Role Purpose: The Team Leader serves as the face of the programme, and provides the overall Managerial, Technical leadership and Project oversight to ensure successful delivery and generate impact.

Specifically, the team leader will develop strong relationships with government officials at the National and County level, implementing partners, private sector stakeholders among others.

Key Responsibilities:
Provide leadership, guidance and mentorship to the overall programme team
Develop relationships with key stakeholders to achieve programme impact
Define detailed roles and responsibilities of the Project Management Unit.
Develop and establish an effective communication strategy for the programme
Develop annual action and implementation plans.
Desired Competencies and Experience
A minimum of 8-10 years of experience leading and delivery large Urban Economic Development projects.
A relevant Master’s degree such as urban development/economics.
Proven experience managing large, multi-stakeholder projects preferably with DFID and other donor agencies.
Demonstrated previous experience supervising teams and capacity building of partners.
Excellent communications and people skills.

Application Procedure:
Interested candidates who meet the above requirements should submit their applications to include, a cover letter; and an up-to-date CV via email to: cvs@hpdafrica.com.

Please quote the job title and job code in the subject line.

The closing date for receiving applications is October 30th 2015.

Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.