Local Industrialization Coordinator

Job title: Local Industrialization Coordinator

Location:  Maputo, Mozambique

Mozambican Nationals Only

Global Edge is an international firm specializing in project staffing for the Energy sector, with a presence in Mozambique since 2014. We are the game changers and multi-award-winning recruitment agency in the global recruitment arena, redefining what excellence means in recruitment.

Our client, one of the world’s leading companies in the energy industry, is looking to appoint a Local Industrialization Coordinator to be based in Maputo.

Position Context

• National Content development is key for the country’s development, to address Authorities and local communities’ expectations and consequently for COMPANY’s social license to operate.

Key Activities

The Job holder participates to the process and the operations of contracts and procurement entity by performing the following tasks:

• Support the Local Industrialization Officer on studies aiming at enhancing the Project’s National Content plan with a local content benchmark and intelligence addressing Employment & training, Procurement of Goods & Services and Capacity building needs and opportunities.
• Coordinate the implementation of an Industrial Baseline Survey to understand local capacities, gaps, challenges, and opportunities to support Mozambican employment, procurement of Goods & Services and develop Capacity Building programs
• The local industrialization coordinator will have responsibilities regarding identification and enhancement of local capacity (SMEs and Workforce) which includes, but is not limited to the following activities:
  • Promotion of business partnership; and
  • Identification of community content gaps and opportunities to support existing or new business streams
  • Contracting Workshops.
• Coordinate engagements with Government of Mozambique’s Local Content Technical Commission.
• Assist as required the Local Industrialization Lead preparing reports, drafting presentations and/or communications.
• Support COMPANY good HSE practices in the workplace by reporting incidents or unsafe conditions and implement mitigation actions as possible and when required stop unsafe works being performed and advise best practices

Accountability

• Develop and refine an Industrial Baseline Survey focused on activities with potential high in-country value.
• Support Local content team with market intelligence.
• Develop solution to foster industrialization, with focus on Cabo Delgado region.
• As required, develop synergies with discipline leaders and main contractors to collect and share market intelligence information.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration or equivalent.
• Minimum 3 years of relevant professional experience.
• Fluency in English. Portuguese is a big plus.
• Proficiency in Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and Word. Access is a plus.
• Excellent communication skills, analytical mind-set, synthetic, rigorous, pro-active.