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TradeMark (Trade and Markets) East Africa is an aid-for-trade organisation that was established in 2010, with the aim of growing prosperity in East Africa through increased trade. TMEA operates on a not-for-profit basis and is funded by the development agencies of the following countries: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, European Union, Finland, Ireland, Netherland...
Job summary
This is a critical leadership role in driving TradeMark Africa (TMA’s) objectives, to enhance market access by reducing barriers both to intra-Africa trade, and trade between Africa and the rest of the world. As Senior Director, Trade Environment, you will be responsible for the departments that provide TMA’s technical expertise, overseeing programme quality and ensuring that operations deliver to our Strategy 3 results. You will have oversight of three of TMA’s six technical portfolios – ensuring that trade policy and the trade regulatory environment responds to the challenges of the future, not least tackling Non-Tariff Barriers (NTBs) and positioning Africa as a pioneer in green trade; ensuring that national bodies and the private sector can respond in an agile way to formal and informal requirements from offtakers, driving harmonisation and helping exporters to navigate the financial and technical burdens of standards; and making trade processes and systems more efficient and better suited to trade through digitalisation and innovation. You will oversee direct programming, as well as ensuring that our country and regional programmes deliver best-in-class technical solutions.
Roles and responsibilities
Strategy development
Results delivery
Drive technical excellence and thought leadership
Team leadership
Corporate leadership
Academic and professional qualifications
Work experience
Technical skills and behavioural competencies
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