REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK

Avenue Joseph Anoma, 01 B.P. 1387, Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire Africa Investment Forum – PAIF

E-mail : [email protected]

REQUESTS FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FOR BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE CONSULTANT FOR THE AFRICA INVESTMENT FORUM

 

  1. The African Development Bank (AfDB) hereby invites Individual Consultants to indicate their interest in the following Assignment: Business Intelligence Consultant for the Africa Investment Forum ;
  2. Established by the AfDB and seven founding partners in 2018, the Africa Investment Forum (AIF) is Africa’s investment market place – a multi-stakeholder, multi-disciplinary platform dedicated to advancing projects to bankable stages, raising capital, and accelerating the financial closure of deals. The Africa Investment Forum convenes investors interested in Africa, African investors, enterprises with concrete investment needs, and selected government leaders to work out ways to boost private sector investments in Africa. The AIF aims to reduce intermediation costs, improve the quality of project information and documentation, and increase active and productive engagements between African governments and the private sector as well as between investors and project sponsors. The AIF offers investors access to a structured platform offering bankable, de-risked projects within an enabling environment ;
  3. The services to be provided under the assignment include the formulation of a long-term Business Intelligence Framework to assure excellent investor client experience and broad base value creation; identifying, developing and maintaining commercial client relationships with investors, sponsors and strategic partners. In addition, the consultant will focus on reporting, online analytical processing, business trends, dashboard development, complex event processing, business performance management, benchmarking, predictive analytics, and prescriptive analytics. The assignment entails collaborating with the AIF’s Global Investor Client management and Investment officers, AIF partners, AIF Senior Director, to position the AIF as Africa’s premier investment platform for investors. The Consultant will report to the Senior Director, Africa Investment Forum ;
  4. The Africa Investment Forum invites Individual Consultants to indicate their interest in providing the above-described services. Interested Consultants shall provide information on their qualifications, experience demonstrating their ability to provide the services, as well as a proposed work program with timeline, their understanding of the assignment and the proposed way to approach the assignment (documentation, references for similar services, experience in comparable assignments, etc.) ;
  5. The eligibility criteria, the establishment of a short list and the selection procedure shall be in conformity with the African Development Bank’s “Rules and Procedure for the Use of Consultants” May 2008 Edition revised October 2015, which is available on the Bank’s website. Please, note that interest expressed by a Consultant does not imply any obligation on the part of the Bank to include it in the shortlist ;
  6. The work assignment, under this term of reference, will involve full-time consultancy services for a period of six (6) months and may be extended based on the performance of the retained Consultant, availability of budgetary resources and as may be determined by the Bank. The successful Consultant will be expected to start in December 2020 upon completion of the selection process and upon signature of the contract. The position will be based in Abidjan ;
  7. Interested Individual Consultants may obtain further information at the email addresses below during the Bank’s working hours: 0800hrs to 1700hrs ;
  8. Expressions of interest with an updated Curriculum vitae (CV) must be received at the email addresses below no later than 25th November 2020 at 1700hrs Central African Time and specifically mentioning Intelligence Consultants for the Africa Investment Forum.

For the attention of :

Mrs. Onike Nicol-Houra

Africa Investment Forum

African Development Bank,  6 Avenue Joseph Anoma

01 BP 1387 Abidjan  – COTE D’IVOIRE

E-mail : NICOL@ AFDB.ORG  [email protected]

  1. Establishment of the Shortlist: A shortlist of three to six individual consultants will be established once the expressions of interest and updated CVs are received. The consultants on the shortlist will be invited to submit a proposal and comment on the Terms of Reference (attached as an annex). The proposals shall be evaluated on the basis of the following criteria1:
a.  General qualifications and adequacy for the assignment to be undertaken 25%
b.  Similar experience in the area of expertise of the assignment 40%
c.  Understanding of the Terms of Reference 20%
d. Experience with the Bank and/or multilateral donors 10%
e. Language Proficiency 5%

The weighted coefficients for these criteria may be adjusted to reflect the type of service required.

TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE CONSULTANTS FOR THE AFRICA INVESTMENT FORUM

  1. BACKGROUND :

1.1. African Development Bank Group :

Established in 1964, the African Development Bank Group (“the Bank” or “AfDB”) is the premier Pan-African development institution promoting economic growth and social progress across the continent. There are 80 Member States, including 54 from Africa (Regional Member Countries). The Bank’s development agenda is delivering the financial and technical support for transformative projects that will significantly reduce poverty through inclusive and sustainable economic growth. In order to sharply focus the objectives of the Ten Year Strategy (2013 – 2022) and ensure greater developmental impact, five major areas (High 5s), all of which will accelerate the Bank’s delivery for Africa, have been identified for scaling up, namely; Light Up and Power Africa, Feed Africa, Industrialize Africa, Integrate Africa, and Improve the Quality of Life for the People of Africa. The Bank co-operates with a large network of international development partners and has two official languages: English and French.

