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  • Billionaire financier found dead in NYC office

    Billionaire financier found dead in NYC office

    Billionaire financier and investor Thomas H. Lee was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his Manhattan office on Thursday morning, police sources said. Cops responded to a 911 call at 767 Fifth Avenue — where Thomas H. Lee Capital, LLC is located on the sixth floor — at around 11:10 a.m., the sources…

  • Haiti: FIFA Failing Sex Abuse Survivors

    Haiti: FIFA Failing Sex Abuse Survivors

    PHOTO: In this file photo dated Thursday, May 21, 2020, Yves Jean-Bart, then-president of the Haitian Football Federation, wearing a protective face mask, arrives for a court hearing regarding allegations that he abused female athletes at the country’s national training center, in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti. A lifetime ban against former Haitian soccer federation president Yves Jean-Bart…

  • Damien Allred handed life sentence for horrific attack on vulnerable senior

    Damien Allred handed life sentence for horrific attack on vulnerable senior

    (Global News) — A Toronto man with ties to Antigua who was convicted of the second-degree murder of Teresa Santos, a Queen West senior who relied on a walker due to mobility issues, has been sentenced to life in prison and won’t be eligible for parole for 17 years. Damien Allred, 43, twisted his long…

  • Another powerful earthquake rocks hard-hit regions in Turkey, Syria

    Another powerful earthquake rocks hard-hit regions in Turkey, Syria

    (AP) — There are reports of more collapsed buildings Turkey and Syria on Monday after a 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck Turkey’s Hatay province, which was devastated by a massive tremor two week ago. Syria’s state news agency, SANA, reported that six people have been injured in Aleppo from falling debris. In Turkey, the mayor of Hatay…

  • Biden visits Ukraine ahead of war anniversary

    Biden visits Ukraine ahead of war anniversary

    (AP) — President Joe Biden paid an unannounced visit to Ukraine on Monday to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a defiant display of Western solidarity with a country still fighting what he called “a brutal and unjust war” days before the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion. “One year later, Kyiv stands,” Biden declared after meeting…

  • 5 former officers charged in death of Tyre Nichols plead not guilty

    5 former officers charged in death of Tyre Nichols plead not guilty

    BBC News – Five former Memphis police officers charged with murder over the death of Tyre Nichols have pleaded not guilty in their first court appearance. Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Desmond Mills Jr, Emmitt Martin III and Justin Smith were involved in the arrest of Nichols on January 7. They were fired after an internal…

  • Trump slams Rihanna for ‘worst Super Bowl halftime show ever’

    Trump slams Rihanna for ‘worst Super Bowl halftime show ever’

    Former US President Donald Trump has described pop icon Rihanna’s Super Bowl Halftime Show performance as the “worst” in the history of the event. Trump in a post to his social network Truth Social on Sunday wrote: “EPIC FAIL: Rihanna gave, without question, the single worst Halftime Show in Super Bowl history.” In the post,…

  • Damar Hamlin has made it to the Super Bowl.

    Damar Hamlin has made it to the Super Bowl.

    Damar Hamlin has made it to the Super Bowl. The Buffalo Bills safety made his third appearance in Phoenix during Super Bowl week, this time on the field at State Farm Stadium prior to Sunday’s game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles. It’s been a little more than a month since Hamlin went…

  • Top South African rapper AKA shot dead

    Top South African rapper AKA shot dead

    One of South Africa’s leading rappers, popularly known as AKA, has been shot dead outside a restaurant in the coastal city of Durban. Kiernan Forbes was killed along with his close friend, the chef and entrepreneur Tebello ‘Tibz’ Motsoane. The pair are thought to have been on their way to a nightclub for a performance…

  • LAST DAYS? Piece of the sun breaks off. Scientists are stunned

    LAST DAYS? Piece of the sun breaks off. Scientists are stunned

    Scientists were left baffled after material broke off of the sun’s surface and created a tornado-like swirl around its northern pole. The remarkable phenomenon was caught by NASA on the James Webb Space Telescope and tweeted by Dr. Tamitha Skov, a space weather forecaster. “Talk about Polar Vortex!” she wrote last week. “Material from a…

  • OECS Commission sends condolences to Government and People of Türkiye in aftermath of devastating Earthquake

    OECS Commission sends condolences to Government and People of Türkiye in aftermath of devastating Earthquake

    The Commission of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) has the sad duty to convey deepest regrets to the Government and people of the Republic of Türkiye, on the tragic loss of life, the human suffering, and the damage to physical infrastructure resulting from the devastating earthquake which occurred in the province of Gaziantep…

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 Micro, small and medium-sized businesses, knowledge of the internal control processes necessary for a lending operation and the ability to design and implement risk mitigation procedures. The ideal candidate should possess an Undergraduate Degree from a reputable college or university, preferably in Business, Accounting, Banking or related field, with a minimum of 5 years’ experience in lending, inclusive of MSME lending. The initial employment period will be for two years on a contractual basis. Renewal of the contract will be subject to a performance evaluation at the end of the contractual period. The assignment is expected to begin on September 30th, 2021.  The consultant will report directly to the Chief Executive Officer of the ECPCGC.

The detailed Terms of Reference (TOR) for the assignment can be viewed by following the attached link below. 

 

https://bit.ly/3iVannm

 

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, Finance, Banking or related field; and
  • Minimum of 5 years’ experience in MSME lending. Applicants should also have:
  • The ability to design and implement risk management procedures 
  • 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
  • Knowledge of marketing and communicating with the MSME sector
  • 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 suite.

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:

Eastern Caribbean Partial Credit Guarantee Corporation

Brid Rock, Basseterre,

St. Kitts.

Expressions of interest must be delivered in a written form by e-mail by August 11th, 2021, to [email protected]. 

 

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]