Public Finance; and Health and HIV/AIDS.
Candidates fluent in French or Portuguese are particularly invited to register.
Should you meet the specifications for any of the sectors below, and be interested in registering in our database, please submit your detailed CV to eci_info@eciafrica.com (eci_info@eciafrica.com) referenced as follows: SectorReference_NameSurname_Month10 (Trade_JonSmith_March2010.). In your submission, please include the following details:
- Preferred daily rate (in ZAR/US$)
- Preference for long or short term assignments
- Preferred contact details
To download the ECIAfrica format CV in MS Word, click here
Minimum Requirements
Team Leaders
Qualifications and Skills
- Post graduate degree in the relevant fields
- Proven team management and communication skills
- Fluent in English (spoken and written)
- Fluent in Portuguese (for Mozambique – based projects)
General Professional Experience
- Minimum 10 years of experience, 6 years in subject-related work in a leading position as Technical Expert or Team Leader
- Expertise in technical and financial programme management, preferably related to development cooperation
- Programme management experience (technical and financial), including strategic development, institutional assessments, assessment and approval of grant applications, financial management and reporting, monitoring ad evaluation.
- Experience in working with donor agencies such as DFID, EU, MCC, SDC, USAID, SIDA, and WB.
- Experience dealing with multi-sectoral institutions and government (local/provincial and national).
Technical Experts
Qualifications and Skills
- Post graduate degree in the relevant fields
- Proven team management and communication skills
- Fluent in English (spoken and written)
- Fluent in Portuguese (for Mozambique – based projects)
GeneralProfessional Experience
- Minimum 8 years of experience, 5 years in subject-related work as Technical Expert or Adviser
- Technical expertise related to the development of ECIAfrica core focus areas
- Experience in providing technical input and advice in specific area of specialisation
- Experience in delivery-based project reporting
- Experience in working with donor agencies such as DFID, EU, MCC, SDC, USAID, SIDA, and WB
- Experience dealing with multi-sectoral institutions and government (local/provincial and national)
Knowledge Management and Monitoring and Evaluation
Qualifications and Skills
- Post graduate degree in development economics, or the relevant fields
- Proven team management and communication skills
- Fluent in English spoken and written
- (Portuguese is an advantage)
General Professional Experience
- Minimum 8 years of experience, 5 years in subject-related work as a Knowledge Management or M&E Expert
- Experience in designing and implementing M&E frameworks with reference to the logical framework and management for results approach
- Experience in designing and implementing development projects in relation to knowledge management and monitoring and evaluation
- Experience in working with donor agencies such as DFID, EU, MCC, SDC, USAID, SIDA, and WB.
- Experience dealing with multi-sectoral institutions and government (local/provincial and national).
Sector Areas
Agriculture and Rural Development [Ref.: Agric]
Specific Professional Experience in:
- Value Chain/ Sub-sector Analysis studies
- Statistical data management and analysis
- Pro-poor agribusiness development
- Institutional design for agribusiness
- Agriculture Business linkages
- Agricultural production (agronomy, horticulture, animal husbandry, etc.)
- Agro-processing technology and methodology
- Making Markets Work for the Poor (M4P)
- Grant management
Trade [Ref.: Trade]
Specific Professional Experience in:
- International trade
- Trade policy
- Export
- AGOA
Enterprise Development [Ref.: Enterprise]
Specific Professional Experience in:
- Supplier development
- Private Sector development
- Advocacy, Private Sector Organisation strengthening
- Strategic and Institutional Management and Planning (master planning, strategy development)
- SMME development
- Capacity building (incubation, training, mentorship, etc)
- Business linkages
- Community development
- Statistical data management and analysis
- Making Markets Work for the Poor (M4P)
- Investment facilitation
- Grant management
Tourism Development [Ref.: Tourism]
Specific Professional Experience in:
- Value Chain/ Sub-sector Analysis studies
- Pro-poor tourism management
- Sustainable tourism development
- Strategic and Institutional Management and Planning (master/business planning, strategy development)
- Viability and feasibility planning
- Tourism product development
- Tourism investment mobilisation
- Grant management
Environmental Management [Ref.: Environ]
Specific Professional Experience in:
- Environmental and management and conservation
- Natural resources management
- Climate change management
- Environmental policy analysis and development
Development Finance [Ref.: DevFin]
Specific Professional Experience in:
- Microfinance
- SMME banking
- Investment structuring
- Grant management
- Financial management
Health and HIV/AIDS [Ref.: HIV]
Specific Professional Experience in:
- Policy analysis, development and advice
- Programme design and implementation
- Development of procedures, standards and norms
- Capacity building
- Development of monitoring and evaluation frameworks and indicators
- Grant management
Infrastructure Delivery and Water Resources Management [Ref.: Infrastructure]
Specific Professional Experience in:
- Integrated water resources management
- Improving the efficiency of water services
- Infrastructure delivery management systems
- Built environment (construction, civil engineering, architecture, quantity surveying)
- Organisational development
- Institutional capacity building
- Programme design and implementation
Policy and Governance [Ref.: Governance]
Specific Professional Experience in:
- Public policy analysis, development and advice
- Governance Principles (such as King II, III)
- Organisational development
- Capacity building
- Strategic planning
- Programme design and implementation
Public Finance [Ref.: PubFin]
Specific Professional Experience in:
- Public finance management and administration
- Development of policies and procedures
- Risk management
- Review of compliance
- Grant management
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