United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Manager, Private Sector Development Team - London

Organization: Adam Smith International
Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Closing date: 19 Feb 2015

Vacancy type: Permanent position

Location: London with extensive travel (50%)

Service areas(s): Private Sector Development

About Us

Adam Smith International is an award-winning professional services business that delivers real impact, value and lasting change through projects supporting economic growth and government reform internationally. Our reputation as a global leader has been built on the positive results our projects have achieved in many of the world’s most challenging environments.

About the Private Sector Development team

Private Sector Development is one of our core areas of expertise. We specialise in the design and implementation of programmes that adopt a market systems approach (often referred to as “Making Markets Work for the Poor”), and work on numerous projects related to agriculture, public-private dialogue, business environment reform, business for development, and trade across the world.

About the role

The Manager will be based in London and extensive travel to the field is required (50%). Specific responsibilities include:

· Provide financial oversight of interventions including maintenance of a resource burn-rate, an accurate financial forecast and provision of other management reports;

· Ensure the project milestones are met and project deliverables completed on time and to a high standard

· Managing key stakeholders and building and developing client relationships;

· Support technical and project management teams in the planning and budgeting of interventions;

· Ensure MS Project plans are maintained effectively and that they feed into a master plan;

· Maintain a milestones dashboard and an issues and risk register. Effectively elevate concerns;

· Maintain a resource plan and inform senior management of resource requirements;

· Contact potential project consultants and negotiate terms;

· Support implementation of interventions including logistics and administration, financial management, organisational development, reporting, recruitment, and contracting;

· Support quarterly and annual reporting on interventions.

About you

· A postgraduate degree in economics, political science, international development, business management, or other relevant field from a top-tier university;

· A minimum of 3 years work experience in a blue chip consultancy, development, or a relevant field;

· Demonstrate a track record of successfully delivering complex multi-year projects and business development

· Be willing to travel;

· Demonstrated experience of using initiative, client-orientation, risk taking, and working in complex and time-pressured contexts;

· Outstanding written and spoken English;

· Enthusiasm, flexibility and a strong attention to detail;

· Excellent communication, inter-personal, and team-working skills; and

· A demonstrated interest in economic development, particularly in developing countries;

· You must be eligible to work in the UK.

What We Offer You

We offer you a dynamic and friendly team environment and the opportunity to work on a highly successful portfolio of programmes. We have a strong commitment to our people and strive to live by our principles:

· Take responsibility (Accountability)

Individually and collectively accountable for what we do.

· Always find a way (Resourcefulness)

We think innovatively to reach a solution.

· Promote Quality (Excellence)

We maintain and promote professional standards in everything we do.

· Commit to the Outcome (Achievement)

We take pride in delivering our best to achieve results

We’ve built a culture to reflect our principles, full of likeminded professionals who are smart, passionate and great at what they do. We offer a highly competitive compensation package and excellent benefits.

How to apply:

Heard Enough? Ready to Apply?

We would love to hear from you. Please submit a CV (no more than 3 pages) and short cover letter to recruitment@adamsmithinternational.com with a subject line of “Manager PSD”. You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this position. Shortlisted applicants only will be contacted. Thank you for your consideration.