Sector Lead Value-Added Textiles, Technical Wood

  • Bern
  • Swisscontact

Accountabilities Sectors

  • Provide strategic guidance to SIPPO Country Teams on trends, innovations, market mechanisms and requirements in EU / CH for the two manufacturing sectors
  • Support Country teams in the design of their interventions in the manufacturing sectors
  • Collaborate and coordinate with Sector Leads Food and Sustainable Tourism
  • Provide sector specific expertise to thematic Leads Sustainability & Digitalisation, Monitoring & Resultsmeasurement (MRM) and Knowledge Management
  • Build and manage relations to EU / CH importer networks from the Value-added Textiles and Technical Wood Sectors and bridge between these networks and the SIPPO Country Teams
  • Create a global view on activities in the sector across the 12 SIPPO Countries and identify synergies
  • Manage and develop the SIPPO international consultant pool for the Value-added Textiles and Technical Wood Sectors
  • Support SIPPO Country Teams in identifying and securing consultant capacities required for programme implementation in the SIPPO Countries
  • Responsible for global annual plans and global progress reports on Value-added Textiles and Technical Wood Sector level
  • Coordinate and align with Swisscontact peers

Accountabilities Back-Office

  • Responsible, in collaboration with other Sector and Thematic Leads, for designing, implementing and documenting efficient processes (consultant management, contract-management, event-management)
  • Responsible, in collaboration with Lead Knowledge Management, for logistics of national events (Annual Global Meeting, Advisory Board Meeting, Team Retreat)
  • Responsible for the office management of the SIPPO Berne office

Requirements

  • Higher education (University, University of Applied Sciences)
  • Excellent English, written/spoken, is required, German is important and preferred (French and/or Spanish are a plus)
  • Experience in development cooperation, trade promotion and international trade
  • Experience in working in an international, intercultural environment
  • Good communication skills
  • Curious, thorough, determined, persistent
  • Self-driven and collaborative
  • Data-driven, tech-savy and willingness to learn to work with new technologies
  • Knowledge of the EU / CH Value-added Textiles and Technical Wood Sectors
  • Network in the EU / CH Value-added Textiles and Technical Wood Sectors
  • Industry experience in the Value-added Textiles and Technical Wood Sectors (buyer, retail, production) is a plus
  • Background in Sustainability and digitalization
  • Familiar with Market Systems Development concepts
  • Organizational development background
  • Process- and solution-oriented

 

Swisscontact offers attractive working conditions in an international and intercultural context. We see our work as a joint effort in an agile organizational culture: mutual respect, trust and teamwork.

 

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