We are inviting applications for employment as:

Contract Negotiators and Project Managers

Basic requirements include

· Experience in negotiating partnership agreements in the UK or Overseas
· Experience in managing community based projects in the UK or Overseas
· Ability to communicate in English and another overseas language
· Readiness to live a minimum of 3 months annually in a foreign country
· Minimum of first degree or equivalent.
· Experience of living in at least one community in the UK

Remuneration

General Job Description

Job Summary

Running a business unit with an annual turnover of not less than £50,000 in twinning businesses/services that deliver social and economic improvements at grassroot levels - and also bring capital resources to the Institute;

Connecting the business to the sources and development objectives of current international aid to one overseas country on the one hand and human rights education on the other.

Job Details

i) Tracking policy interests in regional or country growth as well as international aid and grants meant for community-based or sector-development projects in one overseas country

ii) Initiating, organising and attending formal and informal meetings/sessions with various inter-governmental representatives/bodies in the overseas country and the UK who award/allocate grant-aid contracts; selling the Institute's development-work niche/expertise (e.g. working through partnership or service delivery agreements with well established local interests). Applying appropriate local language in discussions where appropriate; applying local custom where appropriate - but making official reports in English language.

iii) Ensuring the Institute's development-work niche/expertise adopted by the Institute's business executive team is highlighted in the final policy document of relevant agencies/representatives for awarding contracts that are of business interest to the Institute.

iv) Making bids out of the resultant business opportunities, and marketing some of the awarded contracts to potential clients or community-based sub-contractors

v) Identifying appropriate business services attractive particularly to social entrepreneurs across UK/Europe who have a medium-range industrial or commercial experience and who are seeking to obtain social development contracts in other overseas countries; working out levels of services, agreements or partnerships with local people;

vi) Feeding costing and other related information to the executive business team of the Institute who then check out or re-assess the final contract proposals

vii) Taking the contract reviews from the Institute's executive team to clients or community-based sub-contractors - and negotiating a service contract with cost-effective outcomes on the part of the Institute

viii) Reporting details of the service(s) agreement between the Institute and the clients to the executive business team of the Institute for the register and also for monitoring

ix) Once field activity begins, ensuring that relevant skills from contracted organizations carrying out grant-aid projects are shared or passed on into the local community's expressed interests - to fulfill an identifiable social objective. For example, applying appropriate means to link the contract delivery/operations to community benefits such as fostering skills for the local people, raising the purchasing power of the people, improving the standard of living, or/and attracting development capital into the locality, having a share or significant representation in businesses that arise out of the contract delivery, advancing education in civil rights and social responsibilities.

x) Where necessary, organizing short-term local (cost-effective) projects in human rights and social care as part of completing a contracted service

xi) Producing quarterly reports of the Institute's business activities which the employee is responsible for - in a format approved by the executive business team

xii) Completing quarterly and annual returns for accounting and audit purposes

xiii) Producing a list with relevant details of inter-government offices/officers as well as organizations, agencies, entrepreneurs, and representatives who have been involved in the business(es)/contract(s). Submitting to the Institute's executive business team for monitoring, evaluation, and quality assurance purposes - and also for further business applications.

xiv) Identifying (preferably from the on-going activities in the job) between 15 and 25 key entrepreneurs or organizations in both UK and the overseas country - with whom the Institute may organize further/future business arrangements. Providing their details, including their respective specialization or professionalism.

xv) Guiding the Institute's executive management team to apply positive outcomes that have been achieved - to obtain further service-level contracts in community-based, urban, social renewal, or sector-development projects directly from governments.

xvi) Reporting to the International Director of the Institute as required or necessary.

HOW TO APPLY

Complete the attached application form, and forward it to us - as the first step.

We shall contact you after that, to arrange an appropriate interview.

PLEASE NOTE

A] Details of job description may be amended in the interest of business and security, in consultation with an employee.

B] Applicants who do not get job positions may be offered one of the following (based on mutual understanding):

i) Community Development Research, Studies, or Projects

ii) Short Term Work Placement or Long Term Work Experience

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