Avis de recrutement d’un consultant principal spécialiste des opérations non souveraines, Côte d’Ivoire

Avis de recrutement d’un consultant principal spécialiste des opérations non souveraines, Côte d’Ivoire

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST

AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK

Private Sector, Infrastructure and Industrialization Complex (PIVP)

Immeuble du Centre de commerce international d’Abidjan (CCIA)

Avenue Jean-Paul II – 01 BP 1387, Abidjan 01, Côte d’Ivoire

E-mail : d.amouzou@afdb.org ; g.githaiga@afdb.org

Tél. : +225 27 20 26 39 77 / +225 05 75 75 06 12

Senior Consultant – Private Sector/Non-Sovereign Operations Specialist

 

1. The African Development Bank hereby invites Individual Consultants to indicate their interest to work as Senior Consultant – Private Sector/Non-Sovereign Operations Specialist in the Complex in charge of Private Sector, Infrastructure and Industrialization ;

2. Private sector development is indispensable for inclusive and sustainable growth. It is crucial for productive investments that will create new opportunities and generate jobs. The African Development Bank realizes that supporting private sector development is key to achieving the strategic objectives laid out in its Ten-Year Strategy and the High 5s Agenda ;

3. The Bank is seeking to engage a seasoned high level experienced individual with global DFI senior management experience (strongly preferred to have VP experience) as an individual consultant (Senior Advisor), and one with robust and vast knowledge of Private Sector development issues/considerations and architecture in Africa, to assess and advise on select key issues and considerations for real time decision-making as follows : 

• NSO Organizational Set-Up, Arrangements, and Working Relationships: assess and advise on the current institutional set-up, arrangements, and working relationships, to deliver NSO operations better across the full cycle of business development, origination/execution, portfolio management and exits, amongst six (6) departments across the Bank ;
• Sovereign Operations (SO) and Non-Sovereign Operations (NSO) Synergies: assess and advise how current institutional set-up, arrangements and working relationships either help or hinder the institution from achieving synergies between its SO and NSO operations to deliver holistically on private sector development ;
• Long-Term Planning for Equity Operations: given that the Bank is primarily a lending institution, and it needs to better leverage its limited economic capital, assess and advise ;
• Longer-Term Equity and Debt Mobilization: advise on potential strategies and approaches that AfDB could consider, given its particular strengths and opportunities, on establishing an equity asset management affiliate or unit for fund of fund investment operations, as well as a managed co-lending portfolio program (MCPP) ;
• SMEs – assess and advise on how to anchor the current fragmented SME activities across the Bank through setting up an SME division, including review of the Terms of Reference (TORs) for this SME division. In addition, advise on which department to locate such SME division, given the current Development and Business Delivery Model (DBDM) architecture ;
• Financial Sector Development Strategy – assess and advise on the in-development financial sector development strategy 2022-2026 at key junctures ;
• Portfolio Management – assess and advise on how best to align portfolio management with NSO origination to work seamlessly and collaboratively, and also how best to streamline processes and approvals of waivers, amendments and consents (WACs) for AfDB to improve on and be involved in ;
• Environmental and Social (E&S) Safeguards: assess and advise strategically (not technically) on how E&S management and mitigation design and approaches have evolved in global private sector DFIs, different from E&S mitigation in public sector operations. In addition, advice on how to construct the principle of mutual reliance between AfDB and select DFIs. This will involve engagement with the Safeguards department ;
• The assignment is expected to start in March 2022 for a period of twelve (12) months  ;
• The PIVP Complex invites Individual Consultants to indicate their interest in providing the above-described services. Interested consultants shall provide information on their qualifications and experience demonstrating their ability to undertake this Assignment (CV, documents, reference to similar services, experience in similar assignments, etc.) ;
• The eligibility criteria, the establishment of a short list and the selection procedure shall be in conformity with the Bank’s Rules and Procedure for the Selection of Corporate Consultants. Please, note that interest expressed by a Consultant does not imply any obligation on the part of the Bank to include him/her in the shortlist.

4. The estimated duration of services is twelve months, and the estimated starting date is 1^st March 2022 ;

5. Individual Consultants may obtain further information at the address below during the Bank’s working hours of 8:00 to 17:00 GMT ;

6. Expressions of interest must be received at the address below no later than 22^nd February 2022 at 17:00 GMT, specifically mentioning ‘Senior Consultant – Private Sector/Non-Sovereign Operations Specialist’.

For the attention of Mr. Dovi Amouzou

African Development Bank

PIVP Complex

Immeuble du Centre de commerce international d’Abidjan (CCIA)

Avenue Jean-Paul II

01 BP 1387, Abidjan 01, Côte d’Ivoire

E-mail : d.amouzou@afdb.org ; g.githaiga@afdb.org

Tél.: +225 27 20 26 39 77 / +225 05 75 75 06 12

ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SHORT LIST :

7. A shortlist of three individual consultants will be established at the end the request of expressions of interest. The consultants to be shortlisted will be assessed based on the following criteria in line with details provided in their updated resume ;

Level of education in general	10%
Educational level compared to the field of mission	10%
Years of experience in general	20%
Number of years of experience relevant to the mission	60%