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Purpose

Contributes to the overall success of the Organizational Effectiveness COE within Global Human Resources (GHR) by building and enabling Organizational Effectiveness, Organization Design and Strategic Workforce Planning capabilities across the organization. 
The Senior Manager, Organizational Effectiveness reports to the Director, Organizational Effectiveness and works closely with key partners across GHR and business lines to advise, enable and partner on organization design and strategic workforce planning initiatives to help drive organizational effectiveness and business strategy. 
 

Key Accountabilities 

• Provide advisory and/or support on organizational design and/or strategic workforce planning initiatives for individual business units and for enterprise-level initiatives by:
  • Partnering with HR Business Partners and Business Leaders to ensure that they can apply the principles and guidelines that are foundational to good organization design and strategic workforce planning. Equip them with the tools and insights to confidently make decisions and fully understand the implications of these decisions. Provide recommendations for solutions that are thoughtful, practical and sustainable
  • Providing deep subject matter expertise in organizational design and strategic workforce planning and facilitate workshops and conversations to develop strategies and solutions that help Leaders to deliver on their mandates and optimize the way they work, utilize talent, resources and add value
  • Understanding the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture and incorporate these into organization design and strategic workforce planning recommendations 
  • Championing a customer-focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge
• Support the Organizational Effectiveness Team to continually elevate the value of the Organizational Effectiveness CoE by:
  • Developing, implementing and continuously improving Strategic Workforce Planning and Organization Design programs, processes and tools that are foundational for the Organizational Effectiveness CoE
  • Finding meaningful ways to identify and incorporate leading practices, industry innovations and thought leadership to evolve and refine our org design methodology and strategic workforce planning methodology and tools / resources 
• Build capabilities in organization design, strategic workforce planning and organizational effectiveness:
  • Support the development and implementation of strategies and activities to build capability with key HR partners and business leaders
  • Actively participate in and contribute towards the Organization Design Community of Practice sessions and content
  • Provide coaching and support as needed to HR and business partners
  • Actively disseminate knowledge and best practices to contribute to building the capabilities of the OE team 
• Drives analytics for organizational effectiveness initiatives to inform data-driven recommendations by:
  • Proactively identifying data needs
  • Managing data collection
  • Executing best-in-class analysis and providing insights
  • Validating and refining recommendations with internal partners and leaders 
• Actively pursues effective and efficient operations of his/her respective areas in accordance with Scotiabank’s Values, its Code of Conduct and the Global Sales Principles, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational, compliance, AML/ATF/sanctions and conduct risk. 
• Champions a high performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment. 

Experience / Education:

• Management consulting and/or HR strategy experience considered a strong asset 
• 3- 5 years of proven experience and knowledge in organizational design and/or strategic workforce planning engagements 
• Thrives in an ambiguous and dynamic business environment, with a proven ability to communicate complex information to a variety of audiences 
• Ability to work collaboratively and manage stakeholders across a matrixed organization 
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, extensive experience with analytical tools and ability to synthesize benchmarks and internal/external insights
• Strong communications skills (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills. 
• Provide executive-level insights, communications and materials 
• Excellent facilitation skills to develop and facilitate workshops and training sessions 
• High level of knowledge of HR systems, data concepts, structure and solutions
• Solid understanding of Scotiabank’s organizational structure
• Fluency in Spanish considered an asset 

The Automotive Finance Team at Scotiabank is experiencing a massive transformation and growth with constantly evolving digital journeys and disruptions within automotive ecosystem and financing technologies. Scotiabank is one of the top automotive finance lenders in Canada and the role will be pivotal to drive the growth forward and maintain our leading position in the marketplace through delivering innovative and top notch digital solutions for our automotive partners, business and customers.

Is this role right for you?

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to gather and understand requirements for new projects or system enhancements.
• Analyze and document current business processes and systems to identify areas for improvement.
• Translate business requirements into functional specifications and technical solutions.
• Work closely with development teams to ensure the successful implementation and integration of systems and applications.
• Conduct thorough testing of new systems and enhancements, ensuring they meet business requirements and are free of defects.
• Facilitate communication between business stakeholders and technical teams throughout the project lifecycle.
• Provide training and support to end-users to ensure successful adoption of new systems.
• Stay informed about industry trends and emerging technologies to make recommendations for continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and implement process improvements.

