Jobs at Economic Community of West African States - July 2015

Agriculture Environment and Water Resources

Nb.	Vacancy Title	Closing Date	Duty Station
1	Accountant	30 July, 2015	Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
2	Administrative Officer (to share with the Youth & Sports Development Centre)	30 July, 2015	Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
3	Procurement Officer (to share with the Youth & Sports Development Centre)	30 July, 2015	Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Energy and Mines

Nb.	Vacancy Title	Closing Date	Duty Station
1	Director, Mining & Geo-Extractive Development	30 July, 2015	Abuja, Nigeria
2	Principal Programme Officer, Petroleum Mining Development	30 July, 2015	Abuja, Nigeria

General Administration and Conference

Nb.	Vacancy Title	Closing Date	Duty Station
1	Procurement Officer	30 July, 2015	Abuja, Nigeria
2	Conference Interpreter (English A/French B or C)	30 July, 2015	Abuja, Nigeria
3	Conference Interpreter (French A/English B or C/Port B or C)	30 July, 2015	Abuja, Nigeria
4	Translator	30 July, 2015	Abuja, Nigeria
5	Lift Operator/Mail Dispatcher	30 July, 2015	Abuja, Nigeria

Human Resources

Nb.	Vacancy Title	Closing Date	Duty Station
1	Director, HR Operations	30 July, 2015	Abuja, Nigeria
2	Employee Relations Officer	30 July, 2015	Abuja, Nigeria
3	Payroll Officer	30 July, 2015	Abuja, Nigeria
4	Bilingual Secretary	30 July, 2015	Abuja, Nigeria

Office of the Financial Controller

Nb.	Vacancy Title	Closing Date	Duty Station
1	Director, Financial Control	30 July, 2015	Abuja, Nigeria
2	Controller	30 July, 2015	Lomé, Togo

Specialised Institution

Nb.	Vacancy Title	Duty Station
1	Director, Administration and Finance (WAHO)	Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
2	PO, Epidemic Control -Mapping and Situation Analysis (WAHO)	Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
3	PO, Epidemic Control - Rapid Response (WAHO)	Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
4	Accountant (WAHO)	Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
5	Secretary-General (Parliament)	Abuja, Nigeria
6	Director of Administration and Finance (Parliament)	Abuja, Nigeria
7	Director of Parliamentary Affairs and Research (Parliament)	Abuja, Nigeria
8	Co-ordinator/Interpreter (Parliament)	Abuja, Nigeria
9	Principal Libriarian/Documentation Officer (Parliament)	Abuja, Nigeria
10	Principal Research Officer (Parliament)	Abuja, Nigeria
11	Editor of Debates (Parliament)	Abuja, Nigeria
12	Portuguese Interpreter English into Portuguese and vice-versa (Court of Justice)	Abuja, Nigeria
13	Portuguese Interpreter French into Portuguese and vice-versa (Court of Justice)	Abuja, Nigeria
14	Deputy Chief Registrar (Court of Justice)	Abuja, Nigeria
15	Director, Research, Communication and Documentation (Court of Justice)	Abuja, Nigeria
16	Director Administration and Finance (Court of Justice)	Abuja, Nigeria
17	Revisor English to Portuguese (Court of Justice)	Abuja, Nigeria
18	Translator French into Portuguese (Court of Justice)	Abuja, Nigeria
19	Senior Research Officer, Portuguese (Court of Justice)	Abuja, Nigeria
20	Translators English into Portuguese (Court of Justice)	Abuja, Nigeria

FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION MANAGER, THE GAMBIA

Location:Fajara, The Gambia

Responsible to: Country Director, The Gambia/Senegal

Responsible for: Finance and Administration staff

The Role

The Finance and Administration Manager will provide high-quality financial management of all operations and be responsible for financial reporting to Concern Universal's donors and management. This includes ensuring accurate and timely cash management, supporting project staff to prepare and adhere to budgets, ensuring that financial practices meet required standards, and managing external and internal audit processes. In addition, core budget oversight and ensuring that the Country Programme achieves core cost recovery targets is an important aspect of the role.

