NON-SOVEREIGN OPERATIONS AND PRIVATE SECTOR SUPPORT DEPARTMENT-PINS

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST

INDIVIDUAL CONSULTANT FOR NON-SOVEREIGN STRATEGY AND TRANSACTION SUPPORT

Dear Sir/Madam

1. The African Development Bank hereby invites Individual Consultants to indicate their interest in the following Assignment : Individual Consultant for Non-Sovereign Strategy and Transaction Support.
2. The consultant will be responsible for leading several streams of activities under the guidance of the Division Manager, strategy and transaction support. In brief, the consultant selected is expected to provide robust analytical work that will yield concrete outputs (i.e. number of business development generated, innovative programs suggested, number of co-financing coming out of the analytical work etc.) all aimed at growing the private sector business ;
3. The specific duties to be provided under the Assignment are: (i) to perform country private sector diagnostic/profiling analysis with the goal to identify niches and sectors associated with the Bank’s High 5 initiatives that hold strong potential for impactful NSOs by liaising with country program officers, country economists and other staffs in the regional directorate and country offices; (ii) to mainstream the pertinent private sector development findings and solutions in the Bank’s Country Strategy Papers (CSPs) and Regional Integration Strategy Papers (RISPs); (iii) to contribute to the development and update of policies, and guidelines, related to Private Sector Development in the Regional Member Countries to reflect the overall Bank Group’s strategy and policies; (iv) to participate and contribute to the re-writing of the Bank’s new Private Sector Strategy by liaising with SNSP and also provide leadership to Special Initiatives and Technical assistance teams; (v) to identify the areas where the Bank can catalyze investors and third party resources to provide adequate funding for implementing its private sector agenda; (vi) to facilitate synergies and collaboration between the Bank’s non-sovereign and sovereign operations to provide support for effective private sector interventions in the RMCs; and (vii) to represent and provide visibility for the Bank’s private sector development agenda in the target markets including organizing and participating in high profile events and also taking part in DFI’s initiatives ;
4. The consultant is expected to carry out these activities in close collaboration with private sector departments (Energy, Agribusiness, Transport, Water and Sanitation, Industry and Trade Development, Financial Sector), private sector specialists in the countries and regional offices, other stakeholders within the Bank and most DFIs ;
5. The NSO and Private Sector Support Department (PINS) 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 (documents, reference to similar services, experience in similar assignments, etc.).
6. 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 Acquisition of Consulting Services funded by the Administrative or Capital Expenditure Budget. 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.
7. The assignment will be for a period of 6 months at the Bank’s Head Quarters in Abidjan and the estimated starting date will be 18^th February 2019.
8. Interested Individual Consultants may obtain further information at the email address below during the Bank’s working hours: from 09:00 to 17:00 hours.
9. Expressions of interest must be received by email at the address above no later than Tuesday 15^th January 2019, at 17h00 Abidjan local time and specifically mentioning Individual Consultants for Non-Sovereign Strategy and Transaction Support.

Establishment of the short list :

A shortlist of three to six individual consultants will be established at the end the request of expressions of interest. The consultants on the shortlist will be judged on the following criteria on the basis of their updated resume.