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role?

• 5-6 years of work experience preferred
• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Proven experience as a Business Systems Analyst or a similar role.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively interact with business stakeholders and technical teams.
• Experience in documenting business processes, requirements, and system specifications.
• Knowledge of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) and project management methodologies.
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks in a dynamic work environment.
• Familiarity with business intelligence tools and data analysis techniques is a plus.
• Relevant certifications in business analysis or related fields are advantageous.

What's in it for you?

• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyship - We strive to create an inclusive culture where every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are, and are embraced through bias-free practices and inclusive values across Scotiabank. We embrace diversity and provide opportunities for all employee to learn, grow & participate through our various Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that span across diverse gender identities, ethnicity, race, age, ability & veterans. 
• Accessibility and Workplace Accommodations - We value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. Scotiabank continues to locate, remove and prevent barriers so that we can build a diverse and inclusive environment while meeting accessibility requirements. 
• Upskilling through online courses, cross-functional development opportunities, and tuition assistance.  
• Competitive Rewards program including bonus, flexible vacation, personal, sick days and benefits will start on day one. 

Work arrangements: Hybrid
 

What is the opportunity?

The Director will head the Canadian FICC Advisory team and be responsible for providing leadership in the implementation and maintenance, within the context of RBC’s Enterprise Compliance Management Framework, of compliance programs and controls across the Global Markets business, within RBC’s Capital Markets (CM) businesses in Canada.  Product coverage includes FICC (fixed Income, listed/OTC derivatives, commodities, FX), I&TS execution desks in CM and Central Funding.

What will you do?

• Act as the Rates subject matter expert - providing transactional advice and guidance, as required
• Head up and Partner with the business to implement appropriate controls designed to detect and mitigate compliance and regulatory issues and to achieve effective management of the compliance program within the Global Markets business
• Manage the rule universe, control mapping (Tier 1,2) and trigger event analysis as part of OSFI E13 requirements for Regulatory Compliance Management
• Develop and maintain up-to-date policies and procedures and control processes to address the identified risks
• Together with the Director, Surveillance, ensure that RBC Dominion Securities has an effective monitoring program
• Schedule recurring and ad hoc meeting with Desk Heads and Business Heads to provide compliance updates and escalate risks and compliance issues, as required
• Prepare and deliver in-person training and guidance on emerging regulatory developments/issues
• Lead projects as assigned by the business, CM Compliance, Legal

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have 

• 7+ years of compliance experience in a financial institution, including a broker-dealer (ideally within a financial conglomerate) and/or Capital Markets, regulator and/or other comparable environment
• Proficient and expertise across FICC businesses
• Leadership experience and a proven track-record of success in managing a successful group
• Completion of the Canadian Securities Course and Conduct and Practices Handbook Exam
• Strong communication and presentation skills in a group setting
• A University degree (Finance, Economics, related)

Nice-to-have

• Deals with highly complex issues, projects and process
• Strong organizational skills
• Attend relevant industry events

What’s in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
• Work in an agile, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
• The opportunity to interface with senior level executives from many different parts of the organization

Job Skills

Audits Compliance, Critical Thinking, Data Gathering Analysis, Decision Making, Financial Regulation, Industry Knowledge, Interpersonal Relationship Management, Product Services, Risk Management, Strategic Thinking

The Performance Engineer provides support to the Performance Engineering Lead and/or Manager - QE, and is responsible for the execution and coordination of Performance Engineering activities within the Tangerine banking domain. Responsibilities include directly supporting Performance Engineering activities to ensure consistent testing strategy; design, execution, defect management and reporting are executed to a high standard in line with internal policies and procedures. The Performance Engineer will report directly to Manager or Senior Manager, Quality Engineering.

