Afghanistan: Short Term Public-Private Partnership Investment Promotion Consultant – Kabul, Afghanistan – 50 input days
Country: Afghanistan
Closing date: 24 Aug 2013
In Afghanistan, Futures Group is implementing the Health Policy Project (HPP), a global, 5 year cooperative agreement funded by USAID. The overall goal of HPP is to strengthen developing country national and sub-national policy, advocacy, and governance for strategic, equitable, and sustainable health programming. HPP focuses on key health issues—namely, family planning/reproductive health (FP/RH), HIV, and maternal health (MH)—while also promoting health systems strengthening and program integration.
A key activity within the HPP Afghanistan workplan is to build the capacity of the MoPH to design, negotiate and manage PPPs. With support from the an earlier USAID-funded project (COMPRI-A), the MOPH PPP Unit was established within the MoPH General Directorate of Policy and Planning to design, negotiate, and manage large PPPs, starting with hospital PPPs and scaling up to other areas, such as the pharmaceutical sector. HPP is providing technical assistance to the PPP Unit to, among other things, develop supportive legislation to enable required PPP activities within Afghanistan’s legal framework; develop PPP guidelines and manuals; finalize the lease agreement; finalize the operation and maintenance agreement; develop and implement a PPP website and database for all PPP- and M&E-related documents; finalize the draft investment promotion strategy and support its implementation, including organizing local and international PPP promotion events; and develop PPP marketing materials, such as brochures, promotional CDs and promotional videos.
We are currently recruiting an Investment Promotion Consultant who will work with the MoPH PPP Unit, Ministry of finance, the private sector and other relevant stakeholders to attract potential investors and operators to run the future PPP hospitals.
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You will demonstrate:
- Master’s degree in Public Administration, Business Administration, Economics or other relevant fields;
- At least 5 years of professional experience in investment promotions institutions’ set up and operations, preferably in the private sector;
- Knowledge of finance networks (banking, loans, etc.) in Afghanistan and internationally;
- Knowledge of private hospital budgets and return on investment;
- Knowledge of financing models employed by Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) in PPP hospital projects;
- Sound investment promotion policy design and implementation experience;
- Proven ability to provide advice at the senior regional government/stakeholder level;
- Proven ability to deliver training to senior officials/stakeholders;
- Strong practical experience in research and analysis linked to investment promotion issues;
- Experience and knowledge of operations and maintenance of private hospitals;
- Experience in the health sector PPPs is a plus.
Should you have further questions, please do not hesitate to contact Sruti Ravi: sruti.ravi@grminternational.com.
How to apply:
Applications close on 24 August 2013.
To register your interest, please submit your CV through the GRM International Careers Page www.grminternational.com
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