Réf.
2024/SPC/12028
Type d'offre
Poste terrain
Type de contrat
CDDU
Domaines d'expertises
Développement durable ; Ingénierie de développement ; Gouvernance économique et financière
Date limite de candidature
11/11/2024 15:07
Contrat
Salarié
Durée
52 mois
Departement Economie Durable et Inclusive - EDIN > Pôle Entreprenariat et Innovation
Mis en ligne le : 11/10/2024
The Program Co-Leader will work alongside the GIZ-appointed Program Leader, both as heads of the Program Management Unit (PMU), managing the implementation of Expertise France’s activities within the program. Under the direction of Expertise France’s headquarters, the Co-Leader will be responsible for the full-time leadership, overseeing the day-to-day management, coordination, and operational and financial execution of activities under SO1 and SO3, ensuring close coordination with the Program Leader responsible for the other activities under SO1, SO2 and SO3.
The Co-Leader will ensure that activities align with program objectives, coordinate with key stakeholders, and meet the requirements of the European Union's funding regulations. The position requires a high level of autonomy, strategic thinking, and leadership to manage a multicultural team and engage effectively with government bodies, financial institutions, MSMEs, and development partners.
The Program Co-Leader will be based in Lusaka, Zambia, with regular travel to other East and Southern African countries.
More specifically, his/her missions and responsibilities are as follows (non-exhaustive list):
PMU Team Management
Overall Program Management
Supervision of activities of the project
Internal and External project coordination
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting
The SWITCH to Circular Economy in East and Southern Africa Program (SWITCH-2-CE) is co-financed by the European Union and jointly implemented by Expertise France (EF) and GIZ. The program aims to foster an inclusive transition to a circular economy in the East and Southern Africa region through policy frameworks, workers and SMEs participation, and improved financing mechanisms for CE businesses. The activities will contribute to mitigation of climate change by promoting green and circular business models. The foreseen capacity development and strengthening of the regulatory and policy framework aim to contribute to the East and Southern Africa (ESA) countries efforts to meet their obligations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) is the regional political partner of the project.
The program is structured around three main outcomes, with the two priority value chains: “packaging/plastics waste” and “electronics/e-waste”.
The program aims to achieve the following outcomes:
· Outcome 1: To establish an enabling policy framework for circular economy across the ESA region;
· Outcome 2: To enhance the participation of formal and informal workers and SMEs, including women and youth, in circular economy models;
· Outcome 3: To improve access to and use of financing by circular economy businesses
Expertise France is responsible for implementing activities under Outcome 1, jointly with GIZ. To foster an enabling policy framework for CE in ESA (Outcome 1), CE issues need to be prioritised by well-informed policymakers (Output 1.1 - EF) as a pre-requisite for them to mainstream CE into policy instruments (Output 1.2 - EF) and implement pilot CE policies such as EPR schemes (Output 1.3 - GIZ). Outcome 1 will mainly involve policymaking support activities at the macro-level, with a focus on regional/supranational knowledge management, awareness raising and policy dialogue to create a common vision on circular economy among the target countries. At the same time, countries that express willingness and interest will be able to receive on-demand policy-mainstreaming support and pilot policy implementation at national level. This support will be conditioned, among others, to the project budgetary limitations.
EF is also responsible for implementing activities under Specific Objective 3, jointly with GIZ, to improve access to financing for circular economy businesses, through the implementation of a financial assistance and capacity-building program. The Action will establish a regional matching grant facility designed to reduce investment risks in early-stage CE firms or business models, from the very beginning of business development to joint ventures. Indeed, this scheme will operate through multiple funding windows, targeting early-stage and growth-stage investments in CE technologies, products, and services for start-ups, small and medium-sized enterprises, and regional CE firms seeking partnerships within ESA or with European companies. Therefore, Expertise France’s activities will be focused on the first stages of business development, i.e. incubation and acceleration phases, while GIZ’s activities, in the continuum, will seek to support projects in their “investment readiness”, working tangentially with financial sector actors such as VC’s and impact funds with the ultimate objective of facilitating joint ventures. The Special Objective 3 also includes technical assistance to financial institutions and capacity building activities to Business Development Services providers supporting circular economy businesses in the two targeted value chains.
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Professional experience
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Expertise France est l’agence publique de conception et de mise en œuvre de projets internationaux de coopération technique. L’agence intervient autour de quatre axes prioritaires :
Dans ces domaines, Expertise France assure des missions d’ingénierie et de mise en œuvre de projets de renforcement des capacités, mobilise de l’expertise technique et joue un rôle d’ensemblier de projets faisant intervenir de l’expertise publique et des savoir-faire privés.