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REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
(CONSULTING SERVICES – INDIVIDUAL SELECTION)
OECS MSME Guarantee Facility Project
Loan No.: IDA-62670, IDA-62660, IDA-62640, IBRD-88830, IDA-62650
Assignment Title: Senior Operating Officer (SOO)
Reference No. KN-ECPCGC-207852-CS-INDV
The Governments of Antigua and Barbuda, Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines have received financing in the amount of US$10 million equivalent from the World Bank towards the cost of establishing a partial credit guarantee scheme, and they intend to apply part of the proceeds to payments for goods, and consulting services to be procured under this project.
The consultant will serve as the “Senior Operating Officer (SOO)” for the ECPCGC and should possess Extensive knowledge of MSME lending with some direct experience lending to small and medium-sized businesses, knowledge of the internal controls necessary for a lending operation and the ability to design and implement risk management procedures. The ideal candidate should possess an Undergraduate Degree from a reputable college or university, preferably in Business, Accounting, or related field; and a minimum of 5 years’ experience in MSME lending in a financial services institution. The initial contracted employment period will be for two years subject to a performance review and an expression of further contracted employment three months before the expiration of the existing contract. The assignment is expected to begin on April 15, 2021.
The consultant will report directly to the Chief Executive Officer of the ECPCGC and the ECPCGC Board of Directors.
The detailed Terms of Reference (TOR) for the assignment can be viewed by following the attached link below.
https://tinyurl.com/yygezdt9
The Eastern Caribbean Partial Credit Guarantee Corporation (ECPCGC) now invites eligible “Consultants” to indicate their interest in providing the Services. Interested Consultants should provide information demonstrating that they have:
- An Undergraduate Degree from a reputable college or university, preferably in Business, Accounting, or related field; and
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in MSME lending in a financial services institution.
Applicants should also have:
- Extensive knowledge of MSME lending with some direct experience lending to small and medium-sized businesses
- Extensive knowledge of MSME banking operations
- Knowledge of the internal controls necessary for a lending operation and the ability to design and implement risk management procedures
- Experience developing and presenting information in public, including responding to questions in real-time
- Experience lending to MSMEs located in the ECCU
- Ability to draft procedures to be used in a lending operation
- Familiarity with the mechanics of a loan guarantee program
- Exceptional written, oral, interpersonal, and presentation skills, and
- Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office software.
The attention of interested Individual Consultants is drawn to Section III, Paragraphs 3.14, 3.16, and 3.17 of the World Bank’s Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers July 2016, [revised November 2017] (“Procurement Regulations”), setting forth the World Bank’s policy on conflict of interest.
A Consultant will be selected in accordance with the Approved Selection Method for Individual Consultants set out in the clause 7.34 of the World Bank Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers.
Further information can be obtained at the address below during office hours 0800 to 1700 hours.
Expressions of interest must be delivered in a written form by e-mail by February 16, 2021 to [email protected]
Eastern Caribbean Partial Credit Guarantee Corporation
Brid Rock, Basseterre,
St. Kitts.
For further information, please contact:
Carmen Gomez-Trigg Bernard Thomas
Chief Executive Officer Chief Financial Officer
Tel: 868-620-8144 Tel: 869-765-2385
Email: [email protected] [email protected]
2 responses to “50 new cases of COVID-19 in Antigua”
Please include in your stats the number of fully vaccinated in these numbers it is important to know so they can be isolated and reduce the numbers they were told that they were PROTECTED SO THEY PARADE flouting the protocols they cant be exempted from being vectors. This is no longer the pandemic of the UNVACCINATED.
ROCK: The Medical Sciences are not 100% exact. It is true that some folks who got vaccinated still get Covid. Unless Antigua & Barbuda is headed in the opposite direction, the evidence is overwhelming that vaccinated folks on a whole recover faster than the unvaccinated. The overwhelming majority of patients requiring mechanical ventilation and the use of other oxygen devices are the unvaccinated.
I am not a vaccines salesman, or have shares in vaccine companies. I really do not care who win the next election either. I am a health professional who is on the frontline; and I love Antigua. This Delta variant of the Covid is serious. Tune in to Florida who has a stupid Governor who do not want Cruise Companies asking the vaccination status of passengers. The Caribbean must speak in one voice that the unvaccinated are not welcome. The socioeconomic cost to the region if this variant is not controlled will be devastating.
Antigua is getting lots of cable news out of America. Folks are talking about they have the rights to do this, that and the other like my grandma used to say. There is a former American President who had a popular slogan in one campaign, ” It’s the economy stupid.” Obviously, he was not calling America stupid, he was putting emphasis on the economy. I will not call Antigua stupid, a Antigua me come from but to put emphasis like Bill Clinton to what I have seen and touched in the Covid world, I must let Antigua and Barbuda know it is the UNVACCINATED.
This is not a game. I was critical with the PM for not taking his vaccination in public. There are at least 34 politicians that will be contesting the next election; each one of them failed the public in this regard. Everyone of them should have taken their vaccines in public, Antigua & Barbuda would have been in a much better place. It is all hands on deck here, no one man is the island. May God bless Antigua & Barbuda in its efforts to contain this deadly virus.