Deadline: 31 May 2024
The Country Director (CD) leads the country programme with an overall responsibility for delivering results in line with TradeMark Africa (TMA)’s Strategy and Project Cycle Management (PCM) Guidelines. S/he manages and maintains strategic relationships with the Government of Kenya, the private sector, civil society, and the donor communities. Also, the CD is responsible for managing the country team to ensure good design and delivery of projects, and ensuring best practice is followed with TMA corporate guidelines, procedures, and systems.
The CD, Kenya has the overall responsibility for an effective design and delivery of trade facilitation and market systems/value chain programming, including, but not limited to the EU-funded Business Environment and Export Enhancement Programme (BEEEP) and the US-funded Economic Recovery and Reform Activity (ERRA). S/he will develop and maintain effective projects in line with TMA’s strategic plan, results framework, and its monitoring systems, and ensure delivery of programme activities in infrastructure development, trade facilitation, support to Government institutions and the private sector. The CD has the responsibility of scaling up the programme and identifying opportunities for additional investments through fundraising from donors, development partners and other agencies.
As the Portfolio director, the CD has the responsibility of streamlining good ways of working between the country programme’s team and regional & other country teams, as well as external stakeholders. The CD has the overall responsibility of managing programme risks as well as in providing leadership and mentorship to the team.
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Deadline: 31 May 2024
The Programme Manager, Market Systems will be responsible for an effective design of new programmes and delivery of market systems/value chain programmes at country and regional level, and particularly responsible for the delivery of expenditure and results from existing programmes such as the Business Environment and Export Enhancement Programme (BEEEP), funded by the EU, and the Economic Recovery and Reforms Activity (ERRA), funded by USAID, in line with the overall TMA Theory of Change (TOC).
TMA aims to bolster green economic growth and create decent job opportunities in Kenya by supporting implementation of the Integrated National Export Promotion and Development Strategy, through programmes such as BEEEP (with a focus on avocadoes, mangoes, and vegetables value chains) and ERRA (to unlock export growth and job creation in key value chains linked to structured trade in food commodities and Cotton, Textile and Garments (CTG). Also, under ERRA, TMA has launched a job creation call for proposals from the private sector in Kenya and will provide cost sharing grants to unlock exports and growth in agribusiness and CTG.
The Programme Manager’s primary role will be to support the implementation/rolling out of programmes across the targeted value chains. S/he will lead on market systems approaches on programming throughout the Project Life Cycle Management (PCM) including from design, to completion of implementation including drafting Terms of Reference monitoring & evaluation, collaboration, learning and adaptation, communications, contract management, quality assurance, reporting and oversight with regular steering committees; and stakeholder engagement including coordination with country and regional teams and external value chain actors.
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Deadline: 31 May 2024
The Programme Manager, Trade Facilitation will support the Director West Africa & AfCFTA and, Trade and Customs (T&C) Director in coordinating the alignment of trade policy and facilitation practices and goals to TMA’s strategy and ensuring that trade facilitation is streamlined in all aspects of the relevant TMA’s projects and interventions in West Africa. He/she will ensure establishment of clear linkages of trade facilitation to organizational objectives at both the national and regional levels. The position will involve provision of technical and operational support to border agencies in the implementation of trade facilitation initiatives such as, but not limited to Integrated Border Management (IBM), Authorised Economic Operators Schemes (AEOs), Authorised Supply Chains (ASC), Trade Procedures Re-engineering, Training and Capacity Building, among other instruments under the World Customs Organisation (WCO) Safe Standards Framework. S/he will support the Director in formulation, review and implementation of trade policy instruments including trade barrier, trade remedies and tariffs frameworks. Other aspects of the position will involve leading and coordinating TMA’s implementation of trade facilitation and customs arrangements emerging from trade agreements such as the World Trade Organisation Trade Facilitation Agreement (WTO TFA), AfCFTA, WCO, among others.
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Deadline: 31 May 2024
Programme Manager, Trade Facilitation (TF) will lead and manage the design and implementation of all projects, within Kenya country programme, which support trade policy & integrated corridor management, Standards Quality Infrastructure (SQI) & Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary (SPS) measures, and digital trade. These projects and interventions will be funded by a range of donors who are directly supporting the delivery of the country programme, such as the EU, USAID, UK – Foreign, Commonwealth and Development office (FCDO), DANIDA, to mention as few. The Programme manager will support the Country Director, Kenya in engagements and in managing relationships with Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), with an overall mandate of facilitating Kenya’s trade.
