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An $110,000 a year job awaits a candidate suitable to head the Suva-based Pacific Islands Private Sector Organisation, which it said will be its first chief executive officer since its inception in 2005.
PIPSO is now calling for applications to the position, underscoring the growing importance of its role in linking governments and private sectors of the member countries of its umbrella organization the Pacific Islands Forum.
“The CEO will lead the PIPSO Secretariat based in Suva, Fiji and be responsible for the implementation, monitoring and evaluation as well as the further development of the organisation’s Strategic Business Plan and Annual Work Plan, which are focused on three strategic goals, namely, Capacity Building, Partnerships and Technical Support,” it said in an advertisement circulated widely to the region.
“To deliver activities under these strategic goals, the recruitment of a dynamic CEO is crucial to ensure that the core mandates of the organization are implemented based on the Business and Annual Work Plans.”
PIPSO executive officer Henry Sanday told Fiji Live arrangements at PIPSO had all been interim up until now, and the organization - itself an umbrella body of all National Private Sector Organisations (NPOs) in its member countries - has only recently appointed three new staffs, with the CEO’s position now coming on board.
“PIPSO's major achievements since establishment would be strengthening its own institution and that of its member national private sector organisations (NPSOs) in terms of their capacity to dialogue effectively with the public sector, especially Government,” Sanday said.
“The prominence of the role of the private sector in national, regional and international policymaking is increasingly being recognised by the private sector itself at the national and regional levels, by Governments to support policymaking and technical capacity building, by regional and international bodies, development partners etc. from PIFS and CROP agencies to ComSec, EU, ITC, AusAID, UNDP, NZAID etc.
A relevant example here too is the Pacific ACP Trade Ministers' decision to fully support PIPSO during their Apia meeting last June. Through the NPSOs, the country's private sector now has a voice that is more united, unlike previously when it was not really the case. These various institutions are, more than ever before, liaising with PIPSO on issues pertaining to private sector development in the region,” Sanday added.
He said the incoming CEO will be PIPSO's first and will wean the organization from the active involvement of its Interim Chair James Movick, a businessman based in the Federated States of Micronesia and who had steered PIPSO through its early years before Sanday took over in 2007 as Interim Executive Officer.
The suitable candidate that PIPSO is looking for “must have wide experience in the private sector preferably in the Pacific, familiar with issues and concerns facing the private sector in the regional, extensive knowledge of trade and private sector policy, and should be a person who has experience in dealing with governments, regional and international organisations and donors and development partners.”
The CEO is also expected to have “engaged in technical cooperation, networking, resource mobilisation and familiarity with issues and concerns faced by the private sector at the national and regional levels.”
