{"id":19904,"date":"2016-11-18T14:33:02","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T14:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/?p=19904"},"modified":"2016-11-18T14:33:02","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T14:33:02","slug":"british-high-commission-recruitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/british-high-commission-recruitment.html","title":{"rendered":"British High Commission Recruitment On"},"content":{"rendered":"
The British Government is an inclusive and diversity-friendly employer.\u00a0 We value difference, promote equality and challenge discrimination, enhancing our organisational capability. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We do not discriminate on the basis of disability, race, colour, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, veteran status or other category protected by law. We promote family-friendly flexible working opportunities, where operational and security needs allow.<\/p>\n
Job Description<\/strong><\/p>\n Job\u00a0Title:\u00a0Trade Advisor on Future Opportunities (19\/16 ACC)<\/strong><\/p>\n Job Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n Job Description (Roles and Responsibilities)<\/strong> As part of the British Government\u2019s commitment to increasing UK exports worldwide to \u00a31 trillion by 2020, the UK\u2019s trade team in West Africa, with offices in Lagos, Abuja, Accra, Cameroon, Cote d\u2019Ivoire, Guinea, and Senegal is developing a trade strategy to identify and better tap into this vast potential and increase trade between the UK and West Africa. \u00a0The Ghana team is also shifting to a regional approach, working with trade colleagues in Nigeria, Cameroon, Cote d\u2019Ivoire, Guinea and Senegal to maximize the trading relationship with the UK across West Africa.<\/p>\n We are looking for a highly organised person with a strong attention to detail, ability to take the initiative, work accurately within deadlines and with limited supervision, and be a strong team member who works collaboratively.<\/p>\n Main Purpose<\/strong> Key Responsibilities<\/strong><\/p>\n Roles and responsibilities<\/strong><\/p>\n Required Skills or Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n Essential qualifications and experience<\/strong><\/p>\n Desirable qualifications and experience \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Required competencies \u00a0<\/strong> Other benefits and conditions of employment \u00a0<\/strong> How To Apply<\/strong><\/p>\n Additional information<\/strong><\/p>\n Interested applicants should apply by clicking on the link:<\/p>\n The British Government is an inclusive and diversity-friendly employer. \u00a0We value difference, promote equality and challenge discrimination, enhancing our organisational capability. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We do not discriminate on the basis of disability, race, colour, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, veteran status or other category protected by law. We promote family-friendly flexible working opportunities, where operational and security needs allow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The British Government is an inclusive and diversity-friendly employer.\u00a0 We value difference, promote equality and challenge discrimination, enhancing our organisational capability. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6721,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[176],"tags":[2027],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2nO32-5b2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6721"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nWest Africa is a growing and diverse region with opportunities across a range of sectors that the UK has expertise in. It has significant long-term economic potential with vast natural resources and a young and growing population. As a result West Africa offers a wide array of business opportunities, especially in the oil and gas sector but also increasingly in areas such as renewable energy, infrastructure and agriculture. Current trade figures are good but we want to do better.<\/p>\n
\nTo oversee the delivery of DIT services to UK companies in exporting their goods and services to Ghana by the DIT delivery partner UK Ghana Chamber of Commerce (UKGCC), and DIT teams in other parts of West Africa in line with agreed standards and timescales; monitoring and assessment of these services to UK companies, ensuring a high quality and efficient support to UK companies; delivery of targets; analysis of past, present and future statistics through reporting to show how DIT\/UKGCC are performing against targets; training and best practice for teams.<\/p>\n\n
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\nCollaborating and Partnering, Achieving Commercial Outcomes, Managing a Quality Service, Delivering at Pace<\/p>\n
\nThe successful applicant will have access to a range of Learning and Development opportunities with in-house and e-learning, with the potential for overseas training. From time to time there will be requirements to assist other teams within the Department, building overall experience<\/p>\n\n