Overview
Provide leadership in the implementation and coordination of project activities and ensure their successful delivery for the Making Trade Happen project component in Pakistan and other Sector Competitiveness Section initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Implements and evaluates assigned project activities.
- Monitors and analyzes project development and implementation.
- Reviews relevant documents and reports.
- Identifies problems and issues to be addressed and initiates corrective actions.
- Liaises with relevant parties and ensures follow-up actions.
- Coordinates and maintains effective relationships with government counterparts, development partners, private sector stakeholders, UN entities and other relevant partners.
- Represents the projects in meetings.
- Performs consulting assignments, in collaboration with the client, by planning facilitating workshops, through other interactive sessions and assisting in developing the action plan the client will use to manage the change.
- Researches, analyzes and presents information gathered from diverse sources.
- Coordinates policy development, including the review and analysis of issues and trends, preparation of evaluations or other research activities and studies.
- Generates survey initiatives; designs data collection tools; reviews, analyzes and interprets responses, identify problems/issues and prepares conclusions.
- Organizes and prepares written outputs, e.g. draft background papers, analysis, sections of reports and studies, inputs to publications, etc.
- Provides substantive backstopping to consultative and other meetings, conferences, etc., to include proposing agenda topics, identifying participants, preparation of documents and presentations, etc.
- Initiates and coordinates outreach activities; conducts training workshops, seminars, etc.; makes presentations on assigned topics/activities.
- Leads and/or participates in large, complex field missions, including provision of guidance to external consultants, government officials and other parties and drafting mission summaries, etc.
- Coordinates activities related to budget funding (project preparation and submissions, progress reports, financial statements, etc.) and prepares related documents/reports (pledging, work programme, programme budget, etc.).
- Collects and analyzes data to identify trends or patterns and provide insights through graphs, charts, tables and reports using data visualization methods to enable data-driven planning, decision-making, presentation and reporting.
- Performs other duties as required.
Required Experience
A minimum of seven (7) years of progressively responsible experience in project or programme management, administration or related area. At minimum of five (5) years in trade related technical assistance in Pakistan. Experience working with UN agencies on the implementation of donor-funded projects is desirable. Experience working with international institutions, governments and donors. Experience in public/private sector partnership development desirable. Experience with sector/value chain development projects in Pakistan desirable.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in business administration, management, economics or a related field. A first-level university degree in combination with qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
