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Country Director - Department for International Trade



Référence 106487
Localisation Dakar / Sénégal
Expiration 09 Décembre 2020
Offre visitée 367 fois
Catégories
Direction générale, Management
Commercial, Vente, Business developpement
Distribution, Commerce, Import-Export
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Description de l'offre

View Vacancy - Senegal Country Director - Department for International Trade (15/20 DKR)

The British Government is an inclusive and diversity-friendly employer. We value difference, promote equality and challenge discrimination, enhancing our organisational capability.
We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We do not discriminate on the basis of disability, race, colour, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, veteran status or other category protected by law.
We promote family-friendly flexible working opportunities, where operational and security needs allow.
Job Category
Department for International Trade roles (DIT)
Job Subcategory
DIT
Job Description (Roles and Responsibilities)

About the Department:
The Department for International Trade (DIT) is the Trade Promotion and Negotiation Organisation for the UK.
We promote UK businesses overseas and attract foreign investment to our shores.
We have 3,000 staff across the globe in over 100 countries. Our aspiration is to help British businesses to internationalise and grow overseas.
DIT supports the development of strong, prosperous and peaceful African nations, through modern, dynamic and long-term partnerships that deliver mutual benefit for the UK and Africa.
The UK is making a new and distinctive offer to work alongside, invest in, and partner with countries across Africa.
By supporting African-led ambitions with British expertise, we want to create more opportunities, more jobs and greater stability – both in the UK and for our African partners.
The UK can unlock economic growth and job creation by unblocking barriers faced by new investors and bringing private sector investment to Africa.
The UK government has committed to radically expand its presence in Africa.
This role is part of this uplift and offers applicants the opportunity to help shape this new, long-term UK partnership for prosperity and stability with Africa.
You will join the Department for International Trade’s Africa network as the Country Director for Senegal.
In this role you will also be a key member of the economic partnership team in the British Embassy Dakar, working alongside development and diplomatic colleagues in a combined team.
This is an exciting time to join, as we expand our resources and ambition to deliver a broader, deeper win-win economic partnership between the UK and Senegal.
The priority areas for UK trade in Senegal are energy (both renewables and oil & gas); agriculture and infrastructure. We have new cooperation developing in the pharmaceutical sector and in finance.

Roles and responsibilities:
We are looking for a highly driven and organised person with excellent networking skills, commercial awareness, a strong attention to detail, the ability to take initiative, the ability to work accurately within deadlines and with limited supervision, excellent written and verbal communication skills, and a strong team member who works collaboratively.

The successful candidate will:
• Be DIT’s Country Director for Senegal and be part of the Embassy’s leadership team, setting and driving an ambitious and targeted plan of action to increase trade and investment flows between the UK and Senegal;
• Provide strategic direction across trade, inward investment, trade policy and market access work streams and ensure the UK’s Africa Trade Commissioner has a clear understanding of DIT’s strategy for Senegal;
• Advise the Ambassador and Deputy Trade Commissioner (based in Cairo) on commercial matters to ensure a strong alignment and integration of trade and investment with the wider business priorities of the UK Embassy in Senegal.
• Provide investment support for existing investors in Senegal; including identifying issues faced by British investors active in Senegal, and other market access issues hindering new investment, and work with the trade policy team to develop and implement clear strategies to resolve them;
• Identify and generate commercial opportunities, providing professional advice and high-quality market analysis to UK companies and facilitating introductions and providing other support required for companies to win contracts.
• Promote, where appropriate, the financing products offered by UK Export Finance, the British government’s Export Credit Agency, to support companies win contracts (including support of UKEF activities in market, through visit support and intelligence sharing);
• Work collaboratively with all parts of the British government, including the FCDO and the British Council, to identify opportunities for commercial activity to support development and political outcomes. This will include working with our development finance offer (CDC, PIDG, AgdevCo etc) to raise awareness of the UK offer, skills, expertise amongst the Senegalese private sector, government, and wider public.
• Organise visits and trade missions, including by trade ministers, envoys, businesses.
• Develop an excellent network of senior Senegalese and British government and business contacts -including through attendance at trade shows, seminars, events and receptions – and use that network in support of UK companies winning new business in Senegal.
• Build the skills and capacity of teams including the ability to mentor and coach others to achieve results
The role is subject to change as sector priorities develop.

Resources managed (staff and expenditure):
Line manager of 1 B3(L) DIT generalist
Country budget – modest budget covering events, travel, official entertainment

Essential qualifications, skills and experience
• You will need to be a self-starter who can seize the initiative and lay out your strategy for achieving the objectives in the job description.
• Excellent drafting skills in English and French, and fluency of written and spoken English and French is a prerequisite.
• Relevant degree and/or other professional qualification.
• At least five years professional experience.
• Knowledge of, and a keen interest in, sustainable development, investment and economic growth
• Private sector experience, or knowledge of the private sector, thorough understanding of private sector and business, regulatory environment in Senegal
• Experience of working in political and commercial environment with senior stakeholders and VVIPs
• A positive, resilient, flexible and adaptable “can-do” attitude that can see way through challenges.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to work with colleagues and partners in other countries.

Desirable qualifications, skills and experience
• Client facing experience, for example with a professional services business (managing businesses, understanding issues and pursuing strategies together)
• Experience of working in the public sector
• Understanding of the trade policy / market access space

Required competencies
Seeing the Big Picture, Leading and Communicating, Collaborating and Partnering, Delivering at Pace

Application deadline
9 December 2020

Grade
C4 (L)

Type of Position
Fixed Term, Fixed term, with possibility of renewal

Working hours per week
36.5

Duration of Post
12 months

Region
Africa

Country/Territory
Senegal

Location (City)
Dakar

Type of Post
British Embassy

Number of vacancies
1

Starting monthly salary ()
XOF 2,214,715

Start Date
4 January 2021

Other benefits and conditions of employment

Learning and development opportunities (and any specific training courses to be completed):
The successful applicant will have access to a range of Learning and Development opportunities both in-house and e-learning, with the potential for overseas training.

Working patterns: Full time
The Embassy supports flexible working and would be happy to discuss proposals.

Additional information
• All applicants must be legally able to work in Senegal with the correct visa/status or work permit.
• The successful applicant will demonstrate that they meet the requirements under Senegal law to work in Senegal.
• The British Embassy in Dakar is an equal opportunities employer, dedicated to inclusivity, a diverse workforce and valuing difference.
• Staff recruited locally by the British Embassy in Dakar is subject to Terms and Conditions of Service according to local Senegalese employment law.
• Reference checking and security clearances will be conducted.

Please be aware that you will only be able to apply to vacancies for Local Staff roles with the British Government through this official tal.net site (operated by Oleeo).
Jobs may be advertised on third party websites, however our adverts will always link back to the official tal.net site.
If you complete and send an application through any other site, we will not receive it.



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