British High Commission Jobs in Pretoria - South Africa - Recruiting Programme Manager

In November 2015, the UK Government announced a new cross-Government Prosperity Fund with the primary aim of supporting growth in partner countries. This came into effect in April 2016.

South Africa is a priority partner country for the Fund, and the Prime Minister announced around £50m of such programmes for South Africa during her bilateral meeting with South Africa’s President Ramaphosa in London in April 2018.

The Global Future Cities Programme is one of ten Prosperity Fund programmes operating or in development in South Africa.

The three-year, £80m ODA programme seeks to promote inclusive urban growth and increase global prosperity through targeted interventions in transport, urban planning and resilience, with big data and project finance as cross-cutting enablers.

In South Africa, the programme will offer support in Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, in addition to 16 other cities in 9 other countries.

We are recruiting a Programme Manager to lead this programme in South Africa and oversee its inception and delivery in partnership with the City administrations, the contracted delivery partner (to be procured in early 2019) and multilateral/ NGO development organisations.

As the Future Cities Programme Manager in South Africa, you will be based at the British High Commission, Pretoria within a diverse, supportive and fast-paced team.

You will work to the Deputy Head of the Prosperity Fund portfolio in South Africa and will coordinate with other UK Government colleagues in-country and in the UK to achieve UK policy objectives and to ensure that programme complies with rules and governance requirements of the Prosperity Fund, the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and the OECD.

An important aspect of the job will be working with Department of International Trade colleagues to unlock the opportunities for increased inward trade and investment.

This is a challenging and exciting opportunity to deliver a key and visible component of the Prosperity Fund which – in the South African context – seeks to reduce urban poverty and break down the spatial legacy of apartheid while creating new opportunities for job creation, business and trade.

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