Assistance with recruitment of sector advisers and DANIDA advisers

For more than 50 years, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has recruited and employed advisers as part of Denmark's cooperation with developing countries. The employment of advisers is an important instrument in implementing ‘The World We Share’ (MFA 2021), Denmark’s strategy for development cooperation as well as the “Africa’s century” (MFA 2024) the strategy for strengthened Danish engagement with African countries. The Assignment concerns assistance to the MFA with recruitment of sector advisers, who are recruited in close cooperation with Danish authorities and will be posted to Danish embassies, and DANIDA advisers, who are recruited in close cooperation with a national partner in a recipient country and will be working with that partner. Both types of advisers will be directly employed by the MFA. The purpose of the Assignment is to ensure efficient and timely recruitment of sector advisers and DANIDA advisers to enable that well-qualified and competent experts are assigned to the MFA’s various activities in developing countries around the world. The objective of the Assignment is to ensure identification and selection of qualified candidates for vacant posts in a professional and transparent process. The task of the Assignment is divided into two main types of Services: • Assistance in recruiting sector advisers. • Assistance in recruiting DANIDA advisers. The Consultant shall handle all practical arrangements related to recruitment of sector advisers and DANIDA advisers. The Consultant shall, as part of the Services, ensure good ongoing cooperation with the MFA as well as with the Danish authorities and embassies involved in the individual recruitment processes. While respectively the Multilateral Cooperation office (MULTI) and the Secretariate for the Strategic Sector Cooperation (MYNSEK) together with relevant embassies will be responsible for identification of relevant postings, the recruitment panel (for sector advisers) and recruitment unit (for Danida advisers) will take active part in the recruitment process and subsequent identification of advisers. As there will be many ongoing processes, as well as multiple stakeholders, the Consultant must be able to provide careful, operational, flexible and strategic management of the Services with a strong intercultural understanding. The Consultant must ensure that, as far as possible, there is continuity in the Consultant's staffing from start to finish of a recruitment process.