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مطلوب senior Economic Resilience Specialist

تاريخ النشر: 2021-09-22

الراتب: غير محدد

Near East foundation

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Senior Economic Resilience Specialist (national position)

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Near East Foundation (NEF) - Jordan

Job Advertisement

Title:               Senior Economic Resilience Specialist (national position)

Reports to:     Country Representative

Location:        Amman, Jordan

Travel:            Frequent travel between project sites within Jordan.

The Near East Foundation (NEF) is seeking candidates for a Senior Economic Resilience Specialist to be based in its Jordan office in Amman. For over 100 years, the Near East Foundation (NEF) has worked to build more sustainable, prosperous, and inclusive communities in the Middle East, Caucasus, and Africa through education, governance, and economic development initiatives. Working through a network of country offices and local partners, NEF has operations in ten countries: Armenia, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Mali, Morocco, Palestine, Sudan, South Sudan, and Syria. Its programs are organized around three themes: Inclusive Economic Development, Climate-resilient Development, and Stabilization and Peacebuilding.

Position Description:

The Senior Economic Resilience Specialist is a key member of the Near East Foundation team in Jordan. This role will work with the Country Representative and Project Coordinator to help assist with the smooth implementation of the objectives and activities of NEF’s upcoming Development Impact Bond (DIB), specifically in relation to market engagement, market analysis, sectorial growth, market access facilitation, and enterprise growth and investment readiness. This position will provide specific technical leadership, targeted studies and recommendations, tools and training development, market engagement and facilitation, and technical guidance as required in relation to these technical areas. The four-year DIB is a enterprise creation and economic development programme in Jordan delivered by NEF and financed through an innovative outcomes-based financing mechanism. It is also the first DIB in Jordan and the first DIB globally in refugee programming. The DIB aims to help vulnerable Jordanians and refugees recover their livelihoods and build their resilience.

Under the overall supervision of the Country Representative, the Senior Economic Resilience Specialist will have the following duties and responsibilities:

  • Lead on the development of market engagement strategy to facilitate the delivery of project outcomes
  • Convene and liaise with macro- and mezzo-economic actors to facilitate sectorial growth, market access facilitation, and enterprise growth and investment readiness
  • Lead on regular macro and localized market assessments to inform programming, including sectorial prioritization and market access facilitation
  • Lead on comparative analysis and the transfer of knowledge across and from similar internal and external programs
  • Monitor and report on market trends, include skills, labor, market, and enterprise-level analysis to inform programming
  • Work with the MEL team to monitor assumptions and test theory of change
  • Contribute to the development of programmatic quality control and assurance system(s) and the roll out and the implementation of the system(s)
  • Co-convene regular internal technical reviews, programmatic reflections, best practices, and learning and adaptation exercises 
  • Collaborate with other teams to ensure mainstreaming and integration of technical or supporting area related to market access facilitation and sectorial and enterprise growth
  • Represent NEF in strategic technical networks that enable NEF to learn from best practices, contribute to shaping national thinking and approaches and increase NEF’s influence and advocacy
  • Ensure that the programmatic approach is positioned within evolving macro-economic policies and visions

Other responsibilities

  • Work closely with relevant HQ colleagues as required.
  • Ensure compliance with applicable funders/investors and NEF policies and regulations.
  • Ensure all project documentation required by NEF and funders/investors is accurately collected, organized and filed.
  • Any other duties relating to the nature of the job as requested by the supervisor.

Key Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in development studies, economics, business development, law, or other relevant field;
  • 7 years of relevant experience with development organizations and/or programs, including significant experience of working with economic actors to deliver development interventions;
  • Demonstrated experience as a consultant or in a relevant technical assistance role;
  • Experience working on SME-focused or private-sector development interventions; 
  • Experience leading/mentoring teams;
  • Proven skills in partnership building, influence and negotiation with a range of development actors, including governments, UN agencies, academic institutions, networks, membership organizations (trade associations, chambers, business groups), financial institutions, and national/local NGOs;
  • Understands rights and protection issues of refugees, children and women, including solid experience working with vulnerable communities;
  • Fluency in Arabic and English, both written and verbal;
  • Excellent analytical, writing and communications skills;
  • High-level of knowledge and practice with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc. required.

Other Essential Competencies:

  • Willingness and able to travel to field sites frequently; 
  • Strong people management skills; 
  • Able to take initiative and very self-motivated, with a strong capacity to work within a team; 
  • Able to work independently, with a strong work ethic and high level of professionalism;
  • Capable of maintaining confidentiality and ensuring others do as well; 
  • Flexible, solutions-oriented, and willingness to learn from and support others;
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills;
  • Ability to multi-task, prioritize tasks, and cope with competing demands under tight deadlines; 
  • Able to establish and maintain good working relationships with people from different backgrounds; 
  • Strong commitment to humanitarian principles.

NEF will accept rolling application until the position is filled. Review of application will begin on Sunday, October 3, 2021. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.

To apply: 

Please apply by submitting the following documents to the Near East Foundation careers page at https://neareast.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=158&source=aWQ9MTk%3D

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