Key expert 1: Team leader

Job Description

General professional experience

• Preferably 12 but a minimum of 10 years of professional working experience.

Specific professional experience

• Preferably 7 but a minimum 5 years of professional experience as team leader and/or managerial position.
• Preferably 5 but a minimum 4 years of professional experience in managing capacity building services in the fields of social assistance or social protection or social services or social inclusion or education.
• Professional experience in design or management or monitoring & evaluation of social assistance schemes or qualitative and quantitative research in the field of social policy will be an asset.

Qualifications and skills

• Bachelor degree from economics or administrative sciences or social sciences or humanities. In the absence of a degree in these fields, minimum 10 years of working experience in social policy in addition to a bachelor’s degree.
• Excellent command of written and spoken English.
• Full computer literacy.Postgraduate degree in sociology, psychology, social services, social policy or education sciences will be an asset.

About the Organization

Founded in 1976, SOFRECO (Société française de Réalisation, d’Études et de Conseil) is an independent French company specialised in the sector of Official Development Assistance and the development of industrial projects.

In 2008, SOFRECO created a training centre devoted to business areas, the Perspective Training and Research Institute, which delivers training designed for senior management from the public and private sector. This training is provided at the premises of the SOFRECO Group in the Paris region, or in beneficiaries’ countries.

SOFRECO provides consulting (studies, technical assistance), engineering, and training services to public sector actors (international organisations including international financial institutions -multilateral funding agencies, bilateral cooperation-, governments, State administrations and local authorities, public companies) and private firms.

The SOFRECO Group employs more than 100 people at head office covering the full range of professions (engineers, project managers, jurists, economists, political scientists, etc.), of various nationalities. All have at least English and French as working languages (our teams also include Spanish-, Arabic-, Russian-speakers, among others). The project managers regularly contribute as in-house experts in the field, enabling them to combine the technical and managerial skills necessary for their supervisory position.

Roughly 100 permanent consultants work with our staff, bringing the number of permanent collaborators up to 237.

The SOFRECO Group’s expertise network (expert database) includes more than 45 000 senior and junior experts of all nationalities, covering all areas of intervention. They are selected according to the profiles specifically required for each project (expertise), but also on the basis of their interpersonal skills, with a preference for those who have already successfully worked for the SOFRECO Group. As of 01/07/2019, approximately 500 experts were mobilised in the field (including approximately 100 long-term experts).