Job Profile Requirements
Organizational Competencies:
Level 1:
Building relationships and partnerships – Builds and maintains effective working relationships
Communicating and negotiating – Communicates effectively; creates understanding between self and others
Demonstrating leadership – Personal leadership and attitude to change
Focusing on clients – Focuses on clients
Learning, sharing knowledge and innovating – Continuously seeks to learn, shares knowledge & innovates
Managing performance and developing staff –
Managing time, resources and information – Manages own time, information and resources effectively
Problem-solving and decision-making – Demonstrates sound problem-solving and decision-making ability
Strategic thinking and organizational development – Personal influence
Team working – Contributes effectively to the team
Education:
Level – Advanced university degree
Areas – rural development, agriculture, economics, rural finance, development policy or other job related fields. Degree must be an accredited institution listed on https://www.whed.net/home.php.
Experience:
At least two (2) years’ progressively responsible professional experience in development institutions and/or government service.
Must be a national of, or hold a valid working permit for, the country of assignment.
Qualifying work experience in country programme analysis or loan/grant administration with International financial institutions, development cooperation agencies, etc., would be an asset.
Languages:
English (4 – Excellent)
Desirable: French, Spanish, or Arabic
Skills:
Budgeting, resource management: Know-how in budget administration and accounting, resource allocation and planning at divisional level
Advocacy: Ability to leverage IFAD knowledge and/or communication materials to maintain and promote constructive dialogue around IFAD`s vision and strategic priorities to external actors
Data management: Data collection, cleaning, transformation and consolidation; data-base architecture & development; data presentation
Risk management (e.g. reputational): Identification and assessment of potential liabilities and risks in IFAD’s activities, particularly vis-à-vis third parties; ability to handle risks via contingency and mitigation strategies
Stakeholder management: Strong alignment capabilities and consultation skills, building on effective interactions and relationships with different stakeholders (e.g. for the co-creation of communication material with member states) and ability to build and maintain a strong network (e.g. with journalists, media outlets, etc.)
Ethics & Compliance: Expertise in managing and overseeing the ethics and compliance functions, advising management and staff on ethical issues, reviewing allegations of violation of the Code of conduct, managing the mandatory ethics training programme on harassment including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, the whistleblowing protection procedures and the financial disclosure programme
Adaptability: Adaptability and flexibility when facing new or unexpected situations, and to specific constraints and circumstances and managing complex processes
Basic ICT & digital fluency: High level of digital literacy and ability to quickly get familiar with new digital tools (e.g. ability to carry out EPR data entry and extraction when budgeting; monitoring security systems, uploading content to inter/intra-net websites, etc.)
Political acumen: Ability to conduct sound political analysis and understand complex environments, providing options and advice
Problem solving: Strong systemic and structured thinking, ability to identify and dissect problems into components and formulate a comprehensive set of creative viable and sustainable solutions and strategies
Written communication: Clear, succinct and convincing written communication in the language needed for specific role; highly professional, balanced and diplomatic language (e.g. for drafting of position papers, briefings, etc.)
Loans & grants: Know-how in designing loan and grant operations and managing loan and grant preparation process
Programme/Project development, management: Know-how in Programme/Project development, implementation, management.
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www.impactpool.org
