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• Increased market
  access;
• Enhanced trade
  environment; and
• Increased product
  competitiveness.

• Manage and co-ordinate the work of monitoring and evaluation
  (M&E) consultants, with the programme’s priority beneficiaries
  (government institutions, private sector and civil society organisations)
  in establishing M&E systems. This will include providing support in
  gathering/development of baseline data, indicators of success, targets,
  results chains and M&E plans with a view to extending similar support
  to all TMEA partners.
• Assist partners in developing time-bound work plans for their
  projects / programmes. Those work plans will be the basis of their funding
  agreement with TMEA and the basis for the development of monitoring
  frameworks.
• Work with the implementing partners in the collection and
  submission of required reports and data on the progress of M&E plans
  and activities.
• Offer oversight and support to the consultant M&E team and
  country office team on M&E plans and processes.
• Liaise closely with the TMEA Regional M&E team on
  implementation progress, preparation of periodic reports and review of new
  proposals and lessons learnt, with a view to ensuring consistency and
  complementarity between the national and regional TMEA offices.
• Regularly update progress of projects on the Results Management
  Information Systems (RMIS), including providing staff training and support
  to the country team.
• Steer the M&E process forward together with the consultant,
  integrate it within the country programme systems, and engage on the same
  with key stakeholders.

• Supervise the country programme’s corporate communications budget
  to ensure sound impact and value for money (VFM).
• Participate in developing content on projects, partners,
  activities and sponsorships for the TMEA website and ensure regular update
  of the same.
• Liaise with the TMEA Communications team to develop “common-man
  stories” on country programme projects, write press releases on key events
  and share these with the national and/or regional media sphere.
• Ensure quality reporting of project launches in widely consulted
  media through developing strong relationships with press.
• Offer support to the organisation of internal and external events
  and coordinate reporting of these in the media and to other TMEA offices.
  This will involve providing administrative and logistical backstopping
  including material production and database management among others.
• Liaise with the TMEA Communications team to organise internal and
  external events and media trainings.

• Take lead in the regular production of knowledge materials
  including publications, policy and research studies, economic research
  papers and briefs.
• Coordinate work with consultants on setting up a national knowledge-sharing
  platform, possibly hosted/managed by the country programme, to ensure
  sharing of research papers between interested parties at national and
  regional levels.
• Create a library of all necessary information on national context,
  projects and implementation progress towards EAC integration to be managed
  by TMEA.
• Organise regular learning events with partners.
• Develop strong relations with regional office to ensure
  coordinated knowledge management.
• Organisational positioning

• The prospective applicant should hold an undergraduate
  degree in social sciences, communication, business administration,
  development studies or related field.
• Additional professional qualifications in
  project management, M&E or communications will be an added advantage.
• A minimum of three years’ experience in
  managing and coordinating monitoring and evaluation, knowledge management
  and communications activities.
• Good understanding of the project management
  cycle from start to finish.
• Excellent written and oral communication
  skills.
• Language proficiency in English
• Excellent team-working and inter-personal
  skills with the ability to build good working relationships.
• Possess the ability to handle multiple tasks
  and provide regular feedback on progress.
• High sense of initiative, creativity and
  enthusiasm.
• Strong planning and organisational skills,
  ability to prioritise, pay attention to detail and work with minimum
  supervision

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