National Single Window Specialist - Botswana

Project Description

The Southern Africa Trade and Investment Hub Project’s key objectives are to increase international competitiveness, intra-regional trade and food security in Southern Africa. These objectives are underpinned by an improved regional trade and investment enabling environment coupled with increased agricultural value chain competitiveness supporting intraregional trade. This project is funded by the USAID and works closely with the Southern African Development Community (SADC).

Role & Responsibilities

The National Single Window Specialist will report to the director of trade and lead efforts to operationalize a web-based National Single Window (NSW) for external trade in the SADC. The specialist will be responsible for completion of programmatic and administrative deliverables in a timely, organized, efficient and accurate manager. The NSW specialist will build upon completed and in-progress work while also supporting the following phases: design and conceptualization, capacity building, implementation and monitoring and evaluation of the NSW.

Specific Responsibilities

· Regularly liaising with NSW component implementation counterparts, including the BURS and other identified stakeholders.

· Generate Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) to support the implementation of the single window system

· Assess legal and regulatory environments for NSW

· Managing the NSW component technical team including identification of input requirements and quality of outputs.

· Delivering all component reports and other identified deliverables on time in line with an agreed work plan

Qualifications

· A minimum of eight years of progressively responsible experience in customs operation.

· Demonstrated experience in customs systems, procedures, and customs modernization.

· Demonstrated ability to implement customs reform and trade facilitation in a developing country context.

· Familiarity with customs automation and ICT-related issues.

· Demonstrated familiarity with single windows for foreign trade from process to customs automation and ICT-related issues from a developing country perspective.

· Demonstrated supervisory experience in teams and professional groups in a cross-cultural environment.

· Minimum three years developing country work experience, particulary under U.S. Agency for international Development (USAID); work experience in SADC member countries preferred

· Must demonstrate personal attributes such as loyalty and integrity in addition to being successful in challenging environments and difficult situations, which is inherent in this position.

· Fluency in English is required; bilingual or multilingual ability is preferred.

· Ability to live and work in Gaborone, Botswana

Our Business

Crown Agents is an international development company employing over 600 personnel worldwide with a presence in more than 40 countries, subsidiaries in 11 countries, and permanent staff working on the ground in 22 corporate offices in Africa, Asia Latin America, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Crown Agents provides direct assistance, management consulting, and human and institutional development for public and private sector clients in customs and trade facilitation, public financial management, procurement, logistics, and health systems strengthening.

Crown Agents USA (CA-USA), the U.S. incorporated subsidiary of Crown Agents, provides direct technical assistance, capacity development, and procurement services to stimulate economic growth, establish good governance, and improve health outcomes across the developing world. Since its incorporation in the United States in 1998, CA-USA has provided technical assistance services and support to U.S. Government agencies and international organizations such as the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA), Department of State (DOS), and the Gates Foundation.

HOW TO APPLY:

To apply to this position, please email your CV to careers@crownagents.com, including your name, along with “25-38C NSW Specialist”, in the subject line. Visit our website at www.crownagentsusa.comfor more information about our company. No phone calls, faxes or walk-ins please. Crown Agents USA is an Equal Opportunity Employer and affords equal opportunity to all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, disability or any other status protected under local, state or federal laws.

Crown Agents USA will provide reasonable accommodations to applicants with qualified disabilities in accordance with the ADA. If you require a reasonable accommodation for our application process, please contact our Recruiting department directly. Requests will be kept confidential and shared strictly on a need-to-know basis only.