Job Title: Senior Expert
Organisation: Global Business Analysts – Nigeria
Location: Tunis/Tunisia with occasional travels to other African countries
Project to start late March/early April 2013 if we win.
Job Description:
1. Evaluate the status of decentralization in African countries and its impact on localities' ability to harness the financing needed for local urban development.
2.Increase awareness of stakeholders and Bank management and staff of the importance of urbanization in Africa, the role of decentralization and local governments, and the need for appropriate financing and financing instruments through seminars and workshops;
3. Undertake a feasibility study on Bank direct financing of local governments;
Propose a diverse set of financing modalities, varying according to Country/locality attributes along with a set of diagnostic tools;
4. Based on items in a-c, devise a new Bank policy on sub-national finance that is tailored to the needs of African local governments, and that enables a better implementation of the Bank's Urban Development Strategy.
Desired Skills & Experience:
He/she should have at minimum the following qualifications:
• At least a Masters' degree or equivalent in economics, urban economics, public finance, finance, political science, or public administration.
• At least 10 years' experience in local public finance and urban development in Africa. This includes experience with decentralization, intergovernmental fiscal relations, and access of local governments to financial markets. Experience in local public finance and urban development in other continents is a plus.
• At least 5 years' experience interacting directly with local governments, and local governments' associations (such as CGLU, CFLD, Africites, etc.).
• At least 5 years' experience with mobilizing financing for urban development projects, preferably holistic urban development projects, and with performance-based grants for community development projects;
• At least five years' experience with private sector development projects in Africa, including Public Private Partnerships (PPPs); experience in other continents is an added advantage;
• An excellent knowledge of the challenge of urbanization in Africa currently and as expected over the next few decades, and of the financing mechanisms available to local governments in Africa and the challenges they face;
• Experience with implementing or evaluating projects financed in collaboration with international financial institutions, particularly multilateral development banks (including the World Bank and other Regional Development Banks) and bilateral agencies;
• Substantive experience with capacity building and/or technical assistance for local governments, particularly in the context of decentralization and the transfer of competencies to the local level in accordance with the decentralization texts;
• Excellent writing skills and competence in Microsoft Professional software (especially Word, Excel, and PowerPoint);
• Proficiency in English or French and good knowledge of the other language;
• Demonstrated capacity to work diligently and deliver quality outputs without direct supervision.
Indicate daily rate in Euro; field expenses will be taken care of. Expected time inputs are 58 man-days
Deadline: Thursday March 7 2013.
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