FCDO Team Leader

Job Description

Call for Team Leaders with FCDO Experience

IESC is a leading U.S. nonprofit
organization that catalyzes private sector growth and creates economic
opportunity for people and communities. Dedicated to equitable and sustainable
economic growth, IESC helps small and medium enterprises grow, fortifies value
chains, and strengthens systems and institutions to enhance the business
enabling environment. We share proven business skills and experience with
entrepreneurs, jobseekers, businesses, farmers, cooperatives, and governments.
We also offer resources—human, technological, and financial—that sustainably
build capacity and empower communities. Since 1964, we have delivered lasting
solutions across 139 countries.

IESC is seeking Team Leaders with
experience managing Foreign Commonwealth and Development (FCDO) projects.
Technical fields of interest include trade, market linkages, enterprise
development, workforce development, market-driven agriculture, business
enabling environment, and enterprise finance and investment. Candidates will be considered for upcoming
Team Leader roles on FCDO opportunities that IESC is pursuing.

Candidates will offer in-depth
knowledge in relevant technical fields and experience managing FCDO projects.

Responsibilities

· Provide strategic
guidance, leadership, management and general technical oversight of the entire
program, with a strong focus on achieving defined results

· Act as the key liaison
with all implementing partners and stakeholders involved with the program

· Act as spokesperson for
the program and presenting its work regionally and globally

· Lead, manage, and
supervise delivery teams comprising long and short-term team members and
consortium partners

· Ensure high-quality
monitoring and evaluation of program impact and timely submission of donor
reports and deliverables

Qualifications

· Graduate degree or
equivalent in relevant technical field; bachelor’s degree with 10+ years of
experience acceptable

· Min. of 8 years of
relevant professional experience in international development, with a focus on the
technical fields listed above

· Experience leading FCDO
projects

· Prior work experience or
collaboration with private sector companies and businesses.

· Prior experience working
in emerging markets

· Demonstrated ability to
interact effectively and collaboratively with a broad range of public and
private sector counterparts and other key stakeholders

· Must be fluent in English

About the Organization

The International Executive Service Corps is a Washington, DC-based non-profit organization with a focus on private sector growth. We support and catalyze the development of private enterprises, business support organizations, financial institutions, and public institutions. For nearly 50 years, IESC has been promoting stability and prosperity through private enterprise development. We design, implement, manage and evaluate economic growth programs under contracts and cooperative agreements with organizations like the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of State as well as for private companies and foreign governments. To ensure sustainable employment opportunities, generate increases in sales, and facilitate economic growth, we provide an array of services through each of our five practice areas: - Trade and Enterprise - ICT and Applied Technologies - Financial Services - Tourism - Public Sector and Business Enabling Environment Over the years, we’ve implemented more than 25,000 short-term projects and 200 programs in 130 countries.True to our mission— Promoting Prosperity and Stability through Private Enterprise — we’re proud to have created more than one million jobs all across the globe.