Based in our main office in Fajara, the Gambia, the post-holder will manage the day-to-day operation of the office and remotely manage other field offices. This involves line managing all finance and support staff; overseeing the effective functioning of all assets; and ensuring that effective operating and governance systems and policies are in place and adhered to.

The role involves working closely with the Country Director to update policies and systems, evaluate and develop staff, conduct recruitment, devise strategic and fundraising plans and support all areas of decision-making.

About Concern Universal

Our vision is a world where justice, dignity and respect prevail for all. Working in partnership, Concern Universal challenges poverty and inequality by supporting practical actions that enable people to improve their lives and shape their own futures. Founded in 1976, we work in 9 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. By working directly with partners and communities to identify real opportunities for lasting and positive change, we facilitate projects that promote resilient livelihoods and better health and uphold rights.

We work in partnership with organisations that share our commitment to accountability and service within a community-based approach: in all our work we aim to maintain a cost-effective, professional and practical approach while also attaining high standards. Concern Universal is responsive to community needs. In each country we target the sectors where we can make the greatest difference. Distinctive country strategies, developed with the participation of partners, communities, and other key stakeholders, emerge from this.

In the Gambia & Senegal, Concern Universal works to promote sustainable livelihoods, particularly in rural areas. This is achieved through interlinked activities including: farmer training, low-cost irrigation technologies, development of market linkages, community and partner capacity building, and disaster risk reduction. This work is implemented in close collaboration with approximately 15 established local NGOs as well as business and government partners.

An impact report conducted by Concern Universal in 2012 identified that as a result of our livelihoods programmes in the Gambia since 2004, 13,000 households (and specifically led by women and youth members) took on horticulture production as a result of our interventions. An annual increase in income of US$2.4million (spread across the 13,000 households) can be attributed to the work of Concern Universal and our partners. As well as highlighting the significant successes of our work, the impact review also identified areas where we need to do better to secure sustainable livelihood improvements.

Concern Universal’s programme in The Gambia and Senegal is funded by multiple donors, including USAID, EU, Big Lottery Fund, Oxfam America and ECOWAS. The majority of the programme funding is project-related with limited untied core resources. It is therefore imperative that a continuous funding base is secured every year, while ensuring compliance with current project grant contracts.

For more information, please visit: www.concern-universal.org

HOW TO APPLY:

Application Process

To apply for this position, candidates must submit a completed Application Form toolivia.sawyer@concern-universal.orgby 7 January 2015.

Please visit www.concern-universal.org to download the Application Form. If you have difficulty accessing it, then contact us at the above e-mail address.

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to initial telephone interviews. Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. The successful candidate will be expected to take up the post mid-March 2015.

Mid Term Evaluation Team Leader, Senegal and Gambia

Purpose

The purpose of the MTE is to assess the extent of progress achieved to date as well as to identify specific areas of improvement that would enable the project to fully meet its objectives.

Background

International Relief and Development (IRD) is recruiting for an Evaluation Team Leader to manage and direct an mid-term evaluation of the three year U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) funded Cashew Value Chain Enhancement Project (CEP2) in Senegal and Gambia (September 2012- December 2015) CEP2 aims to promote the cashew value chain in selected regions of Senegal and The Gambia. With the objectives of improving agricultural productivity and expand trade of agricultural products, an estimated 20,000 farming households are expected to benefit directly from the program through December 2015. IRD seeks a highly qualified consultant to lead a Mid-Term Evaluation (MTE) of the CEP2 program in Senegal and the Gambia from October to November 2014.

Objective

Evaluation Team Leader will manage and direct a mid-term evaluation (MTE) of the three year U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) funded Cashew Value Chain Enhancement Project (CEP2) in Senegal and Gambia (September 2012- December 2015).