Is this role right for you? In this role you will:

• Directly support and execute day-to-day performance testing activities within test region and production, working with delivery teams and other areas of IT (enterprise architects, solutions architects, development) to validate performance testing and non-functional requirements
• Utilize a variety of testing techniques which support the performance and non-functional testing activities, single user profiling, spike, stress, endurance, fail over etc
• Act as key point of contact for delivery teams, and QE as a whole, across all channels supporting the creation of test scope, execution and resolution of performance issues prior to production deployment. 
• Analyzes, recommend and implement engineering suggestions to improve efficiencies and increase responsiveness of client project requirements, ensure technology is current and up to date with industry standards while maintaining established service levels
• Provide coaching and mentoring to other members of the QE and delivery teams in areas including non-functional requirements, performance testing strategy, and business domain where applicable.
• Manage and execute performance testing activities for multiple projects of varying scale; single delivery team to enterprise wide programs/projects for Tangerine that are executed in Waterfall or Agile methodology
• Ensure all test assets, execution results/analysis, sign off and closure reports are captured within JIRA
• Assess the risks associated with the development aspects of each solution/project and define a performance testing approach, making solution recommendations to development, architecture, and infrastructure where possible.
• Support continuous performance testing within CICD pipelines and support /maintain performance tests, monitoring and metrics gathering to ensure system stability and trending analysis
• Collect strategic, technical and operational test metrics across testing and production environments.  Analyze current defects and test execution trends and extrapolate data for predictive analysis
• Responsible for consolidated test reports outlining key metrics and performance KPI’s for Senior Management.  
• Work under the guidance of the Performance Engineering Lead and Manager/Sr. Manager and be a participant in discussion with vendors related to testing methodologies, tooling, resources, POCs, etc.
• Other duties as assigned

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We'd love to work with you if you have:

Education/Experience

• University or College Degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science/Engineering
• 4+ years of experience working within SDLC/TDLC
• 3+ years of testing experience specifically within the Performance testing discipline
• Proficient testing background in the Canadian financial services industry or large scale enterprise systems

General/Technical Skills

• Solid understanding of Performance test process methodologies, approaches and tools
• Ability to understand enterprise scale infrastructures and emerging technologies
• Must have knowledge of Cloud architecture and working within a hybrid environment, i.e. GCP, Azure etc 
• Experience working with Cloud based applications and techniques to validate auto scaling, component breakers, and elastic based deployments
• Working Knowledge of container technology such as Docker, Anthos and Kubernetes 
• Hands on experience in client/server side testing with a solid understanding of web and mobile applications and implementations (Native app, Angular, React etc)
• Hands on experience with Unix/Linux experience 
• Must be strong in one of the coding languages: Java, JavaScript, python etc.
• Must have strong knowledge of web services and implementing APIs (Rest/Soap)
• Sound knowledge about SQL / PL-SQL, stored procedures and SQL Server database
• Solid understanding of hardware utilization and related Garbage Collection and memory footprints
• Expertise in metrics gathering and creating graphs / reports which clearly and concisely capture and communicate performance testing analysis / results 
• Demonstrated competency with Defect / Test Management and Planning Tools such as JIRA - Xray
• Extensive experience with Performance testing and automation tools such as Jmeter, Loadrunner, Cloudtest, Selenium, Appium, Postman, RESTassured or similar
• Hands on experience with Performance engineering and monitoring tools such as SumoLogic, Dynatrace, Crashlytics etc

Professional Certification 

• CTFL, ISTQB, CSQA,CSTE good to have
• Dynatrace Associate, AWS/GCP certification nice to have

Abilities

• Ability to work independently as well as part of the larger team
• Ability to lead through influence in a face-paced environment and hold others accountable
• Ability to work and collaborate with stakeholders from different departments and organizational levels.

Attributes

• Self-starter, shows initiative, able to work with minimal supervision
• Confident in being able to extrapolate trends and make engineering recommendations from reports and test results
• Excellent organizational, communication, technical and analytical skills

The Sr. ETL  Engineer is responsible for design and development of ETL solutions to integrate with our Salesforce platform for complex business and technology initiatives. Along with providing thought leadership, navigating us through production issues and investigations, and being a key advocate of efficiency and continual improvement as we work to modernize.

Is this role right for you?

• Analyze and estimate effort for new scope and requirements

• Design and development ETL solutions on multiple complex initiatives.

