Job Description

DAI seeks a North Africa Regional Manager, based in Rabat, Morrocco, for an long-term role on the USAID-funded Africa Trade and Investment (ATI) Program. The North Africa Regional Manager is a key member of the program's leadership team, serving as ATI's representative in North Africa. The North Africa Regional Manager will support USAID's Middle East Bureau's ATI program in developing a presence in North Africa. S/he will establish and manage ATI's Morocco office in direct support of ATI's North Africa Mission buy-ins and the USAID Middle East Regional Bureau. S/he will serve as a liaison to USAID Missions, partners, local governments and other key stakeholders, overseeing the design and implementation of the region's various buy-ins and building multi-faceted capabilities across the ATI North Africa staff, including Activity Managers and Associates as well as other team functions.

BACKGROUND The USAID Africa Trade and Investment (ATI) Program is designed to bolster the U.S. Government's abolity to boost trade and investment to, from, and within the African continent. The continent-wide program is USAID's flagship effort in support of the Prosper Africa Initiative and will expand and accelerate two-way trade and investment between African nations and the United States. Driven by market demand, ATI embraces innovative approaches to achieve its goals. ATI is designed as a small, core set of centrally coordinated technical and institutional support activities, and a large, flexible performance-based subcontracting and grants under contract facility designed to support the needs and opportunities that USAID missions and the private sector identifiy.

OBJECTIVES AND DUTIES Manage client relationships with North Africa ATI buy-in Missions including Morocco, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt, the Middle East Regional Bureau, Prosper Africa and the Africa Bureau. Liaise with ATI Technical Directors and ATI senior leadership to develop and refine buy-in programming, including reviewing scopes of work from a financial feasibility and compliance perspective. Support budget-related negotiations with current and potential buy-in clients. Support technical decision-making, and ensure proper coordination with the Chief of Party, Technical Directors, CFO and Admin/Ops teams Supervise and manage a team of ATI Activity Managers, support staff and consultants to ensure quality delivery of the technical activities in North Africa, ensuring coordination between regional/continental activities as needed Support long-term personnel recruitment efforts, including drafting and posting scopes of work, interviewing, and onboarding/training new staff. Support the recruitment and supervision of consultants as needed. Manage all elements of local ATI presence in Morocco in coordination with the Operations Team in Nairobi. Ensure that programming integrates market-driven approaches that explicitly integrate the private sector into applicable facets of programmatic interventions, while also building in lessons learned from interventions concerning transaction advisory and blended finance programming. Work closely with Partnership/Procurement team to engage a broad spectrum of private sector actors to expand programmatic interventions. Where promising interventions are identified through pilots or other means, work with Technical Directors to replicate impact through new partnerships and engagements. Develop rapport with key local stakeholders including members of the private sector, NGOs, local government and partners Oversee the resourcing of buy-in implementation by monitoring bandwidth, portfolio breakdowns and assigning resources (LTTA and STTA) to new and existing buy-in activities, in close coordination across project leadership. Plan, assign, and direct Activity teamwork, including addressing and resolving problems. Support ATI leadership, MEL and technical teams in planning and implementation of the project workplans and M&E targets. Regularly liaise with the ATI Nairobi office team on technical updates and progress, as well as ensure coordination on operational, financial and personnel components of ATI North Africa. Support procurement and technical teams on final subcontractor SOWs and deliverable schedules, with a focus on standardizing deliverable metrics, pay-for-performance and catalytic funding contractual framing. Work with Grants Managers to design Annual Program Statements, other grant solicitation mechanisms and grant programming in line with client priorities, as well as coordinate grant management with the larger buy-in activities and identify suitable collaboration as applicable.

REPORTING: The North Africa Regional Manager will report to the Senior Technical Director - US with a dotted line to the ATI Chief Financial Officer.

QUALIFICATIONS: 10 years of prior work experience, including several years of working on large-scale ($100M+) USAID-funded development projects or related work, including buy-in project management experience Exhibited experience in working with and successfully managing mid- and high-level U.S. government clients, including navigating complex or politically sensitive initiatives in Africa and specifically North Africa. Experience identifying and developing high-level contract priorities working directly with USAID Missions and project senior leadership to capture and report out, including experience designing and managing private sector engagement strategies to facilitate investment for development impact. Exhibited supervisory experience and matrixed team management, as well as experience with recruitment and building the capacity of new and existing team members. Familiarity and/or relevant experience with the technical issues of private capital mobilization, finance and investment, USAID's private sector engagement policy and partnerships, and related development priorities such as enterprise growth, gender inclusion, and job creation. Exhibited excellence in budget, operational, and process management and command of DAI systems and policies (or more general project and business process management experience relevant to USAID implementation). Includes demonstrated experience in managing complex budgets and multi-year programs. Excellent judgment, sound problem solving and decision-making skills Ability to work in a fast-moving, fluid team setting with multiple stakeholders Professional experience working in Africa, including on-the-ground experience in North Africa Professional fluency in English, Arabic and French