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Operations Officer – Program Management- Abuja, Nigeria- 122297 Job #: 122297 Title: Operations Officer – Program Management Job Stream: Private Sector Development Location: Abuja, Nigeria Closing Date: 10/17/2012 Background / General description: Improving the investment climate in Africa is one of three core priorities of the IFC/World Bank Group strategy in Sub-Saharan Africa. IFC manages the Investment Climate Advisory Services of the World Bank Group, which comprise staff based in the hub offices of Nairobi, Dakar and Johannesburg and across the continent, who work with a team of product specialists in Washington, DC and Istanbul. The Investment Climate Advisory Services have supporting Sub-Saharan African countries to design and implement investment climate reform programs nearly a decade, and have scaled up their efforts significantly in recent years.
The programs assists client countries to implement a range of investment climate reforms, including economy-wide reforms of aspects of business regulation, supporting international trade and investment, regional integration as well as addressing obstacles to private sector investment in leading industries, such as agribusiness, infrastructure, tourism and health. The team’s objective is to support African countries’ efforts to create a positive investment climate to increase their competitiveness and private sector investment.
The Investment Climate Advisory Services are looking to fill a staff position as Operations Officer (Program Management), to be located in Abuja, Nigeria.
The successful candidate will coordinate our program to provide technical assistance to regional organizations in West Africa, namely ECOWAS and UEMOA, on investment climate related issues, which will be funded by European Union. . Duties and Accountabilities: The incumbent officer will have frontline responsibility for delivering the investment climate reform program funded by European Union, which provides technical assistance to regional organizations in West Africa, under the leadership of the Manager of Investment Climate Advisory Services for Africa, with day to day technical guidance from the deputy manager responsible for West and Central Africa and IFC/World Bank resident representative. The scope of activities will include the following:
• Take overall responsibility for the design and implementation of an investment climate reform program, providing technical and logistical program support and ensuring the appropriate integration of all the business line activities.
• Take lead responsibility for the management of the working relationship with the country clients and any external clients and under the guidance of the WB/IFC Resident Representative.
• Coordinate fund raising activities and reporting with Donor Relations team. Prepare all necessary donor reporting.
• Develop and monitor the budget for the IC programs, review and report on monthly budget reports and provide timely reports to management on the program.
• Authorize all payments for work on the IC country programs, which are not approved by one of the product leaders for subsequent approval by the manager concerned, certifying that the work claimed has been performed in accordance with the budget, work program and the WBG procedures.
• Coordinate and backstop all reporting on activities, outputs, outcomes and impact achieved by the program overall and components of it.
• Ensure that all necessary program documentation, request letters, implementation updates etc is filed electronically in iDesk, as per current instructions.
• Recruit, and manage the performance of STCs

• Coordinate all missions related to the IC programs in the country managed by the incumbent, in order to exploit synergies.
• Develop positive working relationships with other units of the World Bank Group to support the delivery of the IC programs drawing on inputs from multiple Group units. Selection Criteria: • Advanced degree in law, economics, business, public policy or related field
• A background in investment climate policy issues, and economic, political and social facts in African countries
• Minimum 8 years professional experience, preferably of working in complex multi-sectoral teams
• Effective inter-personal skills, leadership, team player, ability to maintain excellent client and donor relations
• Prior experience in working in World Bank Group offices in Africa is highly desirable.
• Experience in developing and managing technical assistance, advisory services, and consultancy programs
• Strong advocacy skills, ability to interface effectively with public and private sector leaders;
• Understanding of the functioning of regional organizations in West and Central Africa
• Fluent in English; French desirable.
Women are strongly encouraged to apply.
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