SME Competitiveness Grant Scheme Expert (m/f)

SME Competitiveness Grant Scheme Expert (m/f)

Country of assignment and location

Bangladesh, Dhaka

Project / Field of activity

GIZ International Services, together with our Partner Sequa, is shortlisted for the EU financed “TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR THE CAPACITY BUILDING OF THE NATIONAL SME SUPPORT INFRASTRUCTURE AND THE PREPARATION OF THE BANGLADESH NATIONAL SME DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY AS WELL AS THE MANAGEMENT OF THE SME COMPETITIVENESS GRANT SCHEME”.

The project purpose is “enhanced competitiveness and sustainable pro-poor growth of SMEs in selected sub-sectors of the economy of Bangladesh.

The development of the SME sector requires a wide range of actions: enabling environment simplification improving access to appropriate finance and improving access to business development services. The EC SME Development Programme’s strategy is to establish a basis for a nationally planned and directed SME support system (through the development of a multi-sectoral, inter-ministerial National Strategy for SME Development and the capacity building of the Bangladesh SME Foundation). There is a need to create the basis for a sector-wide approach to SME development to permit this to be adopted in line with the EU’s commitments under the global aid harmonisation agenda.

The project therefore has two components: Component 1: Improving the national strategy and enabling environment for small enterprises in preparation for a sector-wide approach to SME Development Component 2: Introducing sustainable improvements in SME access to appropriate and affordable finance Both components will be achieved through a technical assistance project supporting the beneficiary in the development of a national SME strategy and management of the grant scheme management. There is also a small supplies contract under this component.

Qualifications

1. Qualifications and skills

• University level education in business or finance management, accounting, economics or a comparable field • Fluent in written and spoken English. • Excellent written and spoken communication skills • Diplomatic personality with good mediation and facilitation skills

1. General Professional Skills

• Highly experienced manager of complex aid programmes • Highly competent in all aspects of project cycle management.

1. Specific Professional Experience

• Ideally, the team leader will have been involved in the operation of a “Central Finance and Contracting Unit” or comparable structure handling all aspects of EC procurement and/or will have provided technical assistance to a contracting authority with the management of a complex EU development programme. • Significant experience in the management of EU grant schemes: significant in this respect means at least 3 EU grant scheme projects • Very good familiarity with PRAG and associated procurement rules and procedures. • Experience in the design and operation of project monitoring systems. • Experience in institutional capacity development and skills transfer projects. • Experience in the team leadership of at least two comparable (in terms of scale, sector and size) complex EU-funded projects.

Previous working experience in South-Asia would be an advantage

Duration:

The intended commencement date is December 2011 and the period of implementation is 72 months from this date. This would be a full-time position for 18 person-months and then intermittent 12 person-months as required over the duration of the project. Based in Dhaka but with travel around Bangladesh.

Application deadline

31.05.2011

Notes

Please submit a CV in Europeaid/European Commission format in english.

To apply, please make use of our online-application facility underhttp://www.gtz.de/en/karriere/stellenmarkt/24996.asp

Closing date: 31 May 2011 — Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)