Position title: Principal Results Specialist
Grade: PL-4 Position N°: Manager
Grade: PL-4 Position N°: Manager
Reference: ADB/010/73 Publication date: 25/05/2010 Closing date: 24/06/2010
Duties and responsibilities
The African development Bank is a leading development institution in the continent, focused on promoting economic development and poverty reduction. It engages with the full range and complexity of development challenges in Africa. The Bank has integrated operations, lending directly the public and private sectors through a variety of instruments. It also provides advisory services and has an increasing country presence through a growing network of 26 field offices.
The Office of the Chief Operating Officer (COO) is charged with improving coherence and coordination across the Bank’s complexes, ensuring strategic priorities are reflected in resources allocation, enhancing monitoring and management of performance, and strengthening the focus on results. Within the COO’s Office, the Quality Assurance and Results Department (ORQR) assesses and monitors the development impact of the Bank’s operations.
In this connection, ORQR is in charge of promoting more effective use of development resources—those provided by the Bank aswell as those made available to the Bank’s regional member countries (RMC). The Results Reporting Division leads the Bank’s work on promoting more effective aid within the Bank, across the African continent and at the global level.
Specific Duties
The Principal Results Specialist, will work under the general supervision of the Director, Results and Quality Assurance Department and under the guidance of the Manager, Results Reporting DivisionORQR.1.
Core responsibilities include:
- Planning and coordinating implementation of the Bank’s Roadmap for improving its performance on aid effectiveness.
- Coordinating the Bank’s contributions to the OECD’s Working Party on Aid Effectiveness and subsidiary bodies.
- Planning and coordinating the organisation in the fourth quarter of 2010 of a regional consultative event on aid effectiveness and supporting the work of a regional platform on aid effectiveness.
- Supporting and advising the Director and Chief Operating Officer on key policy or operational issues related to the aid effectiveness agenda.
- Contributing to the advancement of the aid effectiveness agenda more generally through resource mobilization, elaboration of analytical work and liaising with relevant forums: OECD Working Party, Multilateral Development Bank working Groups, African Communiies of Practice etc.
Selection Criteria
Including desirable skills, knowledge and experience
- Master’s degree or its equivalent preferably in public administration or political sciences;
- Preferably a minimum of six years of relevant experience;
- Excellent technical, analytical skills and established operational track record of achieving results;
- Strong conceptual abilities and capacity to produce high-quality analytical work. Good judgment in dealing with complex and sensitive policy issues;
- Strong interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to work effectively with teams in a multicultural environment.
- Demonstrated ability to establish plans and priorities and advance initiatives with energy and commitment. Proven capacity to produce quality results on a timely basis and according to budget;
- Superior written and verbal communication skills in English and/or French (with a working-knowledge of the other language) with demonstrated ability to think strategically and synthesize complex issues;
- Competence in the use of Bank standard software (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint).
Only applicants who fully meet the Bank’s requirements and are being considered for interview will be contacted.
Applicants will only be considered if they submit (preferably electronically, to: recruit@afdb.org) a fully completed Personal History Form (PHF), available from the Bank’s web site, and attach a comprehensive Curriculum Vitae (CV) indicating date of birth and nationality.
The President, ADB, reserves the right to appoint a candidate at a lower level. The African Development Bank is an equal opportunities employer and female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
