Location: Port Vila, Vanuatu
Last Date: July 19, 2010
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, creates opportunity for people to escape poverty and improve their lives. We foster sustainable economic growth in developing countries by supporting private sector development, mobilizing private capital and providing advisory and risk mitigation services to businesses and governments.
IFC is expanding its investment and advisory operations in the Pacific – covering Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, and the Pacific Islands.
IFC is implementing a Pacific Regional Regulatory Simplification and Investment Policy and Promotion Program (“Pacific Regional Program” or “Program”). This program is intended to improve the business environment in recipient countries by simplifying and streamlining regulatory procedures, reducing the costs of compliance with business regulation and improving investment facilitation capabilities in selected sectors. The Program is being implemented in four countries: Tonga, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. It consists of a number of initiatives to improve the business and investment environment in each country. These initiatives are broadly similar in each of the four countries.
The common elements of the Program currently include:
1. Four investment climate components, involving reforms to facilitate:
o Starting a business,
o Obtaining licenses and permits
o Enforcing contracts, and
o Investment policy and facilitation
2. A common set of measures to allow for monitoring and evaluation of progress in Investment Climate across the Pacific and regional benchmarking.
3. A Public/Private Task Force in each Program country to drive and sustain reforms.
The business model is to combine an in-country presence (supporting local reform structures) with regionally managed expertise in core areas.
IFC is seeking to recruit an Associate Operations Officer responsible for the in-country delivery of the various regulatory simplification and investment policy and promotion inputs.
The position is a local coterminous one year term appointment based in Port Vila, Vanuatu, with possible renewable extension subject to need and satisfactory performance. The appointee will report to the Investment Climate Program Manager, based in Sydney.
DUTIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES:
• Liaise with government and private sector officials on all aspects of the IFC Investment Climate Program.
• Implement various components of the investment climate project(s) for which the staff member is given responsibility.
• Build and support a public/private dialogue mechanism, undertake the secretariat function for any meetings.
• Provide advice to the Task Leader and other Project Team members on the timing and sequencing of project components.
• Monitor outcomes of government reform actions, including data collection, assembly, analysis, and reporting.
• Based on knowledge of local conditions, identify country-specific investment climate constraints and advise on how to adapt best practice solutions to the country context.
• Identify opportunities for communicating IFC’s role and results achievement to the broader community, including through media outlets.
• Prepare monthly progress reports including relevant notes on key economic and political developments and risks.
• Liaise with key donor agencies in Vanuatu external to the World Bank Group (AusAID, NZAID, EU and ADB), as required.
• Prepare reports on project outputs, outcomes, lessons learned and implications for the design of any follow on reform activities, as required.
• Assist short-term consultants and other advisers on the project in the delivery of project components, including event organization, mission support, and workshop facilitation.
• The appointee may also be required to respond to other Regulatory Simplification and Investment Policy and Promotion issues as they arise as well as to issues relating to the broader work program of IFC in-country.
QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS:
• Postgraduate degree in economics, law, international finance, political science, business or a related field complemented by a minimum of five years relevant work experience.
• Sound understanding of business regulation and/or investment law and policy.
• Demonstrated project implementation and management skills in a developing country context.
• Prior exposure to simplification of business start-up, business licensing and related legislative and regulatory frameworks for doing business.
• Proven track record in dealing with government organisations and networks, particularly in the specific context of Vanuatu.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Sound interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work well with minimal supervision in a small team environment.
Submission details available via IFC’s website –
http://www.ifc.org/ifcext/careers.nsf/Content/CurrentOpportunities
Job Vacancy Number: 101416.
Only short-listed candidates will receive responses.
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