1.2. Africa Investment Forum :

The vision of the Africa Investment Forum (AIF) is to become a leveraging platform that will tilt the balance of capital towards Africa’s critical sectors to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, the African Development Bank’s High 5s and the African Union’s Agenda 2063. This goal translates into three reinforcing objectives, which include: (a) Advancing projects to bankable stage, by more effective project preparation as well as advisory support that advances deals in the AIF pipeline; (b) Capital raising by partners, lenders and investors for increased co-financing for bankable projects; and, (c) Accelerating financial closure of deals through this coordinated approach.

Established by the AfDB and seven founding partners in 2018, the Africa Investment Forum (AIF) is Africa’s investment market place, through which the AfDB, along with its partners originate deals, structure and enhance projects, attract co-investors, and facilitate investments to close Africa’s investment gaps. The AIF’s modus operandi spans four (5) pillars which include :

  1. The Platform: activities involving deal origination and structuring, as well as the management of a digital portal ;
  2. The Market Place: activities involving sponsorships, partnership onboarding, regional investment roundtables, investor facilitation and matchmaking, as well as serving a vibrant community of active AIF members ;
  3. The Market-Days: an annual 3-Day event convening investors and lenders, project sponsors, key government stakeholders, transaction facilitators and entrepreneurs around specific private (Boardrooms, Bilateral meetings) and public sessions (initiatives, pitching sessions, plenary sessions) ;
  4. The Deal Tracker: post-Boardroom activities involving the monitoring of AIF Boardroom deals and facilitating their progress towards deal closure ;
  5. Knowledge/Policy Environment: seeks to foster investment friendly regulation, a pro-investment climate to remove bottlenecks to deal closure, as well as disseminate knowledge products.
  1. PURPOSE OF THE CONSULTANCY :

The purpose of the consultancy is to support the AIF in the formulation of a long-term Business Intelligence Framework that will contribute towards making AIF Africa’s premier investment platform for investors. The Consultant will help inform decision-making and solve business problems by converting data into information, analyzing relevant data, manipulating large datasets, building decision models and facilitating insightful solutions to complex problems.

  1. SCOPE OF SERVICES : 

The specific duties of the consultant will be as follows :

  1. Discover the new ways for businesses to engage with existing sponsors and investors and attract new ones ;
  2. Analyze relevant search engines and provide data to reflect AIF overall business mandate ;
  3. Support to the PAIF Senior Director in selected front office activities including inflow of information to formulate business trends relevant to the AIF pillars ;
  4. High-level pan-African investment landscape monitoring with a focus on key industry events and developments ;
  5. Creating policies and procedures for collating and analyzing data ;
  6. Extending knowledge of Business Intelligence to provide ongoing refinement of processes to improve operations ;
  7. Offering high-touch technical support to users and rigorous data quality supervision, including training refreshers where needed ;
  8. Provide support to other duties as assigned by the Senior Director, AIF.
  1. QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE : 
  1. Hold at least a Master’s degree (or its university equivalent) in Finance or related field and/or IT science for Business, Management, Economics ;
  2. Have a minimum of eight (7) years of relevant professional experience in the Bank or a similar institution and/or in strategic consultancy, data analytics, and Client Management ;
  3. Strong experience in the use of IT database, and innovative tools and techniques ;
  4. Ability to produce clear and concise marketing and business intelligence reports ;
  5. Sense of initiative and innovation in proposing solutions to client needs ;
  6. Teamwork oriented with excellent interpersonal skills for dealing with internal and external contacts ;
  7. Ability to respond swiftly to new situations and to anticipate new issues ;
  8. The ability to work effectively across organizational boundaries and to build networks ;
  9. Ability to communicate and write effectively in English and/or French, with a good working knowledge to the other language; including a demonstrated ability to communicate complex business messages into clear communication messages and material ;
  10. Competence in the use of Bank standard software (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint) and preferably including SAP ;
  11. Provide support to other duties as assigned by the Senior Director, AIF.
  1. DURATION OF THE ASSIGNMENT :

The work assignment, under this term of reference, will involve full-time consultancy services for a period of six (6) months and may be extended based on the performance of the retained Consultant, availability of budgetary resources and as may be determined by the Bank. The successful Consultant will be expected to start in 15 December 2020 upon completion of the selection process and signature of the contract.

  1. RENUMERATION :

The consultant shall be paid a total monthly lump sum, comprising fee, subsistence or other incidentals, for the duration of the assignment, which is commensurate with the number of years of work experience. The AIF will cover travel and field mission costs (if any) as per African Development Bank rules in this regard.

Note: Consultants must register at http://dacon.afdb.org/dacon before submitting their CV to be considered for the shortlist.