To bolster green economic growth and create decent job opportunities in Kenya, TMA supports programmes such as the Economic Recovery and Reforms Activity (ERRA), funded by USAID, to unlock export growth and job creation in key value chains linked to structured trade in food commodities and Cotton, Textile and Garments (CTG). Also, under ERRA, TMA has launched a job creation call for proposals from the private sector in Kenya and will provide cost sharing grants to unlock exports and growth in agribusiness and CTG; and the Business Environment and Export Enhancement Programme (BEEEP), funded by the EU, with a focus on avocadoes, mangoes, and vegetables value chains.
The programme manager will lead on activities throughout the whole Project Life Cycle Management (PCM) including at designing phases, planning and implementation; monitoring, evaluation, collaboration, learning and dissemination; quality assurance, reporting and oversight with regular steering committees; and stakeholder engagement including coordination with country and regional teams and external actors. Some of the ongoing donor funded programs are funded by the USAID Economic Recovery and Reform Activity (ERRA) and the EU Funded Business Environment and Export Enhancement Programme (BEEP).
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Deadline: 31 May 2024
The Programme Manager will lead and manage the design and implementation of projects, within the Uganda country programme, which supports business competitiveness, trade policy & integrated corridor management, Standards Quality Infrastructure (SQI) & Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary (SPS) measures, and digital trade. These projects and interventions will be funded by a range of donors who are directly supporting the delivery of the country programme, such as the
EU, USAID, UK – Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), DANIDA, to mention a few. The Programme Manager will support the Country Director Uganda in engagements and in managing relationships with Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), with an overall mandate of facilitating Uganda’s trade.
To bolster green economic growth and create decent job opportunities in Uganda, TMA supports programs such as the Economic Recovery and Reforms Activity (ERRA), funded by USAID, to unlock export growth and job creation in key value chains linked to structured trade-in food commodities and Cotton, Textile, and Garments (CTG). The Uganda Trade Support (TUTS) Project funded by DANIDA, with a focus on SQI, construction of a flood-resistant cross-border
market, green freezones, and compliance with the EU Deforestation Regulation. The Project Manager will lead all activities throughout the whole Project Life Cycle
Management (PCM) including i) project implementation; ii) monitoring, evaluation, collaboration, learning and dissemination; iii) quality assurance, reporting, and oversight; and iv) stakeholder engagement including coordination with country and regional teams and external stakeholders. The USAID Economic Recovery funds some of the ongoing donor-funded programs and Reform Activity (ERRA) and the DANIDA Funded TUTS Project.
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Deadline: 31 May 2024
The Programme Manager, Trade Facilitation will support the Director of West Africa & AfCFTA and, Trade and Customs Director in coordinating the alignment of trade policy and facilitation practices and goals to TMA’s strategy and ensuring that trade facilitation is streamlined in all aspects of the relevant TMA’s projects and interventions in West Africa.
He/she will ensure the establishment of clear linkages of trade facilitation to organizational objectives at both the national and regional levels. The position will involve the provision of technical and operational support to border agencies in the implementation of trade facilitation initiatives such as, but not limited to Integrated Border Management (IBM), Authorised Economic Operators Schemes (AEOs), Authorised Supply Chains (ASC), Trade Procedures Re-
engineering, Training, and Capacity Building, among other instruments under the World Customs Organisation (WCO) Safe Standards Framework. S/he will support the Director in formulation, review, and implementation of trade policy instruments including trade barriers, trade remedies and tariffs frameworks.
Other aspects of the position will involve leading and coordinating TMA’s implementation of trade facilitation and customs arrangements emerging from trade agreements such as the World Trade Organisation Trade Facilitation Agreement (WTO TFA), AfCFTA, and WCO, among others.
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Deadline: 31 May 2024
The programme officer will support delivery of TradeMark Africa (TMA)’s Uganda Country programme through providing high quality and diligent Programme Cycle Management (PCM) and end to end programme support. S/he will work closely with the Programme Manager, Uganda and South Sudan and the Country Director, to ensure delivery of results from country programmes such as The Uganda Trade Support (TUTS) Project, and the Economic Recovery and Reform Activity (ERRA) – Uganda in line with TMA’s PCM guidelines.
She/he will manage the process of the annual work planning cycle with technical teams and assist with the consolidation of all project plans. In addition, the job holder will carry out administrative activities, including consolidation of quarterly and annual reports, taking minutes in meetings, and ensuring follow up and any other functions that may be required.
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