Job Openings at African Development Bank (AFDB)

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: Sales Executive

Location: Lagos

Job Purpose

• Manage and expand our portion of the company’s revenue from the client accounts in your portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Investigate new opportunities to increase our Share of Wallet, in order to expand current business relationships and increase the value of customer accounts.
• Implement Accounts sales plan and planning agreements, in order to ensure annual sales objectives are achieved. Focus on annual/quarterly cost triggers related to customer prices and implement or negotiate where necessary.
• Gain in-depth knowledge of customers’ cyclical demand so as to improve service and recognize opportunities. Use this information to gather forecasts and share with the planner to facilitate the demand plans.
• Negotiate and implement the annual business budget and planning agreements, in terms of sales turnover, profitability and other KPIs, so as to contribute the agreed profits.
• Focus on stock levels, ensuring slow moving stock is attended to quickly.
• Maintain frequent communication and make planned visits to customers so as to evaluate and resolve complaints and therefore continuously reinforce relations and increase satisfaction of customers and decision makers.
• Review Accounts results on a monthly basis, explain the reasons for any deviations and take corrective actions, in order to be aligned with the agreed budget and planning agreement.
• Report ongoing (dynamics) analysis regarding market conditions and competitor activities to maintain market awareness to the company management and sales force.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree or Higher National Diploma (HND) in Marketing or other Sales related fields
• Must have 4-6 years’ experience
• Knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics Navision or any other Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint Presentation
• Experience in managing major accounts in a B2B company and within matrix organisations
• Experience in chemical Industry, logistics/manufacturing sector is preferable
• Experience with Exports is required
• Ability to understand and speak French Language will be an added advantage

Deadline: 16th July, 2023.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Job Title:  EOI – Junior Consultant on Operational Support to Implementation of Dakar 2 Food and Agriculture Delivery Compacts – AHAI

Location: Remote
Consultant type: Junior Consultant
Department issuing the request: Agriculture and Agro-Industry Department
Duration of the assignment: 06 months
Tentative Date of commencement: 1st July, 2023
Job family: Agriculture, Human and Social Development

Brief Description of the Assignment

• Following Dakar 2, the African Development Bank (AfDB) seeks to hire two junior consultants to provide operational support to Regional Managers and Task Managers within the Agriculture and Agro-Industry (AHAI) on the implementation of Dakar 2 Food and Agriculture Delivery Compacts.
• The primary objective of the junior consultant’s assignment is to support Feed Africa Operations in the regional hubs countries on the design and implementation of new investment project and sector budget support operations related to Dakar 2 Food and Agriculture Delivery Compacts.
• The junior consultants will collect data, conduct analytics in support of evidence-based interventions in the sector, participate in project design and implementation working closely with the regional sector managers in the region and the AHAI Lead, Partnerships and Coordination.

Background

• The Feed Africa Strategy (FAS) of the African Development Bank (2016-2025), also known as Feed Africa was conceived in October 2015 at a High-Level Meeting of senior public and private sector leaders held in Dakar, Senegal, and approved for implementation by the Board of Directors of the Bank May 2016.
• The Strategy seeks to transform African agriculture into a competitive, inclusive, and agribusiness-oriented sector that creates wealth, improves lives, and secures the environment through an agricultural commodity value chains approach.
• The Feed Africa Strategy (FAS) aims to end hunger and rural poverty and reduce food imports on the African in ten (10) years from the year of its inception (2016).
• After seven years of implementation of Feed Africa, it became evident that unlocking the agricultural potential of the continent by delivering climate smart agricultural technologies to millions of farmers and the creation on an enabling environment of rural infrastructure and policy incentives is possible in a short period of time through strong political will and investment by Governments, Development Partners and the private sector.
• A High-Level Summit of 34 African Heads of State, 75 Ministers and 12 Heads of Development Partner organization was held in Dakar January 22-27, 2023 to mobilize political, financial and technical support for agricultural transformation on the continent at scale. Dakar 2, as the meeting was also known as, held 41 Country Food and Agriculture Delivery Compact boardrooms to discuss previously prepared documents that outlined production targets for key agricultural staples, a road map to reach those targets, and enabling policies, including support to all actors in agricultural commodity value chains.
• To ensure accountability of results, a Presidential Delivery Council, to oversee implementation of the Country Food and Agriculture Delivery Compact, was proposed.
• Following Dakar 2, the African Development Bank (AfDB) seeks to hire two junior consultants to provide operational support to Regional Managers and Task Managers within the Agriculture and Agro-Industry (AHAI) on the implementation of Dakar 2 Food and Agriculture Delivery Compacts.

