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African Development Bank Group (AfDB) – Established in 1964, the African Development Bank is the premier pan-African development institution, promoting economic growth and social progress across the continent. There are 80 member states, including 54 in Africa (Regional Member Countries). The Bank’s development agenda is delivering the financial and technical support for transformative projects that will significantly reduce poverty through inclusive and sustainable economic growth.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Director General, RDGS0

Reference: ADB / 20 / 148
Location: Pretoria, South Africa
Grade: EL4
Position N°: 50092487

The Position

• Established in 1964, the African Development Bank is the premier pan-African development institution, promoting economic growth and social progress across the continent. The Bank’s development agenda is to deliver the financial and technical support for transformative interventions that will significantly reduce poverty through inclusive and sustainable economic growth.
• In addition to providing finance, the Bank is Africa’s voice on global economic, financial and development issues, a role that has taken significant importance in light of increasing global integration and interconnected risks.
• The Bank has prioritized five major areas (High 5s), all of which will accelerate developmental impacts for Africa: Light Up and Power Africa; Feed Africa; Industrialize Africa; Integrate Africa; and Improve the Quality of Life of the People of Africa. The Bank is building a world class senior management team to lead the successful implementation of the vision.
• The Bank is adapting its operating model to ensure the effective delivery of these priorities. A critical part of this is the establishment of five regional development and business delivery offices: West, East, Central, North and Southern Africa. The Director General will report to the Vice President for Regional Development, Integration and Business Delivery.
• The Director General will ensure that the Bank operates efficiently, effectively and successfully in the relevant countries, and ensure the full implementation of all aspects of the Bank’s work.
• Energetic and results driven candidates for this role will combine regional knowledge with excellence in delivery. They will have a proven track record of building effective teams and of cultivating successful partnerships with both governmental and private sector counterparts.

Duties and Responsibilities

• The African Development Bank has rolled out a new development and business delivery model in order to bring its operations closer to its clients; grow its portfolios from sovereign and private sector operations; and expand the revenue of the Bank. This model will enable the Bank to better deploy high quality knowledge and advisory services, and, most importantly, to accelerate its developmental impacts across Africa.
• The Bank has established five (5) regional development and business delivery offices, with one in each region of Africa: North, South, East, West, and Central.
• The Directors General will drive and ensure the operational efficiency, effectiveness and overall health of the Bank’s portfolio across his/her region to achieve significant developmental impacts. The Director General will oversee the full implementation and integration of all aspects of the Bank’s work in that region.
• She/he will spearhead regional business development and investment, driving resource mobilization across the countries under his/her remit and growing significantly the business of the Bank.
• She/he will work closely with Sector Vice Presidents and Directors to deliver on the Bank’s program in the region to achieve transformational development impacts. The regional Director General will collaborate with internal and external partners to accelerate private sector investments through the development and implementation of the African Investment Forum, amongst other initiatives.

Additional objectives include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Advancing regional integration through the development and execution of major regional infrastructure and development projects and by supporting Regional Economic Communities.
• Strengthening the human and institutional capacities of countries and deepening the capacity of the Bank to become the thought leader on knowledge products and advisory services to countries.
• Building effective collaboration with bilateral and multilateral finance and development institutions to ramp up co-financing and loan syndications.
• Developing and deploying special programs and advisory services to support fragile states.

The Director General will operationalize his/her mandate by undertaking the following:

• Building a team of highly talented and motivated technical and operational staff, drawn from all sector complexes. This will enable the Bank to improve the quality of all projects and deliver high- quality portfolios to meet the needs of regional member countries and the private sector.
• Supporting countries in the development of country strategy papers and regional integration strategies that will drive country ownership and accelerated delivery on all “high-five” priorities of the Bank.
• Developing critical resources and the technical capability necessary for sourcing and originating bankable projects. This will include collaboration with the private sector on projects with regional social impacts.
• Ensuring efficient and effective project completion by streamlining and speeding up internal processes, enhancing operational efficiencies, and driving accelerated disbursements on all approved projects.
• Driving greater value for money in all operations and ensuring country and regional offices are cost- effective through prudent management of human and financial resources.
• Fostering a culture of accountability for results across all offices in the respective regions.
• Cultivating and ensuring a culture of “ONE-Bank”, with the highest levels of ethics, fiduciary responsibility and professionalism to protect and enhance the reputation of the Bank.
• Representing the Bank in the region and building strong partnerships with countries, regional economic communities, and other development partners.
• The Director-General will report to the Vice President for Regional Development, Integration and Business Delivery.

Selection Criteria
Desirable experience and qualifications:

• A minimum of a Master’s degree or its equivalent in Finance, Business Administration, Economics, Business Law, or related disciplines.
• A minimum of fifteen (15) years relevant and demonstrable experience in international development finance or with a leading private sector financial institution. The last ten (10) years should be at a senior management level.
• A record of delivering results in complex project, portfolio, country, and partner arrangements in Africa, with substantial experience in project planning, development, and management.
• Proven ability to engage effectively at the senior-most levels across the public, private, and civil society sectors, and to mobilise partners for transformative action.
• The ability to communicate orally and write effectively in English and/or French, with a working knowledge of the other language.

