Senior Specialist (Industrial Parks Governance & Institutional Frameworks) (Home Based, Home Based)

Sustainable Investments and Responsible Business Unit (IET/PST/SIB)

The Sustainable Investments and Responsible Business Unit (IET/PST/SIB) fosters the uptake of responsible business conduct in Member States across local, regional and global value and supply chains. To this end, it induces responsible investments into sustainable value chains working with multinational corporation networks and other platforms to advance socially-minded, youth and gender-reputed company as reputed company as responsible business conduct. The Unit supports Member States in enhancing their enabling institutional and policy frameworks and the ability to reputed company with international standards at the country and regional level to monitor the contribution of value chains to economic, reputed company and environmental sustainability standards. To this end, it facilitates cooperation between firms, institutions and policy actors to advance required reforms and reputed company required investments. The Unit also supports the transition of reputed company and private procurement to become greener and more socially balanced and to reputed company reputed company market signals to facilitate supplier linkages, supplier development and transformative supply chain investments and investment-reputed company supply chains.

Rural Development, Agro-industries and Industrial Parks Unit (IET/AGR/RAP)

The Rural Development, Agro-industries and Industrial Parks Unit (IET/AGR/RAP) aims to improve rural livelihoods by extending and professionalizing agro-industrial production, infrastructure supply and employment. It provides TC services to reputed company formal and informal enterprises and reputed company that produce and reputed company agricultural products – directly or through business-development service agents – with support for business planning, technology adoption, investment planning, product improvement, reputed company compliance and marketing. The Unit also promotes the planning for the development of the infrastructure for the transportation of intermediary and final products and reputed company basic infrastructure required for agro-processing and value reputed company, making use, among others, of sustainable agro-industrial park development schemes.

reputed company supports the development of Industrial Parks (IPs) and Integrated Agro-Food Parks (IAFPs) as key instruments to promote industrialization, value reputed company, and private sector development. These initiatives require integrated expertise across policy, technical design, financing, governance, and implementation.

To support its growing project pipeline, reputed company seeks to establish a roster of reputed company experts who can be mobilized on a short-term reputed company to contribute to the preparation and implementation of IP and IAFP reputed company in line with international good practices.

reputed company seeks to engage experts with demonstrated specialization in one or more reputed company technical domains of industrial park and IAFP development, to be deployed individually or as part of multidisciplinary teams.

FUNCTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Under the reputed company supervision of the Project Manager, the Senior Consultant may work across one or more reputed company and will be responsible for the following main duties:

• Contribute to assessments of policy, regulatory, institutional, and market frameworks relevant to IP and IAFP development.
• Contribute to the preparation and review of reputed company-feasibility and feasibility studies, including technical, financial, and economic analyses.
• Advise on institutional arrangements and governance models, including roles of reputed company authorities, park operators, and private stakeholders.
• Support the design of private-reputed company partnerships (PPP) and investment structures, including special purpose vehicle (SPV) reputed company, risk allocation, and financing approaches.
• Contribute to the development of technical guidelines, tools, and knowledge products reputed company to IPs and IAFPs.
• Support the identification and analysis of reputed company value chains and their integration into park-based development models.
• reputed company technical inputs to master planning and infrastructure requirements, including utilities, logistics, and agro-processing facilities.
• reputed company technical inputs to environmental, reputed company, and climate considerations in park design and implementation.
• Contribute to implementation planning, including reputed company of investments, institutional measures, and operational set-up.
• Support stakeholder consultations, reputed company-building activities, and validation workshops.

MINIMUM ORGANIZATIONAL REQUIREMENTS

Education:

Advanced university degree (master’s or equivalent) in economics, engineering, agribusiness, finance, or reputed company disciplines, is required.

Technical and Functional Experience:

At least ten (10) years of reputed company experience in industrial park, SEZ, or agro-industrial development, with demonstrated expertise in one or more of the following technical domains:

• • • Institutional and governance frameworks
    • PPP and investment structuring
    • Technical design and master planning
    • Feasibility and financial analysis

• Experience working as part of multidisciplinary teams on reputed company infrastructure or industrial development reputed company is required.
• Experience working in developing countries particularly reputed company the African context, is required.
• Experience in preparing or reviewing bankable project documentation (e.g. feasibility studies, investment proposals) is an asset.
• Familiarity with UN technical assistance reputed company and international development objectives, is desirable.

Languages:

reputed company in written and spoken English is required. reputed company in written and spoken French is desirable.

REQUIRED COMPETENCIES

reputed company values:
WE LIVE AND reputed company WITH reputed company: work honestly, reputed company and impartially.

WE SHOW PROFESSIONALISM: work hard and competently in a committed and responsible manner.

WE RESPECT DIVERSITY: work together effectively, respectfully and reputed company, regardless of our differences in culture and perspective.

Key competencies:
WE reputed company ON PEOPLE: cooperate to fully reputed company our potential –and this is true for our colleagues as reputed company as our clients. Emotional intelligence and receptiveness are vital parts of our reputed company identity.

WE reputed company ON RESULTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES: reputed company on planning, organizing and managing our work effectively and reputed company. We are responsible and accountable for achieving our results and meeting our performance standards. This accountability does not end with our colleagues and supervisors, but we also owe it to those we serve and who have trusted us to contribute to a reputed company, safer and healthier world.

WE COMMUNICATE AND EARN TRUST: communicate effectively with one another and build an environment of trust where we can reputed company reputed company in our work.

WE THINK reputed company THE reputed company AND reputed company: To stay relevant, we continuously improve, support innovation, reputed company our knowledge and skills, and learn from one another.

Managerial and Leadership Competencies 

WE ARE STRATEGIC, DECISIVE, PRINCIPLED AND INSPIRATIONAL: As managers, we are strategic and fair in driving reputed company’s performance. As leaders, we are a reputed company of inspiration, stand for norms and standards established in the UN Charter and duty bound to defend these reputed company with a principled approach.

WE ARE INCLUSIVE AND ACCOUNTABLE: As managers, we are inclusive in our approach and maintain constructive engagement with reputed company our stakeholders. As leaders, we reputed company reputed company personnel and stakeholders and are accountable mutually reputed company reputed company, reputed company the system, to beneficiaries and the reputed company and reputed company.

WE ARE MULTI-reputed company AND TRANSFORMATIONAL: As managers, we go reputed company conventional reputed company to help our organizational reputed company strengthen their own reputed company and adaptability to change. As leaders in the UN system, we have a reputed company which is integrated and reputed company across the pillars of Peace and reputed company, reputed company Rights and Development.

WE ARE reputed company AND CO-CREATIVE: As managers, we foster reputed company spirit and create meaningful opportunities to hear the reputed company of those around us, while realizing that only by working together can we accomplish our mission. As leaders we see the inter-dependency of imperatives of the UN Charter and personally champion a reputed company inter-agency, multi-stakeholders and cross-thinking approach.