Southern Africa Regional Director

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa DAI Full time

SCOPE OF WORK

AFRICA TRADE AND INVESTMENT PROGRAM

Southern Africa Regional Director

Position Title:

Southern Africa Regional Director

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE ON/ABOUT (FROM-TO)
Date of Approval

End of project

**Contract Name: ATI Program

**Contract No: 7200AA21C00056

Place of Performance:

Johannesburg, South Africa

BACKGROUND


The USAID Africa Trade and Investment (ATI) program is a five-year, flexible buy-in mechanism jointly managed by the USAID Africa Bureau, Middle East Bureau, and Africa Regional Missions.

It was designed to mobilize enterprise-driven solutions that increase trade and investment in Africa, including North and Sub-Saharan Africa. It strengthens Africa's markets by developing new trade and investment relationships, particularly between the United States and African continent. It also works to achieves development outcomes across all sectors.

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OBJECTIVES AND DUTIES


The Southern Africa Regional Director is a key member of the ATI delivery team and will support USAID's Africa Bureau's ATI program in boosting trade and investment across the continent of Africa, with a particular focus on Southern Africa.

The Regional Director will be primarily responsible for client management, oversight of buy-in design and implementation process and strong delivery on expected outputs, outcomes and overall development impact.

The Regional Director manages Activity Managers, Specialists and Associates under ATI's Southern Africa Portfolio.

Tasks include, but are not limited to:

  • Manage client relationships with USAID missions, regional economic bodies, and other key stakeholders Southern Africa to develop and oversee implementation of buyin activities.
  • Provide technical insight to USAID programming, as requested by USAID Missions
  • Serve as management lead to support ATI buyin implementation from the development of buyin scopes of work (SOWs), to activity design, and implementation. This will involve close collaboration with ATI functional teams (i.e. grants, procurement, MEL, communications, finance/operations, systems & quality) and budgetrelated negotiations with current and potential buyin clients.
  • Supervise and manage a team of ATI Activity Managers in the Southern Africa Portfolio to ensure quality delivery of the technical activities within the portfolio and facilitate coordination with functional teams.
  • Manage the resourcing of buyin implementation by identifying resources needs (LTTA and STTA) to new and existing buyin activities, in close coordination with project leadership.
  • Plan, assign, and direct Activity Team work, including addressing and resolving problems.
  • Ensure client satisfaction from buyin design through implementation and timely delivery of deliverables and milestones in the Southern Africa Portfolio. This will include providing inputs and overseeing the design of buyin SOWs, SOWs for procurements and grants.
  • Work closely with USAID missions and grants/partnerships team to engage a broad spectrum of private sector actors to expand programmatic interventions. Where promising interventions are identified, support ATI Leadership to replicate impact through new partnerships and engagements both regionally and continentally.
  • Support procurement and technical teams on final subcontractor SOWs and deliverable schedules, utilizing standard deliverable metrics, payforperformance, and catalytic funding contractual frameworks and support deliverables review in the Southern Africa Portfolio.
  • Work with Grants Managers to in drafting of Annual Program Statement Addendum and other grant/procurement mechanisms in line with client priorities.
  • Work with Activity Team to provide capacity building and guidance to subcontractors and grantees in the Southern Africa Portfolio, as needed, to ensure that new and underutilized partners to USAID are given opportunities to build their familiarity with working with USAID effectively and advance the goals of USAID localization
  • Lead strategic analysis and early identification of trade and investment opportunities and develop highimpact partnerships with businesses and institutions to identify/overcome key business environment constraints hindering trade and growth.
  • Support ATI leadership in planning and implementation of the project workplans, quarterly/annual reporting and regular communications products to report on Southern Africa MEL outcomes.
  • Ensure that the entire regional team is focused on tangible development impact and client satisfaction.

REPORTING:

The Southern Africa Regional Director will report to the ATI Senior Technical Director - Africa.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Required Qualifications:

  • Advanced degree in economics, business administration, social sciences or related discipline and 10+ years of relevant work experience specifically on trade and/or investment.
  • Experience managing donorfunded international development programs with privatesectorled

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