Vacancies at Trade Mark East Africa

Responsibility

• The Programme Manager of trade Facilitation will support the Director of West Africa & AfCFTA and the trade and Customs Director in coordinating the alignment of trade policy and facilitation practices and goals to TMA’s strategy and ensuring that trade facilitation is streamlined in all aspects of the relevant TMA’s projects and interventions in West Africa.
• He/she will ensure the establishment of clear linkages of trade facilitation to organizational objectives at both the national and regional levels.
• The position will involve the provision of technical and operational support to border agencies in the implementation of trade facilitation initiatives such as, but not limited to Integrated Border Management (IBM), Authorised Economic Operators Schemes (AEOs), Authorised Supply Chains (ASC), Trade Procedures Re-engineering, Training, and Capacity Building, among other instruments under the World Customs Organisation (WCO) Safe Standards Framework. S/he will support the Director in formulation, review, and implementation of trade policy instruments including trade barriers, trade remedies, and tariffs frameworks.
• Other aspects of the position will involve leading and coordinating TMA’s implementation of trade facilitation and customs arrangements emerging from trade agreements such as the World Trade Organisation Trade Facilitation Agreement (WTO TFA), AfCFTA, and WCO, among others.

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Responsibility

• Working closely with the Director-West Africa & AfCFTA, and Director-Inclusive Trade, the Programme Manager will be responsible for the implementation of the TMA gender strategy for West Africa in line with TMA’s corporate strategy.
• S/he will provide technical and operational support to TMA’s country and regional programmes in the implementation of TMA’s Gender and Inclusion strategies focusing both on mainstreaming and targeted approaches.
• The Gender manager will ensure that commitments are well articulated, incorporated into all programming (as relevant), measurable and delivered. S/he will play a key role in the effective integration of gender/ youth/ persons with disability and other marginalised groups issues in TMA corporate policies, systems, and operations.
• This role requires close collaboration with other units in TMA such as Results, Regional and Country Programme teams, implementing partners and the human resource department as the front-line implementors of the gender and inclusion work within the organisation.