Objective of the Assignment

• The primary objective of the junior consultant’s assignment is to support Feed Africa Operations in the regional hubs countries on the design and implementation of new investment project and sector budget support operations related to Dakar 2 Food and Agriculture Delivery Compacts.
• The junior consultants will collect data, conduct analytics in support of evidence-based interventions in the sector, participate in project design and implementation working closely with the regional sector managers in the region and the AHAI Lead, Partnerships and Coordination.

Scope of Work
The scope of work will include the following activities:

• Support the delivery of lending programme from data collection and analysis, identification, preparation, appraisal and launching, effectiveness, disbursement, implementation support until completion.
• Work closely with the AHAI Programme coordinator and regional delivery team to maintain an updated list of agriculture projects pipeline (at least 3 years rolling list) specifying their processing schedule from identification to Board approval, synchronizing with AHAI and RDG Indicative Operations Programme (IOP).
• Work closely with Task Managers to ensure the realization of the key performance indicators (KPIs) sector in terms of portfolio quality and performance, and business delivery
• Compile and maintain an update portfolio database of the division (lending and non lending operations, trust funds, special initiatives, co-financing).
• Work with Task Managers to ensure regular and timely supervision and completion reporting of all agricultural operations in the region.
• Work with Task Managers with regards to M&E data collection, cleaning, and analysis, and their uploading into the Department M&E system, including implementation of an automated monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) ICT-Based platform.
• Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual performance progress reports.
• Maintain the online database that will serve as a repository for program M&E activities documents, data, reports and related records; and files and essential partners or entities across the Feed Africa portfolio.
• Prepare briefs, talking points and background papers, literature review, data collection, analytics and other required documentation.
• Participate in division meetings and prepare minutes and correspondence as requested;
• Undertake any other assignment as determined by AHAI management in conjunction with
• AHAI Division Managers and Task Managers

Expected Deliverables

• Contributions to a pipeline of Dakar 2 investment project and budget support operations
• Contributions to Project Implementation Progress and Completion Reports (IPR and PCRs)
• Implementation of an automated monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) ICT-Based platform.

Duration Of Contract:

• The two junior consultants will serve in this capacity for an initial period of six months renewable based on performance; the assignment is expected to start no later than 01 July 2023.

Qualifications
The consultant will have:

• Preferably a Master’s Degree or equivalent in Agricultural Economics, Development Economics, Science, Humanities, Business Administration, or other relevant discipline.
• Less than 35 years of age and be a citizen of a member country (regional or non-regional) of the Bank.
• Knowledge of agricultural sector development, agricultural entrepreneurship, and food supply chains in Africa.
• Good knowledge of the Bank’s standard software (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint and web tools), proficiency in website management will be a plus.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and an ability to work within tight deadlines. A commitment to excellence in order to meet high quality standards expected internally and externally.
• Mastery of English or French, both written and oral; ability to effectively communicate both internally and externally.
• The ability to work collaboratively with teams.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Ability to prepare well detailed reports on program/project activities.
• Self-motivated with strong sense of initiative and, demonstrated ability to efficiently manage and perform multiple tasks under pressure.

Experience:
Essential:

• At least 2 years and a maximum of 4 years of relevant work experience (including professional internships).
• Experience in the Feed Africa flagship focus areas with different stakeholders, including development partners, government, private sector and agripreneurs.
• Prior experience in a multilateral bank of similar development agency will be an advantage.

