CA Global Banking Africa Recruitment has a position for a Chief Governance Expert (Anti-Corruption) with an International Development Bank.
The Candidate will be responsible for;
- Leading, shaping and driving the Bank’s agenda on anticorruption, providing high-quality technical advise and guidance to Senior Management.
- Conduct high-level policy dialogue with Regional Countries on sensitive issues related to anticorruption in Africa.
- Be the Bank’s key spokesperson on issues of anticorruption in Africa and Bank’s response and support to address it.
- Lead the design of Bank Group operational interventions in the area of anti-corruption (AC) reforms, in conformity with the Bank Group’s Governance Policy and Guidelines, incorporating international best practices.
- Contribute to the Bank’s work on building institutions of integrity and anticorruption in the public sector in Regional Countries, with a focus on economic and financial governance, through lending and non-lending work.
- Lead Bank’s approach and support to governance and anticorruption reforms in key sectors, in particular infrastructure, working in close cooperation with relevant Bank departments and divisions as well as other bilateral donors and multilateral organizations.
- Provide high-quality policy advise to Regional Countries in the area of anticorruption, including diagnostic work to inform country reform strategies and Bank interventions
- Lead the analysis of governance and corruption challenges, including impact monitoring and assessment
- Develop operationally-relevant knowledge in the area of anticorruption, including through the systematization of information on Bank’s anticorruption work
- Develop sector specific tool-kits to diagnose, identify, and recommend programs to reduce corruption in Regional Countries.
- Coordinate high-quality upstream analytical work to enhance quality at entry of Bank operations and strengthen Bank’s knowledge base in the area of anti-corruption in Africa
- Determine and undertake the preparation of sector-based diagnostic tools, risk assessments and actions plans to fight corruption in Regional Countries and enhance anticorruption safeguards in Bank operations, in particular in key sectors of Bank’s operations (energy, transport, water, sanitation)
- Conduct institutional needs assessments, develop and implement assessment instruments.
- Initiate and lead the preparation of corruption assessments to inform Country Strategy Papers (CSP), Country Governance Profiles (CGP), and Country Policy and Institutional Assessments (CPIA)
- Provide guidance to Country and Regional Programming Departments on governance and AC policy dialogue with Regional Countries and Provide technical advise to country offices to ensure provision of quality advisory service to borrower Regional Countries.
- Provide state-of-the-art, high-level technical advise to Regional Countries on mainstreaming issues of anticorruption, accountability, transparency, and integrity into the preparation of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) and national development strategies.
- Building and manage strategic partnerships with relevant regional bodies (AU, UNECA, APRM), development partners, and international organisations in the area of anticorruption (WB, UNDP, OECD, EU, UNODC, TI),
- Developing innovative initiatives and strong synergies to harmonise donor approaches to anticorruption.
- Facilitate enhanced collaboration with bilateral and multilateral partners in joint anticorruption interventions at the national, regional or international level; and ensure participation of non-state actors in the Bank’s work on strengthening institutions of integrity and anticorruption with a focus on enhancing the demand for better governance.
- Draft Management statements, speeches and interventions, as well as technical contributions on AC issues for various fora, Bank Group reports, for dissemination in print or electronic format (including the Internet); and draft articles for publication in external publications and reports.
- Represent the Bank in national, regional, and global partnerships, networks, conferences, workshops, and training seminars on issues related to governance in general, and combating corruption through enhanced accountability and transparency in particular.
- Supervise, coach and advise more junior staff on matters related to anticorruption and possibly manage junior staff.
- Perform any other duties pertinent to the work of the department assigned by the Division Manager or the Director.
The ideal Candidate must have;
- Master’s degree (preferably a Doctoral) in public policy, public administration, political economy, development economies, public financial management or other relevant disciplines.
- A minimum of seven (7) years of relevant experience in a multilateral development institution or reputable development organization in the area of governance and anticorruption (preferably in Africa)
- Experience in managing complex development programs, including policy-based lending, budget support operations, institutional capacity building projects and non-lending activities.
- A demonstrated understanding of Africa’s governance and anticorruption challenges, in particular in the area of economic and financial governance and broad understanding of bilateral and multilateral donors approaches to governance and anticorruption
- Experience in the application of the standard Operations Project Cycle of multilateral financing institutions in promoting good governance in societies with diverse political and cultural backgrounds and development status, preferably in Africa.
- A proven ability to apply innovative approaches, work independently and apply new methods to solve problems, while remaining efficient in a fast-paced, changing and challenging institutional environment;
- The ability to build partnerships and deliver results that meet the needs and long-term interests of clients within and outside the institution; and demonstrated ability to present and win support for ideas.
- Excellent inter-personal, communications and leadership skills and analytical capacity; ability to work in a team, and to prioritize work programs.
- Competence in the use of the Bank’s standard software (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, MS Projects); knowledge of SAP highly desirable.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English or French, with a good working knowledge of the other language (knowledge of Portuguese a plus)
Please send your CV to Camilla at CA Global (Camilla @ caglobal.co.za), or visit our website (www.caglobalint.com) for further details.
Should you not hear from us within 2 weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.
