Associate Operations Officer - Investment Climate- Dakar, Senegal

Job #:	112450
Title:	Associate Operations Officer - Investment Climate
Job Stream:	Technical Assistance & Advisory Services
Location:	Dakar, Senegal
Closing Date:	01/12/2012
Background / General description:
Improving the investment climate in Africa is one of three core priorities of the IFC/World Bank Group strategy in Sub-Saharan Africa. IFC manages the Investment Climate Advisory Services of the World Bank Group, which comprise staff based in the regional hub offices of Nairobi, Dakar and Johannesburg and across the continent, who work with a team of product specialists based in Washington, DC and Istanbul. The Investment Climate Advisory Services have been supporting Sub-Saharan African countries to design and implement investment climate reform programs for nearly a decade, and have scaled up their efforts significantly in recent years. The programs assist client countries to implement a range of investment climate reforms, including economy-wide reforms of aspects of business regulation, supporting international trade and investment, regional integration as well as addressing obstacles to private sector investment in leading industries, such as agribusiness, infrastructure, tourism and health. The team’s objective is to support African countries’ efforts to create a positive investment climate to increase their competitiveness and private sector investment. The Investment Climate Advisory Services are looking to fill a staff position as Associate Operations Officer to be located in Dakar.
Duties and Accountabilities:
The Officer will support the delivery of the technical assistance of investment climate reforms in the countries of West and Central Africa, a majority of which belongs to the Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law In Africa (OHADA). The officer will work under the day-to-day technical guidance of the CIC Regional Program Manager for West and Central Africa based in Dakar, with official reporting line to the Manager of Investment Climate Advisory Services for Africa based in Nairobi. The scope of activities will include the following: Advisory Services Operational Portal (ASOP) Create projects in the ASOP and advise project leaders on data completion and accuracy in the system throughout the project life-cycle. Support project leaders in the documentation of their program, and of its results measurement. Provide project leaders/Administrative and Client Support (ACS) staff with advice and guidance on filing requirements. Act as a primary point of contact for the system related issues. Address data quality issues and provide feedback to Africa Region (SSA) staff, management and HQ on the issues identified and resolutions. Educate project leaders, communications staff and other users of the system on the project life-cycle, their roles, and responsibilities as well as on how to use the system as an information source. Work with project teams to ensure appropriate filing of signed legal agreements; maintain internal database on all signed legal agreements to capture statistics on types of agreements, dates, client contributions etc. Coordinate between SSA and HQ (Project Management Unit (PMU), Corporate Business Technologies (CBT), etc.) to ensure appropriate understanding of changes in ASOP and any other relevant system enhancements. Ensure that project client information is accurately and timely entered in the Partner Panel and Due Diligence is complete. Maintain SSA Team Tab file and alert PMU of any changes/replacements for timely team updates in the ASOP. Work with PMU on identifying Relationship Managers for newly created clients in the ASOP. Portfolio Management Circulate monthly updates on SSA pipeline, active portfolio and closed projects. Prepare monthly updates on planned projects for further dispatch to donors. Alert staff on any upcoming deadlines to ensure quality of SSA portfolio data. Support regional portfolio reviews, including assisting with analysis, data quality reviews and fact-checking Work in close collaboration with the finance team and project managers to ensure budget/client contributions information is accurately recorded in IBIS. Update information on SSA projects during the post-implementation stage when needed. M&E activities Assist in coordination of the Advisory Services (AS) Supervision cycle (semi-annually) and ensure compliance of SSA with relevant deadlines. Work to ensure good understanding of the overall M&E framework requirement, including requirements such as baseline and evaluation criteria, outputs, outcomes, impacts, budgets, plans, target definitions, documentation of roles and responsibilities, risks and issues. This will ensure that staff are provided with advice when needed. Aggregate projects’ operational and investment impact results into a single file after each project supervision cycle and contribute to donor operational and other types of reports/presentations by providing aggregated data. Assist the project leaders in obtaining all data from primary sources as stipulated in the M&E plan and for their collation and analysis. The position will involve considerable extraction and computer entry of data from program generic reports. Work with the PL to ensure all program M&E documents, data, and other information required for program strategic planning and reporting are prepared and submitted on time and in compliance with the requirements of WBG.
Selection Criteria:
•Advanced degree in economics, business, public policy or related field. •Thorough knowledge of investment climate policy issues, economic, political and social facts the region. •A minimum of 5 years’ professional experience, preferably working in complex multi-sectoral teams. •Effective inter-personal skills, team player, ability to maintain excellent client and donor relations. •Prior experience in working in World Bank offices in Africa is highly desirable. •Extensive knowledge of the OHADA legal framework is desirable. •Experience in developing and managing technical assistance, advisory services, and consultancy programs. •Strong advocacy skills, ability to interface effectively with public and private sector leaders. •Work experience in West and Central Africa. •Fluent in English and French. Portuguese desirable. Women are particularly encouraged to apply.
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