Team Leader - Ethiopia

Service Area:		Private Sector Development
City / region:		Addis Abeba
Country:		Ethiopia
Date Posted:		8/26/2014
Application Deadline:		9/30/2014
Description:		Cardno Emerging Markets, Belgium s.a. is looking for a potential candidate as Team leader to be presented in our tender for the EU-financed project “Long-term technical assistance to the Women’s Breakthrough Project” in Ethiopia. The TA contract is to provide implementation support to the women’s breakthrough project (WBP). The service contract will be for a period of 40 months and it will assist the project managers in the overall project administration and monitoring of the project and development of training courses and provision of entrepreneurship and vocational trainings for a total of 3 000 women in 4 target regions (Oromia, SNNP, Gambella and Beninshangul Gumuz). The service contract will have both long-term and short-term experts. The start date is expected to be beginning of 2015. The Team Leader will be responsible for the management and implementation of the contract, including coordination of the long-term TA and pool of short-term experts. He/She will work in close collaboration with the Ministry of Women, Youth and Child Affairs in Ethiopia.
Qualifications:		He/She will have : • A Postgraduate University degree in business, development, gender or other field relevant for this contract • At least 15 years of general work experience in SME development, entrepreneurship, gender issues, training, and at least 10 years’ experience of working on TA projects • At least 5 years’ experience in implementing EDF-financed projects; experience as Team Leader is an asset • In-depth understanding of gender issues, social equity, and women economic empowerment • Experience in private sector development, support to SMEs and entrepreneurship skills assessments and trainings is an asset • Experience in capacity building of national, regional and/or local institutions, experience in design and implementation of trainings and workshops • Experience in Project and strategy monitoring and evaluation • Work experience in East Africa; experience in Ethiopia is an asset • Excellent written and verbal knowledge of English; knowledge of Amharic is an asset
Special Instructions:		To submit your application, please click the Apply Online button to create an account or log into your existing Cardno account. Cardno offers an excellent compensation and benefits package. Cardno is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Cardno is an international professional infrastructure and environmental services company with over 60 years’ experience and 8,000 people shaping the future for communities around the world. Cardno Emerging Markets, part of the Cardno Ltd group, is an international development company with more than 40 years’ experience in providing consulting and Technical Assistance services to international donors and national governments in private sector development, enterprise development, fund management and livelihoods as well as designing of knowledge management and monitoring and evaluation frameworks for multi-year projects. The Emerging Markets Division has eight corporate offices and over 150 project offices on five continents and brings together over 900 technical specialists and development professionals who speak 40 languages.

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