Apply for National Expert on Enterprise Development -NOB (DC), Maputo, Mozambique Job Vacancy | Position

Grade: NOB

Vacancy no.: DC/MAPUTO/NO/2025/01 Publication date: 13 February 2025 Application deadline (midnight native time): 26 February 2025

Job ID: 12732 Department: RO-Africa Organization Unit: CO-Lusaka Location: Maputo Contract sort: Fixed Term

Contract period: 1 12 months

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Introduction

The ILO, with funding from the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida), is supporting its tripartite constituents in Mozambique in the direction of the creation of productive employment and first rate working situations for Mozambican ladies and men, notably youth and people residing in poverty. Applying a programs strategy, the 5-year venture goals to advertise the creation of extra and higher jobs on the nationwide and sectoral ranges, in addition to by means of capability growth help to its constituents, specifically the Government of Mozambique, Employers Organisations, and Workers Organisations.

Using an adaptive venture setup, the venture seeks to advertise employment and first rate work by means of work throughout three fundamental consequence areas, that are held collectively by the programs strategy to type one cohesive venture design:

• Outcome 1 (nationwide): The venture will help authorities and social companions to design and implement higher and extra supportive financial and sectoral insurance policies, in addition to labour market establishments, with the intention to advance employment by means of structural transformation in key sectors of the financial system.
• Outcome 2 (sectoral): In two chosen sectors, and with a geographic focus in Central and Northern Mozambique, the venture will help employment outcomes for younger ladies and men residing in poverty by selling sustainable enterprises to develop, create productive and first rate employment.
• Outcome 3 (cross-cutting): To allow sustainable and lasting outcomes at each the nationwide and sectoral ranges, the venture will capacitate ILO’s tripartite constituents in addition to related stakeholders at nationwide, provincial, and native ranges to permit them to advertise productive employment and first rate work by means of employment insurance policies and enterprise growth in key sectors.

At the sectoral stage (consequence 2), utilizing a market programs growth strategy, the venture will promote a sustainable enterprise growth and productive creation for Mozambican ladies and men residing in poverty notably within the nation’s Northern Provinces in addition to within the Beira hall. The interventions will include Market Systems Development (MSD) initiatives with a spotlight on creating sustainable enterprises by addressing system bottlenecks and bettering supporting capabilities on the one hand. On the opposite hand, the interventions will focus on bettering insurance policies, guidelines and laws within the sustainable development and forestry/wooden processing sectors

Reporting traces

Under the general duty of the Director of ILO Country Office for Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique, the National Expert on Enterprise Development will report instantly and obtain steering from the Chief Technical Adviser (CTA) of the venture.

The National Expert on Enterprise Development will work carefully with the Market Systems Development (MSD) Expert within the design and implementation of the initiatives’ consequence 2 interventions.

Description of Duties

1. Support the design and implementation of the interventions, outputs and actions beneath the venture’s consequence 2, “Sustainable enterprises develop, create productive and first rate employment, with related venture companions and beneath the steering and in coordination with the MSD Expert

2. Support the venture Results Measurement and M&E knowledgeable and the venture workforce, within the growth of measurement indicators and knowledge assortment strategies to observe and make suggestions for steady enchancment.

3. Ensure the supply of high quality technical inputs, together with qualitative and quantitative analysis in keeping with ILO core conventions on elementary rights at work.

4. Represent the venture/workplace in technical conferences as assigned by the venture CTA.

5. Facilitate coaching and consciousness creation workouts among the many policymakers, programme/venture managers and different technical employees of ILO’s implementing companions; in addition to manage seminars, workshops, coaching classes and conferences for the venture and for venture implementing companions.

6. Assist in growing methods to mainstream gender and environmental points within the venture, guaranteeing gender views and environmental concerns are central to all of the actions throughout the implementation section of the venture.

7. Liaise with venture companions to extend the venture’s visibility and facilitate the scaling-up of the venture’s interventions by means of the manufacturing of visibility supplies, documentaries, stories/briefs amongst others.

8. Contribute to the drafting of Implementation Agreements, Service contracts, grant agreements, periodic and advert hoc stories on the standing of venture planning and implementation and the ILO technical help interventions to the constituents in Mozambique.

9. Review and analyse nation particular growth plans and priorities, socio-economic knowledge, stories and different related data associated to the venture; and contribute artistic concepts for programme/venture growth.

10. Any different related duties as requested by the CTA.

Required {qualifications}

Education

First stage college diploma in social sciences, growth research or some other related subject.

Experience

At least three years {of professional} expertise on the nationwide stage within the space of enterprise growth together with programme coordination, venture administration and/or venture implementation of donor funded initiatives. An added benefit will embody demonstrable information in worth chain growth or market programs growth.

Desirable: substantial expertise in partaking with ILO’s tripartite constituents and UN companions in Mozambique within the context of venture implementation or capability constructing workouts.

Languages

Excellent command of English and dealing good information in Portuguese (written and spoken).

Competencies

• Good information of socio- financial growth, together with labour and employment traits and of the mandate and construction of labour market establishments, in Mozambique
• Good understanding of the native financial context, entrepreneurship and/or worth chain and market programs growth emrwcY4 BIpnb
• Good analytical expertise, and talent to conceptualise, plan, coordinate and conduct actions in line with the venture’s aims.
• Ability to keep up efficient working relationships with key stakeholders.
• Ability to arrange trainings and workshops and coordinate venture actions and implementation with venture companions
• Clear dedication to mainstream gender into venture actions.
• Ability to conduct action-oriented analysis and write analytical technical stories, in English and Portuguese
• Excellent written and verbal communication expertise, together with the flexibility to efficiently advocate and mobilise motion, in English and Portuguese.
• Ability to work in a multicultural surroundings and gender-sensitive behaviour and attitudes are additionally required. Ability to work beneath time stress, handle a number of duties and work streams and meet deadlines.
• Proficient in fundamental laptop software program (Microsoft Word, Power Point, Excel, web-browsers and database functions, amongst others).
• Proven capability to take possession of all tasks, to behave with integrity and transparency by sustaining social, moral and organisational norms, and to fulfill all commitments inside the prescribed time, price and high quality requirements.

Assessed candidates who might be thought-about as appointable however not chosen for this place can be provided to be assigned on one other non permanent place on the identical or at a decrease grade supplied that stated candidates possesses the minimal {qualifications} for this place.

Recruitment course of

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