• Stay abreast of modern technologies and best practices, and recommend introduction of new technology and processes 

• Act as the Subject Matter Expert and manage admin functions for ETL and Talend

• Investigate failures, perform root cause analysis, and implement fixes; utilize internal defect tracking tool to create detailed, high quality error report

• Work with product owners and test engineers to support QA processes, review test plans, test coverage and help improve test automation

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role?

• Minimum 10+  years of experience in enterprise systems

• Minimum 5+ years hands-on Talend development experience

• Knowledge of cloud integration with ETL.

• Knowledge of deployment processes and release pipelines. Eg : Jenkins, Bitbucket/Git

• Unix/AIX script experience

• ETL tool experience with Talend

• Data modeling and mapping

• Performance tuning and optimization

• SQL and database programming (Preferably DB2)

• Version control systems

Some more information you might want to know:

• Strong communication skills

• Talend Certification 

• Ability to work in cross functional teams

• Experience in agile methodologies like SCRUM/Kanban

• Experience with Talend 8.0

• Experience with Salesforce integration

• Experience with DBR Execution and Documentation, Vulnerability fixes, etc.

What's in it for you?

• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyship - We strive to create an inclusive culture where every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are, and are embraced through bias-free practices and inclusive values across Scotiabank. We embrace diversity and provide opportunities for all employee to learn, grow & participate through our various Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that span across diverse gender identities, ethnicity, race, age, ability & veterans.

• Accessibility and Workplace Accommodations - We value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. Scotiabank continues to locate, remove and prevent barriers so that we can build a diverse and inclusive environment while meeting accessibility requirements.  

• Upskilling through online courses, cross-functional development opportunities, and tuition assistance.  

• Competitive Rewards program including bonus, flexible vacation, personal, sick days and benefits will start on day one.

• Community Engagement - no matter where you choose to work from; we offer opportunities for community engagement & belonging with our various programs such as hackathons, contests, cooking with friends, Humans of Digital and much more!

Work arrangements: Hybrid

What is the opportunity?

The Associate Director, Integration will serve as a critical cross-functional leader, responsible for the pre- and post-closing activities for Capital Markets Financial Control related to the M& A integration of wholesale business operations.  In this role, you will collaborate with stakeholders from the business, risk management, operations, IT and other Finance functional areas to plan and execute integration activities.

What will you do?

• Support Senior Director and VP in setting the strategic direction for M&A integration activities for Wholesale Financial Control
• Working with relevant stakeholders to prepare and maintain a detailed integration plan
• Coordinating activities across Wholesale FC to support completion against plan and identify, elevate and address key execution risks
• Collaborate with non-FC partners, including FIT, PC, PM and head office, in successfully executing the integration plan
• Represent Wholesale FC in certain central M&A integration initiatives

What you need to succeed?

Must-have

• 3+ years of experience working in a Financial Control environment and familiarity with internal controls over financial reporting
• Ability to take ownership and drive progress independently
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders, including clearly communicating plans, progress, issues/risks and areas where support/attention is required
• Ability to work with people from different functional groups and levels
• Willingness to speak-up and ask questions, raise concerns and advocate for requirements relevant to Financial Control in cross-functional forums
• Familiarity with RBC Capital Markets businesses and products

Nice-to-have

• Accounting designation (CA, CPA, CMA).
• Experience working in Capital Markets Financial Control and/or familiarity with the systems, processes, and requirements of CM Financial Control

Job Skills

Capital Markets Knowledge, Communication, Financial Internal Controls, Leadership, Ownership Mentality (Inactive), Project Management, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder Management

The Canada Regional Alliance Manager Opportunity

Reporting to the Vice President of America’s Partner and Alliances, the Regional Alliance Manager will be responsible for owning the business strategy and cross-functional execution for Partners in the overall Canada region. Additionally, the Regional Alliance Manager will drive co-sell revenue in collaboration with Okta Sellers and Partners by creating joint account plans, opportunity management (pricing and quoting), and identifying partner opportunities within the region.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Build the overall partner business as the overall leader for partner ecosystem in Canada.

• Develop annual business plans with key Partners limited to those specific only to Canada.

• Co-own joint Marketing strategy which includes the use of Marketing Development Funds to drive demand generation through co-marketing events and campaigns.

• Own and drive the certifications, accreditations, and training strategy for your portfolio of partners.