Location:

• The Consultant will work remotely for the duration of the contract. But will be required to travel

from time to time as required
Reporting Requirements:

• The Consultant will report directly to the Director, Agriculture and Agro-Industry of to AHAI Staff

designated by the Director.
Evaluation Criteria of Offers
The evaluation criteria for the offers are as follows:

• (General qualification for tasks to be performed – 25%
• Specific experience on the tasks to be performed – 50%
• Knowledge of the African region – 10%
• Experience with development organizations – 5%
• Proficiency in French or English – 10%

Remuneration
Remuneration will be commensurate with experience, in line with the AfDB compensation
guidelines. The candidate will be responsible for obtaining personal health insurance at his or her own cost. The coverage should include all medical expenses, including those resulting from illness or injury incurred during the duration of the assignment.

Deadline: 28th June, 2023 (17H00 – Abidjan Time).

Method of Application
Interested and qualified Consultants should submit their Applications to Mr. Martin Fregene via: m.fregene@afdb.org and Ms. Dorra Ben Niran via: d.benniran@afdb.org using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.

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Job Title: Consultant – (EOI – Digitization of Regulatory Activities and Processes for Improved Power Sector Regulation in Africa Phase II – Integration of Digital Platforms (IDP) of Regulators and Utilities in Ghana for Real-Time Data and Information Exchange – PESR)

Location: Remote
Consultant type: Individual Consultant
Job family: Other
Department issuing the request: Treasury Department
Duration of the assignment: Six months (potentially renewable)
Tentative Date of commencement: September 2023

Aim of the Position

• The aim of this assignment is to provide expert advice and guidance to the PURC in respect of the system design and specifications for deployment of the relevant integration modules that would integrate the existing DBMS with digital platforms of the Energy Commission (EC) which is the technical regulator and all the utilities across the electricity supply value chain.

Assignment

• The African Development Bank (“The Bank”) hereby invites individual consultants to express their interest in the following assignment: Digitization of Regulatory Activities and Processes for Improved Power Sector Regulation in Africa Phase 2 –Integration of Digital Platforms (IDP) of Regulators and Utilities in Ghana for real-time data and information exchange.

Background and Context

• As part of its mandate to forge collaboration with Regional Member Countries supporting them to establish relevant energy policies and clear, predictable, and transparent regulation framework to ensure the financial sustainability of the sector.
• The Bank with funding support from the Korea-Africa Economic Cooperation (KOAFEC) Trust Fund secured in 2021, piloted aDBMS initiative for the regulator in Ghana-Public Utilities Regulatory Commission  (PURC).
• The  PURC is a data-driven organization with many levels of communication with diversified stakeholders protecting the interest of the utility providers and their customers at the same time.
• This DBMS has enhanced open access to regulatory information, transparency of regulatory processes, stakeholder engagement, and participation in the regulatory process as well as instituted a mechanism for tracking and monitoring utility performance and consumer complaints for quality-of-service regulation.
•  It also provided real-time engagement between regulators and investors on many issues.
• The deployment of the centralized DBMS in Ghana has been a trail-blazing regulatory initiative that has generated interest from the regulatory community across Africa.
• Notwithstanding the success and the significant impact of the already deployed DBMS for PURC, there remains a key and final step to complete the digitalization loop which involve direct integration of the DBMS with digital systems and platforms of utility service providers across the electricity value chain (generation, transmission, and distribution).
• Over the years, the Commission has relied solely on data churned out and submitted by the utility providers without any system of independently verifying and validating the data.
• The current system of manual data gathering, and verification raises issues of data consistencies, misinformation, and transparency, affecting PURC’s ability to make regulatory decisions. Implementation of the second phase of the DBMS is the best opportunity for PURC to overcome these hurdles via the automated and consistent gathering of data to enable succinct visualization for real-time information and data exchanges between regulators, utilities, consumers, and other sector stakeholders.

