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Adam Smith International is an award-winning professional services business that delivers real impact, value and lasting change through projects supporting economic growth and government reform internationally. Our reputation as a global leader has been built on the positive results our projects have achieved in many of the world’s most challenging env...
About the role
ASI’s Governance and Stability Practice is responsible for supporting the design and delivery of our work focused on strengthening governance and enhancing stability around the world. The practice covers centre of government reform, local government reform, public financial management, anti-corruption and illicit financial flows, and civil society development and education under the rubric of governance and stabilisation, countering violent extremism, countering disinformation, security sector reform, conflict reduction. We place a strong emphasis on gender and social inclusion in all of our programming and have a particular focus on the Women, Peace and Security agenda. Our work takes place in a range of fragile and conflict affected states as well as more and economically advanced countries. We work in places ranging from Pakistan and Myanmar to Iraq, Syria and Palestine, Ukraine, Georgia and Latvia, to Somalia, Nigeria, Ghana and Mali.
Assistant managers at ASI form the entry level for professional development in the company.
We are currently looking to fill an Assistant Manager role, with a principal focus on supporting the delivery of a project working across the Lake Chad Basin region:
The LCB is a region spanning parts of North East Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon. Decades of underinvestment means the region is significantly marginalised and very poor. Terrorist groups, including ISWAP and JAS, conduct attacks on local communities, aid workers and security forces in the region, predominantly in North East Nigeria. The conflict has caused widespread instability and a humanitarian crisis with 2.3 million people are displaced and 10.7 million people are in need of lifesaving assistance There have been attempts to tackle the conflict at a regional level, such as deploying troops under the Multi-National Joint Task Force, a regional force comprising troop contributions from the four LCB states and Benin; agreeing a LCB Commission (LCBC) Regional Stabilisation Strategy; and international efforts in support including the development of the Regional Stabilisation Facility (RSF).
Our project in the Lake Chad Basin programme takes a regional approach to building stability in the four Lake Chad Basin states in support of the Regional Stabilisation Strategy. The programme, as a whole, will address the threat from ISWA/JAS, combining work on security sector reform, capacity building support (training) to the regional response with stabilisation programming that responds to the structural causes of the conflict, improving security, livelihoods and access to services for vulnerable communities in the region.
Key tasks and responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
Project Management:
Nigeria Platform Management
Business development
Research business development opportunities and helping to develop opportunities into winnable pipeline, as agreed with Line Manager
Take on ad hoc, discrete and accountable roles in technical and commercial proposals and be an effective member of bid teams, as agreed with Line Manager
About you
An Assistant Manager should have the ability to build effective relationships with clients from a wide range of professional and cultural backgrounds, and to work effectively in politically sensitive and challenging environments. He/she should relish working in a team, should be innovative, energetic, positive, and genuinely committed to making a lasting contribution to the reduction of conflict and poverty.
Adam Smith International seeks the following skills and experience:
What We Offer You
We offer you a dynamic and friendly team environment and the opportunity to work on a highly successful portfolio of programmes. We have a strong commitment to our people and strive to live by our values.
We’ve built a culture to reflect our values, full of likeminded professionals who are smart, passionate and great at what they do. We have a headquarters overlooking the Thames in a central London location.
Assistant manager roles are the entry point for younger professionals seeking to develop experience in the sector. The role is suited to those who are starting out in international development and overseas professional services, and have a few years or less of relevant experience. The Assistant Manager role typically leads to promotion to a full manager position after a year, and is the gateway to taking on more responsibility for managing and designing programming and mobilising funding for new activities further on in your career.
We would love to hear from you. Please submit a CV (no more than 2 pages) and short cover letter with the subject line ‘Assistant Manager – Nigeria' to recruitment.asi@adamsmithinternational.com. Applications will be assessed on a rolling basis.
Deadline for Applications will be 26/10/2022.
Shortlisted applicants only will be contacted. Thank you for your consideration.
We are committed to equal opportunities and creating an inclusive environment for all our employees. We welcome applicants regardless of ethnic origin, national origin, gender, race, colour, religious beliefs, disability, sexual orientation or age. # We’re Happy to talk flexible working.
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