Background
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is committed to improving municipal and environmental services in its countries of operations, in line with its mandate to promote environmentally sound projects. The Bank's emerging countries of operations, in particular Moldova, Belarus and those in the Caucasus and Central Asia, face immense challenges in rebuilding and maintaining the basic infrastructure of their urban areas. Since the collapse of the former Soviet Union, there has been a rapid deterioration in the availability and quality of public infrastructure and basic services. Essential services such as drinking water, sewerage and wastewater treatment, solid waste collection, public transport . are now often only intermittently available if at all and the steady decline in the quality of these services has created serious risks to public health. The capacity of local governments to deliver these services and provide the necessary infrastructure, is severely limited by lack of available fiscal resources, as well as the managerial weaknesses of their utilities.
Responsibilities
- Facilitate all necessary actions and collect documentation required to declare the individual Projects effective based on the terms and conditions of the signed legal documents, such as Loan Agreement, Grant Agreement, and other legally binding documents.
- Support implementation monitoring including physical implementation as well as the institutional reform and development components by ensuring that arrangements are in place to ensure efficient and successful project implementation by observing
- Support monitoring of the financial and operational performance of the participating Municipal Companies as well as their owners (relevant participating City authorities).
- Coordinate the activities of all the international and local consulting firms involved in the Projects namely those carrying out the Project Implementation Support and the Corporate Development and Stakeholder Participation programmes.
Requirements:
- Fluency in local language and Russian is essential
- Very good written and oral communication skills in English are essential
- Degree from a leading university
- Relevant work experience in a merchant/investment, commercial, public institution or development bank or in a corporation closely
associated with and/or exposed to the operations of the EBRD
- Computer literacy
Deadline: 03 November 2014
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