Under the authority of the Project Manager and in close operational coordination with the agency’s Project Officers at EF headquarters, the Technical Coordinator/PSD lead will support the Project Manager on technical matters. He/she will contribute to the technical planning, coordination, and implementation of project activities, ensuring technical coherence and quality across all components. He/she will lead and coordinate the project’s technical team (approximately five staff members) and provide technical coordination to at least three implementing partners, ensuring alignment of their activities with the project’s technical objectives and standards.

He/she will also implement activities under Component 1 related to Public-Private Dialogue (PPD) and Business Environment improvement, while ensuring that PSD is addressed as a transversal priority across all project activities. He/she will work closely with institutions, MSMEs, business networks, and key stakeholders to align activities with the project’s objectives on improving the business and investment climate.

• The following list of assignments is not exhaustive, and additional technical tasks may be assigned by the Project Manager, within the scope of the Technical Coordinator’s technical responsibilities.
• Representation and strategic alignment:
• Represent the project during the absence of the Project Manager to the EU Delegation, government authorities, project partners, and other key stakeholders;
• Ensure close collaboration with the various partners and project stakeholders, primarily in the field of private sector development;
• Ensure strategic coherence of Private Sector Development (PSD) aspects as a transversal priority across all project activities and components, promoting alignment and complementarity between interventions implemented by EF and its partners.
• Facilitate meetings with technical experts, sector specific stakeholders and national representatives to identify priority actions, to align with national priorities and strategies, to ensure stakeholders’ implication and engagement, etc.;
• Support the Project Manager in promoting synergies and complementarity and avoiding duplication of efforts with other actions in place

Project coordination – all technical components: 

• Provide technical strategic oversight for all project activities to ensure they are executed on time, meet high technical quality standards, and strictly adhere to EF and EU compliance frameworks;
• Together with the technical team, ensure the quality control of activities and deliverables, ensure that they are in line with the defined indicators in the project’s logframe and ensure the integration of cross-cutting themes such as gender equality, youth and PWD inclusion, climate resilience and “Do no harm principles”;
•  Provide guidance to technical staff and experts as needed;
• Provide technical inputs to ensure coherence between activity implementation and related expenditures, in close coordination with the administrative and financial officer;

Project implementation – Component 1 only:

• Plan, initiate, implement all activities under Component 1 – Public-Private Dialogue (PPD)/Business environment improvement, ensuring full compliance with EF and EU standards and regulations;
• Actively participate in the implementation of activities, providing strategic guidance, and ensuring the integration of cross-cutting themes such as gender equality, youth and PWD inclusion, climate resilience and “Do no harm” principles;
• Identify expertise requirements for component 1 and ensure that experts are properly mobilised;
• Initiate the procurement lifecycle for component 1 - including drafting calls for proposals, negotiating contracts, and guiding technical experts.
• Closely monitor all project activities under component 1 in coordination with the MEAL Manager to ensure progress is accurately tracked against the MEAL Plan and specific project indicators, ensuring data-driven reporting and alignment with established targets.

Team management and coordination:

• Manage, coordinate and supervise the technical project to ensure that the project achieves its objectives at high quality;
• Together with the Program Manager, facilitate regular technical team meetings and plan team activities to ensure a smooth project implementation and coordination between the different team members and project components;
• Identify together with the individual team members their needs in terms of training and support;
• Contribute to the design and implementation of capacity-building activities for project staff and partners, particularly in the field of Private Sector Development (PSD), ensuring alignment with project objectives and technical priorities.
• In close collaboration with the Program Manager, ensure the supervision of technical staff performance, set individual objectives for each team member, ensure workload management and hold individual annual performance evaluation meetings

Reporting and accountability:

• Together with the Project Manager, ensure timely and high-quality reporting to the EU Delegation and other stakeholders, including technical and financial reports;
• Contribute to the updating of management tools for the project and EF’s internal reporting (monthly portfolio revue, multi-annual project planning, bi-annual project revue, financial closure of the project, etc.);
• Support to preparing Steering Committees and technical committees;