REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
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Avenue Joseph Anoma
01 Boite Postale 1387 ABIDJAN 01
COTE D’IVOIRE”
Regional Development, Integration and Business Delivery
BUSINESS PLANNING, BUSINESS DELIVERY AND BUSINESS
RESTRUCTURING CONSULTANT
E-mail: Telephone: 0022520262598/0022520262475
Expressions of interest are being requested for a Consultant to lead business planning, business delivery and business restructuring
Brief description of the Assignment:
The Lead Business Planning, Business Delivery and Business Restructuring consultant will support the Vice President for Regional Development, Integration and Business Delivery Complex (RDVP).
Advise the Vice President and RDVP management on operational entry points for policy dialogue and investment operations in RMCs.
Carry out stock-taking exercises and other research to inform RDVP’s footprint across regions and countries.
Complete reviews for budget, portfolio, staffing and footprint across the RDVP complex.
Develop affordability analyses related to new organizational structures, staffing models, span of control and business delivery mechanisms in support of the new DBDM.
Support resource mobilization efforts, as required, especially through advice to the RDVP.
Support the work of the RDVP on key corporate deliverables and initiatives, including deliverables for the Operations Committee (OPSCOM) and the Senior Management Coordination Committee (SMCC).
Assist RDVP in the corporate KPI exercise, and produce deliverables for deployment of KPIs across the RDVP complex.
Undertake any other assignment given by the Vice President aimed at achieving the overall objective of this assignment.
Department issuing the request: RDVP0
Place of assignment: Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
Duration of the assignment: 6months
Tentative Date of commencement: October
Detailed Terms of reference for the assignment: see below
Deadline for applications: September 22nd, 2018 at 7 p.m. Abidjan time
Applications to be submitted to F.TEUFEL@AFDB.ORG and S.TAGOUGUI@AFDB.ORG interested consultants should submit a Cover letter and CV.
TERMS OF REFERENCE
FOR THE RECRUITMENT OF A CONSULTANT
- Introduction / Background
Established in 1964, the African Development Bank (AfDB) is a multi-lateral development finance institution and the premier pan-African organization fostering economic growth and social progress in Africa. The AfDB’s primary goal is to reduce poverty and improve living standards by mobilizing resources within and outside Africa, and providing financial and technical assistance for development projects and programs in Africa.
The AfDB is a unique proposition: as an African organization serving Africans, it is a motor for economic progress and integration, and the voice of Africa and African development across the continent. It endeavours to be at the centre of Africa’s transformation and to improve the quality of Africa’s growth. It aims to broaden and deepen that process of transformation, mainly by ensuring that growth is shared and not isolated, for all African citizens and countries, not just for some.
To catalyse Africa’s transformation, the AfDB leverages systemically its own resources; it acts as catalyst for significantly scaling up development finance for Africa and for mobilizing domestic resources. In 2014, the AfDB undertook 232 approved operations totalling approximately $7 billion USD. Loans comprised some $5.4 billion of this, in 89 operations; grants $853.6 million, in 93 operations; Equity Participation $184.4 million, in 6 operations; Guarantees $240.7 million, in 5 operations; and special funds $339.6 million, in 39 operations.
Nearly 56% of these operations were in Infrastructure; 18% in Finance; 11% in Agriculture and Rural Development; 8% were Social; with the balance allocated across Industry, Mining, and Quarrying, Environment, and Multi-sector Initiatives. Between 1967 and 2014, the cumulative value of some 4,185 loan and grant approvals by the AfDB has been nearly $100 billion
- Duties and responsibilities
The African Development Bank is rolling out a new development and business delivery model in order to bring its operations closer to its clients; grow its portfolios from sovereign and private sector operations; and expand the revenue of the Bank. This model will enable the Bank to better deploy high quality knowledge and advisory services, and, most importantly, to accelerate its developmental impacts across Africa in operationalizing the implementation of the new development and business delivery model (DBDM), with a focus on ensuring an effective and efficient transition.
