The Country Director will have the overall responsibility of establishing the Ethiopian Country Programme and developing, managing and monitoring its strategy and programme delivery in line with TMEA’s Strategy and Project Cycle Management (PCM) Guidelines. This will include activities in the fields of regional trade, customs and infrastructure development, and institutional development of Government institutions. S/he will develop, manage and maintain strategic relationships with Government, the private sector, civil society and the donor community. In addition, the CD is responsible for recruiting and managing a new country team to ensure good design and delivery of the programme, and ensuring best practice is followed with TMEA corporate guidelines, procedures and systems. In addition, the Country Director will work with TMEA’s Senior Leadership Team to identify opportunities for leveraging additional investments into TMEA’s Ethiopian Programme, co-ordinating with development partners in Ethiopia.

The ideal candidate will possess an undergraduate degree preferably in Economics, Development Studies, International Trade, Planning, Finance or Management with at least 12 years of relevant working experience in programme management OR a postgraduate degree with at least 10 years of relevant working experience. In addition, s/he will have five years of leadership and management experience. S/he will also possess at least three years of working experience gained in Ethiopia or the other countries in which TMEA operates, primarily in managing economic development co-operation programmes related to regional integration, trade facilitation, trade and investment climate reform, transport sector development, and/or institutional reform.