Local Economic Development Specialist at Ministry of Local Government Decentralisation and Rural Development

We have started building our professional LinkedIn page. Follow Company: Ministry of Local Government Decentralisation and Rural Development Location: Ghana State: Jobs in Accra Job type: Job category: Public Sector Jobs in Ghana No views yet Job Description Key tasks and responsibilities of the Specialist: The Local Economic Development Specialist’s overall responsibility is to carry out a comprehensive socio-economic situation analysis of the project target regions which will serve as a basis for designing an integrated local economic development strategy for beneficiary communities. Activities to be performed by the LED Specialist include but not are limited to the following:

• Lead the development, implementation and update of an LED strategy for the project, in consultation with the Project Coordinator, and relevant learns and stakeholders at the national, regional and district level

O Provide support in reviewing the existing local economic development policies, strategies and priorities in the target areas. O Identify and facilitate consultations with key local, regional and national level stakeholders as well as other relevant stakeholders on issues pertaining to LED in the target areas and O Prepare an operational handbook to guide the implementation of the LED sub-component

• Provide need based technical support to the zonal and district team on planning and implementation of LED interventions

• Operationalise and scape up strategies for LED interventions in implementing regions and districts in a timely manner

• Review the progress of the implementation of LED sub-component in target regions and districts

• Prepare quarterly status reports capturing the results and impact of LED interventions and conduct quarterly assessment of gaps in implementation of the sub-component across the six regions and develop quarterly improvement plans

• Contribute to the documentation of experience and lessons learned to identify sub-component related success stories/best practices and disseminate them across regions

• Provide support to regional and districts teams to develop LED platforms at the district level to support LED interventions in collaboration with the relevant private sector actors, financial institutions, social enterprises, digital enterprises, foundations, impact investors among others and

• Perform any other related tasks assigned by the Project Coordinator

Qualification Required & Experience

• Master’s Degree in Economics, Social Sciences, Development Planning, Economic Development, Business management, Agribusiness or related programme deemed relevant to the position

• 5 years professional experience in the field of local and regional economic development, entrepreneurship development or market driven livelihoods development on large scale devel...