Team Leader

Job Description

Program Background

The Solomon Islands Infrastructure Program (SIIP) is a flagship 10-year infrastructure program funded by the Australian Government. The program intends to improve the quality and accessibility of economic infrastructure across the provinces, delivering outcomes that contribute to broad-based, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth. It will focus on areas such as transport (land, sea, and air), ICT, electricity, water and sanitation, and infrastructure that supports rural development.

Five guiding principles form the foundation of the program and drive decision-making. These are:

1. Alignment: with Solomon Islands’ and Australian development objectives, with support provided in a way that does not displace other sources of public or private infrastructure investment.
2. Inclusivity: all activities will integrate considerations of gender, disability, and geographical spread (rural/provincial).
3. Strengthening climate change and disaster resilience: through integrated approaches to infrastructure planning, design, and delivery, including through-life-cycle cost assessments.
4. Local content: supporting infrastructure delivery that optimises returns for the local economy, strengthens local industry, improves industry practices, and enhances workforce capacity and participation.
5. Safety and quality: strengthening policies and practices, and providing tangible examples of quality construction, building standards, safe-use of infrastructure, environmental and social safeguards, and whole-of-life maintenance.

The Role

The Team leader will be highly motivated and an experienced individual with the ability to work closely with the Steering Committee, SIG and DFAT to lead the program. They will have a comprehensive understanding of international development program implementation, preferably with an infrastructure and/or policy reform focus. They will have extensive leadership and people management experience, including substantial leadership experience on development projects.

The Team Leader will provide strategic leadership to the program, drive key partner agency engagement and coordination, and facilitate the strengthening of the Government of Australia and Solomon Islands Government partnership. The Team Leader will ensure collaboration and coherence across the program enabling identification and seizure of opportunities for impact and provide astute and timely insight and advice to DFAT.

• Provide strategic leadership and oversight of Program scope, ensuring Program activities align with the Program goals, SIG priorities and DFAT direction and Head Contracted standards.
• Proactively develop and deliver partnerships and strategic initiatives in a close collaboration with DFAT and SIG partners.
• Provide effective leadership and management of the SIIP Program Team and delivery partners to ensure coordination and coherence across workstreams and ensure high performance standards.
• Proactively mitigate and/or manage emergent issues and risks as they arise, in close consultation with DFAT.
• Ensure the Program performance meets the agreed Performance Framework, as agreed with DFAT on an annual basis.
• Ensure review, quality assurance and on-time delivery of SIIP deliverable, output, and outcomes.
• Ensure program delivery in accordance with applicable DFAT policies and standards.
• In accordance with the MEL planning documents, ensure regular, ongoing review and reflection of the program’s progress towards its goals and intermediate outcomes, and ensure MEL findings are incorporated into the SIIP delivery approach on an ongoing basis.
• Ensure effective and efficient working relationships with SIG and DFAT are maintained.
• Direct programmatic policy dialogue, relationships management, and stakeholder engagement with DFAT, national counterparts, development partners, the private sector and civil society.
• Ensure effective public diplomacy communications and representation with external stakeholders
• Provide technical strategic advice to DFAT relating to design and implementation of Program activities, engagement with the Solomon Islands infrastructure sector, recruitment and provision of technical assistance and other program activities.
• All other responsibilities as outlined in the Terms of Reference

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About You

Selection Criteria

Applicants: please respond to the below essential criteria in your application.

• Tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline.
• Proven experience in a senior management role, with core competencies in effective management, capacity building, and coordination of multidisciplinary and multicultural teams.
• Demonstrated ability to meet performance frameworks and demonstrated performance management capability.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with proven ability to; develop and maintain effective relationships with multiple government and private sector stakeholders and provide strategic advice.
• Demonstrated analytical and conceptual skills to identify complex issues and risks, anticipate barriers and create practical solutions.
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.

• Thorough understanding of, or ability to develop an understanding of, the current Solomon Islands political economy.
• Practical and conceptual knowledge of the infrastructure sector and development challenges in the Pacific.
• Experience responding to cross‐cutting development issues in infrastructure, including gender equality and disability.
• Practical and conceptual knowledge of planning and financing of national infrastructure in developing countries.

Remuneration

A competitive executive remuneration is on offer including allowances and incentives.

HOW TO APPLY
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Please submit
1) Your CV
2) A cover letter addressing the selection criteria

APPLICATIONS CLOSE : 5 February 2023, 17h00 AEDT

Should this role be of interest, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible. Kindly note only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.

DT Global is committed to child protection and safeguarding the welfare of children in the delivery of our international development programs. We are committed to Safety and the Prevention of Sexual Abuse and Harassment (PSEAH), and bribery prevention. DT Global is an equal opportunity employer and we encourage women, men, people with diverse backgrounds and people living with disabilities to apply. This program is funded by the Australian Government and Managed by DT Global.

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