Reference Number DBS200629-1
Job Title SDIP Africa Hub Lead (Fixed Term Contract Position for 12 Months)
Job Grade 18
Job Type Classification Contract
Location - Town / City Midrand
Location - Province Gauteng
Location - Country South Africa
JOB DESCRIPTION
The role of the SDIP Africa Hub Lead is to play a multifunctional role in catalysing the further development of the Hub and support the development and implementation of regional strategic activities that enable the Hub to promote public-private approaches to address regional development finance challenges at scale. Reporting lines and interactions The SDIP Africa Hub Lead will be based in Johannesburg since the position will be hosted by the Chair of the Africa Hub, the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA). The SDIP Africa Hub Lead will report to the Head of SDIP, based in Geneva with a dotted reporting line to the DBSA Group Executive: Client Coverage. In the region, the SDIP Africa Hub Lead will work with the colleague seconded to the Hub secretariat and have close interactions with the African Hub team. Externally, the SDIP Africa Hub Lead will interact with a broad range of stakeholders, including financial and insurance institutions, institutional investors, asset managers, grant-making foundations, as well as with governments and multilateral organizations. The SDIP Africa Hub Lead will be expected to support relevant initiatives of the World Economic Forum in the region.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Lead on the development and ensure delivery of the Hub’s annual strategy and workplan, as approved by the Africa Hub Steering Group and in collaboration with the resources and the colleague seconded to the secretariat by Hub members;
2. Ensure alignment between the Hub strategy, the global SDIP strategy and members’ interests;
3. Develop scale-up plans for regional activities in support of the SDIP global efforts, including in the area of regional responses to the socio-economic impacts caused by the COVID-19 crisis;
4. Ensure effective involvement and participation of the SDIP Africa Hub Steering Group, and broader membership base; work with senior executives and government officials to engage them in the Hub’s activities, contribute to community management, and facilitate calls and meetings and supporting materials as necessary;
5. Drive the Hub’s business development and establish strategic relationships in the region that can support the Hub’s activities, including in physical and social infrastructure and thematic areas such as agriculture, oceans, forestry and plastics;
6. Develop and bring forward a funding strategy that secures the Hub is financially sustainable;
7. Provide reporting on the Hub to the SDIP secretariat and develop communication materials, including on the progress of the Hub for the SDIP annual report;
8. Run country workshops, and arrange for the convening, management and facilitation of calls, meetings and events.
Key Measurements and outputs
1. Ensuring the Hub’s objectives and deliverables are met;
2. Ensuring members are actively engaged, and the Hub provides a clear value proposition;
3. Establishing the Hub as a regionally recognized, leading platform for action to mobilize financing for sustainable development;
4. Mobilizing the necessary (additional) funding and resources for the Hub secretariat and activities implementation.
Key Internal DBSA
Liaison Relationships
1. Head: SDIP
2. GE: Client Coverage
3. CEO & Managing Director
4. DBSA Front-line & Middle Office Divisions
5. DBSA Board
Key External Liaison Relationships
1. Head: SDIP
2. Financial and Insurance institutions
3. Institutional Investors
4. Asset Managers
5. World Economic Forum
6. Chair of the African Hub
7. African Hub Steering Committee
8. Grant-making foundations
9. Governments
10. Multilateral organizations
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Expertise & Technical Competencies
Minimum Requirements
1. Bachelor’s degree in a field related to business development, public relations, international relations, finance and/or project management/operations
2. 10 years of professional experience, ideally in public affairs, with proven people leadership capabilities related to sustainable business strategy, international stakeholder engagement and partnership building
3. Demonstrable experience with working in an international and multicultural environment, with knowledge in raising funds for, as well as building and delivering innovative and effective global public-private partnerships
4. Strong regional network with proven track record in spearheading new ideas or business operations and securing buy-in from a diverse group of stakeholders
5. Solid understanding of investing concepts, with an interest in development or SDG finance
6. Excellent communication, interpersonal and networking skills; be a positive and hardworking team player
7. Perfect command of written and spoken English; Possess strong command of Microsoft Office applications and digital communication tools
8. Outstanding organization, project and time management skills; professional event planning experience is a plus
9. Demonstrated ability as a quick learner, self-starter, entrepreneurial, flexible and service-oriented, team player
10. Proven ability to work in a highly demanding environment and able to juggle multiple priorities
11. Ability to travel for business extensively in and out of Africa.
Desired Requirements
1. Fluency in another language with relevance in Africa, such as French or Portuguese.
2. Candidates currently based in Johannesburg
TECHNICAL
Business Acumen
1. Thinks and plans in future-oriented terms.
2. Develops annual business plans that take into account longer-term activities, issues, problems or opportunities.
3. Develops and establishes broad scale, longer-term objectives, goals or projects (e.g., affecting a business, department, or organisation).
Strategic Planning
1. Ability to analyse business trends, implications and options to devise holistic and long-term strategic plans as well as execute the required change is essential to meet objectives and future goals.
