Program Officer, Mergers & Purchase at the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in Abuja (FCT)

Position Overview

Under the oversight of the Chief Officer, Lawful Investigative, Adherence and Enforcement, the incumbent shall be in charge of offering business solutions on mergers and purchases of the Group. The Project officer will team up with cross-operational teams to guarantee the successful implementation of mergers and purchases while conforming to company's strategic objectives and values.

Position and Duties

• Assess applications for exemptions and for non-application of the Rules and justification requests provided under the ERCA.
• Explore /track anti-attractive trade or restrictive business procedures that possess the impact of prevention, restriction, and distortion of contest in the region.
• Carry out inquiries concerning abuse of dominant role and market power.
• Prohibit, track, and identify cartel actions in the Group and teach the public on the harmful outcomes of cartels.
• Evaluate informed and recognized agreements or structured in the Group as offered under the Rules and in line with the best international procedures as would be relevant to the Group and under the Rules.
• Formulate and engage in mergers and purchase planning process.
• Evaluate industry trends, attractive landscapes, and industry dynamics to mentor strategic judgment.
• Evaluate the financial implications of possibility mergers and purchases, which includes cost synergies and income increase avenues.
• Oversee efficient investigative and evaluation of trading procedures in the region in order to improve buyer protection as enshrined under the ECOWAS Contest Regulations Contest Rules.
• Evaluate purchase and financial opportunities regular with the ECOWAS Rules
• Execute industry and financial evaluation top to financial funding strategic guidance.
• Formulate and show the business case assisting the purchase and endorse appraisal of possibility targets to executive team and other internal participants.
• Oversee a broad cross-operational due diligence team.
• Engage in lawful talks regarding transaction-associated agreements with in-house and external counsel.
• Execute any other assignment allocated by the manager.

Age Limit:

Be below 50 years old. This offering does not submit application to internal applicants.

Essential skills:

• Capability to persuade/shape others to evaluate a certain point of view, adopt a new idea, or execute new methods and procedures.
• Capability to head a team of trainees/support personnel and instill a spirit of collaboration to participate employees and accomplish a well-defined set of initiatives.
• Capability to respect chain of command in an suitable manner.
• Capability to settle hurdles with minimal direction and/or endorse and clarify initiatives or alternatives for authorization.
• Capability to utilize the Code of Ethics to oversee self, others, information, and assets.
• Capability to train others and produce response loops with supervisors, teammates, and subordinates to build robust operating connections and boost results.
• Support to preserving the corporate unit’s targets and guidelines.
• People skills with the capability to keep a customer informed of advancement or setbacks in projects connected with timelines, quality, and quantity.
• Capability to proactively interact with customers and build robust, trusting connections based on reciprocal regard and consistent discussions.
• Capability to establish and sustain specialist credibility with customers/participants in a way that anticipates their needs, mitigates concerns, and balances obligations with responsiveness.
• Capability to counsel, advise, advise, and mentor others on matters connected with allocated customer support duties and guidelines.
• Show respect for cultural differences, fairness, and capability to associate well with people from diverse profile, nationalities, genders, ethnicities, races, and religions.
• Comprehension of multifaceted cultural views, especially within West Africa, with sensitivity to group differences; capability to difficulty prejudice and practice tolerance and empathy.
• Capability to listen actively, evaluate people’s matters, and submit application judgment, tact, and diplomacy.
• Capability to operate in a multifaceted and welcoming interactive environment that perks from diverse advantages.
• Duty for combining gender perspectives and making sure equal involvement of women and men in all zones of work.
• Capability to motivate, empower, and support for people in an impartial and transparent manner.
• Expertise in ECOWAS institutions, sectors, program, and rules.
• Expertise in ECOWAS internal business qualifications of programs, projects, solutions, and operational structures needed to attain targets.
• Expertise in ECOWAS regulations and standardized processes applicable to allocated duties and capability to clarify them transparently to others.
• Comprehension of ECOWAS culture, systems, and effectiveness concerns affecting allocated duties.
• Expertise in Member States’ development practices, indicators, hurdles, and avenues applicable to allocated projects/program.
• Capability to study data/information from a range of suppliers, recognize anomalies, practices, and concerns, report results, and make strategic guidance.
• Capability to break down challenges or methods into key parts to recognize and solve differences in service, QA, adherence, and effectiveness.
• Expertise and application of methods to produce innovative creative thoughts and new approaches to meeting targets.
• Capability to use evidence and analysis to guide rules and programs and recognize applicable suppliers, which includes participants, regional institutions, and internal panels.
• Exhibited business computer competence using suitable resources.
• Capability to productively use graphics and tables to show quantitative data, compose semi-sophisticated technical documentation/proposals, and refine/check design frameworks and letters.
• Capability to share data transparently and succinctly in a succinct and structured manner, both in drafting and verbally.
• Capability to show people skills, make demonstrations, express opinions, and debate creative thoughts helpfully.
• Competence in information information exchange technical solutions (ICT).
• Fluency in spoken communication and documented expression in one of the ECOWAS formal languages (English, French, or Portuguese); expertise in an additional language is a plus.
• Capability to formulate and execute an individual action strategy for delivering specific work targets.
• Capability to recognize, arrange, and track duty throughout to guarantee efficient implementation.
• Capability to support to and/or head projects using accepted project coordination guidelines and organize payments to deliver on time.
• Capability to arrange work, set key focuses, and organize schedule productively while remitting attention to description, participants, indicators, and risks.
• Capability to recognize, collect, and evaluate effectiveness indicators and take initiative-driven remedial action as necessary.

Note Evaluation method:

Evaluation of certified applicants may comprise of a documented exercise and a skill-focused interview.

ECOWAS Work Environment:

• ECOWAS delivers a work environment that reflects the values of gender equality, diversity, honesty and reliability and a healthy personal-professional balance.
• We are dedicated to making sure gender parity in the company and therefore, we promote women to submit application for roles that match their skills.
• Individuals from minority ethnic groups, indigenous populations, persons with disabilities, and other underrepresented groups are also highly inspired to submit application.
• Diversity, Equity and Addition is central to ECOWAS’s staff.

Disclaimer:

Selection and assignment will be subject to profile and letter of recommendation checks and other managerial qualifications. ECOWAS does not charge for any application, processing, development, interviewing, running test in linkage with application or hiring process methods and does not issue itself with information on candidates’ bank accounts.