Investment Policy Specialist at IESC - International Executive Service Corps

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with private sector and government stakeholders and with project colleagues to ensure optimal design and implementation of the investment policy work plan.
• Assist in gaining acceptance for the project’s approach to investment policy; Formalize the county consultative process on reform.
• Determine priority reforms and develop approaches to reform, particularly at the county level; Support implementation of demand-driven business reforms.
• Analyze and map reform to best practice; Develop economic and investment strategies.
• Design intervention to remove distortions in domestic markets in high priority counties through policy and regulatory reforms, thereby making these more competitive.
• Analyze the environment in which reforms are to be initiated and propose mitigation and promotional measures.  
• Develop a framework for analyzing existing policy, suggest reforms and regulatory changes required.
• Develop a monitoring framework for such reforms. Propose an advocacy plan for reform acceptance. Analyze reform-based constraints to female position creation and entrepreneurship.
• Develop gender opportunity strategy to ameliorate reform-based constraints; Design and test gender opportunity reform packages; Integrate gender opportunity reform packages.
• Deliver constraints/reform package awareness training; Integration of gender equity into all aspects of component activity.

Qualifications:

• Relevant graduate degree in Public Policy, MBA,  or a related field is required.
• Extensive experience in Kenya is required, particularly involving the devolution process in Kenya and/or Kenya Vision 2030.
• A minimum of 15 years experience advocating and developing policy decisions in private and public institutions for investment promotion including  experience in planning and implementing technical assistance for policy reform and institutional capacity building in a variety of sectors.
• Prior experience of working with donor projects, USAID experience is highly preferred.
• Private sector experience including strategic planning and/or financial management highly desired.
• Fluency in English is required.