The British Government is an inclusive and diversity-friendly employer. 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 Title:\u00a0International Export Finance Executive for the West Africa Region<\/strong><\/p>\n Job Category<\/strong><\/p>\n Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Department for International Trade roles)<\/p>\n Job Subcategory Main purpose of job<\/strong><\/p>\n This is an exciting opportunity to be at the centre of the UK\u2019s drive to increase UK trade with West Africa. We are searching for International Export Finance Executive to identify opportunities to grow the procurement of high value goods and services from the UK across the region through the promotion of UKEF\u2019s financial products and services. UKEF helps UK companies:<\/p>\n win export contracts by providing attractive financing terms to their buyers; Roles and responsibilities<\/strong><\/p>\n The International Export Finance Executive will act as the eyes and ears of the UKEF Business Group, supporting attainment of DIT\u2019s regional objectives and the UKEF International Business Development (IBD) team to grow UKEF supported export wins by focussing on 5 key areas of activity:<\/p>\n 1. Increasing Awareness of UKEF Support Capabilities:<\/p>\n Lead local campaigns to raise the profile of UKEF internationally through engagement with the business community, government bodies and other stakeholder organisations; 2. Building and Sharing Market Knowledge<\/p>\n Develop detailed knowledge and insight of public and private sector organisations, including their strategic business planning and development objectives, implementing findings into UKEF strategic plans; 3. Establishing and Maintaining Stakeholder Relationships<\/p>\n UKEF primary stakeholders are buyers, UK exporters, project sponsors, host government departments and others. This role will be required to:<\/p>\n Identify key buyers and sponsors in the target markets; 4. Creating and Delivering Strategic Plans<\/p>\n Lead and coordinate country strategic planning, aligned to UKEF organisational objectives, supporting HVCs where \u2018leading with finance\u2019 could be an important driver; 5. Progressing Business Development Opportunities<\/p>\n Engage the UK Export Finance Manager (EFM) Network to ensure seamless coordination between the UK supply chain and local sponsor; UK Export Finance (UKEF) is the UK\u2019s export credit agency (ECA) and a government department that reports to the Secretary of State for International Trade through the Minister for Trade and Investment. It works alongside the Department for International Trade (DIT) as an integral part of its strategy and operations.<\/p>\n UKEF\u2019s mission is to ensure that no viable UK export fails for lack of finance or insurance, while operating at no net cost to the taxpayer.<\/p>\n UKEF helps UK companies:<\/p>\n win export contracts by providing attractive financing terms to their buyers The British Government is an inclusive and diversity-friendly employer. 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":[41],"tags":[2027],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2nO32-7pV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28515"}],"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=28515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDepartment for International Trade (DIT)
\nJob Description (Roles and Responsibilities)<\/p>\n
\nfulfil contracts by supporting working capital loans and guaranteeing performance bonds;
\nget paid by insuring against buyer default.<\/p>\n
\nDeliver UKEF marketing plans, ensuring that messages are appropriate to the audience, removing complexity and building understanding \u2013 ensuring that message reflect local context where possible;
\nDevelop and implement Public Relation activities that educate the business community on UKEF products;
\nDevelop a UKEF knowledge base within the regional DIT teams.<\/p>\n
\nUnderstand and interpret host government trade policy, priority sectors and projects;
\nEnsure timely export intelligence and insight for IBD, enabling opportunities for UKEF;
\nAct as the lead source of UKEF advice to regional DIT teams, including integration of UKEF objectives into High Value Campaigns (HVCs);
\nTake the lead in leveraging expertise, knowledge and networks of local staff, business chambers, and other local channels in their capacity as multipliers;
\nIdentify the competitive framework (Export Credit Agencies and Supply Chain), articulate the difference of the UKEF offer and seek collaboration where appropriate;
\nExploit local knowledge, experience and networks to gather intelligence of the local commercial banking sectorial focus and appetite for risk.<\/p>\n
\nExploit knowledge and experience to build robust business networks and develop calling plans to enhance the profile of UKEF;
\nOversee the development of mechanisms to record and coordinate business outreach activities;
\nMaintain and develop regular contacts with local senior sponsors, banks, public sector organisations, government bodies and UK businesses to identify export opportunities that could benefit from UKEF support.<\/p>\n
\nEmbed UKEF offer into DIT HVC execution plans.<\/p>\n
\nLead UKEF local relationships with providers of trade finance and risk mitigation products (e.g. banks, credit insurers, brokers, and others) and to introduce customers \/ sponsors who require their services;
\nLead UKEF collaboration with the regional DIT teams to develop innovative export solutions for UK companies;
\nCoordinate and support visits from UKEF Business Group management.
\nUK Export Finance<\/p>\n
\nfulfil contracts by supporting working capital loans and guaranteeing performance bonds
\nget paid by insuring against buyer default
\nUKEF can support exports for any size of company and across all sectors, from capital goods to services and intangibles such as intellectual property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"