The Bank has established five regional development and business delivery hubs, with one in each region of Africa: North, South, East, West, and Central. A country office has also been established in Nigeria. The new structure will drive and ensure the operational efficiency, effectiveness and overall health of the Bank’s portfolio across their regions to achieve significant developmental impacts, transferring the responsibilities of implementation and integration of all aspects of the Bank’s work in that region to the sub-Regional level.
The Lead Business Planning, Business Delivery and Business Restructuring consultant will support the Vice President for Regional Development, Integration and Business Delivery Complex (RDVP)
- Selection Criteria
- Master’s degree in a relevant field such as business, information systems technology, finance, economics or related field.
- Minimum of twelve years of relevant work experience.
- Experience working in strategic management, financial modelling or structuring, project management, international development, research and analysis, and combined with either relevant private financial sector or public sector.
- Excellent understanding of finance concepts, business delivery and reorganization.
- Highly developed analytical, problem-solving and research skills, with the ability to work with large amounts of data; and advanced modelling capacity.
- Ability to conceptualize, innovate, plan, project, manage, and execute complex ideas, as well as to impart knowledge and coach.
- Demonstrated ability to work in a multi-cultural environment and across teams, and establish harmonious and effective working relationships both within and outside the organization.
- Demonstrated strength/fluency in English or oral and written communications, including ability to draft finance documents and to articulate ideas verbally in a clear and compelling way to audiences of varied levels.
- Fluency in French is desirable but not essential.
- Highly attentive to details, ensuring accuracy of all calculations, models, documents and communications.
3.1. Competencies
- Deliver Results for Clients: Achieves results and identifies mission-driven solutions for the client.
- Lead and Innovate: Develops innovative solutions with others.
- Collaborate Within Teams and Across Boundaries: Initiates collaboration across boundaries and broadly across the organization.
- Create, Apply and Share Knowledge: Creates, applies and shares knowledge from across and outside RDVP complex to strengthen internal and/or external client solutions.
- Financial Risk Analysis & Modelling: Develop new or edit existing financial models to value different organizational initiatives. Runs sensitivity analysis and analyses different scenarios. Understands and can utilize modelling and forecasting techniques based on projected values for complex and innovative financial instruments to evaluate impacts of financial risks.
- REPORTING AND DUTY STATION
The consultant will report to the Vice-President, Regional Development, Integration and Business Delivery Complex. He will be based in his home in the United States of America but will be required from time to time as the need arises to travel to the Bank’s Headquarters in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire or any other countries on mission.
- DELIVERABLES
5.1. Prepare Operational Dashboard reports for each of the five regions within RDVP.
5.2. Prepare staffing and footprint analyses pertaining to the deployment of staff to Regional Hubs and Country Offices within the new organizational structure.
5.3. Produce deliverables in support of RDVP’s lending and non-lending activities, including senior management and Board presentations, as well as documentation required to support the operationalization of the DBDM within RDVP.
5.4. Prepare the mapping and operationalization exercises for the new country office rightsizing exercise within RDVP.
5.5. Produce RDVP inputs to the Bank-wide KPI exercise.
5.6. Produce RDVP deliverables for OPSCOM and the SMCC.
- Duration and place of the assignment
The consultancy service shall commence on the October 1st 2018 for period of six (6) calendar months ending April 30th 2019.
The selected consultant will be based in Abidjan.
- Remuneration
Remuneration will be commensurate with experience, in line with the AfDB compensation guidelines. In addition, for candidates who need to travel to take up this assignment, a round trip economy class air-tickets with the shortest route will be provided. The candidate will be responsible for obtaining personal health insurance at his or her own cost. The coverage should include all medical expenses, including those resulting from illness or injury incurred during the duration of the assignment.
- Key Qualifications:
Please provide (i) a summary of your experience and training highlighting the most relevant for the proposed assignment, and (ii) the responsibilities which you exercised. Utilize one half-page maximum.
- Reference:
Please indicate the name and address of three persons with no family relationship with yourself, familiar with your character and titles.
I hereby certify that the responses which I provided above are all, to the best of my knowledge, true, complete and accurate. I acknowledge that an inaccurate statement or essential omission in a personal declaration or another document required by the African Development Bank might result in the rejection of my application, termination of my Contract or any other administrative sanction by the Bank. The African Development Bank may verify any statements which I made in this application.
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