Two Consultants for Financial and Private Sector Development
OPM’s Financial and Private Sector Development Portfolio is growing and works across three rapidly changing markets - financial sector development, market development and business environment reform. We are looking to recruit dynamic and talented consultants into two different roles, one focusing upon business development and a second with a focus on the monitoring and evaluation of private sector development. In both cases, consultants will be expected to immerse themselves in much more technical work than is normal in the development consultancy sector. This is the job in development for which you have been waiting!
This role will provide the opportunity to work across projects in this dynamic and diverse sector, providing technical input whilst also having the opportunity to strengthen essential consulting skills such as project management and business development.
Your key responsibilities and tasks as a Consultant
Background
We offer you exciting projects, competent and highly motivated colleagues in a unique and inspiring work place. We run a number of large impactful development programmes alongside smaller study pieces. Our flagship programmes are:
Our team has a strong background in delivering projects for a range of organisations including donors, governments and the private sector. The portfolio design, review and implement effective policies, strategies and plans in financial and private sector development. We believe our success is based on a unique combination of analytical and practical support across the policy cycle, from planning to investment options and further to impact evaluation.
FPSD is a diverse portfolio and celebrates this diversity. More than half the staff are women including several managers. Staff come from America, the Philippines and South Africa. Amongst the Europeans, there is currently an equal number of UK and non-UK EU nationals in the portfolio. In this recruitment process, we welcome applications from candidates that will further enhance our diversity.
Your qualifications
Your approach to work
Conditions for the employment
The position is full-time and based in our office in Oxford, UK, and will require work-related travel to Africa, Asia and other international locations. We offer a very flexible working environment where remote working is possible, as well as the level of travel vary from position to position.
As well as a competitive salary, OPM offer a rewarding, interesting and collaborative work environment, with excellent benefits including 30 days holiday entitlement and a good pension scheme. But don’t take our word for it, listen to what our colleagues have to say (link) !
Oxford Policy Management (OPM) enables strategic decision-makers to reduce social and economic disadvantage in low- and middle-income countries through a unique combination of high-quality analysis and more than 35 years’ practical experience in over 120 countries worldwide.
Supported by a multinational team of more than 400 specialists on four continents, our success is based on a unique combination of high-quality analysis and 30 years’ practical experience of facilitating positive change in over 120 countries worldwide. OPM’s expertise, which is underpinned by a strong commitment to capacity building, ranges from social and economic policy to public finance and management, political economy analysis and statistics.
Clients range from bilateral and multilateral organisations such as DFID, UNICEF and the World Bank through to governments, NGOs and private-sector organisations.
With offices in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, South Africa, Tanzania and the United Kingdom, we can provide our clients with rapid, local support and context-specific solutions.
If you are interested in opportunities at Oxford Policy Management, please see our careers page or email us at recruitment@opml.co.uk
What’s it like working at OPM, and why should you join our growing global organisation? Watch this video to see what our colleagues have to say.