• Work with the Okta Sales team to define GTM plans for the Okta partners in their portfolio.

• Engage and connect focused technology alliance partners in the region and enable them on the Okta value proposition and value of our integration. Leverage technology alliances partners to drive joint pipeline and closed/won business.

• Serve as the partner advocate inside Okta; evangelize partners and the opportunities they present by executing programs that help keep partners top of mind with Okta Sales leaders and AE’s to ensure key partners with unique IP and related offerings are part of any territory sales plan.

• Align partner practice to Okta products and sales plays.

• Build a comprehensive territory plan with Okta AEs to hit defined revenue goals. Use the historical data to identify both strategies and tactics which will be put into play by partner and Okta Sales.

What you’ll bring to the role

• 8+ years of relevant sales experience including a minimum of 5+ years in SaaS, IAM, and Security

• Bilingual in both English and French

• Experience in working with Solution Providers and G/SI partners in joint GTM motions

• A passion for building and establishing a partner leveraged foundation to promote accelerated growth

• A business leader who can drive influence and build strong relationships with decision-makers across all levels of partner and prospect organizations

• Up to date on the trends and market-leading companies in the broader Cloud Computing and Identity Management Ecosystem

• Ability to formulate a partnership vision, strategy, and execution plan

• Must be able to prioritize and multi-task with special attention to detail and follow-up

• Ability to run quickly with little supervision and adapt to a fast-paced, constantly changing environment

• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive meaningful change in an organization

And extra credit if you have experience in any of the following!

• Knowledge of Canada government contract vehicles

• Recent direct sales experience

• GSI or AWS specific experience

What you can look forward to as an Okta employee!

• Amazing Benefits

• Making Social Impact

• Fostering Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging at Okta

What is the Opportunity?

The DevOps Center or Excellence Team is undertaking multiple complex enterprise-wide initiatives as part of RBC’s ongoing plan to improve technology management and be a world leader. As a Lead DevOps Engineer/Technical Lead with expertise in CI/CD and Service Management, you will play a pivotal role in building software to solve complex project needs, enhance our software delivery pipelines, ensure system reliability, monitoring and improving overall service quality to ensure operational excellence. In this role you will be responsible for strategically planning and managing successful implementation of the above mentioned. You will be part of a team of DevOps engineers and work collaboratively with cross-functional teams across RBC to drive the adoption of DevOps practices, optimizing development workflows, and ensure the reliability and scalability of software applications in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

What will you do?

• Work on internal facing applications targeted towards developers across the organization.

• Build and configure pipelines that would help app teams build and deploy cloud native apps.

• Help design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve app services.

• Integrate with third party APIs and create scalable apps.

• Partner with other teams to understand user needs and contribute to delivering solutions to solve complex business problems.

• Create and maintain technical systems documentation and write concise, well-organized code and sensible tests.

• Implement end to end monitoring.

What do you need to succeed?

Must have:

• 3+ years experience working with DevOps principals, CI/CD tools i.e. Github actions, Jenkins, Circle CI and building custom pipelines etc.

• Experience working with docker and Kubernetes (Azure, OpenShift/AWS).

• 3+ years of development experience with object-oriented programming(java/groovy/python), micro services architecture, Spring Framework, Maven, etc.

• Hands on experience designing, developing, testing and troubleshooting REST APIs

• Experience with multi-threading, scaling, concurrency, caching, queuing, and distributed data storage

• Experience with message brokers (Rabbitmq, Kafka etc.), SQL(Postgres) and NoSQL databases (Mongodb, Elastic etc.) Nice to have:

• Experience with a public cloud platform i.e. Azure, AWS

• Experience working with Github actions and workflow development.

• Experience with AI to implement self healing pipelines & leveraging AI tools/LLM’s to create AI Testing as part of the pipeline.