Activities

The Evaluation Team Leader will oversee the design and management of a high quality mixed methods evaluation and will accomplish the following:

• Conduct comprehensive desk review of CEP2 project documents, including goals, objectives, indicators, successes, and challenges to date, etc.;
• Provide expert technical leadership for the development and implementation of the evaluation design, required data collection instruments, and data analysis, in coordination with the Evaluation Team and IRD;
• Develop the MTE data collection and analysis tools (interview schedules, survey plans, etc.) and address feedback from HQ and Field M&E teams;
• Be responsible for overall quality control of the evaluation design, management, and report writing process and the production of a high quality evaluation report, data sets and other deliverables in professionally accepted standards (in English);
• Lead and execute data collection, analysis, and report writing;
• Travel extensively and oversee data collection assistants to ensure accuracy and quality of data;
• Draft and finalize the MTE report ( and submit with, cleaned data sets in excel spreadsheet;
• Develop and deliver two PowerPoint (PPT) presentations for Senegal and Gambia CEP2 evaluation results and offer recommendations to CEP2 staff;
• Conduct quantitative and qualitative research including interviews and focus group discussions with appropriate stakeholders in Senegal and Gambia and perform data analysis;
• Analyze project reports for relevant data and information and synthesize findings to answer evaluation questions;
• Synthesize final findings and recommendations into a high quality document;
• Submit all deliverables required in expected timeline.

Key Deliverables/Outcomes

The Lead Consultant will provide the following deliverables:

• A Technical Note presenting details on the approach and methodology with data collection instruments attached. The Evaluation Design Technical noted will be submitted 04 days after the starting of the mission and after different interactions with the management staff and the key stakeholders for drafting the timeline and listing on main actors and partners to meet and interview;
• A first draft report submitted 20 days after approval of the Technical note and after field research activities conducted by the Consultants with the participation of CEP 2 staff.
• A final report submitted 03 days after transmission of comments on the first draft report. The final report will need to be accompanied by, data tables/diagrams, graphs, and maps for analysis and pictures as well as any other documentation as deemed appropriate instruments to collect the necessary data in field and tools for self-evaluation. The evaluation will come with data set with codebooks as part of the quantitative data collection used to assess project outcomes and impact with the baseline and final evaluation data ;

Place of Performance

Senegal and Gambia

Period of Performance

Start date: 10/13/2014 End date: 11/20/2014

Contact Person(s)

Jo Anne Yeager, Country Director Senegal, and The Gambia; jsallah@irdglobal.org

- See more at: http://ch.tbe.taleo.net/CH13/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=IRDDC&cws=37&rid=1350#sthash.HDpf1Xgl.dpuf

Technical Specialists – West Africa Biodiversity and Climate Change (WA-BICC) Program, West Africa

Technical Specialists – West Africa Biodiversity and Climate Change (WA-BICC) Program, West Africa

Tetra Tech ARD, headquartered in Burlington, Vermont (http:www.tetratechintdev.com/) is currently accepting expressions of interest from technical specialists on a USAID-funded program to improve conservation and climate-resilient, low emission growth across West Africa.

Position Description/Summary: Tetra Tech is seeking a wide range of technical and project management professionals to support this anticipated $50 million program to increase the capacity of institutions at all levels in order to reduce wildlife trafficking and deforestation and forest degradation, as well as promote climate-resilient growth in coastal areas.

Call for Specialists in the Following Areas:

* Natural Resources Management

* Environmental Policy

* Climate Change Adaptation

* Biodiversity Conservation

* Coastal Zone Management

* Wildlife Trafficking

* Grants Management

* Monitoring and Evaluation

* Communications

* Project Financial Management

Qualifications:

* Master’s degree or higher in a relevant field preferred

* Five to ten years of progressively responsible technical and project management experience

* Demonstrated familiarity with sustainable landscape management, climate adaptation, biodiversity conservation and/or institutional development preferred;

* Extensive and substantive experience contributing to international development assistance projects, preferably in West Africa;

* Prior USAID project experience preferred;

* Professional proficiency in English required; professional proficiency in French preferred

* Nationals of West African countries strongly encouraged to apply.

To be considered applicants must submit the following as part of the on-line process:

* Cover Letter

* CV in reverse chronological format

HOW TO APPLY:

Please indicate where you saw Tetra Tech’s ad posted.

Apply on-line at: http://bit.ly/1xQpyAJ

Applications that do not meet the minimum requirements listed above will not be considered. No phone calls will be accepted.

Tetra Tech is committed to diversity and gender equality in all of its operations- in the U.S and overseas. We strive to reflect these goals in our global mission and in our workplace. We encourage applications from women and underrepresented ethnic, racial and cultural groups. Tetra Tech is proud to be an Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer.