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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 “Investor with interest in LIAT willing to pay portion of severance, Lovell says”
Here we go again smh Mr. Lovell please, just stop with your bullshit sir. UPP always promising the moon and the stars and when deng get een a pure foolishness den do
To. be fair, the United Progressive Party (UPP) was the most progressive Government in Antigua and Barbuda’s history. Here are a list of visible accomplishments:
1) Built the Sir Vivian Richard Cricket Stadium and hosted Cricket World Cup.
2) Built the New Airport Terminal and resurfaced the Runway.
Previously refurbished the Old Airport Terminal and resurfaced the Runway.
3) Built the New Treasury Building (almost to completion).
4) Built alot of Fancy Pavements and Icons around St. John’s.
5) Introduced the Utility Subsidy for old and retired people.
6) Maintained very good roads around the country. Maintained Government’s Properties.
7) Put People First and Showed Love for the People.
The reason why the UPP Government experienced the Economic Slowdown in it’s Second Term was for the following reasons:
1) UPP invested too heavily in Concrete & Mortar: in other words, too many infrastructural projects.
2) Bringing back Personal Income Tax and introducing the ABST. The ABST was badly managed to the extent that it placed too much emphasis on reducing Cost of Groceries to the Poor, with not enough consideration given to the Reducing Gross Profit Margin earned by Supermarkets. As a result, Food City /Bryson Food Emporium and Bargain Center Supermarkets collapsed.
3) As a result of 1) above, the UPP Government sometimes paid Salaries & Wages and Pension late.
CONCLUSION
I think reducing Dr. Errol Cort’s Budget and going to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) may have been the UPP’S biggest mistakes, and the cause of its failure to win a Third Term in office.
Perhaps instead, the UPP should have soght an International Loan. But, I believe that party is capable of learning from its past mistakes.
However, I don’t believe it is feasible to have any successful government in Antigua and Barbuda led by the Opposition that excludes the Democratic National Alliance (DNA).
I also believe that it’s a disservice to Antigua and Barbuda that the UPP & DNA seemingly are unable to set aside their differences and come together in the National Interest.
I think that the UPP, by itself, is incapable of winning any General Election in Antigua and Barbuda; and, if it does, such a Government could not be anymore than a One (1) Term Government.