What’s in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable

• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities

• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact

• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team

• A world-class training program in financial services

• Flexible work/life balance options

• Opportunities to do challenging work #LI-Hybrid #LI-POST #TECHPJ #RC23

Job Skills

Application Programming Interface (API), Building Architecture, Docker (Software), GitHub Actions, Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure, Kubernetes, Programming Languages, Public Clouds, Software Change Request Management, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Engineering, Software Integration Engineering, Software Product Design, Software Product Technical Knowledge, Software Release Management, System Testing Tools

Role Description

This is a full-time on-site Food Server role located in Toronto, ON. The Food Server will be responsible for providing excellent customer service to our dining guests, taking orders, and serving food and beverages. The Food Server will also be responsible for maintaining a clean and organized dining area, and ensuring that each guest has a positive dining experience.

Qualifications

• Previous experience as a Food Server or in a similar role is preferred

• Excellent communication and customer service skills

• Ability to multitask and work efficiently in a fast-paced environment

• Strong attention to detail and ability to work well in a team

• Food handler's certification is preferred

• High school diploma or equivalent

• Carry out a scenario analysis of the problem and the proposed investment. In particular, define the baseline scenario and associated baseline projects, analyse the proposed alternative scenario, and carry out an incremental cost reasoning with expected contributions from the baseline;
• Support the data collection and data analyse by providing proper methodology and relevant guidelines for national consultant in agrobiodiversity conservation, SRM (cross-compliance), LD and GIS
• Provide inputs and support to project execution in the area of agrobiodiversity, SRM (cross compliance), LD and GIS
• Prepare training content for professional staff and field staff, farmers and policymakers on relevant topics  
• Identify, diagnose and select seed management initiatives that are in progress or planned by local and external stakeholders, 
• Review and revise documents prepared by the national consultants;
• Support the preparation of content for workshops/events;
• Support the dialogue process with different stakeholders and counterparts.
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• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree(s) in economics, agriculture, natural resources, sustainable development, climate policy, rural development, or related fields.
• A minimum of 5 years of work experience in sustainable agriculture and related areas preferably in the targeted countries
• Working knowledge (level C) of English and limited knowledge (level B) of one of Arabic, Chinese, French or Spanish for Consultants; working level of English for PSA Subscribers.

The Investment Operations Specialist will work under the overall technical supervision of the Service Chief and the direct supervision of a CFI Officer, in close collaboration with the FAO Representation in the relevant country of assignment. 

Technical Focus: 

Tasks and responsibilities:

• Lead, or participate in, multidisciplinary teams to assist governments in the identification, assessment and preparation of investment operations in the fields of food security, nutrition, agriculture, rural development, natural resource management and climate change adaptation and/or mitigation, and participate in pre-appraisal and appraisal missions.
• Lead, or participates in, multidisciplinary teams for the implementation support and the preparation of final evaluation of investment operations.
• Advise governments, or provide technical expertise, in the preparation of food security, nutrition, agriculture, rural development, natural resource management and climate change adaptation and/or mitigation studies and strategies, and in the formulation of national sector and/or sub-sector investment plans and programmes. ( only for Consultants)
• Advise on developing, or support the development, of inclusive and sustainable food systems, involving producers, their organizations, other private sector actors, civil society organizations and government.
• Lead the formulation, or formulate, and delivers monitoring and evaluation, communication and capacity development strategies and activities in the areas of food security, nutrition, agriculture, rural development, natural resource management and climate change adaptation and/or mitigation, investment support to government staff, and non-state actors and private sector organizations.
• Prepare reports in accordance with government and financing partners’ requirements.
• Promote international cooperation and collaboration leading to new investment opportunities and cooperative agreements, advocates best practices and effective policy dialogue and provides technical expertise at international meetings. 
• Perform other related duties as required.

Candidates Will Be Assessed Against The Following:

Minimum Requirements:

• University degree in economics, agricultural economics, agricultural sciences, environmental sciences, agribusiness management, natural resource management, irrigation and drainage engineering, rural infrastructure engineering, communication, social sciences, international relations or a related field as appropriate for the specific profile. 
• From one to fifteen years of relevant experience in conducting agricultural/rural sector/subsector analytical studies, and/or in planning, design, supervision of agricultural and rural investment operations, including elaboration of feasibility studies and implementation of agricultural and rural investment operations in developing countries and/or countries in transition  
• Working knowledge of English, French or Spanish and limited knowledge of one of the other two or Arabic, Chinese, Russian (for consultants). Working knowledge of English, French, Spanish, Arabic or Russian (for PSAs).