Expertise France recruits for the “EU-LAC CyberSHIELD” project, a Team Leader whose responsibilities are as follows:

Ø  Operational management:

• Represents Expertise France and the project towards institutional partners ;
• Plan for all project activities, in close coordination with all stakeholders;
• Ensure the overall consistency of the project activities, aligned with contractually approved objectives, in relation with EF HQ;
• Coordinate activities implementation;
• Ensure project implementation with operational planning and timeline;
• Is responsible for the follow-up of the deliverables development, including contractual reports for the EU, and ensure quality checks;
• Supervise the monitoring and evaluation expert and ensure the good implementation of the M&E plan of the project;
• Support, when needed, the Technical Director in developing ToR for experts involved in the project;
• Ensure the programmatic consistency between Cyber-SHIELD and EuroCarib DigiWave project.

Ø  Coordination with the EU and other implementation agencies

• Coordinate in order ensure the overall quality of all reporting and deliverables to be sent to Collect and ensure quality of all reporting and deliverables to be sent to the EU;
• Be responsible for supplying without delay all documents and information to the EU;
• Administer the overall financial contribution and ensure payments to the Partner;
• Ensure that EF and FIAP HQs are well informed by maintaining regular monitoring of project activities and news (weekly/monthly status updates, etc.), keeping a close eye on critical issues that could affect the project's proper execution;
• Organise the Secretariat of the main meetings (Steering Committee, Partners Meeting and Coordination committee).

Ø  Administrative and finance management:

·         Ensure consistency between operational and finance planning;

·         Support to the Administrative and Finance Manager (RAF) in the overall administrative and finance follow-up of the project and provide regular reviews of the commitments, expenditures and budget forecast;

·         Responsible for ensuring consistency and transmitting internal reporting (budget follow-up, forecasts and budgetary closures), in support to the RAF;

·         Ensure the administrative follow-up of HR (timesheets, billing, etc.);

·         In direct support to the RAF, is responsible for the full respect of procurement procedures and contracting requirements;

·         Is responsible for developing intermediate and final narrative reports and closely contribute in support to the RAF in developing intermediate and final financial reports, with due respect to the contract and calendar requirements,

·         Support the RAF in supervising financial audits;

·         Ensure coordination with mutualised functions and other projects in Santo Domingo.

Ø  Management:

•     Ensure the direct management of the project team based in Santo Domingo and of the Technical Director;
•     Ensure an optimized governance of the project, through a smooth information flow within the project team and relevant formats for coordination;
•          Support the identification of long and short term expertise when needed (terms of reference, interviews, contracts);
•          Identify and share with EF HQ all HR issues that may affect the project implementation.

Ø  Institutional and partnership relations:

·         Responsible for the smooth communication and good quality of institutional relationships with partners, stakeholders and the donor;

·         Promote the project and its objectives, ensuring complementarity with other national or multilateral initiatives on the topic of the project;

·         Identify synergies and avoid duplication by ensuring a smooth coordination with relevant stakeholders.

Ø  Communication and visibility:

•     Promote and communicate on the project and its achievements according to the Communication Plan that will be approved by the donor;
•          If needed, is responsible for contracting services for communication and coordinate the work of the provider.