In terms of performance and personal competencies required for the position, we highlight the following:

Business Acumen:

• Excellent understanding of multilateral development institutions, strategies and operational issues.
• An acute appreciation and understanding of the elements essential for the effective delivery and measurement of development impacts through projects and programs in Africa.
• Ability to identify and create meaningful linkages across sectors to drive development impact at a country and regional level.
• Highly developed negotiation skills proven to yield positive outcomes with senior counterparts, both internal and external.

Setting Strategy:

• Ability to innovate, communicate, and implement new strategic approaches essential to the creation and success of the Regional Development, Integration and Business Delivery Complex.
• Highly developed strategic thinking skills allied to an ability to translate strategic concepts and direction into the implementation of workable and sustainable projects and programs.
• Able to define and drive effectively the Bank’s activities under uncertain and challenging circumstances.

Executing for Results:

• Excellence in project planning, development and management, with a superior ability to deliver and manage high-quality portfolios.
• Demonstrated ability to take prudent business risks and make effective, timely and well-determined decisions.
• Ability to work under pressure in a multicultural and distributed organisation.

Leading Teams:

• Ability to design long-term plans and programs to develop staff competences in line with the Bank’s strategic priorities.

Position Specification:

• Proven ability to build and lead motivated and committed teams across functional and geographic boundaries, and to utilize the talent and expertise of team members in a productive way.
• Ability to inspire, generate and sustain staff commitment and professional excellence.
• Agility and resilience to drive successful change management processes.

Building Relationships and Using Influence:

• Strengthens and builds partnerships and synergies internally across functions and geographies, and externally with key institutions to drive regional integration and development.
• Develops constructive working relationships at the highest Management level within the Bank and externally so that important, sometimes contentious, issues can be dealt with effectively.
• Ability to listen and communicate effectively with stakeholders at the highest levels across sectors.
• Strong negotiating skills, ideally in both English and French.

Other:

• The roles will be based out of the African Development Bank’s regional development and business delivery offices. The DG will travel frequently to Bank headquarters, country offices, and throughout her/his region to collaborate with teams and to engage strategically with key stakeholders and partners.
• The scope of this role is dynamic and is not limited to the responsibilities as set out above; it will evolve over time and as a result of further organisational reviews.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Principal Quality, Results and Monitoring Officer, SNOQ.2

Reference: ADB/20/149
Locations: Côte d’Ivoire (Abidjan), Tunisia (Tunis), Cameroon (Yaounde), Kenya (Nairobi), South Africa (Pretoria).
Grade: PL4
Position N°: 50102239 / 50102240 / 50102241 / 50102242 / 50102243

The Complex

• The Senior Vice-Presidency is responsible for supporting the President in the day-to-day management of the Bank Group to achieve its strategic objective and drive performance culture that will align all processes and systems to deliver high impact results.
• The Senior Vice-Presidency will provide effective leadership and exceptional coordination to ensure implementation and monitoring of key corporate decisions as well as the identification of necessary corrective measures and actions.
• The Senior Vice-Presidency will lead senior management discussions, decision-making processes and the implementation of key Board and Management decisions.

The Hiring Department:

• Located within the Senior Vice-Presidency Complex, the Department in charge of Quality Assurance and the Operations Committee Secretariat works to continuously enhance the quality and timely delivery of Bank operations.
• The Quality Assurance Division is an operational support unit that focuses on enhancing and mainstreaming the quality and results focus of the Bank’s strategies and operations.
• More specifically, the Division (i) sets quality standards for the Bank’s interventions; (ii) develops and strengthens tools and processes throughout the operation cycle; and (iii) enhances staff capacities and facilitating operations related knowledge.
• The Bank’s five Regional Business Delivery Units lead delivery of the Bank’s operations. Each is headed by a Director General and Deputy Director General, who report to the Vice President, RDVP. Staff originating from different departments are brought together in the regional business delivery units, which cover both sovereign and non-sovereign operations.

The Position

• The overall objective of the position of the Principal Quality, Results and Monitoring Officer is to support the Bank’s Regional Business Delivery Units, and in turn the Bank as a whole, to strengthen the quality and compliance of its monitoring and self-evaluation, as well as its development results planning, tracking and measurement.
• Principal Quality, Results and Monitoring Officers provide expert advice to support quality and compliance throughout the project cycle. They provide advice to Task Teams working on both sovereign and non-sovereign operations. Each Principal Officer will be assigned to a regional Business Delivery Unit, in line with the Bank’s mobility guidelines.
• Each Principal Quality, Results and Monitoring Officer is enabled to deliver on this advisory, quality assurance and compliance role by remaining outside of Task Teams and via a reporting line to the central Quality Assurance Division. This provides a degree of independence, enabling the incumbent to focus on robust advice and quality assurance while working closely with Task Teams in the regions. This is in line with the AfDB’s “One Bank” approach.
• Based in a Regional Business Delivery Unit, the Principal Quality, Results and Monitoring Officer will provide advice and support compliance with regards to results measurement, monitoring and self-evaluation products.

