British Embassy are hiring a Trade Adviser

Category: Department for Business and Trade roles (DBT)

Subcategory: Department for Business and Trade (DBT)

Description (Roles and Responsibilities)

Main purpose of job 

The British Embassy in Dakar is seeking out a dynamic, experienced, and enormously prompted character to sign up for our crew as Trade Adviser.

This is an thrilling time to sign up for the Embassy as Trade Adviser. The financial and business courting among the United Kingdom and Senegal has bolstered significantly in latest years and has led to a full-size boom in exchange and funding in sectors as numerous as energy, infrastructure, agriculture, mining, and telecommunications. In January, the United Kingdom and Senegal signed the primary financial Memorandum of Understanding and we’ve got a chain of excessive degree activities over the subsequent yr to deepen our collaboration.

As Trade Adviser, you’ll shape a part of a tight-knit, welcoming and pleasant Embassy and could qualitatively make stronger the crew, assisting to form and enhance the financial courting and pick out new possibilities to healthy British information and funding with wishes withinside the Senegalese public and personal sectors.

We satisfaction ourselves on being an amazing vicinity to work, with exact work/existence balance, and are devoted to a tradition which values respect, variety and inclusion and exact collaboration and communication.

Roles and responsibilities

Working across the Embassy, including with the Ambassador, the Prosperity, Climate & Development team and Team Leader, and reporting to the Senegal Business & Trade Country Director, you will play an important role in delivering on the British Embassy’s economic and commercial objectives. This includes identifying and realising opportunities for both new and existing UK businesses, and increasing trade between the UK and Senegal.

You will maintain a network of operational level contacts across government and private sectors, processing and sharing information with internal and external stakeholders, monitoring exports opportunities, and proactively contacting British businesses, ensuring an excellent quality service is provided to them.

Key responsibilities

• Engage without delay with British agencies who’ve expressed an hobby in exporting or funding possibilities in Senegal so as to assist supply their exchange and funding aims.
• Produce exact fine and distinct reviews supplying marketplace insights and quarter- or product-unique facts and analysis, charging in which appropriate.
• Engage with a mess of Senegalese Government departments, agencies, agencies, and different organisations, in any respect levels, to make certain most co-operation and
• knowledge in their modern wishes and aspirations, enticing credibly to construct sturdy and significant relationships with stakeholders and customers withinside the UK and Senegal.
• Develop a prioritised plan for key sectors and regions of possibilities for UK agencies, e.g. sustainable infrastructure, renewable energy, fintech, agritech, healthcare and schooling sectors.
• Assist in making plans and jogging Ministerial and VIP visits and exchange missions from the United Kingdom to Senegal, which include making plans programmes and logistics, in an effort to require collaboration throughout the United Kingdom Embassy and different authorities departments.
• Use present databases and structures to make certain exact recording and reporting of in-usa interactions and sports undertaken through the group operating on exchange and funding, and on demanding situations encountered through agencies buying and selling internationally.
• Collaborate with colleagues throughout the Embassy, the DBT Africa community and DBT HQ to supply objectives.
• Support the Country Director in making ready economic & exchange briefings, reviews on quarter developments, exchange statistics, analyses on boundaries to enterprise, and pipeline of possibilities to encompass in annual enterprise making plans.
• Attend numerous after paintings events, together with receptions at which many senior contacts could be present.
• As a member of the Embassy, you may be predicted to make a company contribution to the easy jogging and well-being of the embassy, e.g. through volunteering as a member of a company committee.

Essential qualifications, skills and experience

• Relevant postgraduate diploma and/or undergraduate diploma and different expert qualification.
• At least 3 years applicable expert revel in. Experience of change and/or funding paintings, with exact networking competencies and confirmed capacity to set up and hold contacts to supply development round commercial enterprise requests.
• You will want to be a self-starter with exact experience of initiative and robust verbal exchange competencies.
• Excellent drafting competencies in English and fluent written and spoken English, along a great operating understanding of French
• Be noticeably motivated, a eager hassle solver, display robust organisational competencies and be imaginitive as a reliable crew player.
• Demonstrate robust paintings ethic, capacity to paintings amid tight cut-off dates and exact expert judgment.
• Desirable qualifications, competencies and revel in
• Client going through revel in, as an example with a expert offerings commercial enterprise (handling businesses, know-how problems and pursuing techniques together).
• Experience operating at the frontier among public and personal area (attractive with stakeholders on each facets to supply commercial enterprise outcomes).
• Specific area revel in.
• Experience operating or attractive with the Senegalese Government and proof of exact understanding of public area decision-making processes.
• Knowledge or revel in of the United Kingdom and/or British businesses.

Required behaviours

Delivering at Pace, Making Effective Decisions, Managing a Quality Service, Working Together

• Application deadline: 14 June 2024
• Grade: Executive Officer (EO)
• Type of Position: Fixed Term
• Duration of Post: 6 months
• Salary: XOF 1,294,559
• Start Date: 1 July 2024

Other benefits and conditions of employment

Learning and development opportunities:

The successful applicant will have access to a wide range of learning and development opportunities both in-house and e-learning. From time to time there will be requirements to assist other teams within the Department, working with other members of the team to build overall experience through delivery of training and awareness sessions.

Additional information

• The successful candidate will be subject to professional background check and security clearance and must have pre-existing permission to work in Dakar that permits them to work at the British Embassy in order to apply
• Please complete the application form in full as the information provided is used during screening.
• Please check your application carefully before you submit, as no changes can be made once submitted.
• The British Embassy will never request any payment or fees to apply for a position.
• Employees recruited locally by the British Embassy in Dakar are subject to Terms and Conditions of Service according to local employment law in Senegal.
• Employees who are not liable to pay local income tax on their Mission salary may have their salaries reduced by the equivalent local income tax amount.

Information about the Civil Service Success Profiles can be found on this link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/success-profiles

Please note: Job grade AA=A1, AO=A2, EO=B3, HEO=C4, SEO=C5

Please log into your profile on the application system on a regular basis to review the status of your application.

Appointable candidates who were unsuccessful may be placed on a reserve list. If during the reserve period of 6/12 months the same or a largely similar role becomes available, that role may be offered to the second or subsequent candidate

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