2. Develops long-term objectives, strategies, and goals. Orients to longer terms than day-to-day activities; determines long-term issues, problems or opportunities. Develops and establishes broad scale, longer-term objectives, goals, or special projects.
3. Develops a business strategy; assesses and links short-term, day-to-day tasks in the context of long-term business strategies or a long-term perspective; considers whether short-term goals will meet long-term objectives.
4. Ability to analyse complex economic trends and their impact on organisational strategy.
Solutions Focused
1. Identifies complex problems based on a broad range of factors, many of which are ambiguous or difficult to define.
2. While remaining guided by organisational values, identifies optimal solutions, thinking first in terms of possible approaches and flexibilities in the system vs. blind adherence to rules or procedures.
3. Evaluates the effectiveness and efficiency of solutions after they have been implemented and identifies needed changes.
Project Management
1. Defines, plans and manages large and/or strategic projects, including those with a high degree of technical complexity, with impacts across the organisation and/or with national implications.
2. Assembles and leads diverse and multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring maximum effective resource utilisation.
3. Successfully manages substantial project budgets and reports directly to senior managers on the progress and results of projects.
4. Identifies complex issues that need escalation and proposes appropriate corrective actions.
Planning & Organizing
1. Coaches others on advanced planning and organising skills.
2. Plays a role in transferring advanced planning and organising skills and knowledge to others.
3. Identifies and acts on opportunities to partner with other units in the department to achieve desired results.
4. Develops partnership agreements that ensure win-win outcomes for all parties. Develops integrated plans for the work unit and others that interfaces with the function’s budget.
Reporting & Communication
1. Designs, reviews and improves reporting processes and provides guidance.
2. Leads production of complex reports, takes an editorial role, determines content and level of detail, and ensures consistent messaging and branding.
3. Is relied on by others to help them write complex technical and non-technical documents and briefs. d. Is able to determine which aspects of this knowledge area need to be transferred to others in order to achieve organisational goals.
4. Able to communicate complex problems or concepts, by making them simple and understandable for others.
5. Adapts language to the level of the audience in order to ensure that the message has a positive impact and is interesting to the audience.
6. Is articulate, demonstrates a wide range of vocabulary, and is confident when talking to large/high level audiences.
Presentation Skills
1. Can reinforce key presentation points with examples.
2. Is able to translate technical terminology into language understandable to the audience.
3. Has insight into the audience’s behavior and motivation and responds appropriately and professionally, adapting communication style as appropriate. Knows how to deliver arguments persuasively by employing a range of advanced presentation techniques (e.g. the appropriate use of body language, how to close a presentation so that the audience continues to think about the subject matter etc.).
4. Has knowledge of various feedback mechanisms to check levels of audience understanding.
Required Personal Attributes
LEADERSHIP/BEHAVIOURAL
Leading & Empowering Others
1. Identifies long-term goals for the team and communicates them to team members, ensuring their buy in.
2. Sets a good example by personally exercising desired behaviour; acts on values and beliefs.
3. Communicates a vision for the team and future success that inspires team members.
4. After assessing others’ competence, delegates authority and responsibility to others to do a task in their own way.
5. Ensures that competent employees are given opportunities to further their careers.
Leading & Managing Change
1. Anticipates the need for change when not obvious and influences others to gain support. Builds sustainable business and organisational capacity to embrace and thrive on change.
2. Re-engineers and aligns structures, processes and practices to support and sustain the desired change.
Strategic & Innovative Thinking
1. Understands connections and trade-offs of strategic choices to evaluate which ideas are practical and possible by considering business and/or scientific implications.
2. Develops innovative business and/or customer solutions that shape industry practices.
Teamwork & Cooperation
1. Acts to promote a friendly climate and good morale and resolves conflicts.
2. Creates opportunities for cross-functional working.
3. Encourages others to network outside of their own team/department and learn from their experience.
Developing Others
1. Gives specific positive or mixed feedback for developmental purposes.
2. Gives negative feedback in behavioural rather than personal terms.
3. Reassures and/or expresses positive expectations for future performance when giving corrective feedback.
4. Gives individualised suggestions to individuals for their improvement.
Driving delivery of results
1. Identifies and implements a business opportunity that will have a long-term impact on the business (which may include the organisation’s reputation or brand image). Monitors progress and adapts the plan if necessary, to ensure optimal benefit to the business.
2. Makes decisions, sets priorities, or chooses goals on the basis of inputs and outputs: makes explicit considerations of potential profit, return on investment, or cost benefit analysis.
3. Based on the cost-benefit analysis, makes decisions of entrepreneurial risk nature.
Decisiveness (High Performance, Service Orientation)
1. Makes timely decisions about complex issues even when some information is missing.
2. Makes decisions and stands by them even when they are controversial or unpopular. Grasps critical business opportunities when they arise by making timely decisions.
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