Objectives

• The aim of this assignmentis to provide expert advice and guidance to the PURC in respect of the system design and specifications for deployment of the relevant integration modules that would integrate the existing DBMS with digital platforms of the Energy Commission (EC) which is the technical regulator and all the utilities across the electricity supply value chain.

Tasks and Deliverables

• The individual consultant is expected to assist the regulators in the design, analysis,and deploymentof the DBMS phase 2 for Ghana (Integrated Digital Platform-IDP).

The activities include but not limited to the following (additional tasks are enclosed in the ToR):

• Services to be provided under the assignment will entail(i)and reporting requirements of the utilities through interviews, desktop research and Acts establishing the regulators to understand their operations and stakeholder network;
• Undertake visits to the offices of Utilities and the regulators (PURC and EC) and Utilities to carry out an assessment of the prevailing conditions and operability of their existing ICT infrastructure and digital platforms to understand the compatibility requirements for integration
• Determination of ICT needs of PURCfor an effective deployment of a an IDP for Ghana; Develop a comprehensive ICT Needs Assessment (INA) and Compatibility Assessment Reports from the reviews and site visits to the utilities and regulators;
• Recommend a solution design, System Specification (detailed business requirements), Bill of quantities and other related technical details for the development of the integrated platform and make technical inputs into the tender documents and Terms of Reference for the procurement of a vendor/supplier for the actual development and deployment of the IDP,
• Providing technical inputs into tender documents and Terms of Reference for the procurement of anICT vendor/supplier that will carry out the actual development and deployment of the IDP
• Supervise the installation and deployment of the integrated IDP by the Vendor/Supplier and undertake a User Acceptance Test (UAT) upon completion  and  review  Commissioning  and  handover  report  on  functional  IDP (viii) supervising drafting of a user-manual to support  end-user implementation,
• Develop for implementation by the Vendor/Supplier a training and capacity building programme for training the user staff and technical staff of all entities on the IDP as well as consumers and Civil Society Organisations.
• Coordinate the project at the local level including working with the regulatory agencies, to facilitate, stakeholder engagements, making follow-ups, reporting, and supporting related activities on the field.
• Undertake general supervision, coordination, and technical advisory and related support for the IDP from development, deployment, commissioning and launching
• Prepare relevant materials and presentations for launching, and stakeholders’ sensitization roadshows and participate in them.

Qualifications
To perform the consulting services:

• Interested consultants are expected to provide information indicating their qualifications to perform the services such as a demonstrable track record of experience in Database Management or a portfolio with similar and relevant experience with appropriate skills relevant to the assignment.
• Prior experience in building similar systems will be a comparative advantage.

Required Expertise:

• Interested consultants are expected to demonstrate a track record in Public Information Technology (IT) Business analysis skills, IT project management or Management of Information System solutions particularly in the Energy sector either on the African Continent or in similar jurisdictions and experience in working with multilateral and bilateral development banks (MDBs) is preferred

Deadline: 30th June, 2023.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified Consultants should submit their Expressions of Interest (EOI) to:
Mr. Solomon Sarpong,
Energy Financial Solutions, Policy & Regulation, Department,
Power, Energy, Climate Change and Green Growth Complex,
African Development Bank,
CCIA –Avenue Jean-Paul II, Plateau 01, BP 1387,
Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire.
Telephone: +225272026 4401
E-mail: s.sarpong@afdb.org
With copies to:
Ms. Guillaine Neza: g.neza@afdb.org; and
Ms. Allioucha NIANGO: y.niango@afdb.org

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Establishment of the Short List (Evaluation Process)
A shortlist of three individual consultants will be established at the end of the request for expressions of interest. The expressions of interest will be assessed based on the following criteria:

• General qualifications and adequacy for the assignment to be undertaken 30
• Similar experience in the area of expertise of assignment 40
• Language Proficiency 10
• Experience with MDBs and DFIs in the development of corporate strategies 20
• Total 100.