Trade, Education and Skills Programme Manager

7 months ago

Pretoria, South Africa Embassy of Ireland, South Africa Full time

**Trade, Education and Skills Programme Manager**

**Embassy of Ireland, Pretoria**

**_Our mission is to promote and protect abroad the values, interests and economic well-being of Ireland and its people; we do this under the political direction of our Ministers, through our staff at home and through our Embassy network abroad._**

The Embassy of Ireland, Pretoria, is seeking a highly motivated, enthusiastic and hardworking person with excellent communication and interpersonal skills to fill a full-time **Trade, Education and Skills Programme manager **position, on an initial **three years** contract, to join our team.

**Roles and Responsibilities**:
Under the direction of the Second Secretary, manage and coordinate the Trade, Education and Skills portfolio to support Ireland’s strategic objective of developing strengthened trade and economic relations and institutional partnerships with South Africa and our countries of accreditation to support inclusive economic growth.

**This will include**:

- Supporting trade promotion to raise Ireland’s profile as a trade, investment and institutional partner in South Africa, including managing the Embassy’s flagship entrepreneurship programme, the Irish Tech Challenge;
- Managing the Embassy’s Fellowship programme and supporting growth of the alumni network;
- Developing institutional linkages and cooperation between Ireland and South Africa in higher education, science and research;
- Coordination of other areas of work to support skills development and employment in South Africa.

**1; Expand Ireland’s trade, and investment links with South Africa and the region**:

- Engage and grow Embassy’s private sector network to encourage trade and business activity between Ireland and South Africa, and support growth of Irish business networks;
- Project manage Embassy’s tech start-up programme, the Irish Tech Challenge;
- Support coordination across ‘Team Ireland’ - Ireland’s trade-focused state agencies in South Africa, and regional coordination on trade issues;
- Carry out targeted trade promotion activities to raise Ireland’s profile as a trade and investment partner in South Africa, identifying policy exchange and public diplomacy opportunities for same;
- Stay abreast of key issues and develop knowledge networks to support the work of the Embassy in this area, particularly on economic trends and sectors of interest to Ireland and Irish business;
- Support on ad-hoc projects as necessary, for example coordinating trade visits or ensuing trade promotion focus in cultural activities.
- **Skills and Employment Development in South Africa**:

- Support the development of a strong South African Alumni of Irish Higher Education Institutes and other affinity diaspora groups, including acting as point of contact for Kader Asmal Alumni Association;
- Manage existing projects and grant partners to support skills, employment and entrepreneurship in South Africa ensuring lesson learning from these engagements;
- Engage with private sector for partnerships on skills development and employment;
- Stay abreast of key issues and develop knowledge networks to support the Embassy of Ireland’s work on skills and employment in South Africa.

**3. Increase institutional linkages, networks and cooperation in higher education and science between Ireland and South Africa**:

- Develop institutional linkages and cooperation between Ireland and South Africa in all sectors, including student mobility, research links, science cooperation and peer to peer learning;
- Support the development of the existing partnerships between Universities of Technology in South Africa and Ireland;
- Raise Ireland’s profile in South Africa as an innovation and research partner through stakeholder engagement and public diplomacy.
- **Contribution to Whole of Embassy Strategic Planning and Implementation and knowledge management**:

- Ensure familiarity with all key documents outlining Ireland’s foreign policy and development objectives (_Global Ireland, A Better World, Ireland’s Africa Strategy) _and the linkages between these policies and the Embassy Strategy;
- Provide strategic input and advice on trade and skills development across the work of the Embassy and input to relevant cross Embassy Teams, including political, development and public diplomacy;
- Contribute to the development of annual business plans, performance management framework and budgets to effectively implement and monitor progress of activities under each Key Performance Area set out in this Job Description;
- Contribute to the Embassy’s knowledge management and learning functions and practices, and the maintenance of a repository of information, statistics and trends;
- Work closely with the Embassy’s Public Diplomacy and Information officer to develop and disseminate key messages on Ireland/SA business links;
- Support midterm review of the trade, education and skills elements of the current Embassy Strate

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