Duties and Responsibilities
The expected outcomes of the Principal Quality, Results and Monitoring Officer role are to (i) improve compliance with corporate reporting standards; (ii) improve the quality and effectiveness of monitoring in the region; (iii) contribute to improved quality and effectiveness of Bank operations in the region.

Specifically, Principal Quality, Results and Monitoring Officers support quality and compliance through the following duties:

For sovereign and non-sovereign operations:

• Provide advice to task teams to develop robust projects’ results based logical frameworks (RBLFs) in accordance with the Bank’s guidance and international good practice.
• Provide task teams with advice to strengthen monitoring and evaluation plans for new operations under preparation and appraisal, where necessary.

For sovereign operations specifically:

• Provide additional arm’s length review of “results readiness” (including RBLFs) for projects under preparation or appraisal in other regions, via the Bank’s readiness review tool.
• Review a sample of supervision reports for quality and compliance, and especially from a results measurement perspective.
• Support review of project completion reports of sovereign operations for quality and compliance.

For non-sovereign operations specifically:

• Where, requested, advise portfolio officers in reviewing a sample of annual supervision reports for quality and compliance, from a results measurement perspective.
• Where requested, advise portfolio officers in reviewing extended supervision reports (XSRs) as prepared by independent consultants, for quality and compliance, from a results measurement perspective.

At regional and corporate level:

• Provide advice to country and regional strategy task teams regarding results measurement in development of new country and regional strategies, where necessary.
• Contribute to enhancing understanding of quality assurance mechanisms and monitoring and results measurement requirements and good practices amongst regional teams, including through contributing to training, compliance reporting and reporting on performance and lessons learned.
• Contribute to the continuous review and improvement of the Bank’s monitoring and evaluation and quality assurance tools and practices.
• Participate in delivery of training for project staff in Bank member countries.
• Act as a focal point on quality assurance, monitoring and evaluation and results measurement, support relevant corporate initiatives and reports, including in relation to the Bank’s Quality Matters campaign, and supporting regional offices to engage effectively with independent evaluations.

Selection Criteria

• Hold at least a Master’s degree in Economics, Development Studies, Monitoring and Evaluation, Statistics, or related disciplines.
• Additional qualification or Certification in Results Management, Monitoring and Evaluation or equivalent (desirable).
• Have a minimum of six (6) years of relevant professional experience in the field of monitoring and evaluation, or more broadly results measurement, preferably within the context of international development.

Technical Competencies:

• Monitoring and evaluation experience, preferably including development of results frameworks at project level, hands-on monitoring of progress towards development results.
• Results based management and results measurement experience applied in development context.
• Applied practical and proven experience in developing and implementing monitoring and evaluation plans at project level (desirable).
• In-depth understanding of theory of change, logical frameworks, and results-based management (desirable).
• Proven problem-solving approach to data availability and data quality challenges found in some developing countries (desirable).
• Experience as a trainer, facilitator or instructor for workshops and learning events (desirable).
• Experience in conducting, and effectively communicating, robust analytical work. (desirable).
• Knowledge and practical experience of operations policies, procedures, and review processes of multilateral development banks or other development agencies (desirable).

Behavioral Competencies:

• Strong behavioral competencies, especially in line with the key performance drivers: communication; problem-solving; client orientation; team working and relations; innovation and creativity; operational effectiveness.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to tailor written and verbal communication for a range of audiences.
• Ability to work with multidisciplinary teams, and in a multicultural environment.
• Ability to persuade and influence others.
• Experience managing junior team members / consultants.
• Ability to work in French and / or English, with a working knowledge of the other language.
• Competence in the use of Bank standard software (Word, Excel, SAP, PowerPoint, MS Project).

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note

• This position is classified international status and attracts international terms and conditions of employment.
• Should you encounter technical difficulties in submitting your application, please send an email with a precise description of the issue and/or a screenshot showing the problem, to: HR Direct HRDirect@AFDB.ORG(link sends e-mail)
• To apply for this position, you need to be national of one of AfDB member countries.
• Applicants who fully meet the Bank’s requirements and are considered for interview will be contacted. Only online applications submitted with a comprehensive Curriculum Vitae (CV) and copies of the required degrees will be considered. The President, AfDB, reserves the right to appoint a candidate at a lower level. The African Development Bank is an equal opportunities employer. Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
• The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) does not ask for payments of any kind from applicants throughout the recruitment process (job application, CV review, interview meeting, and final processing of applications). In addition, the Bank does not request information on applicants’ bank accounts. The African Development Bank Group declines all responsibility for the fraudulent publications of job offers in its name or, in general, for the fraudulent use of its name in any way whatsoever.